Staunton Mennonite Church

2405 3rd St - Staunton, VA 24401
Phone 540 886-5869
Office hours Monday and Friday, 9am until 1pm
Kevin Gasser, Pastor - 540 292-4507
Glenn Zendt - Elder - Phone 886-3550
Greeters for May: Jim & Janie Delp
Nursery this week: Joyce Showalter  - Nursery next Week: Florence Showalter
 

“Love, Hope, and Light in the Community”

May 3, 2009  ~  No.18 ~ Vol. XLIII

   
9:30 SUNDAY SCHOOL Hour

The Spiritual Family  -  Discussion led by Marvin Showalter

10:30 WORSHIP

Gathering

Announcements ~ Kathy Zendt
Call to Worship
Children’s Time ~ Kevin Gasser

Praising

Worshiping in Song ~ Glenn Zendt
Moment in Mission
Offering ~ Kathy
Sharing/Congregational Prayer

Listening

Scripture Reading: 1st John 3:16-24

Sermon

“Mission is Messy” ~  Pastor Kevin

Responding

Hymn of Response ~ Glenn
Benediction ~ Kevin

Announcements.

Gospel Echoes will be presenting an evening of music and a message at Dayton Mennonite Church tonight beginning at 7:00 pm

There will be a Weekday Religious Education program at St. Paul United Methodist Church on May 5th beginning at 7:00 pm.

There will be a free Community Fellowship Meal at SMC on Wednesday the 6th, beginning at 6:00. Please invite friends, neighbors, and strangers.

Mennonite Women of Virginia will hold their Annual Missions Day on May 7th at Weavers Mennonite Church beginning at 8:45 am.

The offering on May 10th will be split evenly between Virginia Mennonite Missions and Virginia Mennonite Conference.

Mennonite Women of Staunton will be participating in a yard sale at the Buckhorn Inn on May 16th. Please save the date if you are able to help and begin collecting items that you would like to donate for the sale.

The popular Mennonite a cappella group Sons of the Day will be leading our worship here at SMC on Sunday the 17th of May during our normal worship time. This is a good opportunity to invite friends to church.

Prayer Concerns

  • Please pray for Peggy Blosser as the doctors and nursing staff try to regulate her medication.
  • Pray for Dawn Knight and Brett Williams as they begin their life together as a married couple tomorrow.
     

1 John 3:16, “We know love by this, that he laid down his life for us—
and we ought to lay down our lives for one another.

 

  Sunday, April 26 2009
Worship attendance 43
Offering $2002.00
Next Sunday, May 10, 2009 (Mother's Day)
Sunday School Leader ~Ronald Freisen
Worship Leader Deona Houff
Music Leader ~ Garlan Yoder

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