Worship Service Bulletin for Sunday April 1, 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 John 6:35. Links to the text for previous months are found on the scripture recitation page.

April 1, 2007

GATHERING
Prelude
Welcome & Announcements
Words for Gathering

Leader: O God, you are our God. We seek you.
People: Our souls thirst for you as in a dry and weary land where there is no water.
Leader: We thank you for being our salvation, for being our chief cornerstone.
People: We bless you as we bind the festal procession with branches up to the horns of the altar!
All: O God, you satisfy our souls as with a rich feast. In the shadow of your wings, we sing for joy and you uphold us.

Hosanna, loud hosanna
All glory, laud, and honor

PRAISING
Lenten Scripture Recitation, John 6:35
Offering
Ride on, ride on in majesty
Open now thy gates of beauty
Celebrations & Concerns

PROCLAIMING
Scripture Reading, Luke 19:28-40 and Isaiah 50:4-9a
Sermon, "God's Love Endures"

RESPONDING
What wondrous love is this
Confession and Reconciliation

Leader: We are all invited to confess Jesus as Lord. Let us bring ourselves to God in prayer.
All: Living God, give us the courage to confess your son Jesus as our Lord. When others vie for our loyalty, we will confess Jesus as Lord.
Leader: When earthly powers claim supremacy, we will confess Jesus as Lord. When our souls hunger for reality and truth, we will confess Jesus as Lord.
All: In the morning and in the evening, we will confess Jesus as Lord.
Leader: Our generous God has provided for us.

Benediction
I stand amazed in the presence

Greeters: Todd & Mandi Stoltzfus
Instrumentalists: David Brenneman, Jonathan Bryant, and Celah Pence
Music Leader: Welby Showalter
Sermon: Clyde Kratz
Worship Leader: Mandi Stoltzfus & Erica Lehman

Statistics

Attendance & Offering for Sunday, March 25, 2007
Worship: 257
Offering: $ 2,006
Offering YTD: $ 51,608
Budget YTD: $ 71,615

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 Thursday, April 5, 2007
Maundy Thursday Meal and Service
Worship Planners: Valerie Helbert, Deb King, and Clyde Kratz

Ministry Assignments for Sunday, April 8, 2007
Sermon by Clyde G. Kratz
Greeters: Todd & Mandi Stoltzfus
Music Leader: Dave King
Worship Planners: Valerie Helbert, Deb King, and Clyde Kratz

Ministry Assignments for Sunday, April 15, 2007:
Worship Planner: Matt Hunsberger
Greeters: Grant & Susan Stoltzfus

• Pray for Edith Showalter this week.


• Remember the Ray Kuykendall family in the loss of his brother.


• Working with Northern District, James & Sharon Rhee have begun outreach to the Korean community in Stephen's City, with services that began in January 2007. Pray that the Lord would bless this work.

COLLEGE SCHOLARSHIPS AVAILABLE: Park View Federal Credit Union is proud to make available two $500 scholarships. The applicant must be a graduating senior & a member at PVFCU. If there is a high school senior in your family, please encourage him or her to apply! For more information, visit www.pvfcu.org.

VOLUNTEER APPRECIATION. Gift & Thrift, Inc. announces its annual Volunteer Appreciation Banquet, to be held on Thursday, April 12 at 6:30 p.m. at Eastern Mennonite High School. Each member of a sponsoring congregation is invited to attend. Guests, who are not regular volunteers at Gift & Thrift, are encouraged to give a donation to cover the expenses of the evening. Please contact your congregational representative, Jonathan Kratz (746-5225 or kratzja@emu.edu), by April 1 to reserve a space.

THE SHENANDOAH VALLEY MEN’S CHORUS, directed by Jay Hartzler, will have its Fourth Annual Concert April 1 at 2 p.m. at the Eastern Mennonite School Auditorium. There will be an offering to benefit the ministries of VMBM.

PARK VIEW MENNONITE will hold the following services: April 6, 7:30 p.m. – A Tenebrae Service remembering the darkness of Jesus’ journey to the cross. The highlight of this service is a dramatic reading of the passion story from the Gospels by candlelight and our departure in silence & darkness; and April 7, 10 p.m. – An Easter Vigil that welcomes the arrival of Easter morning with a Service of Light, Service of Word, Service of Water, and Service of the Bread & Cup, ending after midnight. This is a dramatic service in which we worship with all our senses.

AN EASTER SUNRISE SERVICE will be hosted by CrossRoads on April 8 at 6:30 a.m. on the hill at the Valley Brethren—Mennonite Heritage Center. Ron Wyrick, pastor of First Church of the Brethren, will lead an Easter meditation. Bring a lawn chair. In case of rain, meet at Weavers Mennonite Church.

EMU IS LOOKING FOR HOST FAMILIES for high school & college-age international students studying at the Intensive English Program for a few weeks in the summer. This is an excellent chance to not only experience a bit of another culture in your own home, but also be paid to do so! If you have any interest, contact Sarah Huffman at 432-4059 as soon as possible.

EASTERN MENNONITE UNIVERSITY is seeking qualified applicants to fill the following temporary positions: tree care landscaper and landscaper. For more information, visit www.emu.edu/humanresources/