“Love, Hope, and Light in the Community”

9:30 Sunday School

Today's Leaders

*Song Leader: Glenn Zendt
*Accompaniment: Sandy Carter
*Worship Leader: Kevin Gasser
*Music provided by the EMHS Touring Choir

Pastor Kevin Gasser

Announcements

Today we welcome the Eastern Mennonite High School (EMHS) Touring Choir to our worship service. The choir, along with their director, Jared Stutzman, will be traveling around the US and Canada throughout the next few months. You may donate to their mission by making checks out to EMHS or placing cash donations in the envelopes located in the pew backs.

Everyone is invited to stay for a carry-in meal after the worship service today. We have arranged to provide enough for all guests who wish to stay.

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.

As a part of its 30 year anniversary observance, the Family Life Resource Center is offering a Marriage Maintenance class series starting April 3 and meeting for four Mondays from 7-8:30 pm. There is no charge for the class, led by Harvey Yoder, but contributions to the Center's scholarship fund are welcome. Call 540-434-8450 to register.

Please pray for:

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

• Those who were affected by the terrorist attack in London.

Psalm 100:1-2, “Shout for joy to the Lord, all the earth. Worship the Lord with gladness; come before him with joyful songs.”

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 4 Restore us, O God! We see. Call to worship Leader: Here in this place we gather to worship. All: Open our eyes and our hearts. Leader: Here in this place we gather to see you. All: Open our eyes and our hearts. Leader: Here in this place we gather to perceive you in all your glory and beauty. All: Open our eyes and our hearts. Leader: Remove our blindness so that we might see ourselves honestly, and humbly worship 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 open our eyes to see what is true. We confess that sometimes it is easier for us to stay blind than to embrace the fullness of your truth. People: We admit that it is scary and unsettling to fully accept what you want us to see. Leader: Your truth exposes our hidden secrets, upsets our expectations, and establishes a new order where we are no longer leading the way. Forgive us, O Lord, when we would rather stay in the darkness of our current reality instead of receiving your miracle of light and new life. People: Remove the cataracts from our eyes, that we may see and celebrate your goodness around us. Quicken our minds, and soften our hearts, that we may recognize that you are at work. (Pause for silent confession) Leader: God who brings all things into the light, All: restore us. Leader: The Lord is our shepherd, we shall not want. Though we cannot see through the valley of the shadow of death, God is with us. We will dwell in the house of the Lord forever. Amen.