Newsletter for November 4, 2018

The Bearing Fruit

November 4, 2018

This Week at Washington Mennonite Sunday Nov 4th Monday Nov 5th   Tuesday Nov 6th   Wednesday Nov 7th   Thursday Nov 8th Friday Nov 9th Saturday Nov 10th ▪ Centro Cristiano (2pm) ▪ DT Rehearsal (5pm) ▪ DT Rehearsal (7pm) ▪ DT Dress Rehearsal (6:30pm) ▪ Dinner   Theatre   Performance   (6:30pm) ▪ Dinner   Theatre   Performance   (6:30pm) ▪ Dinner   Theatre   Performance   (6:30pm) Birthday -      ▪ Carol Detweiler ▪ Gordon Watson Upcoming Events ▪ Nov 14 – Monthly Quilting/Potluck  (10am, Fellowship Hall) ▪ Nov 18 – Ladies Afternoon Out  (Fellowship Hall) ▪ Nov 24 – Saturday Kitchen  (UP Church)  ▪ Nov 25 – Hanging of the Greens

Washington Mennonite

▪ Offering for 10/28/18 - Regular offering: $3,053.00; Saturday Kitchen: $100.00; Mutual Aid Fund:  $100.00

▪ Financial update: Expenses were more than income this month which leaves our Annual Blueprint balance at $4073. Your generous gifts will enable us to further the work of God's kingdom here at Washington Mennonite, our community and around the world. If you have questions, talk to Mary Lou.

SundaySucCrooked Creek Christian Camp

▪ Please consider joining us for our annual meeting, November 13th! The meal will be served starting at 6:15 with a meeting to follow.

▪ Needing wood this winter? Come out to Wood Cutting Day November 17th, starting at 8 a.m.  Chainsaws encouraged.

SundaySucIowa Mennonite School

▪ TODAY | The fall drama, Little Women directed by Michael Swartzendruber will be performed in Celebration Hall at 3:00PM. Come early and get your tickets for sale at the door. ALSO TODAY stick around after the drama for a Backstage Tour/Meet The Cast event for 6th-8th grade students, transfer students, and their families. Refreshments will be served as well. Come to get a glimpse of what being involved in the drama department at IMS is like. Call the office to reserve your ticket to the drama and tell them you are using your pass.

▪ Blood Drive | The IMS chapter of the National Honor Society is hosting a blood drive on Monday, November. There are still a few walk-up time slots available from 8:00-11:00AM. Thank you for helping your community in this special way!

▪ FFA Fruit Sales | Fruit can still be ordered from an IMS FFA student through November 12. Fruit will be delivered the first week in December.

▪ Basketball Jamboree | The Varsity Boys Basketball Jamboree will tip off starting at 6:00PM on November 19 in Hillcrest Union. Come out and get a first look at the IMS team along with other local teams. Admission is $4 for adults and $3 for students and sorry no passes. 

SundaySucCentral Plains Conference

▪ Central Plains Mennonite Conference Prayer Request:  Pray for MC USA and congregations using the Journey Forward Pathways study guide for exploring how we live out the core values of our faith in today’s world. Pray also for the Women Doing Theology conference planned at AMBS in Elkhart, IN, November 8-10.

Mennonite Agencies

▪ Mennonite Mission Network Prayer Request:  Mennonite Mission Network requests prayer for Petrus and Yuliana Handoyo and their two sons who minister through educational ministries in Cambodia. May they share the good news of Jesus’ love among Buddhist students through words and through modeling healthy family relationships.

▪ MC USA Prayer Request:  "May God grant you peace that you may know no further sorrow." Read the Open letter to Rabbi Myers, Tree of Life Congregation, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania from Glen Guyton, executive director of MC USA at mennoniteusa.org/letter-rabbi.

Area Announcements

▪ Pillow Cleaning: Get your feather or foam pillows cleaned, sanitized, deodorized and NEW TICKING on Tuesday, November 6, 2018, 8:30 AM to 4:00 PM at Kalona Mennonite Church, 902 6^th St. Sponsored by the Kalona Mennonite WMSC

▪ All Women - East Union Mennonite Church is hosting a Chicago shopping trip on Saturday, November 17th via bus with Kalona Coaches.  Join us for some holiday shopping without the driving hassle.  We'll leave East Union at 6:00 a.m. and return around 10:30 p.m. Seats are $50.00/person. Sign up on Google Drive: https://tinyurl.com/ycds8onf.  Feel free to invite family and friends!  Anything above the travel expenses will go to the Iowa Mennonite Relief Sale and benefit My Coins Count.  Please sign up prior to November 11th.  For questions, help signing up or to make payments please contact Rebecca Beachy Miller at rabeachy@msn.com or 319-631-2461. Please make your checks payable to East Union and put Chicago Trip in the memo.

▪ “All we needed to know we learned in a one-room school,” is the focus of the fall meeting of the Mennonite Historical Society of Iowa. The meeting will be Monday November 19, 2018, 7:00 p.m. at Kalona Mennonite Church Fellowship Hall.

This program will explore experiences of students in area one-room country schools.  This is a follow-up to our Fall 2017 meeting where Frank Yoder spoke about the history of one room schools in our area,  Our evening will be filled with interviews and sharing about how experiences in rural one-room country schools shaped our lives. Shared experiences will include singing, stories of discipline, inter-school contests, and testimonials about the learning environment we experienced. We will also explore how our shared experiences shaped our relationships with our neighbors. Bring country school mementos for a memorabilia table. You may want to bring your grandchildren so they can remember our educational experiences of the past. Provided refreshments will give you opportunity to share more stories with each other.  Firman Gingerich will outline and plan for interviews and panel discussion for the program.