The Bearing Fruit
March 22, 2015
A Look Ahead
Bates Family Farms Breakfast, 9am Mar 28
Spring Business Meeting, 7pm April 15
IMS Concert Choir at WMC, 6:30pm May 10
Our Church
Happy Birthday to:
Leroy Reber (3/29)
“THANK YOU WASHINGTON MENNONITE CHURCH! For the last
six years you have allowed Sound of Washington to use your fellowship hall for
our practice sessions. There were many
Tuesday evenings when we almost raised your roof with the singing and laughter
of the choir members and staff. The
choir would like to show their thanks to you as well as get to know you better.
You are invited as our guests for a simple meal and evening of
fellowship on Tuesday, March 31st, at 6pm in the church fellowship
hall. Please RSVP to Andrea by March 22, so she can let us know how many
to plan for. We hope to see you
there! - Sound of Washington Planning
Committee”
Mark your calendars! Bates Family Farms Annual Church Breakfast is
Saturday, March 28th at 9:00am. The breakfast will be held at
“The Shop” at 2909 Highway 1, Washington.
For more information or directions, call Mike’s cell 319.653.8829 or
Karen’s cell 319.461.0225. Hope you can
come!
Crooked Creek Christian Camp
CCCC is happy to
announce that on March 13th camp become debt free.
We celebrate this great achievement and are thankful for the donations
we received that made this possible.
Thank you to everyone who prays, volunteers and contributes financially
to camp ministry.
Lenten Quiet Day March
26: There’s still time to register for this free event by
calling the camp office or online at crookedcreekcamp.org. Helen Yoder and Lois Gugel look forward to
leading anyone wanting to take time out of their busy lives to focus themselves
during this Lenten season. Register in
advance as lunch is provided.
Crooked Creek Christian
Camp of Washington, IA, is looking for an experienced and energetic Food
Service Manager to
start on or about May 15, 2015. This
position will provide overall leadership to the kitchens for year-round guests
with
a reputation of great hospitality and great food. The full job description can be viewed at www.crookedcreekcamp.org. For more information, applications or to
submit your resume please contact Tim Friesen, Administrator, 2830 Coppock Rd,
Washington, IA 52353 or email foodservice at crookedcreekcamp.org. Applications accepted through March 27, 2015.
2015 summer staff
applications are being accepted. Please visit www.crookedcreekcamp.org
for information and to apply.
Iowa Mennonite
School
Please keep the students and faculty
of IMS in your prayers this week as they begin a week of interim.
Groups will be scattering across the Midwest to experience another
culture, do service work, and learn outside the traditional classroom. Please pray for safety, good attitudes, and
positive learning experiences.
Central Plains
Conference
The
Sower Prayer Request: Pray for Constituency Leaders Council (CLC)
meeting in North Newton, Kansas, this Thursday through Saturday. CLC is the group of conference leaders that
gives counsel to the MC USA Executive Board.
Our Central Plains moderators and executive conference minister attend
CLC.
Mennonite Agencies
Mennonite
Mission Network Prayer Request: Passionfest, held in New Zealand last month, is an annual celebration of
Jesus, community, and justice. Pray for
Mark and Mary Hurst of MMN, based in Australia, as they follow up on contacts
they made during the festival.
Area Announcements
Parkview
Home, Wayland, is collecting donations of small items for their annual Peanut
Auction on March 27th at 2pm. Items residents can ‘purchase’ at the auction
with peanuts like candy, puzzles, snacks, movies, calculators, gift
certificates, etc. If you would like to
donate, please have items to Parkview home by Wednesday, March 25th.
Team
Haiti at Bethel church will host a Taco Dinner
in the fellowship hall, on Sunday, MARCH
29th at 12pm. A free will
donation will be taken.
International
Student Aid Fund Soup Fundraiser Meal on Sunday, March 29th
at noon at Kalona Mennonite Church to benefit our current project, Rudi Mucaj,
who will be attending Goshen College.
More info to follow.
This
is an open invitation for people of all ages to sing in the Celebration
Community Choir! Our
upcoming concert is at 7pm on Saturday, May
9th in IMS’s Celebration Hall.
The choir will be engaging a variety of music including selections
directly influenced by the cultures and backgrounds of those who choose to sing
in it. Kalona Mennonite Church will host
rehearsals on Saturdays March 28, April
4, 11, 18, 25, and May 2 at 7pm. Please
contact Nathaniel Yoder if you are interested in participating or have any
questions: nathanielyoder at gmail.com and 319.325.3059.
First
Mennonite Church of Iowa City will be offering GriefShare,
a 13-week discussion/support group for persons who have lost a loved one, on
Tuesdays from 6:30 until 8pm beginning on April
14th. Each 90 min session
will begin with a video, followed by group discussion of the topic. Each participant will receive a workbook to
use during the week. Topics to be
covered include: living with grief; the journey of grief; the effects of grief;
your family and grief; why?; the uniqueness of grief; when your family member
or spouse dies; God’s prescription for grief; feelings of guilt and
forgiveness; stuck in grief; top twenty lessons of grief; and heaven. If you are interested in attending, or would
like more information, please contact either Marian Schwabbauer (319.466.3094)
or Marilyn Rose (319.887.5285), facilitators, or go to www.greifshare.org. Please pass this information along to any
family members, friends or neighbors who might wish to attend these sessions.
The
United Presbyterian Home is sponsoring Rev. Dr. Georgine Buckwalter,
a retired spiritual care provider in an adult residential care facility and
adjunct professor at Louisville Theological Seminary in Kentucky and specialist
in spirituality and aging, to speak
about how best to care for folks dealing with dementia and Alzheimer’s disease
on Wednesday, April 15, from 11:30am
– 1:30pm at the United Presbyterian Church in Washington. Please RSVP by April 10th by
calling Kitch Shatzer at 319.461.0266 or emailing her at revkitch at
hotmail.com. For more info on a second meeting later the same evening see the
poster by the mailboxes.
Inviting
all women in Iowa churches who would like to care for one another more deeply: Sister
Care Seminar registration forms are now available at your church and the
deadline is April 4th. So, sign
up today for an uplifting, inspiring retreat and workshop. You will gain
life-changing skills on April 17th
and 18th at Kalona Mennonite Church.
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