Worship Service Bulletin for Sunday November 27, 2005.

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In January 2003, we started doing a scripture recitation during the Sunday worship service. We use the same scripture for each Sunday in the month. Click here for this month's scripture recitation text which is Psalm 103 Links to the text for previous months are found on the scripture recitation page.

November 27, 2005

Gathering
Prelude: Celah Pence
Processional: Allison Fletcher
What is This Place
Welcome & Announcements: Elwood & Joy Yoder
Call to Worship: Elwood & Joy Yoder
Advent Lighting of the Candle: Elwood & Joy Yoder
Congregational Singing: Allison Fletcher

Engaging
Children’s Lesson: Linda Snader/Anne Juarez
Congregational Singing: Allison Fletcher
Scripture Reading: Isaiah 64:1-9
Sermon: “Watch, Wait, Hope” Clyde G. Kratz
Celebrations and Concerns: Clyde G. Kratz
Receiving New Members: Joe & Dabney Vaccaro
Offering/Offertory: Celah Pence

Responding
Congregational Singing: Allison Fletcher
November Scripture Recitation: Psalm 103
Benediction
Congregational Singing: Allison Fletcher

Welcome to all who join us for worship today. May you experience God’s peace and joy as we worship and fellowship together. If you are a visitor with us, we invite you to fill out a visitor card found on the back of the pew so that we may know you better. Please place the visitor card in the offering basket or hand it to one of the ushers.

Zion Mennonite Church Ministries

Zion Mennonite Church Ministry Assignments

Attendance & Offering for Sunday November 20, 2005
Worship: 205
Offering: $3,832
Offering YTD: $221,189
Budget YTD: $231,023

Ministry Assignments for Sunday December 4, 2005
Second Sunday of Advent
Sermon: "Comfort, Strength, Promise" by Clyde G. Kratz

Ministry Assignments for Sunday December 11, 2005
Third Sunday of Advent
Sermon: "Rejoice" by Sarah Bixler
Worship Leader: Clyde G. Kratz

• Continue to pray for Joel and Darlene Lehman and their three children. Joel sustained injuries in falling from a tree stand while hunting. He is in intensive care at UVA.


• This Christmas season, remember Anna Dintaman, serving on the South American island of Chiloe. As she is far away from home and church, pray that God would send her moments of fellowship and encouragement. Maybe through you? anna.dintaman@emu.edu


Prayer concerns may be sent to: zionprayerroom@aol.com.

REFLECTION DURING ADVENT: Goshen College offers a spiritual resource during Advent. Now until December 23, go to www.goshen.edu/devotions for daily reflections based on scripture and the theme "God's Unstoppable Purpose."

MIDDLE & HIGH SCHOOL YOUTH: Bible quizzing starts in January. The season runs through March and will cover Luke 1-15. This is a great way to study the Bible and build friendships. Teams must register by November 30. Visit www.vmconf.org/quizzing for more information.

VMC YOUTH OFFICE is accepting applications for the new Youth Leadership Cabinet. The application deadline is December 1, 2005. This committee will be assisting in planning and implementing future youth events and retreats. For more information, visit the Conference web site, vmconf.org/youth/.

AN EVENING WITH WILLARD & EVA EBERLY! On December 9, at 6 p.m. in Harrisonburg Mennonite Church Fellowship Hall, come enjoy Italian soup and delicious bread, listen to Italian praise music, and see pictures and hear stories from the Mediterranean area. An offering will be taken to support Willard & Eva, who have been re-appointed for a two-year term in Italy by the Virginia Mennonite Board of Missions.

ATTENTION YOUTH AGES 13-17: Register now for the Kaleidoscope Camp Winter Youth Retreat which will be held January 6-8, 2006 at Williamsburg Christian Retreat Center. Our theme is How to Study the Bible. This will be a time of meaningful worship, inspired teaching, great fellowship, and recreation. Scholarships are available by calling WCRC.