Staunton Mennonite Church

2405 3rd St - Staunton, VA 24401 - 540 886-5869
Office hours Monday and Friday, 9am until 1pm
Pastor: Kevin Gasser    smcpastor@verizon.net   540 292-4507
Elder: Glenn Zendt - 886-3550
 

“Love, Hope, and Light in the Community”

December 12, 2010  ~  No 50 Vol. XLIV

   
9:30 SUNDAY SCHOOL Hour

“Not forsaken”-led by Glenn Zendt

10:30 WORSHIP

Gathering

Congregational singing-We Come
Lighting the Advent candles
Gathering Words
Opening Prayer

Prasing

Congregational singing:
Offering
First Scripture Reading: Isaiah 35:1-10
Children’s Time
Second Scripture Reading: Matthew 11:2-11
Sermon: “Constant Sorrow?”
Testimony

Rerponding

Confession
Special Music: Children’s Sunday School
Congregational Sharing/Prayer Time

Sending

Benediction
Closing Song


*Worship leader: Sonya Gasser
*Song leader: Garlan Yoder
*Children’s time: Kathy Zendt
*Message: Kevin Gasser
*Testimony: Garlan Yoder
*Offertory: Wenger/Huyard Quartet


Announcements

The Shenandoah Civic Dance Company presents The Nutcracker today at Lee High School beginning at 2:00 pm.

There will be a Christmas Benefit Concert for SACRA Monday, December 13th, beginning at 7:00 pm at Memorial Baptist.

There will be a Chuck Wagon Gang concert at White Hill Church of the Brethren on December 16th at 7:00 pm. See bulletin board for details.

Cantore (men's a cappella) and Shekinah (women's a cappella) will hold a Christmas Coffeehouse on Saturday, December 18, 7-9:30 p.m., in the Park View Mennonite Church fellowship hall. Come enjoy good music, snacks and fellowship.

Dec 19 is the date for our annual Christmas Caroling. We will meet at the church at 3:45 to go to various places. Afterwards there will be a soup and sandwich meal. Every family should bring enough sandwiches for themselves then we will share them. Soup will be provided. Following the meal there will be a Christmas program by the children.

The historic Stonewall Brigade Band will present a Christmas Concert at 7:30 pm on Monday, December 20, in the sanctuary of St. Paul's United Methodist Church, 2000 Shutterlee Mill Road, Staunton, featuring guest vocalist Ernest Holley. An offering will be received to benefit the Blue Ridge Area Food Bank.

There is one poinsettia at the front of the sanctuary for each family in the congregation. Please feel free to take your poinsettia on the last Sunday before Christmas that you will be here.
Please feel free to take your poinsettia on the last Sunday before Christmas that you will be here.

Isaiah 35:10b, “They will enter Zion with singing; everlasting joy will crown their heads.
Gladness and joy will overtake them, and sorrow and sighing will flee away.”


Thank you for joining us in worship today.  If this is your first time at Staunton Mennonite,
please fill out the “Welcome” card in the back of the pew and place it in the offering plate.


 


Sunday, December 5,
2010  

Worship attendance 48
General Offering: $1,879.00

Next Sunday, December 19, 2010

Sunday School - Garlan Yoder
Worship Leader - Deona Houff
Music Leader - Susan Huyard

Staunton Mennonite Church
Photo by A. D. Strickland

"No one truly knows Christ unless they follow Him daily in life" - Hans Denck