The Bearing Fruit
March 27, 2016
Upcoming
Events:
Mar 27 – Easter Potluck (8:30am)
Apr 9 – Bday Bkfast Club Mar/Apr/May (9am)
Apr 13
– Spring Business Meeting (7pm)
Apr 16
– Spring Clean-Up Day (8:30am)
Our Church
▪ We are thankful today that Grant and
Edie made it home safely. We’re glad you’re
here with us. Welcome Back!
▪ Offering
for 3/20/16: $1,580.36 (regular); $91
(Sat Kitchen)
▪ If you would like to start receiving the MC USA monthly publication The Mennonite for $37 a year,
talk to Andrea or email washingtonmennonitechurch at gmail.com.
▪ April 8-10: IMS MSC Choir Festival
< Housing needed for visiting choir (see Cindy Widmer)
< 25 people
needed to help set up chairs on April 9th,
(see
Cindy Widmer to volunteer)
< 2 car parkers needed for
Sunday, April 10th,
(see Jon Widmer to volunteer)
▪ Birthday Breakfast Club, March, April,
and May Birthdays – If you celebrate
your birthday in March or April, mark your calendars and join Amanda for
breakfast and fellowship on April 9th
at 9:00am.
▪ April 16, 8:30—Church-Wide Cleanup
Day Come help shine up the church building and grounds for the Spring!
Crooked Creek
Christian Camp
▪ There’s
still time to register for the High
School retreat April 2-3! Grab a
friend, pack your bags and join us for this fun-filled weekend. Camp scholarships are available, call the
office for more information.
▪ Save the
date for Camp-A-Palooza, May 14. Another year of color blasting fun, delicious
food, live music and more! More
information online.
Iowa Mennonite
School
▪ IMS’s FFA will host and serve a “Farmer Feed” on Friday, April
1 in the school cafeteria. Serving
will be from 7-8:30am. The FFA would
like to thank area farmers by honoring them with a breakfast of pancakes,
sausage, bacon, eggs and coffee. Come
and join us!
▪ All are
invited to an evening of information
surrounding preparation for college, at IMS on Tuesday, Mar 29 at 6pm. High school
families, middle school families…all will find it helpful, as IMS graduate Adam Ingersoll (’93) will present. Adam co-founded Compass Education Group,
California’s leading provider of college admission test tutoring and guidance. The company has offices in Los Angeles and
San Francisco, employing more than 400 tutors and advisors for thousands of
students each year. There is no cost for
the seminar, which will cover the college admission timeline, how to evaluate
selectivity vs. affordability, factors in the process, the role of ACT and/or
SAT scores, and much more. Adam and his
wife Brigette (Nisly) are both 1993 IMS graduates.
▪ It’s
Easter Sunday and our churches are filled with wonderful music celebrating the
resurrection of Christ our Lord! Music
has a way of filling our souls, and we at IMS
would like to invite you to enjoy the sounds of 450+ students on April 10th. The annual Mennonite Schools Council Choir Festival is set for 3:00 that
afternoon, in the Washington High School gymnasium. Dr. Scott Hochstetler, with ties to the
Kalona area, will guest conduct the mass choir, and it’s also an opportunity to
hear individual choirs from 13 schools from across the United States and
Canada. There is no charge for this
sure-to-be wonderful concert! Please
contact IMS at 656-2073 for further information.
Central Plains
Conference
▪ The Sower Prayer Request: Pray
for David Boshart, eight pastors, two spouses and one aspiring church planter
from Central Plains as they attend the MC USA Church Planting Summit in New
Orleans next weekend.
Mennonite Agencies
▪ Medicare: It’s Complicated That’s why
Kent Blossom, Financial Advisor with your local Everence office is offering Understanding
Your Options with Medicare in 2016 at 5:30pm on Monday, April 11, at Kalona Bakery, 209 5th
St. Come find out what you need to know
about Medicare, what’s covered, the types of supplemental plans offered, and deadlines
for enrollment. Reserve a seat by April 6th at 319.656.4242 or email Cheryl.martinmiller
at everence.com. (Medicare supplement insurance
plans offered by Everence Association, Inc., a fraternal benefit society, are
not connected with or endorsed by the US government or Medicare. This is a solicitation of insurance and an
insurance agent or insurance company may contact you in an attempt to sell you
insurance.)
▪ MCC Central States has an opening for the position
of Executive Director. The Executive Director promotes and
encourages support of MCC. The full job
description is available at http://mcc.org/get-involved/serve/openings /executive-director-cs.
▪ Mennonite Church USA : #MennoLove…get involved! Would you like
to be part of MC USA’s new storytelling project, Love is a Verb? We’re
exploring the idea of love in action—highlighting stories of individuals,
families, congregations, communities and agencies across MC USA who are living
out the transformative love of Christ all around them. Write for the Menno Snapshots blog, submit a
feature story idea or congregational service snapshot, nominate a love song of
the month, or tell us what you think “love is…” at
mennoniteusa.org/mennolove.
▪ Mennonite
Mission Network Prayer Request: MMN
requests prayer for Dan and Kathryn Smith Derksen and their sons, Jacob and John-Clair,
as they begin an assignment in South Africa, working with Oscar Siwali, director
of Southern Africa Development and Reconstruction Agency. Pray for their adjustment and their work with
peace education and conflict transformation.
Area Announcements
▪ J-POG (Just Peace Outreach Group) invites you to
hear Deborah Coble Wise describe her
experiences working the night shift at Better Days for Moria, a ministry providing aid to some of the one
million refugees from Syria and elsewhere crossing the Aegean Sea from
Turkey to the Greek island of Lesbos.
Deborah will share stories, pictures and personal insight into what has
been called the greatest humanitarian crisis of our times. Join us on Sunday evening, April 3, 2016, at Washington Mennonite
Church at 6pm for a finger foods potluck and conversation (bring your own table
service) or at 7pm to hear Deborah’s report.
For more information call Roger Farmer at 319.653.2547 or email Jane
Yoder-Short at wilmajane17 at gmail.com
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