Smithville Mennonite Church

July 1, 2007 – 10:30

 

WE GATHER

GATHERING MUSIC                                      Louise Hershberger

MCC WaterWorks Offering

     “MCC is helping build a concrete canal in Vietnam to provide water for rice fields.”

ANNOUNCEMENTS                      

PRELUDE                        

                                             

WE PRAISE GOD

CONGREGATIONAL SONGS                                     Praise Team

           “Forever”                                                        “Take My Life”

           “Be the Centre”                                  “I Give You My Heart”

WELCOME GREETING

CALL TO WORSHIP                                                 Dave Smucker

SPECIAL MUSIC

 “The Longer I Serve Him” Women’s trio       Julia Beyeler, Geneva Smucker, Carol Schrock

OFFERING PRAYER/OFFERING

OFFERTORY                     

                                    

WE HEAR THE WORD

SCRIPTURE READING        Matthew 25:14-30          Mark Gerber

MESSAGE              “FIGuring Out Faithfulness”         Todd Martin

                                                                 

WE RESPOND

RESPONSE SONG    “Great is Thy Faithfulness               HWB 327

SHARING/PRAYER                                                

BENEDICTION

 

 

 

We welcome all to our worship service today.  If you are a guest at Smithville Mennonite, we pray that you have been blessed by worshipping with us.  If you need assistance, our ushers will be glad to help you.  We invite you to sign our guest book in the foyer and to come and worship with us again.

 

TODAY . . .

          5:00 a.m.          MYF leaves for San Jose

            8:45 a.m.          Prayer time in Pastor’s study.

9:00 a.m.          Coffee/Fellowship time-Monica Mease    

9:30 a.m.          Sunday School for All Ages

                        Elective Class –The “First Place” series  

           10:30 a.m.          Worship Service

   P.A. System  Dave Miller

   Multi-media    Eric Ramseyer

   Nursery Care  Hank & Megan Reifsnyder

                                    NO Kids Membership Class today

            1:30 -4:30          Open House at OrrVilla

            5-7:00 p.m.        Frisbee Football

           

Next Sunday. . .

                            

            10:30 a.m.         Worship Service

   “Gentleness” Matthew 11:28-30

 3:30 p.m.         Kids membership class

 5-7:00 p.m.       Frisbee Football

 

Last Sunday . . .

          Worship attendance - 141

Offering: 

   Budget…………………………………..  $3450.00

  College Aid………..…………………………. 75.00

 

$1408.00 is still needed to complete our August-December payment

for the college aid assistance fund

 

Coming Up . . .

                    July 12              VBS Staff training

July 14              Friendship Circle – Berlin Flea Market

July 23–27         Bible School

 

 

WHAT’S HAPPENING AT SMC . . .

 

Congratulations to Don and Kristin Mullins on the birth of BrookeTaylor Mullins, born Wednesday, June 27th. Brooke weighed 6 lbs. 14 oz. and was 19 inches long. Congratulations as well, to grandparents, Lyle and Jane Kalina.

 

Bible School begins in three weeks! (July 23 – 27) There are registration forms for children in your mailboxes today. We would like these back by July 15.  Along with the forms are cards for each child to use to invite a friend to VBS. Those who return a registration form from a friend will receive a prize. 

 

Friendship Circle sign-up will continue today. The ladies will be car-pooling to Berlin Flea Market on Saturday, July 14.

 

The OrrVilla Retirement Community invites you to an open house today. Four available Locust Court independent living apartments will be open for tours.  Open house hours are 1:30 to 4:30 PM.  OrrVilla is located on Sassafras Street, just east of Dunlap Hospital.  Look for the “Open House” signs.  Find out why OrrVilla is an enjoyable place to live!

 

Sandy, Nate and Natalie arrived safely in Palmer, Alaska. If you would like to contact Sandy, you can email her at motherlodeseh@aol.com.

 

Relief Sale, Coming Up…August 3 & 4.  One of the features at the sale is the “Quilt Corner.”  If you have unfinished projects, projects for which you have materials and never got started, or leftover fabrics, bring them to MCC Connections and designate them for the Quilt Corner.  These items sell very well.

 

Multi-agency Global Fabric Project at San Jose. You can participate! You can help support the San Francisco Mennonite Voluntary Service House by bidding on a hand-stitched quilt being crafted this week at the San Jose Mennonite Convention.  The “Global Coins” quilt was created from more than 30 different fabrics representing areas around the world where Mennonite service and mission agencies work and have partners.  The quilt is the culmination of a year of collaboration between MDS, MCC, Eastern Mennonite Missions, Virginia Mennonite Missions and Mennonite Mission Network.  Bidding on the quilt began Friday, June 29 on eBay and will continue until July 7 at 6 p.m. PDT.  See http://www.mennoniteusa.org/GlobalFabric for the link to the eBay site and a picture of the quilt.

 

 

THIS WEEK AT SMC . . .

           

TUESDAY, JULY 3       

            10:00 a.m.         Coffee Hour at BrennField

           

 THURSDAY, JULY 5

            7:00 p.m           Discernment of Gifts Committee

            7:30 p.m.          Trustees

           

 FRIDAY, JULY 6

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            8:30 a.m.          Women’s Prayer in the Library

 

 SATURDAY, JULY 7

 

            3:30 p.m.          MYF scheduled to return to Columbus

 

 

 

In Our Prayers . . .

 

·         Pastor Todd that –he will have a vision for future ministries.

·         Our Friends and Family at SMC…Don and Cheryl Mast, Craig and Krista Mast, and Kevin and Chris Mast.

·         Our MYF, their leaders, and others who are attending Mennonite Convention in San Jose this week.

·         Vacation Bible School, July 23 – 27, Pray that God will strengthen and encourage the administration and staff as they prepare to teach the children.

 

Smithville Mennonite Church

6097 Akron Rd., P.O. Box 455, Smithville, OH  44677

Phone:  330-669-3601           

E-mail:  lmsmucker@smithvillemennonite.org todd@smithvillemennonite.org

Website:  smithvillemennonite.org

Pastor:  Todd Martin

Youth Pastor:  Rebecca Martin

Church office hours:  Tuesday – Thursday, 9:00 a.m. to 12 noon (other times as needed)