“Love, Hope, and Light in the Community”

9:30 SUNDAY SCHOOL

"The Altar, a Sign of Hope" - led by Glenn Zendt

Today's Leaders

*Music Leader: Joe Shenk
*Worship Leader: Tate Love
*Children’s Time: Tate Love
*Message: Dennis Bender

Announcements

Today we welcome Dennis Bender to our worship service. Dennis and his wife Machelle are missionaries in Mexico, serving with New Tribes Mission. Machelle is speaking this weekend at the Virginia Mennonite Women's Retreat.

Our Missions Offering this morning will be sent to VMM & VMC.

The Shenandoah Valley Biblical Storytellers Guild is presenting a Biblical Storytelling program at the Court Square Theater (Harrisonburg) today at 3:00 p.m. The program theme is "Can the Duh-sciples Ever Get This?" and includes New Testament stories and parables. There is no admission, but a free-will offering will be accepted.

Church Council meets Wednesday, 7:00 p.m., at the church.

Staunton Mennonite Church will be hosting a Children's Bible Quiz at our church on Saturday, November 15, starting at 9 a.m.  Several children from our church will be participating.  Everyone is welcome!

There will be a fellowship meal after the worship service next Sunday.

Acts 14: 21-28  - They preached the gospel in that city and won a large number of disciples. Then they returned to Lystra, Iconium and Antioch, strengthening the disciples and encouraging them to remain true to the faith. “We must go through many hardships to enter the kingdom of God,” they said. Paul and Barnabas appointed elders a for them in each church and, with prayer and fasting, committed them to the Lord, in whom they had put their trust. After going through Pisidia, they came into Pamphylia, and when they had preached the word in Perga, they went down to Attalia.

From Attalia they sailed back to Antioch, where they had been committed to the grace of God for the work they had now completed. On arriving there, they gathered the church together and reported all that God had done through them and how he had opened a door of faith to the Gentiles. And they stayed there a long time with the disciples.
 

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.

Keep awake Gathering Leader: Be on the alert! Stay awake! People: God is in this place. Leader: We long for God’s saving help. People: The Lord is great. All: We worship God who is our help and our deliverer. Praying Ever-present God: We are here to meet and worship you, awake and alert, keeping oil in our lamps, listening for your voice. (pause for silence) Amen. Sending Encourage one another with these words: The Lord himself will come down from heaven and we will be with the Lord forever. —Esther Lanting, Wakarusa, Indiana November is Mission Month. Bible readings for today: Amos 5:18-24; Psalm 70; 1 Thessalonians 4:13-18; Matthew 25:1-13 (13). Bible readings for next Sunday: Zephaniah 1:7, 12-18; Psalm 90:1-8 (9-11) 12 (1); 1 Thessalonians 5:1-11; Matthew 25:14-30.