Worship Service Bulletin for Sunday March 26, 2006.

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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 Jeremiah 31:33 Links to the text for previous months are found on the scripture recitation page.

March 26, 2006

Gathering
Prelude
Welcome & Announcements
Call To Worship
Open Now Thy Gates Of Beauty
For God So Loved Us
March Scripture Recitation, Jeremiah 31:33

Praising
Great God Of Wonders
To God Be The Glory
Marvelous Grace Of Our Loving Lord
Letter from God
Silent Reflection with music
Celebrations & Concerns
Offering with Offertory

Proclaiming
Children's Church dismissal (ages 3 - 2nd grade)
Scripture Reading, John 3:14-21
Sermon, "Facing Our Fears"

Responding
Hymn of Response
Installation of Interim Leadership Team, Clyde G. Kratz
PCRC Launching Sabbatical, Marv Nisly
Benediction
Move In Our Midst

Sermon: Clyde G. Kratz
Worship Leader: Elwood Yoder
Music Leader: Matt Hunsberger
Prelude & Offertory: Mandi Stoltzfus
Children's Church: Linda Snader & Anne Juarez
Celebrations & Concerns: Penny Driediger

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, March 12, 2006
Worship: 194
Offering: $ 6,436
Offering YTD: $ 57,105
Budget YTD: $ 68,309

Ministry Assignments for Sunday, April 2, 2006
Sermon: Sam Weaver
Music Leader:
Worship Leader: Elwood Yoder
CHILDREN'S LESSON

Ministry Assignments for Sunday, April 9, 2006
PALM SUNDAY
EMU Chamber Singers
Worship Leader: Matt Hunsberger

• The Third Way Café is reaching people! Pray for David and Wilma Shank, former mission workers in Belgium and Benin, as they review and respond to theological questions sent to Mennonite Media’s Third Way Café.


• Since 1984, Mennonite Mission Network associates have served in the Philippines along with Wycliffe Bible Translators. Workers must confront the battles of the spiritual world as many Filipinos continue their ancient animist practices, including sacrifices to appease unhappy spirits. Pray for the workers and the Filipinos.


• Pray for the many parents in our congregation who are expecting a baby or are taking care of their newborn infant.





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

FUNDS ARE NEEDED for the Mennonite Relief Center. It was a successful canning season: 48,000 pounds of turkey were canned! The Relief Center needs to recover the cost of purchasing turkey, and asks for your help. If you would like to contribute to this project, send a donation to: Mennonite Relief Center, P.O. Box 519, Dayton, VA 22821, earmarked for the meat canning project. If you have questions, contact Leon Rhodes at 867-9751. Thanks for your participation in this effort to feed the less fortunate in the world!

EASTERN MENNONITE HIGH SCHOOL is seeking professionally certified teachers, who share the call for Anabaptist-Mennonite education in a Christ-centered academic environment. Position openings for the 2006-2007 school year include 6th grade, Science (grades 8-10), and Information Technology (grades 6-9). Interested candidates are encouraged to express their interest by April 15 to Paul Leaman, principal, by calling 432-4502.

WEDNESDAY LENTEN SERVICES. An ecumenical community worship service, in the Taizé-style, will be held each Wednesday during Lent, now until April 5, 8:30-9:30 p.m. at Park View Mennonite Church. These services are for the local Christian community to join in prayer for each other, our community, and our world. The worship is patterned after the Taizé community, a Christian community located in a small village in eastern France, which has had a significant impact on Christian worship worldwide.

A QUESTION FOR YOU, MEN: Do you enjoy praising and serving the Lord in song? Well, the Rockingham Male Chorus currently has openings for all parts. The chorus meets from early September to mid-May and gives from 20-30 programs each year, singing locally and as far away as Florida. Chorus members come from all areas of the valley and meet Tuesday evenings at the Bridgewater Retirement Community chapel for practice. If you would enjoy singing with this auditioned group, contact David MacMillan, Director, at 433-0667.

EASTERN MENNONITE UNIVERSITY would like to invite you to come see for yourself why EMU is an exceptional Christian university. Special visit dates are: March 30 & 31. Please call EMU at 432-4118 or register on-line at www.emu.edu/admissions/brochure/cv.html.

THE SHENANDOAH VALLEY MEN’S CHORUS will practice each Sunday 3:00-4:30 p.m. in EMS now—March 19, preparing for programs on March 25 & 26. Men of all ages are invited to join. Jay Hartzler is directing. If you have questions, call Jacob Heatwole at 421-7780.

JUMP INTO SPRING with some infectious Irish toe-tapping instrumental music by Lunasa on Saturday, April 1 at 7:30 p.m. in EMHS Auditorium. The concert is a fundraising event for the EMHS Touring Choir European tour in June. Advance tickets are $12 adult; $10 students and senior citizens; $40 family. At the door prices are $15 for all and $50 for family. For tickets and more information, call 432-4931.

A CROSS-CULTURAL EXPERIENCE IN YOUR HOME! This summer, the Intensive English Program at EMU needs host families for young people from other countries. There are three sessions: May 8-July 21 (Summer Session), July 24-August 18 (Summer Vacation Course for students 18 and older), and July 17-August 4 (SELAM 2006 for students ages 12-17). Host families provide: housing and family fellowship for one or more students; breakfast and supper for students on weekdays; all meals on weekends (unless the students have a field trip); daily transportation (if needed) from your home to IEP. All host families will be remunerated at $120 per week per student. To find out more, call the Intensive English Program at 432-4059 or Matt Carlson at 433-3235. You can also e-mail Matt at matthew.carlson@emu.edu

EMU THEATER is proud to present Jeanne Walker Murray's Inventing Montana, showing March 30-31, April 1, and 6-8 at 7:30 pm in the Mainstage Theater, University Commons. Montana Winfield, a Dickens scholar, is surprised by a late night visit from a Yale graduate student claiming to possess an unpublished Dickens manuscript. Reading the manuscript changes Montana forever and brings the theater audience a Dickensian experience that is as theatrical and fun as it is big-hearted. Adult tickets are $10 in advance, $12 at the door. Non-EMU students, Senior citizens and children are $8 in advance, $10 at the door. EMU students are free. Faculty-free night is March 30. There will be a special matinee performance on April 1 at 2pm; the proceeds will go directly to the Tom Fox Memorial Fund, a special fund established to continue the peace-building efforts of our EMU alumnus who was recently killed while working in Iraq. Call the EMU Box Office at 432-4582 or check out www.emu.edu/boxoffice for more information.

“FROM EVERY TRIBE & NATION,” August 3—6 in Dallas, Texas, is the first Racial/ Ethnic Conference planned by MCUSA Intercultural Relations, African-American Mennonite Association, Iglesia Menonita Hispana, & Native Mennonite Ministries. For more information or to request a brochure, send an e-mail to: intercultural@Mennonite.USA.org.