Worship Service Bulletin for Sunday June 3, 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 Lamentations 3:25. Links to the text for previous months are found on the scripture recitation page.

June 3, 2007

GATHERING
Prelude
Welcome & Announcements
Call to Worship
Here in this place
Come and be light for our eyes

PRAISING
Baptism of Dan Nafziger
June Scripture Recitation, Lamentations 3:25
Immortal, invisible, God only wise
Offering
High School Senior Recognition
Celebrations & Concerns

PROCLAIMING
I want to walk as a child of the light
Scripture Reading, John 14:23-29
Sermon, "Light to the World"

RESPONDING
Hymn of Response
Benediction
Sending Song

Sermon: Sarah Bixler
Baptism: Clyde G. Kratz
Worship Leader: Penny Driediger
Music Leader: Matt Hunsberger
Greeters: Mark & Dawn Mast
Nursery Attendant: Rebecca Hess

Statistics for Sunday, May 27, 2007

Attendance & General Fund Offering:
Worship: 139
May's Attendance Average: 165
Offering: $4,462
Offering YTD: $99,370
Budget YTD: $123,577

Special Offerings:
Building Fund: $350
Colombia (Kauffmans): $60

EMHS fund YTD: $4,647
EMHS fund goal: $26,000

MHEG fund YTD: $5,103
MHEG goal for 2007: $10,000

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, June 10, 2007
CHILDREN'S SUNDAY
Sermon by Clyde G. Kratz
Worship Leader: Susan Stoltzfus
Music Leader: Deb King
Greeters: Mark & Dawn Mast
Worship Planners: Rebecca Hess, Deb King, and Susan Stoltzfus

Ministry Assignments for Sunday, June 17, 2007:
SERVICE TIME= 10:00 A.M. TO 11:30 A.M.
FATHER'S DAY
Sermon: "Freedom for Bondage" by Clyde G. Kratz
Worship Leaders: Kristina & Michael Snader
Greeters: Ken & Judy Nafziger
Worship Planners: Matt Hunsberger, Deb King, & Clyde Kratz

• Pray for Shirley Roth, serving in Nazareth Village, Israel, in partnership with Mennonite Mission Network.


• Remember persons involved in commmunity outreach: Larry & Marilyn Yoder, Peggy Brubaker, Mark Mast, Dabney Vaccaro, and others whom God uses to touch those near our church.


• Ask God to work in the hearts of both insurgents and governments in Iraq and Afghanistan for peaceful solutions to injustice and religious disagreement.

VESPER SERVICES: Spend your Sunday evenings at 7 p.m. in the wooded amphitheater of Valley Brethren-Mennonite Heritage Center (CrossRoads). Summer vesper services will be held every week, June through August. Bring your lawn chairs!

THE KING’S HERALDS, a harmonious a cappella men’s quartet, will perform at Dayton Mennonite Church on June 11 at 7 p.m. For more information, call (540) 879-9655.

HIGHLAND RETREAT INVITES EVERYONE to its Annual Steak BBQ fundraiser on Saturday, June 23 at 5 p.m. Please bring a potluck salad and dessert to share. Also, bring your classic or antique vehicle for display. Other afternoon activities include: swimming, zipline, superswing, & funyaks. Your donation helps with the summer youth camps.

THE MENNONITE A CAPPELLA SINGERS, directed by John Henry Miller, will present a concert of sacred music at Park View Mennonite Church on June 23 at 7:30 p.m.

REGISTRATION FOR VMC ASSEMBLY: Registration for Virginia Mennonite Conference Assembly is now open on-line (www.vmconf.org). To receive a paper copy, contact your church office. The theme this year is "Our Christ-centered Faith," and the Assembly will be held at Lenoir-Rhyne College in Hickory, North Carolina, July 26—28.

NEW FOR SAN JOSE 2007: In addition to the regular Children’s Convention programming that begins Tuesday morning, activities for infant/toddlers, preschool, and grades K-5 will be provided from 2:45—5:30 p.m. on Monday, July 2 (during the first delegate session) in the Children’s Convention rooms. Pre-registration for the Monday afternoon session and for the regular Children’s Convention program is strongly encouraged. Visit www.SanJose2007.org.

THE TEARS AND ASHES BUS TOUR sponsored by CrossRoads on July 21 will feature Civil War battlefields in the Cross Keys, Port Republic, & New Hope areas. The tour will begin at 8 a.m. and end at 4 p.m. at Mill Creek Church of the Brethren. Accompanying guides Dave Rodes & Norman Wenger—compilers of the Unionists and the Civil War Experience in the Shenandoah Valley book series—will be Murphy Wood, an authority on these battlefields. The $60 fee includes a lunch by youth of the Mill Creek Church and a tour booklet. Please call 438-1275 to register by July 16. The tour will also include places of importance to Brethren and Mennonites.

NEED TO TONE YOUR MUSCLES? Consider volunteering on the dock at a World of Good Thrift Shop. Don’t waste your time lifting dumbbells. We have furniture and boxes—and there’s no membership fee! A regiment of every other Saturday for four hours should be just the ticket. If interested, call Peggy Brubaker at 433-8844, ext. 101.

MCC SKYLINE BENEFIT RIDE. Every two years, an MCC ride is planned on the East Coast to benefit MCC. This year’s ride is August 5-9 along the Skyline Drive. Proceeds from this ride will benefit MCC’s work for peace, including walking alongside the Anabaptist churches in Colombia in the midst of a four-decades long conflict. For details of this event, visit www.mcc.org/event/bike or contact the church office for a brochure and registration form.

ESL POSITION AT EMU: The Intensive English Program at Eastern Mennonite University is currently looking for experienced & qualified ESL instructors to teach on an adjunct basis starting August 29. To find out more, call the IEP at 432-4053 or e-mail IEP interim director M. Esther Showalter at maria.showalter@emu.edu.