“Love, Hope, and Light in the Community”

9:30 Sunday School

Today's Leaders

*Song Leader: Susan Huyard
*Worship Leader: Dwight Huyard
*Children’s Time: Kadrin Anderson

Pastor Kevin Gasser

Announcements

Thanks to everyone who contributed toilet paper and monetary gifts for the Valley Mission. We raised a total of $1,030, and plan to apply for a matching grant.

There will be a prayer meeting this Wednesday beginning at 7:00 pm.

The Valley Brethren-Mennonite Heritage Center (VBMHC) invites all people of faith to join their voices in a unity hymn-sing featuring songs of hope and peace today at 7:00 pm. In a time that is full of fear, division, and despair for many, VBMHC invites you to join with people from different faith traditions in celebrating that which we hold in common: commitments to seeking Jesus and working to bring God’s love and justice for all God’s children. Join us at Harrisonburg First Church of the Brethren, 315 S. Dogwood Dr. A free-will offering will be received to support the Valley Brethren-Mennonite Heritage Center.

Staunton Mennonite Church will host the Eastern Mennonite High School Touring Choir on March 26 during our worship service. Please invite friends to this exciting event! Also, we will be providing a carry-in meal for the students after the service, so please consider bringing multiple dishes to share.

Please pray for:

• Ruth Duncan, as she recovers from shoulder surgery.
• Joyce Showalter, as she recovers from a broken ankle.

John 4:13-14b, “Jesus answered, ‘Everyone who drinks this water will be thirsty again, but whoever drinks the water I give them will never thirst.’”

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.

Lent 3 Restore us, O God! We thirst Call to worship Leader: In a dry and weary land, All: restore us, O God. Leader: Parched and depleted, All: restore us, O God. Leader: Longing for your living water, All: restore us, O God. Leader: We thirst. Receive our worship as a sign of our yearning for you.Leader: Receive our worship and our wonderings, O God, as we seek after you. Offering prayer With all that we have and all that we are, we honor you. Restore us, O God, to live in freedom and trust. Confession and words of assurance Leader: O God, you are the living Water. You restore us to life. We confess that in the desert moments of our lives we forget your faithfulness. Our bodies grow tired; our hearts dry up. Our minds become clouded and we do not remember that you are our deliverer. People: When we see the dryness behind and before us, we quarrel among ourselves and burden one another. We cry out: “Is the Lord even among us?” Leader: Forgive us, O Lord, for in the harshness of life’s desert journey we quickly focus on ourselves. We forget that you have been, you are, and you will forever be our deliverer. People: Restore in us a remembering spirit, that we may hope in you again. Renew our hearts, O Lord. Make us generous in our praise, that we may worship you anew! (Pause for silent confession) Leader: God, our living Water, All: restore us. Leader: Let all who thirst, come. Come and drink from the living Water. Let all who have nothing, come to the Lord. Come—without money or price. Come and draw freely from the well of our Lord, which will never run dry.