Worship Service Bulletin for Sunday February 18, 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 18, 2007

GATHERING
Prelude
Welcome & Announcements
Call to Worship
You're worthy of my praise
Not be shaken
In Christ alone

PRAISING
February Scripture Recitation, I John 1:9
Offering with offertory (A Living Prayer by Ron Block, 2003)
Celebrations & Concerns
What a friend we have in Jesus
Blessed Assurance

PROCLAIMING
Dramatic Presentation
Children's Church dismissal (age 3 to 2nd grade)
Scripture Reading, Luke 6:46-49
Thoughts on Health Sunday
Sermon, "Building for the Future"

RESPONDING
Hymn of Response
Benediction
Alleluia, the Great Storm

Greeters: Bob & Brenda Fairweather
Worship Leader: Dave Yutzy
Music Leader: Elwood Yoder
Sermon: Dave King
Drama: Seth Crissman & Theresa Peachey, et al
Thank you, musicians: Eric Brubaker, Elise Litwiller, Celah Pence, Larry Yoder, Maria Yoder, Dave Yutzy
Thoughts on Health Sunday: Judy Nafziger
Children's Church: Anne Juarez

Statistics

Attendance & Offering for Sunday, February 11, 2007
Worship: 214
Offering: $ 3,058
Offering YTD: $ 25,549
Budget YTD: $ 35,308

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 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)

Ministry Assignments for Sunday, March 4, 2007
Sermon by Clyde G. Kratz
Greeters: Herman & Gladys Ropp
Worship Planners: Deb King, Matt Hunsberger, & Penny Driediger
Music Leader: Dorothy Hartman

• Thank God for the MYF leaders & volunteers and for their work with the youth in our congregation.


• Please pray for Willard & Eva Eberly as they continue to work in Italy & Albania, teaching leaders, mentoring missionaries, and translating materials for use in the churches there.


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

ON 2ND & 4TH THURSDAYS OF EACH MONTH, young adults from local area churches are invited to meet at 7 p.m. for various events that will be held in the lower level of Park View. The next activity is a game night on Thursday, February 22 – so, bring your favorite game & a snack. Starting in March, the group will be doing a study of Brian McLaren's book A New Kind of Christian. If anyone has this book & would be willing to lend it to the group, please contact Amy Rush at 746-6168.

AUDITIONS FOR SONS OF THE DAY. Sons of the Day, a Harrisonburg-based men's a cappella singing group, announces open auditions on March 13 & 14. Sons of the Day seeks male singers between the ages of 20—35 to fill a yet-undetermined number of openings. For more information and to schedule an audition, visit www.sonsoftheday.com and click on "news".

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.”

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.