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”

July 15, 2012 ~  No. 29- Vol. XLVl

   
9:30 SUNDAY SCHOOL

Lesson Title

“Making Right Decisions”-led by Marvin Showalter

10:30 WORSHIP Service

We Gather

Prelude/Gathering Song 
Announcements
Call to Worship
Opening Prayer

We Praise

Congregational singing
Offering

We Hear

Scripture Reading: Luke 15:11-32
Message “What God Did For a Modern-Day Prodigal Son”

We Respond

Congregational Sharing/Prayer Time
Closing song
Benediction

*Song leader: Susan Huyard
*Worship leader: Joe Shenk
*Message: Ron Baker

Announcements

Today we welcome Ron Baker, chaplain from Rehoboth Jail and Prison Ministry, to our worship service. There is a table set up near the front door with more information on this ministry.

The Women’s Care Group will not meet this month. The August meeting has been rescheduled for August 29th.

We are collecting toilet paper for the Valley Mission. Please feel free to bring your donation to the front of the sanctuary before church or during the offering time.

Our annual Ice Cream Social will be held at Gypsy Hill Park this Tuesday, July 17th. We will plan to meet around 6:00 pm. Please bring sandwiches and a side to share. If you have an ice cream maker and are interested in making ice cream, please see Kathy.

Our 2012 Penny Power donations will be split evenly between tornado relief work in West Liberty, KY and Mennonite Central Committee’s ongoing relief efforts in the Middle East countries of Syria and Lebanon.

Please Prayer For:

  • Phil, Anje, Everett, and John Cassel as they move back to Augusta County.
  • Florence Showalter as she experiences bad pain.• Paul Duncan, recovering from heart surgery.
  • Teresa Showalter as she heals following surgery to remove a cancerous kidney.

Luke 15:24, “For this son of mine was dead and is alive again;
he was lost and is found.’ So they began to celebrate.”


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, July 8,
2012

Worship Attendance 47
Offering  $1234.80

Next Sunday, July 22, 2012

Sunday School ~ Danny Weaver
Worship Leader ~ Garlan Yoder
Music Leader ~ Lowell Wenger

Staunton Mennonite Church
Photo by A. D. Strickland

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