December 28, 2014 - Oak Grove Mennonite Church

Sunday, December 21, 2014
Sunday School –108
Offering
Spending Plan
MCC Meat Canning/Kidron
Mennonite College Fund
Messiah Donation
White Gift ($19,901.23)
* New Leaf Center
* MCC Meat Canning
*MCC (general)
*Central Christian Student Fund
*Mennonite College Fund
*Outreach (SP)
* Undesignated
2014 Spending Plan
Approved Spending Plan
Year to date received
Funds needed by year end
Worship – 215
$6,167.00
$100.00
$500.00
$20.00
$2,400.00
$1,500.00
$100.00
$2,050.00
$900.00
$3,325.00
$9,626.23
$292,370.00
$270,012.00
$22,385.00
STEWARDSHIP/GIVING MESSAGE;
GIVE GENEROUSLY TO THOSE IN NEED.
Prayer
Hymns: HWB#197 “Angels We Have Heard on High”
HWB#210 “Good Christian Friends, Rejoice”
- Reneda Miller, song leader
Community Life Announcements
Pastoral Prayer
Offering
Offertory: Maria Zehr
Hymns: HWB#193 “Silent Night” (vs. 1-3)
HWB#215 “What Child Is This” (vs. 1 & 2)
Scripture: Psalm 148; Luke 2:22-40
Jr. Church – (children age 3 through Grade 2)
– c/o Crystal Conrad
Sermon: “Praise the Lord” – Pastor Doug
Hymn of Response: HWB#318 “Joy to the World”
Benediction
7843 Smucker Rd., Smithville, Ohio 44677
Phone: 330-669-2697
Fax: 330-669-2617
Pastor: Douglas J. Zehr
[email protected]
Associate Minister of Worship and Education:
Miriam R. Zehr
[email protected]
JOURNEY Ministry Associate: Gladene Hershberger
JOURNEY Ministry Associate: Brian Miller
JOURNEY Ministry Associate: Reneda Miller
Office email: [email protected]
Web Site: www.oakgrovemc.org
Sunday, December 28, 2014
Christmas: Your Beauty Is Revealed
Focus statement: Seeing the child, we respond and join with all
creation in adoration and praise.
Prelude – Maria Zehr
Welcome – Mark Steiner, Worship Leader
UPCOMING EVENTS
January 4 - MCC Focus
January 18 - Noon meal/Session with Ted Grimsrud
January 25 - Annual Congregational Meeting / Carry-in meal
Mennonite Central Committee (MCC) is seeking Location
Coordinators for the Serving With Appalachian People
(SWAP) program site in Hindman, Ky. For a full job
description, visit mcc.org/get-involved/serve/openings/mcc-swaplocation-coordinator-hindman. Individuals interested in this
position should send a letter of intent and current resume to
[email protected] by January 5, 2015.
Register today! Mennonite Entrepreneurs Conference: A
weekend of challenge and reflection for business owners and
entrepreneurs. Jan. 29 - Feb. 1, 2015, at The Resort at Longboat
Key Club, Sarasota, Florida. For more information, visit
www.meda.org/entrepreneurs.
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If you collect box tops for education and labels for education,
please put them in Pauline Smucker’s mailbox by December 28.
These labels go to Hopi Mission School.
Mitten Tree: There is still opportunity to share gifts of new
clothing to People to People Ministries on the mitten tree. People
to People said that clothing for men is especially needed. You
may place gifts on/under the tree through Tuesday, December 30,
when they will be taken to People to People Ministries. Thank you
for sharing!
The Upper Room for January & February is on the table in the
foyer. Please take one for yourself or a friend.
Call to worship (adapted from Luke 2 and Psalm 148)
Leader: Come, let us worship in faith the God who is here and
desires our worship [pause].
Incarnate God, work in our hearts, that our worship
would be filled with the joy that comes from
remembering your beauty.
All:
In a little child, God is revealed to us.
Leader: This is God’s plan of freedom, for the nations to see.
People: A revealing light to all peoples, the glory of God’s
kingdom people.
Leader: We rejoice in our rescue and celebrate creation’s
redemption.
People: The hills and the mountains praise the Lord.
Leader: The animals, wild and tame, all kings and peoples of the
earth; lightning and hail, snow and fog, women and
men, old and young,
All:
All praise the Lord together, our Messiah has come.
Alleluia!
