Worship Service Bulletin for Sunday April 9, 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 9, 2006

Gathering
Prelude
Welcome & Announcements
Children's Processional
Hosanna
Call To Worship

Praise & Proclamation
April Scripture Recitation, Jeremiah 31:33
EMU Chamber Singers
Offering with Offertory
Special Offering for EMU Chamber Singers

Response
Celebrations & Concerns
Benediction
Sending Song

We welcome the EMU Chamber Singers directed by Ken Nafziger.
Worship Leader: Matt Hunsberger
Prelude & Offertory: Jim Clemens
Children's Processional: Peggy Brubaker
Celebrations & Concerns: Penny Driediger

Everyone is invited to a fellowship meal today following the service. Please come to help us honor college students and the EMU Chamber Singers.

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, April 2, 2006
Worship: 144
Offering: $ 3,251
Offering YTD: $ 64,967
Budget YTD: $ 79,694

Ministry Assignments for Thursday, April 13, 2006
MAUNDY THURSDAY SERVICE, COMMUNION, & FOOTWASHING
Worship Leaders: Interim Leadership Team
Music Leader: Matt Hunsberger

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

• Pray for Aaron & Laura Kauffman as they teach in La Mesa, Colombia. Pray for clear communication and mutual understanding.


• Pray for the Mennonite Church Member Profile 2006 Project as directors interpret and report the data they have gathered nationwide. Ask God to give our denomination a sense of where we are and wehre God is leading us.


• Pray for Zion's college students as they make plans for this summer and next year. Ask God to guide them and reassure them about their future.





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

A MESSIAH SING-ALONG will be at 7 tonight at Park View Mennonite Church. Come to sing or to listen, as we work our way through the choral pieces of Handel's The Messiah.

MOMS (MOTHERS OUT MEETING & SHARING) will gather on April 13 from 9:30-11:30 a.m. at Harrisonburg Mennonite Church. Please pray for a spirit-led time of sharing and encouragement. Call Teresa Koogler at 234-8834, for more information.

QUIET PRAYER RETREAT. On Good Friday, April 14, from 1:30-4:30 p.m. there will be a quiet prayer retreat led by Emily North; coordinated by Ann Yoder. Participants will meet in the EMU Discipleship Center and be guided through worship and meditation on scripture around Lenten themes. Wear comfortable walking shoes, and bring a Bible and journal. Call 434-1604 for more details or to register.

EASTER VIGIL AT PARK VIEW. You are invited to an Easter Vigil at 10 p.m. on Saturday, April 15, at Park View. We welcome the arrival of Easter morning with a Service of Light, Service of the Word, Service of Water, and Service of the Bread and Cup, ending after midnight. This is a dramatic service in which we worship with all our senses.

EMU IS SEEKING QUALIFIED APPLICANTS to fill the following positions: Director of Marketing Services, Director of Health Services, Projects Team Custodian, University Commons Custodian, Associate Director for Admissions (12 month, full-time positions); Director of SELAM (temporary position, July 1-August 4), Business Development Associate for STAR (temporary position through December). For more information, visit www.emu.edu/humanresources/vacancy/allopen.html. Send a letter of application, a resume, and the names, addresses, and telephone numbers of three references to: Human Resources Office, Eastern Mennonite University, 1200 Park Road, Harrisonburg, VA 22802.

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.

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 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

“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.