Worship Service Bulletin for Sunday July 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 Matthew 6:33. Links to the text for previous months are found on the scripture recitation page.

July 1, 2007

GATHERING
Prelude
Welcome & Announcements
Call to Worship

PRAISING
God of wonders
You are holy
Jesus, be the center
Children's Lesson
July Scripture Recitation, Matthew 6:33
Take my life
Offering
Congregational Singing
Celebrations & Concerns

PROCLAIMING
When we walk with the Lord
Obey my voice
Scripture Reading, Romans 13:1-17
Sermon, "The Flag and the Cross"

RESPONDING
Hymn of Response
Benediction
My soul cries out

Sermon: Clyde G. Kratz
Worship Leader: Anna Dintaman
Music Leader: Matthew Hunsberger
Children's Lesson: Paul Glanzer
Greeters: Daryl & Marci Myers
Nursery Attendants: Marilyn & Larry Yoder

Statistics for Sunday, June 24, 2007

Attendance & General Fund Offering:
Worship: 146
Offering: $3,131
Offering YTD: $121,011
Budget YTD: $147,115

Special Offerings:
Building Fund: $480
Colombia (Kauffmans): $30
LCC (Dintamans): $200
SALT (Dan Baker): $25

Sing the Story Songbooks: $2,400

EMHS fund: $400
EMHS fund YTD: $5,797
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, 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
5-YEAR ANNIVERSARY FOR CLYDE'S MINISTRY

Ministry Assignments for Sunday, July 15, 2007:
SERVICE TIME= 10:00 A.M. TO 11:30 A.M.
Sermon: San Jose Reporting
Greeters: Ed & Teresa Miller
Nursery Attendants: The Resto family

• Kevin & Sonya Gasser, pastor couple from Staunton MC, will be going to Trinidad this week to assist the Mennonite Church of Chaguanas (MCCh) with VBS. They will be working along with Ganesh & Risha Kalloo, pastor couple of MCCh. Pray that many young people will learn about Jesus in this setting.


• Pray for members of our church and youth as they travel and experience the Mennonite Assembly in San Jose. The theme is "Live the Call."


• Please pray for Amy Shrock, who on July 6 will undergo radiation treatment for an overactive thyroid.

VESPER SERVICES: Experience the serenity of evenings in a lovely woodland setting with music and a meditation to inspire you! The services, held each Sunday evening in July & August, run from 7:00 to 7:45 p.m. On July 1, enjoy music on the hammered dulcimer by Dave Landes and meditation by Mennonite pastor, Shirley Yoder Brubaker. In case of rain, we will meet in the Whitmer School.

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.

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.

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.

SUMMER ART FUN will be at Eastern Mennonite High School for children and adults to enjoy! Elementary-school-aged children will be painting and mask making on July 9-12; middle-school-aged children will be introduced to pottery & the dark room on July 16-19; adults will be silk painting on Tuesdays in July from 7-9 p.m. Classes are taught by Barbara Gautcher, artist & EMHS art teacher, certified K-12, and member of OASIS gallery. For details, call Jean Fisher at 432-4521.

PLEASE NOTE that the next Relief Sale meeting will be at 7:30 p.m. on August 13 at Harrisonburg Mennonite Church.

ALL SHENANDOAH VALLEY YOUTH are invited to a time of worship at the CrossRoads amphitheater on Sunday, August 12, beginning at 7 p.m. Luke Hartman, assistant basketball coach at Harrisonburg High School and professor at Eastern Mennonite University, will be the featured speaker. Worship for the evening will be coordinated by Caitlin Helmuth. Ice cream will be served after the service. Bring a blanket or lawn chair.

EMU IS SEEKING QUALIFIED APPLICANTS FOR Director of Housing & Residence Life, who is responsible for providing a safe, secure, and comfortable housing & residence life environment conducive to a Christian lifestyle, the pursuit of academic excellence, developing learning communities, fostering learning through co-curricular activities in conjunction with academics, and personal growth for approximately 550 students. For more information on this ten-month, full-time position, which begins August 1, or to apply, visit www.emu.edu/humanresources.

LINDALE CHILD CARE PROGRAM, an outreach of Lindale Mennonite Church, is now hiring for Office Manager. This immediate opening has flexible 10-12 hours per week with the following responsibilities: general office duties; preparing annual & monthly budgets, managing finances, reports to LCCP Board on all relevant program activity; assisting Director with maintaining compliance with licensing, exemption, and accreditation standards; helping Director establish communication and maintain liaison with parents of students enrolled. Candidate must be organized and efficient with the ability to give attention to detail; general office experience is desired. Office computer skills are required and knowledge of QuickBooks is recommended. This position will remain open until it is filled. Send a resume and 3 references to: Lindale Child Care, P.O. Box 1082, Harrisonburg, VA 22803 or e-mail lccp@lindale.org. For more information, call 833-2620.

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.