Visitors:
We're delighted you are here.
Please complete a Welcome card (at the Welcome Table),
and we
invite you to introduce yourself during the sharing time.
Call
to Worship:
Leader: We glorify you, God for all there
is to enjoy:
The beauty of the lake and sand,
The warmth of the summer sun,
A breeze and a cool
evening,
The gathering of old friends,
Conversation, dancing,
laughter,
competition, shared meals.
People: Glory,
glory, hallelujah, since I laid my
burdens down.
Leader: We glorify you, God, for the
goodness of life:
The pleasure of remembering the past together,,
The anxiety and excitement of new journeys,
Books, music, films, painting, gardens, flowers, pets,
People: Glory,
glory, hallelujah, since I laid my burdens down.
Leader: We glorify you God, for abundant
gifts:
To gather with
children and
grandchildren,
For shared wisdom and stories,
For moments of sheer joy and pleasure,
For hope to heal and mend and new beginnings,
For justice and
righteousness and
the promise of your presence.
People: Glory, glory,
hallelujah, since I laid my burdens down.
Gathering
hymn
Come
thou fount of every blessing
HWB
521
*Today’s
readings and songs are inspired
by the story of Jacob’s dream
Scripture
Reading
Genesis
28:10-22
Hymn
O
thou in whose presence
HWB
559
Poetry
reading
Jacob’s
Ladder by Denise Levertov
Children’s
Story
Hymn
In
lonely mountain ways
560
HWB
Sermon
Hymn
of response
Nearer
my God to thee
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Offertory
Sharing,
Announcements, Prayer
Hymn
of sending
'Glory
Glory Hallelujah, since I laid my burden down’
Leading us in worship today: Speaker and Worship Leader: Paul Versluis,
Reader: Joy Versluis, Pianist: Kathy Brubaker, Song Leader: Marty
Showalter, Children’s story:
Danny Hollander
If you
have congregational concerns, contact
the pastor or the
Congregational Life Committee:
Roxanne Cross at,
Curtis
Weaverdyck at; Arlene Seelbach, a_
COMMUNITY
CHURCH HAPPENINGS
Moms’ Small Group
• Patti Sprunger
Peace and Justice Interest Group
Sept 14, 7:30 Weaverdyck
·
Gertrude Warkentin
Readers’ Group Sahara Unveiled by W.Langewiesche, Aug 23, 7PM, Toews
· Priscilla Chamberlain
Slow
Cookers
·
Gertrude Warkentin
Congregational Meeting
Sept.
13 after potluck
Committee Meetings:
Nurture
Committee:
Worship
Committee:
August
24 7 PM
Shantz
Congregational
Life Committee
Sept
3 7
PM
Cross
Service
Outreach Committee
Aug
13 6:30
PM Warkentin
Folk music
showup
Aug
27 7:30PM Weaverdyck
Hi-way pickup
Sept
12-20
Joel and Rachel and Vera
Nofziger welcome
meals taken to their house or to church on Sunday. If you are
interested,
please contact me and I will make sure the meals come in a well spaced
fashion. Email or call Betsy H at. There are no dietary
concerns.
Come
celebrate Vera Nofziger’s birth
at a dessert baby shower, Sunday, August
16th, 6:30 pm at Jan
Hallberg’s house (11908
Jordan Rd. Saline, MI). All ages are invited so
come with (or without) a dessert & a lawn chair. Beverages &
tableware
will be provided. Let Jan, Su, or Joy know if you need directions.
The
Nurture Committee is interested in
the important happenings in your life as they are also important to our
Shalom
community. Please let us know of graduations, weddings, births,
deaths or
major illnesses in your family.
Joy
Versluis, Norene Kanagy, and Su Hansen
SCHOOL KITS. It
is time to start collecting items for school kits for Mennonite Central
Committee. We (Service and Outreach Committee) will be collecting
items
until September 20. You may donate whole kits or select
items.
The requested items are: Contents
(NEW items only) , 4 spiral or perforated notebooks (about 21.5cm x
27cm /
8.5" x 10.5" and 70 sheets U.S. / 140 pages in Canada, 4 unsharpened
pencils, 1 ruler (flat, flexible plastic; indicating both 30cm and 12")
, 12
colored pencils (in packaging) , 1 large pencil eraser.
SUNDAY SCHOOL.
Plans are underway for children's
Sunday School. A community like ours presents some challenges
and a
lot of wonderful opportunities for both our young people and the adults
who
work with them. At this time we want to know if you want a part
in
educating and supporting our children in their faith journey.
Flexibility
is the word in our planning. We are flexible about time
commitment, skill
and experience level and the amount of planning you want or can take
on.
There will be an adapted curriculum. Patti Sprunger is the one to
contact
regarding your interest;.
Nearer
my God to Thee
Nearer,
my
God, to Thee, nearer to Thee!
E’en though it be a cross that raiseth me,
Still all my song shall be,
Nearer, my God, to Thee.
Nearer, my God, to Thee,
Nearer to Thee!
Though like the wanderer, the sun gone down,
Darkness be over me, my rest a stone.
Yet in my dreams I’d be
Nearer, my God to Thee. [Refrain]
There
let
the way appear, steps unto Heav’n;
All that Thou sendest me, in mercy given;
Angels to beckon me
Nearer, my God, to Thee.
Then, with my waking thoughts bright with Thy praise,
Out of my stony griefs Bethel I’ll raise;
So by my woes to be
Nearer, my God, to Thee.
Or, if on joyful wing cleaving the sky,
Sun, moon, and stars forgot, upward I’ll fly,
Still all my song shall be,
Nearer, my God, to Thee.
There in my Father’s home, safe and at rest,
There in my Savior’s love, perfectly blest;
Age after age to be,
Nearer my God to Thee.
'Glory Glory Hallelujah (African-American
Traditional)
Glory, glory, hallelujah,
since I laid my burden down.
Glory, glory, hallelujah,
since I laid my burden down.
Friends don't treat me like they used to
since I laid my burden down.
Friends don't treat me like they used to
since I laid my burden down.
I feel better, so much better
since I laid my burden down.
I feel better, so much better
since I laid my burden down.
Feel like shouting, "hallelujah",
since I laid my burden down.
Feel like shouting, "hallelujah",
since I laid my burden down.
I am climbing Jacob's ladder
since I laid my burden down.
I am climbing Jacob's ladder
since I laid my burden down.
Every round goes higher and higher
since I laid my burden down.
Every round goes higher and higher
since I laid my burden down.