Worship Service Bulletin for Sunday November 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 Proverbs 4:23 Links to the text for previous months are found on the scripture recitation page.

November 26, 2006

GATHERING
Prelude                                                                                             
Welcome & Announcements                                                                                        
Call To Worship
I will enter His gates
Come, ye thankful people   HWB 94
Now thank we all our God   HWB 86
 Parent-Child Dedication - Eleanor June Hahn

PRAISING
November Scripture Recitation, Proverbs 4:23
Offering with Offertory (The Love of God)
Offering
Celebrations & Concerns
Rise up, oh people of God

PROCLAIMING
Scripture Reading, Acts 7:51-60
Sermon, "Baptism of Blood"

RESPONDING
I bind my heart this tide  HWB 411
Benediction
I will give thanks to the Lord

Sermon: Clyde G. Kratz
Greeters: Marvin & Ruth Kaufman
Worship & Music Leader: Dave Yutzy

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 19, 2006
Worship: 237
Offering: $ 4,296
Offering YTD: $ 223,228
Budget YTD: $ 267,545

Ministry Assignments for Sunday, December 3, 2006
Sermon: "Love Lights the Darkness" by Clyde G. Kratz
Worship Leader: Deb King
Greeters: Marvin & Ruth Kaufman
CHILDREN'S LESSON

• Pray for Chris & Melody Riddle as they prepare for missions in Italy.


• Pray for safe travels for families as they return from Thanksgiving.


• Ask God to intervene in the suffering in the Darfur region of Sundan.


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

TIS THE SEASON...FOR GIFT-WRAPPING! Gift-wrappers are needed at Rockingham Co-op during the holiday season. Income from this project benefits Patchwork Pantry. Volunteers are needed from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m, each Friday & Saturday through December 23, and for each day of the final week before Christmas, December 18-22. Two adults are needed for each time slot. Training will be provided. Contact Carmen Wyse (434-0915 or family@waynegehman.com) to reserve your gift-wrapping hours!

REGISTRATION IS NOW OPEN for "Places, People, & Prayers: 2007," a Middle East study tour offered by Eastern Mennonite Seminary from May 4—26, 2007. Visit: www.emu.edu/seminary/crosscultural/.

“LIVE THE CALL! ¡VIVE EL ILLAMADO!” is the Mennonite Church USA convention theme for San José 2007. Plan now to attend, July 2—7, 2007. Look for registration materials in December! And watch for updates on the Web at www.SanJose2007.org.

MUSICAL GIFT IDEA: Give a gift that keeps giving with music that sets the heart singing. Singing in the Spirit is a new 28-song 2-CD reissue of camp-meeting songs, spirituals, & folk tunes celebrating a diverse spiritual heritage, a 12-voice men’s ensemble from the long-running Mennonite Hour radio broadcast. For more information or to order, call 800-999-3534, or go online to www.mennomedia.org/resources after December 1.

ENCOUNTERS AT BETHLEHEM: AN ADVENT RETREAT.  The season of Advent is an important Christian rhythm of remembering the gift of “God becoming flesh” & an opportunity for us to renew our faith, hope, & love.  Blue Ridge Ministries, Inc. is offering an Advent retreat led by Kevin Clark on December 2 from 9 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. at Hochstedler’s Retreat in Harrisonburg.   Cost for this retreat is $30  ($10 for students, with scholarships available).  To sign up, send an e-mail to blueridgeministries@yahoo.com or call 438-0023.