Worship Service Bulletin for Sunday June 17, 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 17, 2007

GATHERING
Prelude
Welcome & Announcements
Call to Worship
I owe the Lord a morning song
Open now thy gates of beauty
O worship the Lord
My soul is filled with joy

PRAISING
The Children of Zion (Powerpoint presentation)
Children's Singing
June Scripture Recitation, Lamentations 3:25
Offering
Sharing about Fatherhood
Celebrations & Concerns
To God be the glory
O God, your constant care
I'm pressing on the upward way
Far, far away from my loving father

PROCLAIMING
Scripture Reading, Luke 15:11-32
Sermon, "Freedom from Bondage"

RESPONDING
Gracious Spirit, dwell with me
Benediction
Sending Song

Sermon: Clyde G. Kratz
Worship Leaders: Kristina Snader & Laura Lehman
Music Leader: Dave King
Sharing about Fatherhood: Paul Glanzer
Greeters: Ken & Judy Nafziger

Statistics for Sunday, June 10, 2007

Attendance & General Fund Offering:
Worship: 136
Offering: $1,716
Offering YTD: $113,889
Budget YTD: $135,346

Special Offerings:
Building Fund: $300
SALT (Dan Baker): $100

EMHS fund YTD: $5,397
EMHS fund goal: $26,000

MHEG fund YTD: $5,353
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 24, 2007
SERVICE TIME= 10:00 A.M. TO 11:30 A.M.
Sermon: "Many Members: One Body" by Clyde G. Kratz
Greeters: Ken & Judy Nafziger

Ministry Assignments for Sunday, July 1, 2007:
SERVICE TIME= 10:00 A.M. TO 11:30 A.M.
Sermon: "The Flag and the Cross" by Clyde G. Kratz
Greeters: Daryl & Marci Myers

Ministry Assignments for Sunday, July 8, 2007:
SERVICE TIME= 10:00 A.M. TO 11:30 A.M.
Sermon: "The Church in the World" by Clyde G. Kratz
Greeters: Daryl & Marci Myers

• Chris & Melody Riddle and their three sons are in transition from Italian language school in Lecce to living in the Bari area in Italy, where they will relate to Centro Koinonia. Ask for open doors and God's clear leading for this decision-making time.


• Pray for the Gifts & Appointments Committee as they call members to serve at Zion.

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, July through August. Bring your lawn chairs!

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.

WHAT IS PENNY POWER? Penny Power is a fun & easy way to raise money for Mennonite Central Committee and Virginia Mennonite Board of Missions. Just drop your coins in the water jug container on the table in the foyer before the Virginia Mennonite Relief Sale in October. For more information, contact the church office at 896-7577.

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.

FLRC CELEBRATES 20 YEARS: Family Life Resourse Center’s twentieth anniversary celebration will feature a choir from the 450-member Russian Baptist Church of Mt. Crawford and John Drescher, best-selling author and former board member, who will speak on the subject, "Families Have Changed—For Better of For Worse?" This event will be held Sunday, July 1, at 2 p.m. at the Park View Mennonite Church, on the very day and at the location where FLRC first opened its doors on July 1, 1987. There will be a birthday cake and refreshments afterwards, a display of a Mary Showalter quilt (donated to the Center for a later silent auction), and a book signing for some of Drescher’s books and Harvey Yoder’s “Lasting Marriage—The Owners’ Manual.”

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.

HELP WANTED: Young adults are needed to serve & be challenged in faith through DEO (Discipleship, Encounter, Outreach). Positions for service in Denver & Phoenix include: interacting with women at a day shelter, meeting needs through a medical clinic, working at a men’s homeless shelter, providing resources for the poor, and living in community with developmentally disabled adults. It is not too late to apply! If God is calling you to one of these positions, please contact Kay Schroeder at KayS@mennonitemission.net. More information is available at www.d-e-o.org.

THE MASTERS IN BUSINESS ADMINISTRATION (MBA) program at Eastern Mennonite University is holding an open house 5-7 p.m. on Thursday, June 28. Persons are invited to stop by room 226 on the second floor of EMU's Campus Center to receive information on any of the program's three study tracks, to ask questions in an informal setting, and to meet program chair—Allon Lefever—and other faculty members. Refreshments will be served. EMU's graduate-level MBA program is committed to encouraging the development of business leaders with the highest ethical standards and level of competency. The program emphasizes values-based decision-making and professional leadership with compassion, and has a practical application. In addition to a degree in general management, the MBA program offers a degree track in health services administration and a graduate certificate in health services administration, an all-online program. For more information, call Patricia Eckard at 432-4150.

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.