Newsletter for March 11, 2018

The Bearing Fruit

March 11, 2018

This Week at WMC Sunday March 11th Monday March 12th Tuesday March 13th Wednesday March 14th Thursday March 15th Friday March 16th Saturday March 17th ▪ Centro Cristiano (2:30) ▪ Halcyon House Chapel ▪ Ballet Classes (Fellowship Hall, 3:30-5:30) ▪ Ballet Classes (Fellowship Hall, 4:00-5:30pm) ▪ Centro Cristiano (7pm) Birthday -      ▪ Vickie Bender Birthday -      ▪ Lexi Widmer Anniversary -      ▪ Tim & Cindy   Widmer Upcoming Events ▪ Mar 21  – Mennonite Women Monthly Quilting  (10am, Fellowship Hall) ▪ Mar 29  – Maundy Thursday Service  (6:30pm, Fellowship Hall) ▪ Mar 31  – Saturday Kitchen  (UP Church) ▪ Apr 4     – Church Council Meeting  (5pm) ▪ Apr 8     – Amanda’s Ordination  (Potluck Following) ▪ Apr 11  – Spring Business Meeting  (7pm) Washington Mennonite ▪ Offering for 3/4/18 -  Regular Offering: $1810; MYF: $200; Family Assistance Fund: $100 ▪ March 29, Maundy Thursday, 6:30pm – Join us for our traditional soup supper and Maundy Thursday fellowship service at church. Sign-up sheets for bread, fruit, vegetables, and oil lamps are in the fellowship hall.   ▪ Saturday Kitchen:  WMC will be serving the noon meal at Saturday Kitchen March 31st.  Sign-up sheets for food items and workers are on the table in the foyer.  There are several lines for $10.00 donations if you would like to also participate in some of the  expenses of the meal.  Thank you in advance for your help as we take our turn serving  at Saturday Kitchen. MCC Iowa Relief Sale ▪ The Iowa MCC Relief Sale is in need of 1 beef for April 25 and 3 hogs for May 2. Please contact Roy Beachy at (319) 430-9086 to donate or for more information. Crooked Creek Christian Camp ▪ Save the date for Crooked Creek Wild, May 5, 2018!  Registration is open NOW!  www.crookedcreekcamp.org /crooked-creek-wild.  The challenge-course run begins at 10:00am with a free-will donation lunch to follow.  More details and photos of last year’s event online. ▪ Please consider joining us for Spring Cleaning this April at Crooked Creek. We’re looking for volunteers to help clean, landscape, organize and MORE! Go online to sign-up for a date and time that works for you! http://www.signupgenius.com/go/10C0D4FAFA62EA7FB6-spring  Iowa Mennonite School ▪ Touring Choir | The IMS Touring Choir is on tour. The next concert is on Sunday March 18 at 7:00PM at Lower Deer Creek Mennonite Church. The public is welcome at all choir events.  ▪ Turkey Steak Supper | The IMS Alumni Association along with the TWP Optimists will host the annual Turkey Steak Supper on Friday March 23 at IMS. The menu of turkey, baked potato, salad, dinner roll, and pie & soft serve ice cream (that's right we'll have a soft serve ice cream machine) will be served from 4:30-6:30PM. A freewill donation will be taken at the gate. ▪ Touring Choir | March 23 will perform with the Hesston College Bel Canto Singers following the Turkey Steak Supper in Celebration Hall. The show will begin at 7:00PM. ▪ Senior Recital | Monet Slabach daughter of Lance & Nichole Slabach, will present her senior recital in Celebration Hall at IMS at 7:00PM on Saturday March 31. She will be performing a variety of classical and contemporary selections of piano and voice accompanied by family and friends. Hors d’oeuvres will follow the recital. SundaySucCentral Plains Conference ▪ Calling everyone ages 15-22: Are you looking for a fun and meaningful way to serve this summer? There are a few spots left to join a 2018  Youth Venture team! See and join in the work God is doing in Ecuador, Peru, Spain, or Benin. Apply by April 1. Visit www.MennoniteMission.net/Serve to learn more, or contact John Murray at JohnM@Mennonite Mission.net ▪ Central Plains Mennonite Conference Prayer Request:  Pray for Central Plains churches that are looking for pastors. Pray for search committees, for conference minister Tim Detweiler and for candidates looking for churches that God may guide the search processes according to God's will. Mennonite Agencies ▪ Young adult opportunity to serve with MCC: Looking for ways to actively engage in issues around justice and equity, with the support of a community? Are you a Spanish speaker? Perhaps the Seed Central America Program is for you! Seed, a global two-year program, is being implemented and led by MCC with young adults between 20 and 30 years of age. The Seed Central America program focuses on the crossroads of place and ecologies of peace -- in Guatemala, Honduras, and Nicaragua. Visit mcc.org/seed for information or contact heidihuber@mcc.org. ▪ Mennonite Mission Network Prayer Request:  Last month, Taiwan experienced a powerful earthquake that killed at least nine people. Mennonite Mission Network requests prayer for the people of Taiwan as they grieve the loss of loved ones and  rebuild their lives. Area Events ▪ West Union MYF invites you to a delicious haystack fundraiser meal on Sunday, March 18th at noon. Bring your friends and enjoy a time of food and fellowship! Proceeds will go to cover expenses for this summer’s service project and convention expenses next summer. ▪ Host Families | The Hesston College Bel Canto Singers will be in concert in Celebration Hall at IMS on Friday March 23 at 7:00PM. The concert will also have some joint songs with our IMS Touring Choir. The IMS Music Boosters are looking for people to host the Bel Canto students overnight on Friday evening. This would entail picking up the students and taking the students home for overnight after the concert on Friday evening, feeding them breakfast the next morning, providing a sack lunch for Saturday, and having them back to IMS no later than 6:15AM on Saturday.  We are still in need of people to host 7 females (2 groups of 2 females and 1 group of 3 females – one person will need handicapped accessible for a wheelchair) and 5 males (1 group of 2 males and 1 group of 3 males).  If this is something you would be willing to help with, please contact Wanda Miller Beachy at beachydw@sharontc.net or 683-3983 by Saturday March 17. ▪ Community Good Friday Tenebrae Service: Join local Mennonite churches as we worship together Friday, Mar 30, 7pm at Celebration Hall in Iowa Mennonite School. High school students will share testimonies relating to Jesus’ last seven words before his death on the cross. Child care will be provided for ages 3-8. Student speakers are Brandon Jimenez, Joya Schrock, Jacob Boller, Edna Villatoro, Cameron Roser-Peet, Isaac Miller, & Emma Beachy. ▪ Stewards of the Earth – An Earth Day Conference – Iowa Wesleyan University invites you to attend the 2018 Manning Lecture and Earth Day Conference on Sunday, April 22 at 1:20pm in the Chapel Auditorium.  Professor Robert Grant will deliver the keynote address, “Eco-Librium: A New Stewardship of Creation.”  The lecture will be followed by two workshop sessions including: Composting in your Backyard; Planting for Pollinators; Recycling for Everyone; the Quilt Game for Climate Change; Organic Farming; Wind and Solar Energy; Water Quality in Iowa; Stewardship and the Bible; Reducing Your Ecological Footprint; Aldo Leopold’s Land Ethic, and much more!  Free and open to the public.  For more information joy.lapp@iw.edu or 319-385-6403.