December
30, 2007
WE GATHER
GATHERING
MUSIC Lois Smucker
WELCOME
PRELUDE “Canticle of Joy” Adult Choir
ADVENT
Elvin Mast & Rachel Gerber
(Grandfather & Granddaughter)
WE
PRAISE GOD
CONGREGATIONAL SONGS Lynette Neuenschwander
“Lo,
How a Rose E’er Blooming” HWB 211
“Dona Nobis Pacem” HWB 346
WELCOME/GREETING
SPECIAL
MUSIC Ben
Rohrer
OFFERING PRAYER/OFFERING Darrell Smucker
WE HEAR THE WORD
MESSAGE “God’s Grandparents” Pastor
Todd Martin
SCRIPTURE
Luke 2:21-40
WE
RESPOND
RESPONSE
SONG
“Rejoice, A King is Born”
Adult Choir
SHARING/PRAYER Sandy
Oyer
CAROL
BENEDICTION
POSTLUDE
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 . . .
8:45 a.m. Prayer
time in pastor’s office
9:00 a.m. Coffee/fellowship time – Ralph & Lila Smucker
9:30 a.m. Sunday School for all ages
Women’s Elective
Class – Book Study
“Pathway
to Purpose for Women”
By Katie Brazelton
P.A. System Ryan
Steiner
Multi-media Velda
Rohrer
Nursery Care Terry
& Louise Hershberger
Offering for Capital Improvement
3:00 p.m. Frisbee Football
Next Sunday. . .
10:30 a.m. Worship
3:00 p.m. Frisbee
Football
Last
Sunday . . .
Worship attendance – 191
Offering: Budget ……………………….…....…$2949.40
Sunday
School ….……………........ 5.60
Central
Student Fund……….………. 235.00
Kingsway
Student Fund…………….
2000.00
Coming
Up . . .
January 8 Mennonite
Women
9 Youth -
16 All
Church Night
19
Friendship Circle
WHAT’S HAPPENING AT SMC.
..
How has God been with
you this past year? Please
write your stories and give them to Pastor Todd today, or email them no later
than January 3. These will be a part of our worship service on January 6.
The MYF would like to
invite all young adults to a game night here at the church this Wednesday night at 7 p.m.
The Worship Committee would like to thank all who have
been faithfully wearing their name tags during the worship service for the past
number of months. Many name tags are in
need of repair, so we are not asking that they continue to be worn unless you
would like to. We will be continuing to
evaluate this aspect of worship in the coming months.
Youth / Mentors: Wednesday, January 9, we will meet
here at the church from 7 – 8:30 p.m. On
Sunday, January 20, we will have a time of dedication in the worship service
for each youth and mentor.
Our Wednesday evening
All Church Night
meals and activities will begin on January 16.
Some of you have expressed interest in planning / being in charge of a
meal. A sign up sheet is on the bulletin
board if you would like to plan, help, or clean up. Check out the list soon. Thank you.
Thank you all for the encouraging Christmas
cards I received, and bless all of you.
– Irene Troyer
Thank you to all the church family for
standing by us, sending cards, flowers, ushers, food, music, sound, and the
many other kindnesses you gave us during the past two weeks. And a special thanks to Todd for all his
compassion and support. –The Family of
Merl Smucker
My family and I thank
you very much for
the kind generosity of your hearts. You extended God’s love to us this past
week as we celebrated life and said goodbye for a time to my father, Merl
Smucker. So many gifts from God’s people
were offered to create a wonderful service and tribute: To those of you who offered us your kind
words, warm smiles, cards, flowers, the refreshing of my memory of names and
relationships, to those of you who shared your memories, music, the gift of
your time, creativity, helps, preparation, clean-up, lifting, administration,
speaking, firm handshakes and humor, and the willingness and effort to come out
in the cold December weather to share your loving hearts with us—we are most
profoundly grateful. You have truly been a testament of how all the gifts of
the body of Christ working together allow many to be blessed. –Gorda (Smucker) DePasqua
THIS WEEK AT SMC . . .
Wednesday, January2
7:00 p.m. MYF
Game Night with Young Adults
Thursday, January 3
7:30 p.m.
Trustees
Friday, January 4
8:30 a.m. Women’s Prayer in the library
In Our
Prayers . . .
·
Pastor Todd—that
he would be effective in preaching the Word.
·
Our SMC friends
and family—Roland Villard and Randy & Jackie
Cole.
·
Donna Armitage, who will be having knee replacement surgery on
·
January 7, 2008.
·
Pray for Anita Tenney, as she recovers from a blood clot in her leg.
·
Pray that God’s
people will join together in unity as they seek His face, and that His Spirit
will fill all of our hearts.
·
Continue to pray
for the family of Greg Boney. Pray especially for Danny, and that we as a
congregation can find ways to support him while he adjusts to life without
Greg.
Phone: 330-669-3601
Pastor: Todd Martin
Youth Pastor: Rebecca
Martin
Website:
smithvillemennonite.org
Pastor’s office hours: Tuesday – Thursday, 9:00 a.m. to 12
noon
Church office hours:
Monday - Friday, 8:00 a.m. to 12 noon
E-mail: lmsmucker@smithvillemennonite.org
or todd@smithvillemennonite.org