Newsletter for September 16, 2018

The Bearing Fruit

September 16, 2018

This Week at Washington Mennonite Sunday Sept 16th Monday Sept 17th Tuesday Sept 18th Wednesday Sept 19th Thursday Sept 20th Friday Sept 21st Saturday Sept 22nd ▪ Centro Cristiano (2pm) ▪ DT Rehearsal Skits/Choir (5pm) ▪ Ballet Class (3:30pm) ▪ Ballet Class (3:30pm) ▪ Monthly Sewing/ Potluck (10am) ▪ Ballet Class (3:30pm) ▪ Fall Business Meeting (6:30pm) ▪ Centro    Cristiano (7pm) ▪ DT Rehearsal Skits (7:30pm) ▪ Church Retreat (Crooked Creek) Saturday: - 5pm, pizza making and fun and games Sunday: - 9:30am, breakfast pastries & coffee -10:30am, Favorite Hymns service - lunch, by the Jimenez family Birthday -      ▪ Mike Leyden Birthday -      ▪ Dan Widmer Upcoming Events ▪ Oct 14  – Halcyon House Service  ▪ Nov 8-10 – WMC Dinner Theatre

Washington Mennonite

▪ Offering for 9/9/18 - Regular offering: $2,464.00

▪ DINNER THEATRE REHEARSAL:  All drama and music participants for dinner theatre should attend the rehearsal this evening at 5:00 p.m. at the church. 

SundaySucCrooked Creek Christian Camp

▪ Join us for a time of fellowship and fire at our annual hymn sing: Sing & S'mores, Sept 23 led by Julie Bontrager of Wellman Mennonite Church.

▪ Save the date for Senior Day, Oct. 4 as we welcome Marion Bontrager of Hesston, KS.  Check out our website for more information or to sign-up online.

SundaySucIowa Mennonite School

▪ 'Imagine the Amazing' UnityPoint Health Contest | Help IMS win $25,000! It's easy. From September 17-30 go to unitypoint.org/imaginetheamazing and vote. No info will be collected - all you do is vote. And you can vote as many times as you care to so vote often! Check out our website or Facebook page for more info.

▪ The IMS PTO will be operating the Apple Fritter Booth at the Kalona Fall Festival on Friday and Saturday, September 28-29. The IMS Choirs and Praise Band will be performing under the festival tent on Friday from 2:30-3:30PM.

▪ Homecoming & Alumni Family Weekend will take place on the IMS campus October 12-13. Be sure to join us on Friday night for the alumni volleyball (with the 1998 State Final Four team) and soccer games. On Saturday participate in the Joetown Classic 5K, followed by the IMS Tailgate (concessions by the PTO, music by The Old Man Band, along with inflatables and games of Spikeball), and end the day the Annual Pork Supper followed by a Community Hymn Sing in Celebration Hall. 

▪ The Joetown Classic 5K run/walk will be on Saturday, October 13. Make sure you sign-up by October 2 to get a cool, vintage t-shirt! Register now online at getmeregis tered.com/joetownclassic5K or find printable registrations at iowamennonite.org/alumni/joetown-classic-2

▪ The Annual Pork Supper will be on Saturday, October 13. Junior IMS students are selling tickets now or they can be purchased at the door. Tickets are: Adults $10, Seniors 65+ $9, Children age 4-12 $5, age 3 and under free. The meal consists of roasted pork, baked potato, salads, and dessert.

SundaySucCentral Plains Conference

▪ Central Plains Mennonite Conference Prayer Request:  Pray for all our conference leaders as the board and committees meet next weekend in Kalona, IA, to plan for the upcoming year.

Mennonite Agencies

▪ The worst monsoon flooding in a century has damaged roads, homes and sources of income for hundreds of thousands of people in the Kerala state of India. As displaced people are returning to their homes, Mennonite Central Committee is working with Gilgal Mission Trust in India to provide tarps, food baskets, cooking utensils, and cleaning and hygiene items. Donations to support the response can be given online at mcc.org/india-flooding; by phone at 888-563-4676; or by mail to MCC U.S., 21 S. 12th St., PO Box 500, Akron, PA 17501.

▪ Mennonite Mission Network Prayer Request:  Brian and Noelia Fox and their daughters, serving with Mennonite Mission Network, are beginning another school year in Spain. Pray for the girls as they relate to classmates, and for Brian and Noelia as they work with parents and students in the English school they established.

▪ Mennonite Church USA Prayer Request:  Join MC USA in global prayer for immigration justice on Peace Sunday, which takes place September 23, 2018. Use the Peace Sunday prayers and worship resources created by Mennonite World Conference with the theme “A renewed peace church welcomes the stranger.”

 

Area Announcements

▪ J-POG (Just Peace Outreach Group) invites you to hear Jacob Yoder address the topic "Farming for Peace: An MCCer's Reflections on Life and Work in Burundi."  Jacob will describe his work in the African nation of Burundi developing food security projects with Mennonite Central Committee.  Join us at West Union Mennonite Church, 3253 305th Street, Parnell, IA on Sunday, September 16, 2018, at 6 pm for a finger food potluck (please bring your own table service) and conversation, or at 7 pm for Jacob's presentation.  For more information, contact Roger Farmer at 319-653-2547 or Jane Yoder-Short at wilmajane17@gmail.com. 

▪ The Fall, 2018, meeting of the Crowded Closet Association will be held Monday, Sept. 17, at 7 pm at Sunnyside Mennonite Church.  All volunteers and interested persons are invited to attend and learn of the latest happenings at the Crowded Closet. 

▪ The Gospel Echoes Banquet - will be held at Upper Deer Creek Church on Friday, September 28, 2018 at 6:30 pm. Join us for an evening of music, inspiration, and a delicious home-style dinner. A free will offering will be received to assist prison ministry teams and to provide free literature to prisons and chaplains throughout the U.S. The evening is open to the public and will include music from the Gospel Echoes Harvest and Mercy Road Teams. Call Charity Gingerich for your complimentary tickets at 319-936-0295.

▪ Parenting Workshop : Oct 7 from 4-6pm at Lower Deer Creek Mennonite Church.  Brenda Yoder from northern Indiana will join us in a workshop based on her
book "Fledge: Launching Your Kids Without Losing Your Mind".

▪ Lower Deer Creek Mennonite Church presents “4 Chair Discipling” on October 27, 2018 from 8:30am-4:30pm.  Anyone who wants to be challenged to be and make disciples should attend!  Cost is $25 per person.  See the poster in the foyer for more details.