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”

September 7, 2014 No. 36 Vol. XLVlII

 

9:30 SUNDAY SCHOOL

“A Vison of the Future” – led by Garlan Yoder

10:30 WORSHIP Service

We Gather

Gathering Song - Overhead Screen
Announcements
Call to Worship
Opening Prayer

We Praise

Congregational Singing - 300 MH, 296 MH, 627 MH
Offering/Offertory

We Hear

Children’s Time
Scripture Reading: Matthew 6:5-15
Message: “Practicing Prayer”

We Respond

Congregational Sharing/Prayer Time
Closing Song - 429 HWC
Benediction

Today's Leaders

*Song Leader: Susan Huyard
*Worship Leader: Amina Shenk
*Message: Kevin Gasser

Announcements

Many thanks to those who contributed to the 47 kits for the refugee children living on the US/Mexico border and the 31 school kits for Mennonite Central Committee. A special thanks to Florence Showalter for sowing all of the kit bags!

Church Council will meet this Wednesday at 7:00 pm. Devotions: Kevin.

If you would like to be included in our newest church directory please fill out the questionnaire found at the church entrance and return at your earliest convenience.

Applebutter Boiling for the Mennonite Central Committee Relief Sale will be held Saturday, September 13 at Friendship Park in Stuarts Draft. Work will begin at 6:00 am. Feel free to come as your schedule allows.

Women’s Care Group will begin meeting again on September 17th, 7:00 pm, at Kathy Zendt’s home.

The Virginia Mennonite Relief Sale will be held October 3-4 at the Rockingham County Fairgrounds, Harrisonburg. The relief sales offers a little bit of everything—quilts, artwork, homemade food, antiques, crafts, music and activities for the whole family. We hope you’ll join us! Proceeds go to the work of Mennonite Central Committee.

Please Prayer For:

  • The racial tension and violence in Ferguson, Missouri.

  • Those suffering in the Israel-Palestine conflict.

  • The refugee situation along the US-Mexico border.

  • Kevin, Sonya, Paxton, and Hadley, as Kevin begins his study leave.
     


 

Matthew 6:5  - And when you pray, do not be like the hypocrites,
for they love to pray standing in the synagogues and on the street corners to be seen by others.

Staunton Mennonite Church

Photo by A. D. Strickland

Sunday, August 31, 2014
Worship Attendance ~ 43
Offering $
1,286.00

Next Sunday, September 14, 2014
Sunday School - Glenn Zendt
Worship Leader - Garlan Yoder
Music Leader - Joe Shenk
 

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.