The Bearing Fruit
November 29, 2015
A Look Ahead
Saturday Kitchen Dec
5
Monthly Quilting & Potluck, 10am Dec 9
MYF, 5:30pm Dec
13
Our Church
Happy Birthday to: Joanne
Roth (11/30)
Offering for
11/15/15: $1951.45 (regular)
Offering for 11/22/15: $2162.00
(regular)
Our thanks to Michael Swartzendruber for preaching at
Washington Mennonite this fall. May God continue to bless you and Laurel as you begin
your ministries together.
The kitchen remodel project is almost finished and
bills are coming in. Pledges toward the project aren’t officially
due until next summer. However, if you can give any or all of your pledge
now, it would help with cash flow for the church. Thank you for your consideration. If you have questions, see Mary Lou Farmer, Treasurer
or Mike Bates, Council Chair.
Washington Mennonite will be serving the Saturday
Kitchen noon meal at the United
Presbyterian Church on Saturday,
December 5th. Signup
sheets are in the foyer for kitchen help, servers and food items needed on
Saturday December 25th. All
food items need to be at the Presbyterian Church before 10:00am. Numbers of persons served the noon meal at
Saturday Kitchen continues to run high and has consistently been 100 persons or
more. Sign up to help us. We have a good time as we work together on
this project. If you have questions
contact Phyllis Litwiller or Gloria Widmer.
Iowa Mennonite
School
Tomorrow (Nov 30) is a visit day at
IMS. Any 8th-grade or potential
transfer student is invited to attend classes and chapel,eat lunch, and meet
other students, faculty and staff. The
day begins at 8am; parents are also encouraged to come and meet with administrators
from 8:10-8:45am. Come check it out!
Interested boys in the 6th-8th
grades are invited to participate in a basketball scrimmage during halftime of the varisty IMS games on Friday, Dec
4. Come and enjoy
meeting new
people and showcasing your skills on the court!
The IMS chapter of National Honor
Society is hosting a food drive to benefit area food pantries.
We have set a goal to collect 1,000 food items for the holiday
season. Please help us reach our goal by
bringing your non-perishable food items to IMS (or to an IMS home basketball
game) any time between now and Friday, Dec. 4. NHS students will gather and sort the
items and deliver them to the Wellman and Kalona food pantries on Dec 5. Thank you for helping your community in this
very special way.
IMS’s Music Department will present
the annual Christmas Concert on Sunday, Dec 13 at 2:30pm in the school’s Celebration Hall.
A Prospective Student Christmas Party is taking place at IMS on Sunday, Dec 13
following the annual Christmas Concert.
Students in 6th-8th grade are invited to enjoy
cookies and games with our student government leaders. It will last approximately an hour; families
are also invited to participate. For
more information, contact the school.
Central Plains
Conference
WMC Families! Advent is the perfect time to model faith at
home with your kids. Download the FREE
Advent Family Devoitions that go
with the Leader worship materials,
“Freedom Bound!” Find prayers and
activities to use from November 29 through January 9 at http://tiny.cc.adv entathome. An
early childhood supplement makes these useful even for families with
preschoolers.
Just as the
persistent widow cries to the unjust judge and to God for justice in Matthew
18:6, we call upon the Department of Homeland Security to bring Max
Villatoro home. Join us by
signing a new petition at tiny.cc/bringmaxback. Please help us meet our goal of collecting
5000 signatures to hand-deliver to the Secretary. –www.FriendsofPastorMax.org
The Sower Prayer Request: Pray for Tim Detweiler
and Dave and Shana Boshart as they attend the annual gathering of MC USA
conference ministers in Orlando, Florida.
Pray that God’s Spirit would be powerfully present in this gathering.
Mennonite Agencies
Mennonite
Central Committee Central States is accepting applications for a Director of
Programs. The
Director of Programs will be responsible for the direction and oversight of all
of MCC Central States Programs. This
position is expected to connect with constituent churches and groups, as well
as like-minded organizations to provide information about MCC. This position is open within the Central
States Region. Find more details at
serve.mcc.org (look for Director of Program –CS) or email Heidi Huber, Human
Resources Coordinator, at heidihuber at mcc.org.
Does
sexualized violence concert you? If so, MCC US invites you to participate in
an online survey about this
issue. Your answers to the open-ended
questions will be used to guide MCC US in its creation of trainings and
resources for pastors and leaders in the faith community. Log on to mcc.org/wwso to complete the survey
by the end of December. See the bulletin
board for more information.
Mennonite
Mission Network Prayer Request: Jason Boone of
MMN’s Peace and Justice Support Network requests prayer for soldiers
experiencing pain of “moral injury as a result of what they have done or seen
in combat.” Pray for Jesus’ peace in
their lives as Mennonites share from “our deep history of peacemaking.”
Area Announcements
Ten Thousand Villages, Iowa City has two holiday
pop-up stores through December to
help artisans in developing countries earn a fair wage, be treated with dignity
and respect, and be able to live a life of quality. You’re invited to join in this vision.
* 112
E Washington St, Iowa City Mon-Fri 11-6, Sat 10-6,
Sun 12-4
*
720 14th St, Kalona
(Schlabaugh & Sons Woodworking)
Mon-Fri 9-5, Sat 10-3
For more information
or to volunteer in the pop-up store, contact (and follow) at: iowacity at tenthousand villages.com; www.tenthousandvillages.com/iowacity;
face book.com/tenthousandvillagesiowacity
Dan Fisher and his elves will be making cheesecakes
once again for the Christmas season. The following flavors will be offered: lemon,
turtle and chocolate ganache. The cost
is $35 each ($15 for ingredients and $20 for donation). Pickup will be on Saturday, December 12 or Saturday,
December 19 from 9-11am at Kalona Mennonite Church. The proceeds will go to Kalona Mennonite’s
International Students Aid Fund. Our
current project is assisting Rudi Mucaj from Albania attend Goshen College. To place your order please contact Wanda
Miller Beachy at 319.683.3983 or email at beachydw at sharontc.net. The deadline
to order is December 6. Thank you!
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