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”

October 21, 2012 ~  No. 43 Vol. XLVl

   9:30 SUNDAY SCHOOL

Lesson Title

“Simon Wants to Buy Power” –led by Marvin Showalter

10:30 WORSHIP Service

We Gather

Prelude/Gathering Song 
Announcements
Call to Worship
Opening Prayer

We Praise

Congregational singing
Offering

We Hear

Children’s Time
Scripture Reading: Matthew 2:1-12
Message: “King of kings, Lord of lords

We Respond

Congregational Sharing/Prayer Time
Closing song
Benediction

Today's Leaders

*Song leader: Lowell Wenger
*Worship leader: Sonya Gasser
*Message: Kevin Gasser

Announcements

The Fall Brunswick Stew Cook Out will be at the Huyards’ this afternoon. We'll plan to eat at 5 p.m. but the stew will need to be started early in the afternoon. Folks may come at 1:00 to help with this; please bring knives and cutting boards. If anyone wants stew to take home they should bring a quart jar.

Jenifer Bradford would like to invite everyone to a carry-in meal to celebrate the 50th anniversary of her coming to the United States. The meal will be held immediately after church next Sunday, October 28th in the church fellowship hall. Jenifer plans to share during the dessert time about her immigration experiences.

Ten Thousand Villages is collecting gently worn shoes for Well of Hope, a nonprofit organization providing opportunities for Kenyan widows to earn income from the reselling of used shoes. Income helps to provide safe shelter for their children. Tie each pair of shoes together with a piece of yarn, which can also be used by the widows for additional projects. There will be a box in the coat room for shoe donations.

There will be an Election Day Communion service here at Staunton Mennonite on November 6th beginning at 7:00 p.m. Please see the website for more information: www.electiondaycommunion.org

Please Prayer For:

  • Norma Greenleaf, healing at home following heart surgery.
  • Joyce Showalter as she heals following shoulder surgery.
  • Susan Huyard as she deals with the effects of chemotherapy.
  • BJ Rohr, Dorcas Hanbury, and Merton Greenleaf, our friends and
    family dealing with cancer and its treatment.
  • Paul Duncan as he heals following gallbladder and heart surgery.

Matthew 2:1-12

After Jesus was born in Bethlehem village, Judah territory— this was during Herod’s kingship—a band of scholars arrived in Jerusalem from the East. They asked around, “Where can we find and pay homage to the newborn King of the Jews? We observed a star in the eastern sky that signaled his birth. We’re on pilgrimage to worship him.”

When word of their inquiry got to Herod, he was terrified—and not Herod alone, but most of Jerusalem as well. Herod lost no time. He gathered all the high priests and religion scholars in the city together and asked, “Where is the Messiah supposed to be born?”

They told him, “Bethlehem, Judah territory. The prophet Micah wrote it plainly:

It’s you, Bethlehem, in Judah’s land,
no longer bringing up the rear.
From you will come the leader
who will shepherd-rule my people, my Israel.”

Herod then arranged a secret meeting with the scholars from the East. Pretending to be as devout as they were, he got them to tell him exactly when the birth-announcement star appeared. Then he told them the prophecy about Bethlehem, and said, “Go find this child. Leave no stone unturned. As soon as you find him, send word and I’ll join you at once in your worship.”

Instructed by the king, they set off. Then the star appeared again, the same star they had seen in the eastern skies. It led them on until it hovered over the place of the child. They could hardly contain themselves: They were in the right place! They had arrived at the right time!

They entered the house and saw the child in the arms of Mary, his mother. Overcome, they kneeled and worshiped him. Then they opened their luggage and presented gifts: gold, frankincense, myrrh.

In a dream, they were warned not to report back to Herod. So they worked out another route, left the territory without being seen, and returned to their own country.  (The Message)
 

Staunton Mennonite Church

Photo by A. D. Strickland

Sunday, October 14, 2012

Worship Attendance 47
Offering  $886.00

Next Sunday, October 28, 2012

Sunday School ~ Danny Weaver    
Worship Leader ~ Marvin Showalter
     Music Leader ~ Susan Huyard       

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.

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