June 22, 2008 - 10:30 a.m.
What could you
give up so that another one of God’s dear children can have access to clean,
drinkable water?
WE GATHER
GATHERING
MUSIC Lila Smucker
ANNOUNCEMENTS
PRELUDE
WE
PRAISE GOD
CONGREGATIONAL
SONGS Lynette
Neuenschwander
Come
We that Love the Lord HWB 14
He Leadeth Me HWB 599
WELCOME/GREETING
CALL
TO WORSHIP Ruth Snyder
CONGREGATIONAL
SONGS
God of the Bible STJ 27
Nothing Is Lost on the Breath of God overhead
OFFERING PRAYER/OFFERTORY
WE
HEAR THE WORD
Psalm 23:6
DISMISSAL
FOR CHILDREN’S CHURCH
MESSAGE The God Word Pastor Todd Martin
WE
RESPOND
RESPONSE
SONG
Great
is thy Faithfulness HWB 327
SHARING/PRAYER Rev. Richard Ross
BENEDICTION/POSTLUDE
We welcome everyone 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 worship with us again.
TODAY . . .
8:30 a.m. Mongolia
Trip prayer in library
8:45 a.m. Prayer time in pastor’s office
9:30 a.m. Sunday School for all ages
Elective Class
– Book Study Living Beyond Yourself By Beth Moore
10:30 a.m. Worship
P.A. System Rich Shetler
Multi-media Dave Miller
Nursery Care Phil & Ruth Brazis
After
Worship Meeting of Mongolia Team,
friends, & family
Meeting
of Youth Group Parents
5:00
p.m. Frisbee Football
7:00
p.m. Grow Group at Anita Tenney’s
Last Sunday . . .
Worship attendance – 175
Offering: Budget:……………….$3483.18
Sunday
School……….…..10.82
Central Student
Fund.....425.00
Tonya Starner
Book……..26.00
Pinewood
Robert Miller
Memorial…..10.00
Offering Budget………..……….$3511.55
(June 8) Sunday School…………….9.85
Kingsway Fund………….320.00
The Mennonite……..…….36.00
Coming Up…
July 8 VBS
Staff Training
13 – 19 Youth Group Service Trip
28
What’s Happening at
SMC…
If you
are interested in helping to plan the church’s 50th Anniversary
celebration please contact Velma Shetler as soon as possible. 330-682-9142.
We
deeply appreciate all the prayers, cards, flower arrangement, and
expressions of sympathy extended to us during the recent death of my
mother. Thank you for the support shown
to us. God bless you all.
Rita & Jim Atkinson &
family
Mennonite
Women are collecting new or gently used baby clothing, sizes newborn to 24
months for the
SUMMER GIRL’S CLUB (for grades 1 – 8):
Come for a swim party at
Anna & Katie Hershberger’s this Tuesday from
1:00 – 4:00 p.m. We will have a short
devotional and a time to report on
the books you are reading if you wish. Bring your
card notebook.
Girls Jamboree will be
August 8-10 at
Open
Circle Eat-out will be at noon on Tuesday at Jake’s Restaurant in
Seeker’s Class Eat Out will be Wednesday evening at 6:30 at Green Leaf
Restaurant. Elvin and Emma Mast will host.
$106.00 will bring us to our goal of $1000 for the
publication of 1000 books, Lessons from a
Sheepherder! Tonya Starner will oversee the publication and distribution of
these books to the lonely sheepherders in
The
global food crisis is being called “a silent tsunami”. Food prices for staple items like rice, wheat
and beans have doubled in the past year.
People who survive on $1 per day need to spend as much as 80% of their
income on food. Please join Compassion
International in a day of fasting and prayer this Wednesday, June 25. Please join with Jesus in prayer, honor them
with Him, and ask, “What might I do?”
THIS WEEK AT SMC . . .
Tuesday, June 24
12:00 p.m. Open Circle
Eat-Out at Jake’s
1:00 p.m. Girl’s
Club Swim Party at Hershberger’s
Wednesday, June 25
6:30 p.m. Seeker’s Eat Out
at Green Leaf
7:00 p.m. Youth Group Couch Race with Crown Hill
Thursday, June 26
4:00 a.m. Mongolia
08 Team leaves SMC
7:00 p.m. Real Life at Pat Mease’s
8:30 p.m. Softball – OMC/SMC vs. Kidron
Friday, June 27
8:30
a.m. Women’s Prayer
In Our
Prayers . . .
·
Pastor Todd,
that he and the rest of the Mongolia Team would have safety in their travels.
Pray that God will use their time in
·
Fred Augsburger,
a cousin to the Myers family, suffering from pancreatic cancer. Pray that he
will be accepted at Cleveland Clinic, and that treatment will be successful.
·
·
The global food
crisis. See paragraph.
·
Mennonite World
Conference is sending a deacon couple and calling for two days of prayer and
fasting, June 26 & 27, as Zimbabweans face a tense runoff election on June
27.
Phone:
330-669-3601
Pastor: Todd Martin
Youth Pastor: Rebecca Martin
Website:
www.smithvillemennonite.org
Pastor Todd’s office hours: Tuesday – Thursday, 9: a.m. to
12:00 p.m.
Church office hours:
Monday - Friday, 8:00 a.m. to 12 :00 p.m.
E-mail: lmsmucker@smithvillemennonite.org
and todd@smithvillemennonite.org