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 11, 2011 ~  No. 37  - Vol. XLV

   
9:30 SUNDAY SCHOOL

“Righteousness and wisdom”-led by Garlan Yoder

10:30 WORSHIP Service

We Gather

Prelude
Gathering Song
Announcements
Call to Worship
Opening Prayer

We Praise

Congregational singing
Offering

We Hear

Children’s Time
Scripture Reading: Ephesians 6:10-13
Message: “Naming the Enemy”

We Respond

Congregational Sharing/Prayer Time
Closing song
Benediction


*Accompanist: Sandy Carter
*Song leader: Garlan Yoder
*Worship leader: Sylvia Yoder
*Message: Kevin Gasser
 

Song selections for today can be found in the blue Hymnal for Worship and Celebration (BB),
green Sing the Journey (StJ) and red Mennonite Hymnal (MH) found in the backs of the pews.

 

Nursery care is available behind the sanctuary for children ages 0-2.


Announcements

Church Council will meet this Wednesday at 7:30. For real this time.

Joyce Showalter is recovering at home following her recent hospitalization for pneumonia. If you would like to share a meal with Joyce, please sign up on the bulletin board.

Help is needed at Friendship Park in Stuarts Draft Saturday, Sept. 17 for apple butter boiling. This apple butter will be sold at the Relief Sale.

The Augusta Regional Free Clinic is holding a fundraising event at the Depot Grille in Staunton September 19th beginning at 5:00pm. All tips will benefit the clinic.

All are welcome to the Rehoboth Jail & Prison Ministry Day of Jubilee on September 24th. Come share in this time of food, fellowship, and testimony sharing beginning around noon in Schuyler.

There are pie pans available in the Fellowship Hall for anyone who wishes to donate pies, cookies, cakes, or other baked items for the Virginia Mennonite Relief Sale, September 30-October 1st.

Please Prayer For:

  • Please pray for the victims of Hurricane Irene as the recover from this disaster.
  • Please pray for Joyce Showalter as she deals with ongoing respiratory problems.
     

Ephesians 6:12, “For our struggle is not against flesh and blood, but against the rulers, against the authorities, against the powers of this dark world and against the spiritual forces of evil in the heavenly realms.”
 


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, September 4,
2011

Worship attendance 41
Offering  $1,282.00

Next Sunday, September 18, 2011

Sunday School - Marvin Showalter
Worship Leader - Garlan Yoder
Music Leader - Susan Huyard

Staunton Mennonite Church
Photo by A. D. Strickland

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