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
 

“Love, Hope, and Light in the Community”

November 29, 2009  ~  No 48 ~ Vol. XLIII

   
9:30 SUNDAY SCHOOL Hour

The Best is Yet to Come” -Led by Danny Weaver

10:30 WORSHIP

Gathering

Announcements:  Glenn Zendt
Call to Worship and Opening Prayer

Praising

Worshiping in Song: Susan Huyard
Scripture Reading: Glenn
        Luke 21:25-36; Jeremiah 33:14-16
Candle Lighting
Advent Theme Song: Susan
        Come, come Emmanuel
Children’s Time
Continuing in Song
Sermon: “Hope Stands Tall”: Sharon Wyse Miller

Responding

Litany of Response: Glenn
Offering
Congregational Sharing and Prayer
Hymn of Response: Susan
Benediction: Glenn

Announcements.

Today we welcome Sharon Wyse Miller and her husband Duane to our worship service. Sharon recently retired from professional ministry at Ambler Mennonite Church and currently lives in Harrisonburg.

The Staunton Mennonite Women’s Christmas Fondue Dinner has been rescheduled for Wednesday, December 16th. Please RSVP with Kathy or Sonya by next Sunday.

We are gathering DVD’s and VHS tapes for a lending library here at SMC. Check out the new bookshelves to see what is currently available.

Sunday, December 20th will be the annual SMC Christmas Caroling and Soup Dinner. We will plan to meet at the church at 4:00 and carpool to several locations and return for a shared meal.
 

Prayer Concerns:

  • The family of Betty Greenleaf (Norma’s sister-in-law) as they mourn her recent passing.
  • Those who are traveling this Thanksgiving.
  • Tyson Woody, a 2-year-old suffering from a brain tumor and on Hospice
  • Thank God for the many blessings that have been given to us.

Jeremiah 33:14, “The days are surely coming, says the Lord, when I will fulfill the promise I made to the house of Israel and the house of Judah.”


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.


 
Sunday, November 15, 2009

Worship attendance 40
Offering $1050.25

Next Sunday, November 29,  2009
Sunday School Leader ~ Garlan Yoder
Worship Leader ~ Susan Huyard
Music Leader ~ Glenn Zendt
 

Staunton Mennonite Church
Photo by A. D. Strickland

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