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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”
March 1, 2015 No.9 Vol. XLIX

 

9:30 Sunday School

““A Good Death”-led by Garlan Yoder

10:30 Worship Service

We Gather

Gathering Song 
Candle Lighting
Announcements
Call to Authenticity/Opening Prayer

We Praise

Congregational Singing -  #80 MH, 300 MH, 169 MH
Offering/Offertory
Children’s Time

We Hear

Scripture Reading: Mark 8:31-38
Call to Grace
Message: “Leading from Behind”

We Respond

Readers’ Theater
Congregational Sharing/Prayer Time
Closing Song
Call to Commitment/Benediction

Today's Leaders

*Children’s time: Susan Huyard
*Song Leader: Susan Huyard
*Worship Leader: Glenn Zendt
*Readers: Emy Yoder, Garlan Yoder, Tate Love, Marlene Wenger

 *Message: Kevin Gasser

Announcements

There will be a Prayer Meeting this Wednesday at Staunton Mennonite Church beginning at 7:00 pm.

Springdale Mennonite has invited us to a showing of the film “In this Land: the Camp Lyndhurst Saga” on Sunday, March 1, at 2 p.m. This 52-minute documentary was filmed in 2014 at a location near Sherando Lake and tells the fascinating story of a camp built there during the Great Depression. Its first occupants were Civilian Conservation Corps workers who constructed the Sherando Lake Complex and worked on Skyline Drive and the Blue Ridge Parkway. It was next used to house conscientious objectors who worked in Civilian Public Service camps. In 1944, during the Second World War, it became home to German prisoners of war. Some of these POWs worked on local farms. James Overton, producer and director of the film, will be present to lead discussion and answer questions following the film. Snacks will be provided for a time of fellowship afterwards. Please join us!

Prayer Request

• The family of Christopher Sell, who passed away last week at the age of 13.
• AD Strickland, recovering from back surgery.
• For the victims of the terrorist attacks in Paris, Nigeria, and Libya.

Next Week's Scripture:

1 Corinthians 1:18-25

Mark 8:31-38New International Version (NIV)

Jesus Predicts His Death
31 He then began to teach them that the Son of Man must suffer many things and be rejected by the elders, the chief priests and the teachers of the law, and that he must be killed and after three days rise again. 32 He spoke plainly about this, and Peter took him aside and began to rebuke him.

33 But when Jesus turned and looked at his disciples, he rebuked Peter. “Get behind me, Satan!” he said. “You do not have in mind the concerns of God, but merely human concerns.”

The Way of the Cross
34 Then he called the crowd to him along with his disciples and said: “Whoever wants to be my disciple must deny themselves and take up their cross and follow me. 35 For whoever wants to save their life[a] will lose it, but whoever loses their life for me and for the gospel will save it. 36 What good is it for someone to gain the whole world, yet forfeit their soul? 37 Or what can anyone give in exchange for their soul? 38 If anyone is ashamed of me and my words in this adulterous and sinful generation, the Son of Man will be ashamed of them when he comes in his Father’s glory with the holy angels.”
 
Staunton Mennonite Church

Photo by A. D. Strickland

Sunday, February 15, 2015
 Worship Attendance ~ 42
Offering - $1,789.00

Next Sunday, March 8,  2015
 Sunday School - Glenn Zendt
Worship Leader - Marvin Showalter
Music Leader - Joe Shenk

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.