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:
Congregational hymn We sing to you, O God SJ 1
Ubi caritas et amor HWB 452
Scripture reading
Ephesians
4:1-6
Prayer
By
Maya Angelou
Poetry reading
Congregational hymn All praise to our redeeming Lord HWB 21
Children’s
story
·
Blessing
of School Kits
Sermon “make every effort to maintain the unity of the spirit and the bond of peace” Ephesians 4:3
Hymn of response
Make
me a channel of your peace
SJ
56
Offering and
offertory
Sharing,
announcements and prayers
Hymn of sending Give thanks for life SJ 108
Leading us in worship today: Worship
leader and speaker:
Paul Versluis, Pianist: Laura
Brubacker, Song leader: Marty
Showalter, Reader: Gertrude
Warkentin, children’s story, Laura Ponstein
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
Oct 12, 7:30
Weaverdyck
· Gertrude Warkentin
Readers’ Group Outliers by Malcom Gladwell, Sept. 27 @ Polley/Miller
· Priscilla Chamberlain
Slow Cookers
· Gertrude Warkentin
·
Folk Music Sept 24, 7pm Chamberlain
·
Jan Hallberg
·
Committee Meetings:
Finance Committee:
Nurture Committee:
Worship Committee: Sept 28 7 pm Shantz
Congregational Life Committee Oct 1, 7pm Cross
Service
Outreach Committee
Oct
20 7pm
Warkentin
Hi-way pickup
Today
if possible
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 .
Washtenaw/Ann Arbor
CROP Hunger Walk, Sunday, Oct. 18th at 2pm – ICPJ
hosts the local CROP Hunger Walk for the 35th year in a row!
CROP
stands for Communities Responding to Overcome Poverty. Local
congregations,
organizations, school and community groups, individuals, and families
are
welcome to participate in walking 2km or 10km to raise funds to make an
impact
on local and global hunger.
IHN/ALPHA House. At our coordinators meeting last night, Julie Steiner (Director of Alpha House/IHN for Wash. Co.) spoke about the probable funding decreases from the county for this next fiscal year. They are looking at possible 20% cuts for this coming year, and an additional 20% the next year. The community has been very vocal to the commissioners, asking that the funding cuts to human services be minimized as much as possible.
IHN/Alpha House's
biggest private
fundraiser of the year is Gimme Shelter, scheduled for Saturday,
October
17th. Tickets are $45 in advance, $50 at the door, children 6 and
under
free. It's a nice dinner, entertainment, and silent auction held
at
Budget Counseling:
If you are facing a difficult financial situation or
need questions answered about a mortgage, your credit report, or even
your budget, Mennonite Mutual Aid offers free, confidential budget and
debit counseling. Contact me or call 1-800-348-7468. Gertrude
Warkentin,
MMA advocate, 663-9187.
Sept
26, 7PM Friday night at the
Versluis home. Pizza and a discussion
about health care as it relates to our congregation
participating in the Mennonite Corinthian Plan
Father,
Mother, God,
Thank you
for your
presence
during the
hard and
mean days.
For then
we have you
to lean upon.
Thank you
for your
presence
during the
bright and
sunny days,
for then
we can share
that which we have
with those
who have
less.
And thank
you for your
presence
during the
Holy Days,
for then we are able
to
celebrate you and
our families
and our
friends.
For those
who have no
voice,
we ask you
to speak.
For those
who feel
unworthy,
we ask you
to pour
your love out
in
waterfalls of
tenderness.
For those
who live in
pain,
we ask you
to bathe
them
in the
river of your
healing.
For those
who are
lonely, we ask
you to
keep them
company.
For those
who are
depressed,
we ask you
to shower
upon them
the light
of hope.
Dear
Creator, You, the
borderless
sea of
substance, we
ask you to give to all the
world that
which we
need most— Peace.
By
Maya Angelou
|
Part 1.2
|
|
|
Part 1.3
|
|
|
Part 1.4
|
|