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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”

  April 12, 2015 No.15 Vol. XLIX
 
 

 

9:30 Sunday School

“Christ-Centered Love” – led by Glenn Zendt

10:30 Worship Service

We Gather

Gathering Song 
Announcements
Call to Worship
Call to Authenticity/Opening Prayer

We Praise

Congregational Singing
Offering/Offertory
Children’s Time
Congregational Singing

We Hear

Scripture Reading: Revelation 5:1-14
Message: “Costly Witness

We Respond

Congregational Sharing/Prayer Time
Closing Song
Call to Commitment/Benediction

Today's Leaders

 
 

*Song Leader: Joe Shenk
*Worship Leader: Kadrin Anderson
*Accompanist: Sandy Carter

 *Message: Kevin Gasser

 
 

Announcements

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

Remember that matching funds are available for any donation made toward the principal of the mortgage on 303 Grubert through the end of this month! Earmark checks with “303 Grubert.”

Staunton Mennonite will hold a light meal followed by the annual Talent Show on April 26. Bring your woodworking, knitting, story-telling, musical talents and more! Additional details will soon be available.

The annual Mennonite Women of Virginia Missions Day will be held May 2 from 9-12:30 at Trissels Mennonite Church. Eve Knepp will be speaking about her time serving at Maranatha School for the Deaf in Jamaica.

Please pray for:

• The victims of the college shooting in Kenya.
• Those who lost loved ones in the Germanwings plane crash

 

Next Week's Scripture

Revelation 5:1-14




 


Revelation 5:6, “I then saw in the center of the throne… a Lamb, standing as if it had been executed.”

Staunton Mennonite Church

Photo by A. D. Strickland

Sunday, April 5, 2015
Worship Attendance ~ 53
Offering - $2,272.45
(303 Grubert $324.00)

Next Sunday, April 19, 2015
Sunday School - Marvin Showalter
Worship Leader - Danny Weaver
Music Leader - Susan Huyard

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.

 

Happy are those who don’t see and yet believe

Gathering

Come! Come gather with God’s people.
Come gather with those who choose to listen, who long to see,
who doubt, yet dare to believe.
Come! Come with your eyes that see darkness, your hearts that
are broken, your ears that hear despair.
Come! Let us listen together.
Let us listen to those who proclaim, “We have seen the Lord!”

Confessing/Reconciling

God, you call us to the impossible. You ask us to believe that
One who was crucified is now alive. You expect us to live in
perfect unity, truly in harmony with one another. Our hearts
and minds are too small! Lord, help thou our unbelief. Teach us
the truth and the power of your transforming love. Amen.

Affirming Faith

Leader: Lord, we believe.
People: We believe you are the Christ, our risen Savior.
We believe not even death can separate us from love.
We believe our sins are forgiven, our darkness
overcome.
Leader: Lord, we know.
People: We know your love calls forth a response.
We know that, having believed, our lives will never be
the same.
Leader: Therefore, we love.
All: Together, we seek to walk in the light of your love.
There, in our fellowship, we find your blessing—even life
evermore.
—Diane Bowman, Harrisonburg, Virginia

Bible readings for today: Acts 4:32-35; Psalm 133; 1 John 1:1–2:2;
John 20:19-31.

Bible readings for next Sunday
: Acts 3:12-19; Psalm 4; 1 John 3:1-7;
Luke 24:36b-48.