The Bearing Fruit
September 30, 2018
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Washington
Mennonite
▪ Offering for 9/16/18 - Regular offering: $2,235;
HACAP:
$200; Mutual Aid: $100; Sat Kitchen: $100
▪ Offering for 9/23/18 - Regular offering: $1,078;
Crooked
Creek: $530; IMS-Jimenez Dinner: $1,453.25
▪ At the business meeting on 9/19/18, Mary Lou announced another way of giving
besides putting money in the offering plate. If you would like your donation to
church to be automatically withdrawn from your account to the church's
account, please see Mary Lou Farmer for information. Thank you.
▪ Saturday Kitchen: Thank
you to everyone who helped with Saturday Kitchen on September 15th with
donated food items, working at the church in preparation for the meal,
serving or clean up. We served 87 plates and made 36 carry outs. We are
always blessed as we work together preparing and serving a hot meal to all who
come. Our next assigned date for Saturday Kitchen is November 24th
. Mark your calendar and join us as we work together providing a hot meal
for all who come. - Phyllis Litwiller
and Gloria Widmer
▪ DINNER
THEATRE REHEARSAL: All drama participants for dinner theatre should
attend the rehearsal this evening at 5:00 p.m. at the church.
Iowa MCC Relief Sale
▪ The
Mennonite Historical Museum in Kalona is in search of items from the past 40
years of Iowa Mennonite Relief Sales to be donated and
displayed at the museum. Belt buckles, photos, mugs, aprons, etc. If you have
something to donate, please include dates and names, if applicable. Questions
and delivery of items can be directed to Amanda Bleichty or Mary Lou Farmer at
the museum.
▪ Come to Crooked Creek Christian Camp in
Washington, Iowa on Sunday, October 28 at 4pm to Sing
for Relief! Enjoy music, wood-fired flatbreads, a campfire
and other fall activities as we kick off festivities for the 40th anniversary
year of the Iowa Mennonite Relief Sale! All donations will go towards the
expenses for the 2019 Iowa Mennonite Relief Sale.
Crooked Creek Christian Camp
▪ 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.
Iowa Mennonite School
▪ October 13 | Make sure you sign-up for the Joetown
Classic 5K by October 1 to
get a cool, vintage t-shirt! Register now online at getmeregistered.com/joetown
▪ October 14 | Come hear the Intro to Music students, Choral
& Concert Choirs, and the Symphonic Band at our Fall Music
Concert starting at 3PM in Celebration Hall.
▪ 6th-8th graders, transfer students and their families are
invited! - October 2 | Ice Cream Social following the JV volleyball game. This game starts
at 6:00PM. Ice cream will be served in the cafeteria by our National Honor
Society members. Join us for our first prospective student event of the school
year. - October 14 | Our
FFA will be hosting a Harvest Party. Games, activities, and food will be
available following the 3:00PM Fall music concert. Join us for the concert and
stay for the fun with our FFA!
▪ SAVE THE DATE | The drama Little Women will be
performed in Celebration Hall on November 3 & 4.
▪ IMS Fall Preschool | IMS
Child Development students will lead preschool
aged children in developmentally appropriate activities. Each date will
have a different theme that these activities will be centered around. The fall
dates are Oct 18, Nov 1, and Nov 15 and all dates are 10:30-11:30AM.
Please contact the office 319-656-2073 to reserve your spot.
Central Plains Conference
▪ Central Plains Mennonite Conference
Prayer Request: Pray for Ry Siggelkow, pastor at Faith Mennonite Church, Minneapolis,
MN as he is ordained to pastoral ministry today
Mennonite Agencies
▪ MennoMedia needs
your help to make the new Voices
Together hymnal a reality
by Fall 2020. Before any copies of Voices
Together are sold, MennoMedia will invest more than $700,000.
Everence and Mennonite Central Committee U.S. have issued a matching grant
challenge of up to $100,000 to help MennoMedia in this final fund-raising
effort. Help ensure that Voices
Together will be affordably priced for congregations. Make a gift today and have it doubled!
Give at VoicesTogetherHymnal.org.
Every voice matters. Every dollar counts.
▪ "Kits are for Caring" New Resource:
MCC has a new resource for churches to get children (and people of all
ages) excited about collecting relief kits! Designed
to be ready to use, the resource includes curriculum to guide a group of
children toward a celebration of sharing God’s gifts by collecting humanitarian
aid for those in need around the world. Whether you use the curriculum in
Sunday School classes, during the children’s story or in a Bible camp, there
are games, stories and activity sheets that will engage children of all ages.
But there are also resources to use with adult groups, including prayer cards
and in-depth info sheets. Would you consider collecting relief kits this
Thanksgiving or Christmas season? Contact tinaschrag@mcc.org or call
316.283.2720 if you need help downloading the PDF files or for more
information. https://mcc.org/stories/kits-
▪ Mennonite
Mission Network Prayer Request: Mennonite Mission Network’s Service Adventure unit
in Anchorage, Alaska, is made up of Brayden Thomas, Jasmin Tente, Jessica Porr,
Max Janzen, and leader Monica Miller. Pray for them as they help expand the
ministry of Prince of Peace Mennonite Church.
▪ Mennonite Church USA Prayer Request:
Mark your church calendars for MC USA's annual Mennonite
Heritage Sunday on Sunday, October 28, 2018. Worship
resources are being created by Dismantling the Doctrine of Discovery
Coalition members with the theme "Lament in response to the Doctrine
of Discovery," and will be made available on October 8, 2018.
Area Announcements
▪ 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".
book "Fledge: Launching Your Kids Without Losing Your Mind".
▪ Wellman
Mennonite Church will host a fund raiser on Sunday Oct. 14th. The fund raiser is for IMS
tuition for the Jimenez family. The
Jimenez family will be providing the meal. We will be serving from 11:45 to
1:30. Free will donation.
▪ You
are invited to First Mennonite Church of Iowa City, Wednesday, October
17, 7pm to worship with Parables, a
student worship ensemble from Goshen College who will share music, original
dramas and personal stories. A free will offering will be taken.
▪ 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.
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