Worship Service Bulletin for Sunday February 11, 2007.

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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 I John 1:9 Links to the text for previous months are found on the scripture recitation page.

February 11, 2007

GATHERING
Prelude
Welcome & Announcements
Call to Worship
We sing to you, O God
Let there be light, Lord God

PRAISING
February Scripture Recitation, I John 1:9
Offering with offertory
Celebrations & Concerns
O breathe on me, O breath of God

PROCLAIMING
Scripture Reading, Luke 6:17-26
Dramatic Presentation
Sermon, "Compassionate Service"

RESPONDING
Give thanks for life
Benediction
Sending Song

Greeters: Wes & Jennifer Showalter
Worship Leader: Ben Yutzy
Music Leader: Welby Showalter
Sermon: Clyde G. Kratz
Prelude, Offertory, &Special Music: Shekinah (Heidi Bowman, Anna Dintaman, Robin Fletcher, Jenny Hartwig, Sara Hershberger, Eve Knepp, Chris Kniss, Joanna Showalter, & Andrea Stutzman)
Drama: Seth Crissman & Theresa Peachey, et al
Thank you, musician: Celah Pence

Statistics

Attendance & Offering for Sunday, February 4, 2007
Worship: 237
Offering: $ 6,314
Offering YTD: $ 22,491
Budget YTD: 29,423

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 Ministry Assignments

Ministry Assignments for Sunday, February 18, 2007
Sermon: "Building for the Future" by Dave King
Worship Leader: Dave Yutzy
Greeters: Bob & Brenda Fairweather
Children's Church: Anne Juarez
Worship Planners: Susan Stoltzfus, Dave & Jewel Yutzy, Seth Crissman, & Theresa Peachey

Ministry Assignments for Wednesday, February 21, 2007
ASH WEDNESDAY BREAD SERVICE
Worship Planners: Worship Commission

Ministry Assignments for Sunday, February 25, 2007
YOUTH SUNDAY
Sermon: David Brenneman
Greeters: Bob & Brenda Fairweather
Worship Planners & Leaders: MYF (c/o Sarah Bixler)

• Pray for Bishop Leslie Fransisco as he serves as Urban Ministry Director for the 2020 Vision, a church planting effort of Norfolk & Warwick Districts.


• Pray for the worship commission as they work together to make our vision of meaningful worship on Sunday mornings a reality.


• Pray for the Gant family. Ed's mother, Eleanor, passed away on Monday morning, February 5. Her death comes seven months after Ed's father's death. The funeral is today.


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

VMC’S 2007 ADULT WINTER BIBLE SCHOOL will feature Dr. Myron S. Augsburger, President Emeritus of EMU. This in-depth Bible teaching will take place from 6:30 until 8 p.m. in the Eastern Mennonite School Auditorium on 5 consecutive Sunday nights between February 11 & March 11. Dr. Augsburger’s teaching will be based on his devotional “Soli Deo Gloria: A Daily Walk Through Romans.”

GREAT MUSIC BY LOCAL MENNONITE PERFORMERS! You are invited to Park View at 8 p.m. on February 16 to enjoy great music from: DAPHNA CREEK (traditional gospel & bluegrass), CANTORÉ (a 10-person men’s a cappella ensemble), & FINELY TUNED (a women’s a cappella quartet). There is no charge for admission; however, an offering will be received to support Mennofolk, a Mennonite folk music festival sponsored by VMC.

MCC’S ANNUAL TURKEY CANNING FOR 2007 will be February 26—March 2 at the Mennonite Relief Center. Help is needed each day from 5 a.m. until 11 p.m. (and especially in the early morning hours). Specific dates to note: Virginia Mennonite Conference is responsible to provide help on Tuesday, February 27, while Friday, March 2 will be a community day. Funds are needed to purchase turkey for processing and for the ongoing operation of the Relief Center. If you would like to contribute to this project you can send a donation to: Mennonite Relief Center, PO Box 519, Dayton, VA 22821, earmarked for the meat-canning project. If you have any questions pertaining to this project you can contact Leon Rhodes at 867-9751 or Gerald Knicely at 879-2077. Thanks for your participation in this effort to feed the less fortunate in the world!

HIGHLAND RETREAT will hold its Annual Auction, which benefits the youth camp summer program, on March 3. If you can contribute new or slightly used merchandise, theme baskets, baked goods, gift certificates, collectables, or other valuable items, please call 852-3226.

MARK YOUR CALENDARS! Mennonite Mutual Aid is holding Stewardship University at Harrisonburg Mennonite Church on Saturday, March 10. Education courses will be offered in the following areas: personal budgeting, retirement planning, family, relationships, personal stewardship, business: MEDA sponsorship. For more information, see Jim Rush or visit www.stewardshipuniversity.org.

MCC’S SERVING AND LEARNING TOGETHER (SALT) is an 11-month program for Christians, ages 18 to 27, interested in a cross-cultural service experience. The primary goal is a personal transformation & learning in hope of sowing seeds for future transformation of our own society & of global relationships. For more information check out www.mcc.org/salt.

SPEND THE SUMMER SOMEWHERE NEW. Are you interested in traveling to Germany, Northern Ireland, Israel, or somewhere in North America? Do you want to serve others & have new experiences? Plan a summer of service with Youth Venture, a program of Mennonite Mission Network that provides summer service opportunities for individual youth & young adults, ages 14-25. To find out more, call (866) 866-2872, visit www.mennonitemission.net/Work/Service/YV/opportunities.asp, or e-mail YouthVenture@MennoniteMission.net.