Newsletter for January 24, 2016

The Bearing Fruit

January 24, 2016

Upcoming Events:

Jan 30   – Saturday Kitchen (UP 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 1/17/16: $1,220.21 (regular)

▪ 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 30^th, 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 30^th 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 31^st  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 31^st.

▪ 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 31^st.

▪ 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.

Mennonite Agencies

▪ Mennonite Mission Network Prayer Request:  Lauren Baer, Laura Haar, Malte Kaliske, Jessica Lindsay, and Pablo Lorenzana make up MMN’s Service Adventure unit in Albany, Oregon.  Pray for them as they work with Habitat for Humanity, care for older adults, help in the local school system, and engage in ministries with homeless people.

 

Area Announcements

▪ This Sunday, January 24 West Union MYF Soup & Bread Meal – We will be serving a selection of soups and brick-oven baked breads as a fundraiser meal at noon.  Freewill donation.

▪ God’s Bodies: Theology & Sexuality in an Age of Certainty – a seminar sponsored by Christ Community Church in Des Moines, Iowa on Saturday, February 6^th.  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: 2^nd shift full-time & part-time, 3^rd shift available part-time.  RN/LPN Charge Nurse: 1^st shift part-time and full-time, or 3^rd 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.