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
Gathering
hymn
Opening
hymn O Worship the Lord,
HWB
124
Poetry
reading
The
Toad, by Charles Simic
Hymn
of prayer
We
give thanks unto you
HWB
161
Scripture
reading
Luke
17:20-21
Children’s
teaching
Centering
prayer for children
Journey to
the Heart, by
Frank Jelenek
Hymn
of prayer
Through
our fragmentary prayers
HWB
347
Teaching
On
Centering Prayer
Books
on Centering Prayer
Open
Mind Open Heart, by Thomas Keating
Manifesting
God, by Thomas Keating
An
invitation to Centering Prayer, by Basil Pennington
New
seeds of contemplation, Thomas Merton
Hymn of prayer
Come
and fill our hearts,
SJ 59
Offering
Sharing, announcements and prayer
Sending hymn
God
be with you till we meet again,
HWB
430
Benediction
Leading us in worship today: Worship
Leader and speaker: Paul
Versluis, Pianist: JAnita Toews,
Song leader, Nelson Shantz, Reader, Joy Versluis
If you
have congregational concerns, contact
the pastor or the
Congregational Life Committee:
Roxanne Cross ,
Curtis
Weaverdyck ,; Arlene Seelbach, ,
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
Folk Music
August
27, 6:30 PM Chamberlain/Hollander
Committee Meetings:
Nurture
Committee:
August
25 10AM
Worship
Committee:
August
24 7 PM
Shantz
Congregational
Life Committee
Sept
3 7
PM
Cross
Service
Outreach Committee
Aug
13 6:30
PM Warkentin
Hi-way pickup
Sept
12-20
Joel and Rachel and Vera
Nofziger would
be interested in getting food 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.
There
are no dietary concerns.
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
Please submit pieces for the fall issue of The Shepherd. If it's of interest to
you, it's of interest to the newsletter. Give a hard copy to Joy
or send
as a word.doc to by Sept. 19.
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. As the organizer, Patti Sprunger
is the
one to contact regarding your interest;. Think about it, pray about it. The Nurture Committee
Health care access
conference calls
Our [Anabaptist] understanding that God takes special interest in
the
marginalized and uncared-for has led many of us into health care
professions. We care so deeply about health care access for all that our
delegates passed a nearly-unanimous resolution at Convention 2009.
Because
truth-telling is another Christian attribute, join some of the foremost
experts in the country to hear what possible congressional bills say and
don't say and what they might mean for us as consumers.
Join a one-hour conference call with
Mennonite experts giving a Christian viewpoint of the United States
health care access debate.
Speakers:
* Tammy Alexander is the Legislative Associate for
Domestic
Affairs at
the MCC Washington Office, focusing on immigration, the environment, and
health care.
* David E. Cockley is Associate Professor of Health
Services
Administration (James Madison University) and Adjunct Professor (Eastern
Mennonite University)
* Keith Harder is leading Mennonite Church USA efforts
for a
health care
plan for congregational church workers.
* Susan Mark Landis is Mennonite Church USA
peace advocate.
* Tim Stoltzfus Jost is a professor at the Washington
and Lee University
School of Law and
was the
primary author of the national health care
resolution passed by the 2009 Mennonite Church USA Delegate Assembly.
Tim
has been interviewed in the past few days by CNN, ABC News, the New York
Times, USA Today, Investor's Daily, Fox News, and some local radio
programs
You may send questions by email to SusanML@MennoniteUSA.org.
Questions must be received by Sept 1. After the call, you may send
comments to
SusanML@MennoniteUSA.org. More details and
visuals
will be available by September 1 on http://www.MennoniteUSA.org/nationalhealthcare
Sept 3: Thursday, 10 pm Eastern, 9 pm Central, 8 pm Mountain, 7
pm
Pacific
Sept 8: Tuesday, 8 pm Eastern, 7 pm Central, 6 pm Mountain, 5 pm Pacific
Attendee dial-in number: (712) 432-100, Attendee access code:
477952371#
All attendees will be on mute. There is space for 1000 attendees.
You are
responsible for any applicable long distance charges that may apply to
your
phone line. The conference call costs nothing extra.