The Bearing Fruit
April 12, 2015
A Look Ahead
Monthly Sewing, Luke 24:13-35 April 15
Spring Business Meeting, 7pm April 15
Congregational Meeting, 5pm April 19
Saturday Kitchen April
25
MYF Taco Bar Fundraiser, 12pm May 3
IMS Concert Choir at WMC, 6:30pm May 10
Our Church
Happy Birthday to:
Jon Widmer (4/14)
Offering for 4/5/15: $4,168
(regular); $250 (HACAP)
Reminder: The Spring Business Meeting is Wednesday,
April 15th at 7pm. The
Kitchen Remodeling Committee will be presenting an estimate for the
remodeling project. Everyone is
encouraged to attend. A vote will be taken at this meeting. If you have any questions, call Mike Bates at
319.653.8829.
Support
our MYF students traveling to convention in Kansas City this summer by coming
to the MYF Taco Bar Fundraiser following
the Sunday School hour on May 3rd. Donations will be welcomed to help with
registration, lodging, and traveling costs.
“Thank you so much for your recent gift to
MCC! We hope you know how much we
appreciate all you do for MCC. Across
Mozambique, the search for clean and reliable water is urgent and
constant. However, thanks to your
generosity, MCC and our partners are investing in water projects, such as
drilling and maintaining wells and building sand dams throughout
Mozambique. It is because of your
support that communities not only have access to safe water, but enough water
to begin implementing conservation agriculture methods. Thank you for being a part of this very
important work in Mozambique and around the world!
All
the best, Anna Yoder, Donor Relations Coordinator, MCC Central States”
Crooked Creek
Christian Camp
On May 9th, CCCC hosts the
2nd Annual Camp-A-Palooza, our camp scholarship fundraiser. Registration forms are available online now
for the Color-Me-Fun 5k Run where participants receive the official 2015
T-short and get doused in color. Visit
crookedcreekcamp.org for more information.
Central Plains
Conference
The Sower Prayer Request: Next Friday
and Saturday, a Sister Care seminar is taking place in Eastern Iowa. Pray that the Spirit of God would accomplish
his purposes for the women gathered there.
Mennonite Agencies
Thinking
of registering for PA 2015? The
time is now! Register while options are
still available for tours and service opportunities. PA 2015, the global Assembly of Mennonite
World Conference, will be held July 21-26 in Harrisburg, PA. For more information and to register, go to https://www.mwc.cmm.org/PA2015
Mennonite
Mission Network Prayer Request: Pray for Jane and Jerrell Ross
Richer and their four children who are experimenting with a ministry in which
they will serve six months in Ecuador and six months in the United States,
sharing spiritual insights between South and North America. This is a joint ministry of Goshen (IN)
College and MMN.
Area Announcements
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.
Sister
Care Seminar: Last
Call! If you would like to come to the
Sister Care Seminar, please call Lauralee Kauffman today at 319.354.3304. You can still register for this uplifting
weekend Today Only! On Friday, April 17, check-in begins at
Kalona Mennonite Church at 6pm. We will
also meet from 9am until 4:30pm on Saturday, April 18th. Be sure to bring your Bibles. Please let Lauralee, Diane, Marcia or Tamara
know if you have any further questions.
Hope to see you there!
Club
180 in Washington is starting a GEMS (Girls Everywhere Meeting the Savior)
Girls Club. They
are planning an information meeting and counselor training on Saturday, April 18th, 9am-11:30am, at
the teen center. They are seeking faith
filled women who have a heart to help girls grow in their relationship with
Jesus and a willingness to serve as group counselors (leaders). The clubs will meet bi-weekly. Call Deb Bodensteiner with questions,
319.653.4700 or email oneightyia at gmail.com.
Annual
Bluegrass Hymn Sing: On
Sunday, April 19th, from
2-4pm, join Bob and Kristie Black, Paul and Julie Roberts, and other area fine
bluegrass musicians as they lead a community hymn sing at the lovely, old St
Michael’s Church, Holbrook. Hymn sheets
are provided and all who attend have the opportunity to choose their favorites. Everyone is welcome to this informal,
come-and-go gathering. Free
admission. Sponsored by the Friends of
Old St. Michael’s. For further
information contact Stephen Hanson at 319.396.8674.
JPOG
(Just Peace Outreach Group) invites you to hear Jim Fitz speak on “Non-violence
and Peace with ISIS.” Jim
has 13 years of peacemaking experience in Colombia and will also share his
experiences accompanying 80 Colombian farm families who were threatened by
guerillas and paramilitaries. Join us on
Sunday evening, April 19, 2015, at
Lower Deer Creek Mennonite Church, 1408 540th St SW Kalona, IA at
6pm for a finger foods potluck and conversation (please bring your own table
service) or at 7pm to hear Jim’s presentation.
For more information please call Roger Farmer at 319.653.2547 or email Jane
Yoder-Short at yodershort at netins.net.
Kalona
Mennonite Church is hosting a Priscilla Shirer Live Simulcast on April 25th
from 9am to 4:30pm.
Pre-registration is $5 per person, Mail to Shirer Simulcast, PO Box 232,
Kalona, IA 52247 (Checks payable to Kalona Mennonite Church). Registration will be $10 at the door. A freewill offering will be taken to cover
lunch and other expenses. For more
information email kmcsmallgroups at gmail.com or call 319.936.0113.
Everyone is invited to the Spring meeting of the Mennonite Historical
Society of Iowa at the Steve Weeber farm located at 4892 Kansas Ave, SW at
7:00 on Monday, April 27. Steve has an interesting collection of
agricultural tools and equipment stored in a peg and mortis constructed barn. He will speak about his collection and how he
got started collecting.
On
Sunday, May 3rd, at 1pm, Meghan Good will lead a workshop at Wayland
Mennonite Church, “The Word Wore Red: Interpretation and
Imagination in the Biblical Canon.” You
are invited to come and examine in fresh terms what Scripture is, learn a few
simple tips that will transform the way you read it, explore specific
strategies for engaging the Bible’s toughest texts, and look at what it means
to interpret those texts distinctively as Anabaptists. Megan will also share her testimony during
the 9:30 Sunday School hour and preach in the 10:30 worship hour on the nature
of God’s Kingdom in small town settings.
A potluck will follow the worship service.
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