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”
June 29, 2014 No. 26 Vol. XLVlII

Greeters for March:
Danny & Frances Weaver

Nursery this week:
The Huyards

Next week:
Florence/Kathy

 

9:30 SUNDAY SCHOOL

“Hope for a New Day” – led by Danny Weaver

10:30 WORSHIP Service

We Gather

Gathering Song - 31 MH
Announcements
Call to Worship
Opening Prayer

We Praise

Congregational Singing 58 MH, 13 MH, 50 MH
Offering/Offertory

We Hear

Children’s Time
Scripture Reading: Matthew 12:1-14
Message: “Sabbath”

We Respond

Congregational Sharing/Prayer Time
Closing Song  175 MH
Benediction

Today's Leaders

*Accompanist: Sandy Carter
*Song Leader: Joe Shenk
*Worship leader: Sonya Gasser
*Message: Kevin Gasser

Announcements

There will be a carry-in fellowship meal following today’s worship service. Please stay even if you did not bring anything. We always have plenty to share.

Today’s offering will be divided evenly between Virginia Mennonite Conference and Virginia Mennonite Missions.

Save the date: July 15th will be our annual ice cream social at the park!

Everyone is invited to the Virginia Mennonite Conference Annual Assembly worship services at Trinity Presbyterian Church in Charlottesville on July 24th and 25th, beginning at 6:45 each evening. This year’s theme is “Making Disciples as We Go!” Find more details at: http://virginiaconference.org/assembly/
 

Please Prayer For:

  • Pam Humphries, healing at UVa after open-heart surgery.

  • Those traveling this summer.

  • Danny Weaver, recovering at home from knee-replacement surgery.

Mark 2:27, “Then he said to them, “The Sabbath was made for man, not man for the Sabbath.”
Staunton Mennonite Church

Photo by A. D. Strickland

Sunday, June 22, 2014
 Worship Attendance ~ 31
Offering ~ $627.00

Next Sunday, July 6, 2014
 Sunday School - Garlan Yoder
Worship Leader - Garlan Yoder
Music Leader - Garlan Yoder

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.

 

A cup of cold water

Call to Worship

Leader: From the fresh summer air,
Women: from the heat of the summer sun,
Men: from the cool wet summer rain,
All: we gather in God’s presence.
Leader: Longing for love,
Women: longing for grace,
Men: longing for peace,
All: we gather in God’s presence.

Confessing/Reconciling

Our ways have not always extended welcome
to all those we meet.
Forgive us.
(silence)
Open our eyes, open our ears, open our hands, open our arms,
open our minds, open our hearts.
(silence)
Thanks be to God for the gift of forgiveness and new life.

Offering

Generous and gracious God, we return these gifts to you.
We pray your blessing for your work they support.
Bless us in the ministry we share. Amen.
—Eleanor Epp-Stobbe, Waterloo, Ontario

Bible readings for today: Jeremiah 28:5-9; Psalm 89:1-4, 15-18; Romans 6:12-23; Matthew 10:40-42 (42). Bible readings for next Sunday: Zechariah 9:9-12 (10);Psalm 145:8-14; Romans 7:15-25a;
Matthew 11:16-19, 25-30.