Newsletter for March 18, 2018

The Bearing Fruit

March 18, 2018

This Week at WMC Sunday March 18th Monday March 19th Tuesday March 20th Wednesday March 21st Thursday March 22nd Friday March 23rd Saturday March 24th ▪ Centro Cristiano (2:30) ▪ Ballet Classes (Fellowship Hall, 3:30-5:30) ▪ MCC Meeting (7pm) ▪ Everence Banquet (5pm) ▪ Monthly Quilting & Potluck (10am) ▪ Ballet Classes (Fellowship Hall, 4:00-5:30pm) ▪ Centro Cristiano (7pm) Birthday -      ▪ Martha Graber Upcoming Events ▪ 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 3/11/18 -  Regular Offering: $1,675.00; Saturday Kitchen: $50.00

▪ Maundy Thursday Service:  Sign-up sheets for our  Maundy Thursday service are on the table in the foyer.  We still need fruit and vegetable trays, loaf of bread, oil lamps and a clean-up crew.  Find the sheet on the foyer table and sign for what you can bring.

▪ 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.  We are still needing persons to set up the dining room for the Saturday Kitchen noon meal, serve and clean up.  We also  need someone to bake a large pan of bars.  Please consider helping us as we prepare and serve a hot meal to those needing food and fellowship around the dining table.  Thank you in advance for your help.     – Phyllis Litwiller, Gloria Widmer and Sue Widmer

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 | TODAY Sunday March 18 at 7:00PM at Lower Deer Creek Mennonite Church. The public is welcome at all choir events. 

▪ Food Drive | The IMS National Honor Society (NHS) is planning a food drive for the local food pantries March 19-30. Food can be donated to IMS throughout that time. Tables for food will be set up on the various nights events are being

hosted at IMS.

▪ 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. Hors d’oeuvres will follow the recital.

SundaySucCentral Plains Conference

▪ Central Plains Mennonite Conference Prayer Request:  Pray for the staff of Swan Lake Christian Camp and Crooked Creek Christian Camp as they prepare their summer programs

Mennonite Agencies

▪ Lunch & Learn at MCC with Joanna Shenk! Join us on Thursday, April 5 from noon to 1 pm at MCC in North Newton, Kansas to hear Joanna share about her new book, “The Movement Makes Us Human an Interview with Dr. Vincent Harding on Mennonites, Vietnam and MLK.” Lunch will be provided by Mojo’s Coffee Bar. Please RSVP for lunch by April 3. For the first time, we’re offering an opportunity for you to join this event virtually, on any computer or device. Visit mcc.org/lunch-learn for information about Joanna, the book and about how to join the event from your home or office! Questions or to RSVP: 316.283.2720 or patsydirksen@mcc.org.

▪ Mennonite Mission Network Prayer Request:  Dan and Kathryn Smith Derksen of Mennonite Mission Network serve alongside Oscar Siwali, founder of Southern African Development and Reconstruction Agency. They request prayer for the water shortage in Cape Town, South Africa. May just ways of distribution be implemented to defuse the

tension over scarce resources.

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.

▪ 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.