The Bearing Fruit
October 7, 2018
Washington
Mennonite
▪ Offering for 9/30/18 - Regular offering: $1506.00
▪ Financial Report: The first month of our new fiscal year
has just ended. Giving was a bit down
and our balance has been reduced from about $7000 to about $5400. With
strong giving this month, we can make up the difference. Thanks for your
generous gifts to the work of God at Washington Mennonite. See Mary Lou with
questions.
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.
Iowa Mennonite School
▪ October
12-13 | Join us on campus for Homecoming and Alumni Family Weekend! Friday night at 5:30PM come out to Hillcrest Union, along
with members of the 1998 State Final Four volleyball team, to watch
or participate in the alumni volleyball game followed by
the alumni soccer game on the soccer field at 7:00PM. Saturday
morning run or walk in the Joetown Classic 5K (registration begins
at 8:30AM, kids race starts at 9:30AM, followed by the 5K at 10:00AM). Then be
sure and stick around for the IMS Tailgate featuring music
by The Old Man Band, concessions by the IMS PTO, Spikeball, and a
super-fun 36' long inflatable. Later that evening return to Hillcrest Union
for the annual Pork Supper hosted by the Junior Class. Tickets
can be purchased from a junior student or at the door. The meal will be served
from 4:30-7:00PM and will be followed by a Community Hymn Sing in
Celebration Hall.
▪ October
14 | Come hear the Intro to Music
students, Choral & Concert Choirs, and the Symphonic Band at our Fall
Music Concert starting at 3:00PM in Celebration Hall. Also after the
concert 6th-8th graders, transfer students
and their families are invited to our Harvest Party hosted by the IMS FFA. Games, activities, and food will be
available. Join us for the concert and stay for the fun with our FFA!
▪ Fall
Drama | Little Women directed by Michael
Swartzendruber will be performed in Celebration Hall on November 3 at 7:00PM and on November 4 at 3:00PM. Call the office
(319-656-2073) to reserve your tickets!
Central Plains Conference
▪ Central Plains Mennonite Conference
Prayer Request: Pray for conference leaders of Mennonite Church USA who will gather
Oct. 11-13 in Chicago for the Constituency Leaders Council.
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.
▪ Mennonite
Mission Network Prayer Request: Tomorrow is Indigenous Peoples Day. Mennonite Mission Network requests
prayer for the descendants of White settlers to understand their complicity in
the oppression of the original inhabitants of this land. Pray also for mission
workers who support marginalized people groups in reclaiming their land, their
language, and their dignity.
▪ Mennonite Church USA Prayer Request:
Early registration for the Women Doing
Theology conference ends on October 12. Join MC USA's Women in Leadership in
"Talkin’ Bout a Revolution: Dialogue, Practice and the Work of
Liberation" on Nov. 8-10, 2018. Register now at http://mennonite usa.org/wdt18.
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".
▪ 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.
▪ Kalona MOPS Haystacks Fundraiser – Oct 21, 2018 from 11:30-1:30pm at Upper Deer
Creek Mennonite Church. For more
information, see the bulletin board in the foyer.
▪ 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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