“Love, Hope, and Light in the Community”

Greeters for October:
Lowell and Marlene Wenger

Nursery this week:
Sylvia/Frances

Next week:
Amina/Florence

9:30 SUNDAY SCHOOL

Lesson Title

““Life Transformation Groups” led by Aaron Kauffman

10:30 WORSHIP Service

We Gather

Gathering Song
Announcements
Call to Worship
Opening Prayer

Gathering

God of foreigners and outcasts, kings and lepers, the thankful
and the thankless, come and be our healer.
Heal our bodies. Heal our minds.
Open our eyes to your honor and majesty embedded in creation.
Fill us with praise and gather us into your wide embrace.
Amen.

We Praise

Congregational Singing
Offering/Offertory

Proclaiming

Confessing/Reconciling (based on Psalm 111)
Leader: Full of honor and majesty is God’s work,
People: but we struggle to see it.
Leader: The Lord is gracious and merciful,
People: but we struggle to accept it.
Leader: The fear of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom.
People: Teach us, Holy One, where to begin.
All: Guide us, your beginners, into your good way.

We Hear

Children’s Time
Scripture Reading: Matthew 4:17-25
Sermon: “Back to School with Jesus”

We Respond

Communion
Congregational Sharing/Prayer Time
Closing Song
Benediction

Sending

Leader: We came seeking mercy,
People: we go with grateful hearts.
Leader: We came weighed down with anxiety,
People: we go lifted up with hope.
All: We will return giving praise to God
whose goodness knows no bounds.   —  Joel Miller, Cincinnati, Ohio

Today's Leaders

*Song leader: Garlan Yoder
*Worship leader: Kevin Gasser
*Message: Aaron Kauffman

Announcements

Today we welcome Aaron Kauffman to our worship service. Aaron is the Global Ministries Director for Virginia Mennonite Missions.

Next Sunday’s offering will be split evenly between Virginia Mennonite Missions and Virginia Mennonite Conference.

Women’s Care Group will meet this Wednesday at Kathy’s at 7:00 pm.

Staunton Mennonite Women will be participating in the community yard sale at Gypsy Hill Place on Saturday, October 26th as a fund raiser for our group. Space is limited. If you have any gently used, non-clothing items you would like to donate, please see Sonya.

The Shenandoah Valley Biblical Storytellers invite you to hear the parables of Jesus “told by the heart!” See the bulletin board for dates.

Start saving your fall vegetables to bring for Brunswick stew at our annual Fall Harvest Party, to be held October 27th at the Huyard ranch.

Please Prayer For:

Matthew 4:19 (NIV), “‘Come, follow me,’ Jesus said, ‘and I will send you out to fish for people.’ ”

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

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.