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.
Opening responses
Call to worship
Leader Come among us, God.
You who coast the planets into space
And cradle the sparrow in her nest
All COME, GOD, AND MEET US HERE
Leader Come among us, God.
You who bless the poor and the broken
And stand by the sad and the strong
All COME, GOD, AND MEET US HERE
Leader Come among us, God.
You who dance in the silence
And shine in the darkness
All COME, GOD, AND MEET US HERE
Congregational hymn Soon and very soon, HWB 611
Scripture reading Psalm 139:7-10, Revelation 21:3-4, John 14:1-3
Children’s
story
Congregational hymn Let hope and sorrow now unite HWB 634 O Lord of life, HWB 635
When grief is raw HWB 637
Poetry reading
A space to remember: A chance to remember those who have died – to retell stories, to share common memories, to bring into the present the things we want to recall, to share silence.
Leader: All our laughter, all our sadness
All SAFE NOW IN GOD’S HAND
Leader: All our anger, all our sadness
All SAFE NOW IN GOD’S HAND
Leader All our stories, all our memories
All SAFE NOW IN GOD’S HAND
Leader Those we remember, those we love
All SAFE NOW IN GOD’S HAND
Congregational song Oh, Lord have mercy SJ 47
Offering
Sharing and prayers
Hymn of sending
For
all the saints
HWB
636
Benediction
Leader We ask for the love of God
All AND THE MESSAGES OF ANGELS
Leader The laughter of Jesus
All AND FOR THE STORIES OF THE SDAINTS
Leader The power of the Spirit
All AND THE STRONG HANDS OF FRIENDS
Leader To bless us on life’s journey
All AND LEAD US SAFELY HOME.
Leading us in worship
today: Worship leader – Ruth Shantz,, Song leader, Nelson Shantz,,
Pianist – Michelle Webster-Hein, Children’s teaching – Dave
Polley
If you
have congregational concerns, contact
the pastor or the
Congregational Life Committee:
Roxanne Cross;
Curtis Weaverdyck;
Arlene Seelbach,
COMMUNITY CHURCH HAPPENINGS
Peace and Justice Interest Group
June 22, 7:30
Weaverdyck
· Gertrude Warkentin
Readers’ Group Delights & Shadows by Ted Kooser, June 14, 7PM, Shantz
· Priscilla Chamberlain
Slow Cookers
·
Gertrude Warkentin
Committee Meetings:
Finance Committee:
Nurture Committee: May 21 9:30AM Kanagy
Worship Committee: June 22 7 PM Shantz
Congregational Life Committee June 16 7 PM Versluis
Service
Outreach Committee
June
25 6:30
PM Gertrude
Folk music
showup
May
28 6:30
Weaverdyck
Hi-way pickup
July
11-19
There
will be no Sunday School on May 31
as we will gather for worship at 11AM at the Delhi Metropark on the
Everyone
is invited to Miriam Weaverdyck's
graduation party on Sunday
May 31, 2009. It will be an open house 4:00 - 6:00 pm at the
Weaverdyck
home at
hardcopy invitation is in your mailbox at church. Miriam's
baptism will
be at 11:00 that morning in the park, followed by a potluck.
Rachel
Versluis and Neil Detweiler invite you to their wedding on June 27,
2009, at
the
helps to fund youth work camps and conferences. Please
bring items
and/or services to auction and checkbook to purchase many of the fine
possibilities.
Set up by the youth will begin during Sunday School, with the
auction
occurring after the potluck.. This
year/s monies will help Miriam, Joe, Caleb, Dylan , Scott and Michelle
as they
prepare for Church of the Brethren work camp the end of July.
New online calendar!
Go to our
church website and see the Happenings page
http://shalomcommunitychurch.mi.us.mennonite.net/Happenings.html
. To add calendar events you will
need to set up an account with your e-mail
address. Let Kevin know and he will have an invitation
sent to
your e-mail address. We also have a
new Google Group! The link is below the calendar. The
Google Group
is great for posting items of interest that you wouldn't necessarily
send to
everyone at shalomcc. It's also a place where you can start a
discussion
on anything you like.
Paul’s schedule
¨
Inter-Spiritual Dialog and its
Mentoring
Program, June 2 – 8th with Father Thomas Keating at the St
Benedict’s Monastery in
¨
¨
Central District Annual Meeting June
25-27,
¨
Michigan District Annual Meeting ,
The next folk music gathering is May
28, 6:30 PM at the Weaverdyck’s Home.
Hi-way pickup is scheduled
for the week of
July 11-19.
Friends in Deed is in need of furniture. The Furniture Line is 734-484-7607
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.
We are going to have a quick planting of the bean seeds after church on Sunday and would especially appreciate some young ones to help put the seeds in the garden bed and tuck them in. Meet us after church in the lobby and we will make a quick trip to the garden (very nearby). You'll be able to see these beans growing strong when we have our garden blessing on Sunday July 19 at 10:00