Worship Service Bulletin for Sunday April 2, 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.

April 2, 2006

Gathering
Prelude
Welcome & Announcements
Call To Worship, Psalm 145
We Would Extol Thee
Joyful, Joyful, We Adore Thee
April Scripture Recitation, Jeremiah 31:33

Praising
Come, Thou Fount
Lord, I Am Fondly, Earnestly
Break Thou The Bread Of Life
Letter from God
Silent Reflection with music
Celebrations & Concerns
Offering with Offertory
Special Offering

Proclaiming
Children's Lesson
Scripture Reading, Deuteronomy 6:4-12
Sermon, "Faith, Family, and Fellowship"

Responding
Hymn of Response
Benediction
Go, My Children

Sermon: Sam Weaver
Worship Leader: Elwood Yoder
Music Leader: Dwayne Hartman
Prelude & Offertory: Allison Fletcher
Children's Lesson: June Lantz
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 26, 2006
Worship: 186
Offering: $ 4,612
Offering YTD: $ 61,717
Budget YTD: $ 74,002

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

Ministry Assignments for Thursday, April 13, 2006
MAUNDY THURSDAY SERVICE, FOOTWASHING, & COMMUNION
Reflection & Worship Leader: Penny Driediger
Music Leader: Matt Hunsberger

Ministry Assignments for Sunday, April 16, 2006
EASTER SUNDAY
Sermon: Ervin Stutzman
Worship Leader: Penny Driediger
Music Leader: Welby Showalter

• Remember Joel Lehman as he spends time at Woodrow Wilson Rehabilitation Center.


• Prayer focus this week: the country of Singapore.


• Pray for the members of the Interim Leadership Team as they begin their work in Clyde's absence.





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

THE VMRC AUXILIARY WISHES TO THANK EVERYONE that contributed to the success of the Annual Auction held on March 17. We were able to take in around $16,500 enabling the purchase of 30 recliner chairs for the Oak Lea nursing unit and Afton lounge. Thank you to the pie bakers—as you helped keep the dinner price affordable—and for those who attended. We hope you had an enjoyable evening!

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.

OPEN HOUSE FOR TURNER’S MILL: Preservation is underway for a mill built 200 years ago by Abraham Breneman. Come to an open house, which is being hosted by the Turner family and Valley Brethren-Mennonite Heritage Center, from 1—5 p.m. on Saturday, April 15. Turner’s Mill is near Edom on Brenneman Church Road, west of Rt. 42.

REVIVAL SERVICES, featuring Duane Yoder, the pastor at Lindale Mennonite Church, will be held at 7 p.m. each evening of April 20—22 at Hebron Mennonite Church in Fulks Run.

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.

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.