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Newsletter for April 12, 2015

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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