The Bearing Fruit
January 17, 2016
Upcoming
Events:
Jan 30 – Saturday
Kitchen (U. Presbyterian Church)
Jan 31 – Fingerfoods
and Fellowship, 5:30pm
Feb 6 – Birthday
Breakfast Club, 9am
Feb 7
– IA Women’s BBall Game, leave at 11:45
Feb 28
– Soup and Game
Night, 5:30pm
Our Church
▪ Offering
for 1/10/16: $1,847 (regular);
$100 (kitchen
pledge)
▪ For Christmas, Amanda gave the church
a new large calendar that’s now hanging
in the foyer near the library. This calendar will replace the events calendar
that used to be located in the kitchen. All calendar events should be scheduled
through the church office. We hope that this large format calendar will aid us
in communicating the events of our church-life together, and in coordinating
usage of the church building.
▪ Saturday Kitchen January 30th, WMC will be responsible for hosting Saturday Kitchen at the United Presbyterian Church which includes food preparation, serving and clean up for the noon meal. We serve a hot meal free to all who come. For weeks the number of persons served at Saturday Kitchen has been 100 or more persons of all ages. Sign-up sheets for food and workers are in the foyer. We need your help. Join us as we serve persons in our community. We have a good time working together. Mark Saturday January 30th on your calendar. If you have questions contact Gloria Widmer, Phyllis Litwiller or Sandy Buhrow.
▪ Come to Fellowship & Fingerfoods –
an evening at church spent eating,
laughing, and serving together on January
31st at 5:30pm. We will pack boxes for our college students,
pack MCC relief kits, knot a MCC comforter, make valentines, and fellowship
together!
▪ MCC Relief Kits: The
need is great for MCC hygiene kits! Kits
require 1 large bar of soap, 1 adult sized toothbrush, 1 dark hand towel, and 1
(good quality) fingernail clipper. A box
in the foyer will collect these items until we pack up the kits at the Fellowship & Fingerfoods evening on
Jan 31st.
▪ MCC Relief Kits: The
need is great for MCC hygiene kits! Kits
require 1 large bar of soap, 1 adult sized toothbrush, 1 dark hand towel, and 1
(good quality) fingernail clipper. A box
in the foyer will collect these items until we pack up the kits at the Fellowship & Fingerfoods evening on
Jan 31st.
▪ College Student Boxes: Show
our college students we care! Bring
trinkets, cards, non-perishable foods, etc. to send to our college students for
Valentine’s Day. Items are being
collected in the colorful gift bags in the foyer labeled Jacayla and
Tanner. We will pack boxes for college
students at the Fellowship &
Fingerfoods evening on Jan 31st.
▪ February 6, 9:00am - Birthday
Breakfast Club, January and February
birthdays: If you celebrate your birthday in January or February, join Amanda
at the church for breakfast and fellowship.
Crooked Creek
Christian Camp
▪ Bummed you’re “too old” for Winterfest? Save the date April 2-3 to be at Crooked Creek for a
one night High School Retreat of
woods games, worship and wolfing down food!
▪ Coins for Camp is in February! This year we
hope to purchase a new camera to take photos and video. Join with other churches in this
fundraising. We plan to post a fabulous
picture slideshow after each week long camp with highlights from that week.
▪ TODAY is Open Gym at the Activity Center, 3-5pm.
Iowa Mennonite
School
▪ Interested girls
in the 4th-5th grades are invited to participate in a
basketball scrimmage during
halftime of the varsity IMS games on Friday, Jan 22nd.
▪ All interested 8th grade students are
invited to a visitation day tomorrow. Special activities to commemorate the life of
Martin Luther King, Jr. will take place throughout the day, and visitors will
have the opportunity to visit classes, eat lunch on campus, and meet other
potential students. P
Central Plains
Conference
▪ The Sower Prayer
Request: Pray
for those planning Youth Escape 2016, the weekend retreat for all Central
Plains youth to be held July 15-17, 2016 at a camp in central Iowa. Pray that many youth will participate and
deepen their relationship with Christ.
Mennonite Agencies
▪
Mennonite
Mission Network Prayer Request: Janet Stucky of
MMN and her colleague, Rigobert Sossa, are working with a nutrition program in
Benin. Pray for safety in their travels
to train 400 community leaders in 100 villages about food health and hygiene.
Area Announcements
▪ Movie Night at Lower Deer Creek Mennonite Church (1408 540th St SW, Kalona) will be showing
War
Room on Sunday, Jan 17th
at 6pm. From the award-winning creators
of Fireproof, and Courageous, War Room is
a compelling drama with humor and heart that explores the power that prayer can
have on marriages, parenting, careers, friendships, and every other area of our
lives. You are invited to the FREE event
that also includes snacks and child care.
To learn more about this powerful movie, visit
www.warroomthemovie.com.
Open House – Widmer
Duplex located at 201 N Lincoln in Wayland.
Sunday, January 10, 2016 from
2-5 pm. Accepting sealed bids until
1/25/16 deadline. Bids to be addressed
to: Parkview Home ATT: Mary Quigley,
Administrator PO Box 28 Wayland, IA 52654.
God’s Bodies: Theology & Sexuality in an Age of
Certainty – a seminar sponsored by
Christ Community Church in Des Moines, Iowa on Saturday, February 6th. For
more information see the poster in the foyer by the mailboxes.
Please consider joining the Pleasantview Home team! Available
positions and shifts are: CNA: 2nd shift full-time &
part-time, 3rd shift available part-time. RN/LPN Charge Nurse: 1st
shift part-time and full-time, or 3rd part-time. All full-time employees are eligible for
benefits. Applications available online
at www.pvhome.org and in our main lobby M-F 8am – 4:30pm. Interested but not certified? I will be happy to answer your questions,
Karen Schrock. Email KarenSchrock at
pvhome.org or 319.656.2421 ext. 121.
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