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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 22, 2015 No.12 Vol. XLIX

 

9:30 Sunday School

“The Calming and Sending Spirit”-led by Danny Weaver

10:30 Worship Service

We Gather

Gathering Song 
Announcements
Call to Worship
Call to Authenticity/Opening Prayer

We Praise

Congregational Singing
Offering/Offertory
Children’s Time

We Hear

Scripture Reading: Jeremiah 31:31-34
Call to Grace
Message: “Our forgetful God”

We Respond

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

Today's Leaders


*Children’s time: Kathy Zendt
*Song Leader: Glenn Zendt
*Worship Leader: Marlene Wenger
*Scripture Reader: Lois Sell
*Readers: Emy Yoder, Garlan Yoder, Tate Love, Marlene Wenger

 

*Message: Kevin Gasser

 

Announcements

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

A matching donation of up to $10,000 will be made to help pay down the principal on the rental property at 303 Grubert. Please earmark any extra donation with “303 Grubert” or make a pledge by April 30th to take advantage of the matching funds.

The annual Southern District Festival of Praise is scheduled for Sunday, March 29 at Springdale Mennonite. The evening’s activities will begin at 6:00pm.

Staunton Mennonite Church will be holding a Good Friday service on April 3, beginning at 6:30. This brief service will include scripture reading, singing, and communion.

There will be an Easter Sunday morning breakfast at Staunton Mennonite, beginning at 9:15 am. There will be time for singing Easter Songs between the breakfast and the regular worship service at 10:30.

If you are interested in beginning or renewing a subscription to The Mennonite please see Kathy Zendt by April 1.

The Bethel Mountain Band will bring their “Gospel Bluegrass Harmonies” to Stuarts Draft Mennonite Church on Friday April 10 at 7:00 pm. CD’s will be available.

Next Week's Scripture

Psalm 118:1-2, 19-29

 


Jeremiah 31:31-34New International Version (NIV)

31 “The days are coming,” declares the Lord,
“when I will make a new covenant
with the people of Israel
and with the people of Judah.
32 It will not be like the covenant
I made with their ancestors
when I took them by the hand
to lead them out of Egypt,
because they broke my covenant,
though I was a husband to[a] them,[b]”
declares the Lord.
33 “This is the covenant I will make with the people of Israel
after that time,” declares the Lord.
“I will put my law in their minds
and write it on their hearts.
I will be their God,
and they will be my people.
34 No longer will they teach their neighbor,
or say to one another, ‘Know the Lord,’
because they will all know me,
from the least of them to the greatest,”
declares the Lord.
“For I will forgive their wickedness
and will remember their sins no more.”
 
Staunton Mennonite Church

Photo by A. D. Strickland

Sunday, March 15, 2015
Worship Attendance ~ 57
Offering - $1.298.50
(303 Grubert $325.00)

Next Sunday, March 29, 2015
Sunday School -                     
Worship Leader - Sylvia 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.

 

I treasure your Word in my heart

Call to Authenticity

Leader: Faithful God, we want to mature in faith.
People: But what does that really mean?
And what will we have to give up?
Leader: We wonder what transformation requires of us,
our congregation, our denomination.
People: We’re afraid you’ll ask too much.
(silence)
Leader: We want to be your people.
People: Make us willing receivers of a covenant
knit right into the center of our being.

Call to Grace

God wants truth in the most hidden places,
and teaches wisdom in the most secret space.
Creating for us clean hearts,
God puts a new, faithful spirit deep inside us!

Call to Commitment

Leader: God turns things upside down and inside out,
writing a new way of being into our very DNA.
People: God, we will watch and wait
for your new thing to bear fruit within and among us.

 

Bible readings for today: Jeremiah 31:31-34; Psalm 51:1-12 or
Psalm 119:9-16; Hebrews 5:5-10; John 12:20-33.
Bible readings for next Sunday
: Isaiah 50:4-9a;
Psalm 31:9-16; Philippians 2:5-11; Mark 14:1-15:47 or Mark 15:1-39, (40-47); Liturgy of the Palms, Psalm 118:1-2, 19-29; Mark 11:1-11 or
John 12:12-16.