THIS WEEK AT OAK GROVE
Sunday, December 28, 2014
NEXT SUNDAY – January 4, 2015
8:45 a.m. – Spiritual Life Commission Prayer
8:45 a.m. – Spiritual Life Commission Prayer
9:15 a.m. – Sunday School
9:15 a.m. - Sunday School
9:30 a.m. - Worship at OrrVilla
10:30 a.m. – Worship - Pastor Doug
10:30 a.m. – Worship - Pastor Doug
Message: “Encounter the Christ”
Scripture: Isaiah 60:1-6; Matthew 2:1-12
Greeters: Bruce & Donna Kindy
Visitation Ministry
Nursery:
9:15 a.m. – Lucinda Gill & Amy Lichti
10:45 a.m. – Craig & Krista Martin
Greeters: Bob & Waunita Witmer
Monday, December 29
7:00 p.m. - Outreach Commission
Nursery:
9:15 a.m. - Velma Zook & Anita Bixler
10:30 a.m. - Amy Lichti & Jennifer Witmer Gundy
ANNOUNCEMENTS
Tuesday, December 30
8:00 a.m. - Prayer time
Wednesday, December 31
Noon - Prayer time
Birthdays this week
December 29 - Nathan Stein
December 30 - Kaden Schrock
December 31 - Clarence Stutzman (87)
- Linda Jaquet
January 1 - Esther Shafer (82)
- Olivia Wenger
January 4 - Paxton Zuercher
Anniversaries this week
December 30 - Scott & Jolene Jaquet
December 31 - Dave & Sue Herman (45)
Did you want your photo in the pictorial directory but missed
the deadline? Well, you’re in luck! We are accepting additional
photo submissions and will be available in the conference room
after church, January 11th and 18th to collect your pictures or to
take a snapshot. Deadline for submission is January 25. Additional
photos will be compiled on a separate sheet to add to your current
directory. Please contact Lisa Morphew or Donna Kindy for more
information if interested. Thanks.
~ Fellowship & Service Commission
On Sunday, January 4, at 6:30 p.m. Dan and Jeanne Jantzi,
formerly from Orrville, are currently serving as MCC's Area
Directors for Southeast Asia. They will present news and updates
about MCC's work with the Asian Anabaptist churches and
partners. Come and enjoy an evening to hear how your support to
MCC's programs is part of God's mission in the world.
We extend our sympathies to Bob & Sue Miller on the death of
Bob’s sister, Gladys Gerber, on December 19. May God grant you
comfort at this time of loss.
OrrVilla Events: Pianist Peter Douglas will open the new year
of free performances at OrrVilla Retirement Community on
Wednesday, Jan. 7, at 2:30 p.m. Douglas, a native of Dalton, is
currently studying Piano Performance at the Baldwin Wallace
University Conservatory of Music. An accomplished and active
church musician and musical director, he has a large local
following and is a popular favorite at OrrVilla. The program at
OrrVilla’s Maple Terrace, 333 E. Sassafras Street, Orrville, is free
and open to the public. For more information please call 330-6834455, visit www.orrvilla.com or follow us on Facebook at
OrrVilla Retirement Community.
Temporary housing for MCCers: Matthew Tschetter will begin
his role as Mennonite Central Committee (MCC) Great Lakes
Donor Relations Associate in January. He and his wife will be
relocating from an international MCC term and are in need of
housing for 4-6 months in the Kidron or surrounding area as they
wait for their long-term rental to become available. Due to the
temporary nature of their needs, this would be an ideal set-up for
someone going south for the winter or for a month-by-month
rental agreement. To offer suggestions or for more information,
contact [email protected] or call the MCC Great Lakes
office at 574-534-4133.
Camp Luz will host a Mother-Daughter Retreat on January 910. Deb Horst, associate pastor of Christian Formation and Youth
at Lindale Mennonite Church (VA) and former director of Camp
Luz, will be speaking on being “Rooted In Christ.” More
information and registration forms are available at
www.campluz.com
Join youth groups from across the conference at these Camp
Friedenswald Winter Retreats: Senior High Retreat - January
9-11, Junior High I Retreat - January 16-18, Junior High II Retreat
- January 23-25. For information and registration go to:
http://www.friedenswald.org/programs_winter
Camp Friedenswald Winter Family Retreat - February 13-15.
Consider giving your family the Christmas gift of a Winter
Retreat at Friedenswald. Enjoy the peace, fellowship, winter fun,
and good food in the beautiful Friedenswald setting. Retreat
information is developing. To register go to:
http://www.friedenswald.org/familywinter or call 269-476-9744.

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