February 17, 2008 – 10:30
a.m.
WE GATHER
GATHERING
MUSIC Kathy
Gerber
ANNOUNCEMENTS/PASTORAL
CONTRACT VOTE
PRELUDE
WE PRAISE
GOD
CONGREGATIONAL
SONGS Mark Gerber
“Here
I am to Worship” Overhead
“Jesus, What a Beautiful Name”
WELCOME/GREETING
SPECIAL
MUSIC “Great is the Lord” Ryan
Steiner, Saxophone
Kelly Steiner, Violin
CALL TO WORSHIP Ruth Snyder
CONGREGATIONAL SONGS
“Oh,
How Wondrous the Grace”
HWB 147
“Jesus,
Thou Mighty Lord” HWB 115
OFFERING
PRAYER/OFFERING
OFFERTORY
WE HEAR
THE WORD
SCRIPTURE
Matthew 6:12, 14, 15, & 18:21-22 Megan Reifsnyder
MESSAGE “The Miracle of Forgiveness” Glenn Martin
WE RESPOND
RESPONSE
SONG
“Praise God From
Whom” HWB 118
SHARING/PRAYER Eric
Ramseyer
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 – Elvin & Emma
Mast
9:30 a.m. Sunday School for
all ages
Elective Class – Book Study
“Pathway
to Purpose for Women”
By Katie Brazelton
P.A. System Monica Mease
Multi-media Hank
Reifsnyder
Nursery Care Phil
& Ruth Brazis
3:00 p.m. Bible Quizzing at Living Water Christian
Fellowship
7:00 p.m. Dr.
Lehman at
Next
Sunday. . .
10:30 a.m. Worship - Message by Pastor Todd Martin
Children’s Church
Crosswinds
deadline
Last Sunday . . .
Worship attendance – 160
Offering: Budget ………………………..…...…$1811.49
Sunday
School ….………….........….….4.51
Ella
Pearl Smucker Memorial ……..…480.00
Coming Up . . .
February 26 Open Circle Eat-Out
Seeker’s
Eat-Out
28
Elders
March
1 Explorer’s Class Eat-Out
WHAT’S HAPPENING AT SMC . . .
Glenn Martin, our guest speaker
today, is a
graduate of York Bible College in PA. He has pastored
three churches in
Thank you to everyone for your prayers, visits, cards,
gifts, and calls, following my surgery. Thanks to the church for the flowers.
God bless you for being so supportive. –
Church Cookbook update: Ladies & Men: Please keep the recipes coming
in! We have approximately 200 great
recipes submitted so far, with a goal of 500. All categories are needed. See
the table in the hall. Thank you!
Mennonite Women will have a quilting & knotting
day, Tuesday, from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m.
Bring a sack lunch. There will be
no business meeting.
The Mongolia Breakfast will be this
Saturday at
SCRAPBOOKING!! This Friday, Feb. 22, 6 p.m.-9 p.m. in the church social
room. It’s time to gather again and work
on our projects. Come join the fun and
fellowship while we learn from each other.
Bring friends! Any questions, ask
Kathy Gerber or Barb Steiner.
The Seeker’s Class Eat-out has been changed to Tuesday,
February 26, at 6:30, at Das Dutch Kitchen.
.An Explorer’s Class Eat-out has been scheduled for March 1, at The Hartville
Kitchen, at 6 p.m. If you have any questions, or to RSVP, contact Chris Miller.
The church has received a letter from Carrie (Kalina) Villacres requesting our financial and prayer support. She
has received an opportunity to work with Kidz@Heart
International, training and developing new teaching styles for teachers in
Bluffton University Camerata Singers will be at
How wonderful it is when Christians work together and meet a
goal —like canning meat for Relief! The
annual business meeting of Relief Canning will be held at
Men of God:
The 2008 Men’s Retreat at
BIBLE MEMORY will hold its 15th annual BENEFIT AUCTION at
the Mt.
Sharing With Appalachian People (SWAP), a program of MCC Great Lakes,
seeks a Location Coordinator for its
contact
Mary Ann Weber at mweber@mc.org, or 574-534-4133.
THIS WEEK AT SMC . . .
Monday,
February 18
7:30 p.m. Growing Kid’s class at Eric Ramseyer’s
Tuesday, February 19
9:00 a.m. Mennonite
Women – Quilting & Knotting Day
7:30 a.m. Worship Committee Meeting
Wednesday, February 20
6:00 p.m. All-Church
Night with Eldon King
Thursday, February 21
7:30 p.m. Coordinating
Council
Friday, February 22
8:30 a.m. Women’s
Prayer
6:00 p.m. Scrapbooking
Saturday,
February 23
7:00 a.m.
c/o Pastors
6:00
p.m. Quiz Practice
In Our
Prayers . . .
·
Pastor Todd – pray
that he would be a good husband and father.
·
Our SMC friends
and family – Mark, Kathy, Janelle, Rachel, & Justin Gerber, and Harold
& June Steiner
·
Continue to pray
for the Robinson family-that they will find the right surgeon to operate on
Sophie’s arm.
·
Healing after
eye surgery for Byrdalene Horst. Byrdalene
and her husband Willis work through Mennonite Missions in
Phone: 330-669-3601
Pastor: Todd Martin
Youth Pastor: Rebecca
Martin
Website:
smithvillemennonite.org
Church office hours:
Monday - Friday,
E-mail: lmsmucker@smithvillemennonite.org
todd@smithvillemennonite.org