The Bearing Fruit
July 29, 2018
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Washington
Mennonite
▪ Offering for 7/22/18 - Regular offering: $415
▪ We welcome Gerry Klopfenstein from Wayland
Mennonite here with us as part of The
SouthEast Iowa Pastor Cluster’s Pulpit Exchange. Amanda is preaching at Wayland Mennonite this
morning.
▪ Dinner Theatre 2018 is coming up! Look for a sign-up sheet in your mailboxes today to designate where
you would like to be involved. There are a lot of different opportunities for
everyone. Return completed forms to Edie’s mailbox or email your responses to
the address found on the form at your earliest convenience. Thanks for your
consideration!
▪ Camp Reece is a
residential summer camp for children with special needs located at the Lake
Darling Youth Camp. Camp Reece
leaders have asked if Washington MC could assist with the camp on Tuesday
evening, August 7, with around ten volunteers and 12 dozen cookies (either
baked or purchased). We can carpool and leave the church around 5:45 pm
in order to arrive at the Lake Darling Youth Camp by 6:30 pm. Please sign
up to volunteer or provide cookies or both in the foyer. This is short notice,
so if we do not have enough volunteers, we will not be able to go. Please
sign up today (July 29) if interested.
▪ School Kits!
Yes, it is that time again. We are
collecting school kits for children around the world who don’t have the
necessary supplies. In the foyer you’ll find bags and a list of items that
go into the kit. We have a limited amount of bags this year but bring your
items and we’ll see that they get to MCC. Thanks for your generosity.
Central Plains Conference
▪ Central Plains Mennonite Conference
Prayer Request: Pray for Shana Peachey Boshart as she ends her tenure
with Central Plains on Tuesday and begins as faith formation minister
for MC USA on Wednesday.
Mennonite Agencies
▪ Opportunities
to learn about immigration and respond with MCC. MCC works with the issue of migration
around the world and walks with people who migrate, people who struggle not to
migrate and people who provide hospitality to migrants in many places.
Learn: Consider
participating in the MCC Migration Learning Tour to Guatemala and
Honduras on November 7-17.
Pray: Pray for
the migrants who made the difficult choice to
leave their home communities in the hope of a better life, for the
detained immigrants as they wait in detention and for the border portal agents
to execute their job justly and humanely.
Advocate: Contact
your elected officials to
express your desire for more humane immigration policies.
Serve: Become
an immigration court watcher through the Interfaith Community
for Detained Immigrants.
Give: Support our
work to support the reunification of families on the South Texas Border.
Within the coming weeks, 1500-2000 families are expected to be released from
detention. MCC is working with local partners to support families with locally
purchased grocery gift cards, clothing and housing assistance. Checks made out
to MCC with “Central States Immigration” in the memo line will go directly to
support this response. Checks should be sent to MCC U.S., PO Box 500, Akron, PA
17501. Or you can donate money to MCC for ongoing work with issues
surrounding immigration.
For more information on how you can get involved, visit mcc.org/immigration.
▪ Mennonite Mission Network Prayer
Request: Praise God with the Sicite people of Burkina
Faso who can now read the New Testament in their heart language. Pray for Anne
Garber Kompaoré of Mennonite Mission Network, who helped to launch this
translation three decades ago, and for her husband, Daniel, as they continue
God’s work in Burkina.
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