Call to Worship

Hymn:  By gracious powers                                                                               HWB 552

Reading of Bible verses on grieving

Introduction to the morning:  Dealing with grief

Hymn:  In the morning when I rise                                                                    STJ 45

Children’s Teaching                                                                                            Joe Hy

Expressions of grief in poems and stories

                Mother with Alzheimer’s by Christin Lore Weber

                Stripping by Jan Richardson

                All Souls by May Sarton

                Sacred Anger by Helen Neinast

                I Sit With Empty Hands by Joyce Rupp

Time for prayerful reflecting on one’s own losses

Introduction to anointing for healing

Hymn:  Anoint us Lord                                                                                       HWB 631

Unison Prayer

                Dear God,

                We come to you at this moment because you love us.

                You know us more deeply than we know ourselves.

                You desire wholeness for each of your children,

                Broken though we are in body, mind and spirit.

                As we come before you, we pray for healing

                In each of our lives.

                Heal the hurt and disease within us.

                Heal the wounds inflicted upon us.

                Heal the memories that haunt us.

            Heal the feelings that drag us down.

                Where there is anxiety, grant peace and confidence;

                Where there is impatience, give the gift of serenity;

                Where there is loneliness, come as the great comforter;

                Where there is pain, give strength to endure.

                In all the experiences of our lives,

                May we feel Your presence in new ways,

                And may our faith be increased.

                In the name of Christ Jesus we pray,                                                Amen.

Invitation to anointing

Anointing and prayer

Offering

Hymn:  Healer of our every ill                                                                            HWB 377 Sharing & Announcements

Hymn:  And I will raise you up                                                                          HWB 596

 

Benediction

 

Tim Sh-worship leader, Joe Harvey -anointer & children’s teaching, Janet Ry – anointer, Nelson Sz - song leader, Anita Ts – pianist, Ruth Sz - soloist

 

 

* Visitors are invited to stand and introduce yourselves during the sharing time so we can  welcome you.

** The offering is a commitment of our regular attendees.  Visitors should feel no obligation to donate.  Visitors and regular attendees are invited to submit the “I wish card” found in the back of the hymnal. 

 

SHALOM COMMUNITY CHURCH HAPPENINGS

 

Small Group Opportunities: the following  groups meet regularly and are open to interested persons in the SCC community.  You can drop in and ‘drop out’ as you are able.  Call the contact person for information, dates, times, direction or location.

Mom’s Small Group

¨       Patti Sr                                                  

Poetry Meeting                                                   

¨       Don Ty                                 

Peace and Justice Interest Group                    

¨       Gertrude Wn         no meeting in August

Readers Club:                                                      

                Priscilla -- August 26, 7:00PM, "The Namesake" by Jhumpa Lahiri                   [Houghton Mifflin, 2003]  at Sz residence

Slow Cookers       

¨       Gertrude Wn 

 

 

 

Meetings:

Finance Committee                                             

Nurture Comm. Meeting    

Worship Committee                                            

Congregational Life Committee                                        

Congregational Business Mtg.                         

Service – Outreach                                             

 

The Pastoral Review Committee is distributing a survey document via regular mail and email to all participants of the congregation, asking for your reflections on whether Paul and the congregation continue to meet each other's needs.  Completed surveys are to be returned to the committee by Aug. 5.  Please note that the committee is meeting the evenings of Aug. 1 and Aug. 15, so if you wish to meet with the committee for any reason, please contact Laura Br, Joe Hy, or Janis Mr.

 

Youth group for August will be on SATURDAY AUGUST 11 from 6:30 -8:30.  It will be an ALL CHURCH SOCCER GAME,  Ya'll come!!!!!!!!  We're trying to get in a youth 
group event while there are still youth here who will return/go to college.  The game will occur where we have played before --Las Vegas Park.  Take Stadium/Greenview/
Avondale/Las Vegas.  This is a game for all ages and skill levels and also a game for watchers.  Come---it's a lot of fun.  Bring a drink and snack to share.

 

 

The worship committee has decided that the worship services will begin at 11:00 a.m. this summer.  On September 9, 2007 until January 1, 2008 the worship service will begin at 10:00 a.m.   Please feel very free to contact any of the worship committee members with questions or comments.  Worship Committee: Rebecca We, Shelly Wk, Tim Sh, Titus Kg, Janet Ry.

 

The Worship Committe has decided to audio tape the services this fall during Paul's sabbatical.  Curtis and Mark have offered to co-ordinate the effort-- they will transfer the recordings to disc which will be available for anyone to borrow.

 

Congregational concerns?  Contact the Congregational Life Committee, Janet Ry, Patti Sr, or Dave Py at

 

Betsy Hy and Patti Sr are interested in getting some people to volunteer to help during the Sunday School and post Sunday School time in the new fall schedule. 
This could involve preschool or elementary age children. 

 

DENOMINATIONAL NEWS

COB= Church of the Brethren; CD = Mennonite Church Central District Conference

 

¨       COB District Conference:  August 9-12, 2006, Hastings Michigan.  Tim Smith will attend and be our delegate.

 

View the Mennonite Church online giving website.  You are able to make credit card donations to all Mennonite Church organizations, including congregations.  http://giving.mennoniteusa.org, https://giving.mennoniteusa.org/organization/detail/1254/. 

 

Some of you have been making donations to Shalom through the Mennonite Foundation at www.MennoniteUSA.org.  If you are doing so or intend to do so, please know that Mennonite Foundation will issue receipts for tax purposes for all of those donations.  Those donations will NOT be included in the statement that is supplied by Shalom Community Church at the end of the year.  Additionally, the Foundation takes a fee of 3% on all transactions before they are deposited in the SCC account.  If you have questions, please contact Anita Ts. 

 

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SERVICE OUTREACH

The next and last Highway Pickup date for this year will be September 8-16.   More info about the Adopt-A-Highway program can be found online:

http://www.michigan.gov/mdot/0,1607,7-151-9621_11041_14408---,00.html

Attention Shalom's active participants!  The Service Outreach Committee would like to encourage you to do service through an organization or take personal involvement in a service project.  We have a special budget to sponsor you in doing this work.  Past examples have been Mandy & David Kn for their recent work in Jamaica, and Susie Fk for her medical mission work in Argentina.  Please contact Paul Versluis if you are interested in applying.

 

The American Association of University Women has a major book sale in Sept.  The money goes to scholarships for girls.  They do not accept text books or books with a lot of underlining.  If any of you have books to donate, let Gertrude Wn know and she is willing to take them to the collection site , or you could take them to 3744 Carpenter on Monday, Thursday, or Saturday between 10 and 2..  They are collecting until Aug. 26.