“Love, Hope, and Light in the Community”

9:30 Sunday School

Today's Leaders

*Song Leader: Joe Shenk
*Workship Leader: Marlene Wenger
*Drama: Paxton and Sonya Gasser
*Accompanist: Sanda Carter
*Childern Time: Glenn Zendt

Pastor Kevin Gasser

Announcements

Please join us after church today for a Christmas meal and carol singing! The meal will be provided. There will also be crafts for the children and an opportunity to knot comforters for Mennonite Central Committee.  

All ages are invited to DoveTale, a family-friendly show that brings a humorous and poignant look into the hearts and minds of Joseph, Mary, and the Angel Gabriel as they confront the gritty realities of the birth of Christ, Dec. 10, 7:30 p.m. in EMU’s Lehman Auditorium. Pay-what-you-will; tickets available at 6 p.m.. A showtime freewill offering will benefit student scholarships.  

There will be a Christmas Benefit Concert for the Staunton Augusta Church Relief Association (SACRA) on Monday, December 11, at Memorial Baptist Church, beginning at 7:00 pm. See the bulletin board for more information.  

There are thank-you notes on the bulletin board for recent donations to Mennonite Disaster Services, Mennonite Women, and Virginia Mennonite Conference.

Please update your address books:

Garlan, Sylvia, Emy, Heavenli, and Grayson Yoder
3190 Wits End Way
Harrisonburg, VA 22802  

Joe, Amina, Ari, and Jacob Shenk
18 Weston Dr.
Staunton, VA 24401

Please pray for:

• Those who grieve or are alone over the holidays.

Isaiah 64:1-9 New International Version (NIV)
Oh, that you would rend the heavens and come down, that the mountains would tremble before you! As when fire sets twigs ablaze     and causes water to boil, come down to make your name known to your enemies and cause the nations to quake before you!  For when you did awesome things that we did not expect, you came down, and the mountains trembled before you. Since ancient times no one has heard,     no ear has perceived, no eye has seen any God besides you, who acts on behalf of those who wait for him. You come to the help of those who gladly do right, who remember your ways. But when we continued to sin against them, you were angry. How then can we be saved?  All of us have become like one who is unclean, and all our righteous acts are like filthy rags; we all shrivel up like a leaf, and like the wind our sins sweep us away.  No one calls on your name  or strives to lay hold of you; for you have hidden your face from us and have given us over to our sins. Yet you, Lord, are our Father.  We are the clay, you are the potter; we are all the work of your hand. Do not be angry beyond measure, Lord; do not remember our sins forever. Oh, look on us, we pray, for we are all your people.

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.