“Love, Hope, and Light in the Community”

9:30 SUNDAY SCHOOL

"Rejoice Anyway" - led by Garlan Yoder

Today's Leaders

*Song Leader: Susan Huyard
*Worship Leader: Kathy Zendt
*Children’s Time: Kathy Zendt
*Scripture Reader: Leah Huyard
*Message: Les Horning

Announcements

Today we welcome Les Horning to our worship service. Les serves in both the admissions and development offices for Eastern Mennonite Seminary. Before accepting this position Les was the Pastor of Christiansburg Mennonite Fellowship.

Wednesday: Church Council at 7:00 p.m. Kathy will lead the devotional.

Springdale Mennonite Church’s fall School for Christian Living sessions will focus on End-of-Life Issues and Planning and will run October 8, 15 & 22 and November 5, 12 & 19, 2014. A congregational meal will be held each evening at 5:30, followed by the sessions from 6:30-7:30. Each session will include time for questions and discussion. Childcare will be provided and children’s activities will be planned.

The VMC Congregational Life Committee is preparing for a “Consultation and Collaboration of Those Interested in Prison Ministry and Reform,” tentatively scheduled for November 22, place and time yet to be determined. This event is an opportunity for anyone with a passion for prison ministries to collaborate on various issues associated with incarceration. If you have interest in prison ministry, mark your calendar. Further details will be posted when available.

Matthew 21:33-46 - Listen to another parable: There was a landowner who planted a vineyard. He put a wall around it, dug a winepress in it and built a watchtower. Then he rented the vineyard to some farmers and moved to another place. 34 When the harvest time approached, he sent his servants to the tenants to collect his fruit.

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.

Be found in him Call to Worship Leader: You are invited to the table that God has prepared for all people everywhere who call on the name of the Lord. People: We come longing for God’s generous love and grace to fill our life. Leader: Come then; join your sisters and brothers in Christ and receive from the bounty of God. People: We open our hearts to receive all that God has to offer. Praying Loving God, we confess that our lives do not always reflect our walk with Christ. Too often we have placed our confidence in the values of the world which leaves us unsatisfied and lost. Forgive us for this ill-placed confidence. Help us to experience more deeply the surpassing value of knowing Christ Jesus; to see the life-giving possibilities that bring peace, justice, and joy to us and to the world. Amen. Sending Leader: Go from this place filled with the blessing of knowing Christ Jesus. Press on toward the prize of the heavenly call of God for your life. May all you meet this week see and experience the love of God through your actions. Go with confidence, knowing that God will be with you each step of the way. People: We go now to share the good news of Jesus Christ. —Nancy Kauffmann, Goshen, Indiana Today is World Communion Sunday. Nancy Kauffmann is a denominational minister for Mennonite Church USA. She is a part of the Leadership Development Office, which serves congregations and area conferences through collaborative efforts to call, train, and sustain leaders at all levels in Mennonite Church USA in order to help us all fulfill our missional vocation. Bible readings for today: Isaiah 5:1-7; Psalm 80:7-15; Philippians 3:4b-14 (9); Matthew 21:33-46. Bible readings for next Sunday: Isaiah 25:1-9; Psalm 23 (6); Philippians 4:1-9; Matthew 22:1-14.