June 10, 2018

Music Group Meeting/Sanctuary                                              8:45 AM

Prayer Group/Pastor’s Office                                                    9:10 AM

Christian Education Classes                                                      9:30 AM
Children & Youth meet in the basement classrooms.  Adult Class features The Wired Word, where Scripture meets the Headlines.  This discussion class meets in the East Library Wing.

Worship Service-Youth Sunday                                               10:30 AM
Singing: All the People Said Amen
VBS Songs: Jen & Bible School Students
Children’s Story by Morgan & Lexi Knapp
Message: Jared Redding
Singing: Trust & Obey –Red Book # 454
Skit by Youth
Pastoral Prayer: Jared Redding & Corby Wuthrich
Offering: Forney Family-Offertory by Jen/Ushers-Cheyenne & Cayler
Announcements-Morgan Knapp
Sending Song: Big House

The June 17 offering will support ministry preparation by Emma & Jared Redding as they look forward to a move to Peru in 2019.

Our Daily Bread & Rejoice! devotional guides for June-July-August may be found on the ‘ledge’ in the church foyer hallway just outside sanctuary doors.

Nursing Home Worship is at 2:00 on June 17 at The Bloomfield Care Center (town) and at 3:00 at Davis Center (Country).

Monday-Tuesday: Grades 1-2 at Crooked Creek Christian Camp
Wednesday: 7:30 PM Church Council Meeting
Wednesday-Friday: Grades 3-4 at Crooked Creek Christian Camp
June 17-22: Grades 4-5 at Crooked Creek Christian Camp
June 17: 2:00 Bloomfield Care Center/3:00 Davis Center Worship
June 23: Grandfolk/Little Folk Day at Crooked Creek Christian Camp
June 23: Anderlik/Payne Wedding in Ft. Dodge, IA
June 24: Tim Friesen as guest preacher
June 24-29: Grades 5-6 at Crooked Creek Christian Camp
July 1-6: Grades 6-7 at Crooked Creek Christian Camp
July 1: 5:00 PM Christian Education Commission Meeting
July 8-13: Grades 7-8 at Crooked Creek Christian Camp

Creed, What Christians Believe & Why by Adam Hamilton is a wonderful summary of The Apostles Creed wrapped up in a small hardback book.  This book is the basis for the sermon series that is concluding next month and a guide in a recent class.  Free copies are available on The Book Table.

Local Notes on the Bulletin Board: Local Nature Camp schedules from the Iowa Extension Service, a Seven-Month-Countdown update from Jared & Emma Redding, Crooked Creek Camp schedule and a NEST Schedule for the pregnancy and early childhood program.

Adult Classes @ 9:30: Wired Word returns to the adult Sunday School Hour at 9:30 on Summer Sundays.  Wired Word is an intersection of headlines and Scripture. Meanwhile . . . the coffee pot is still warm in the church foyer, and, moving to July 1, a one-day study, You Can Own the Book of Jude. A two-day study, You Can Own the Book of Matthew is July 15 & 22.

Quilters & Sewers . . . a Sharing the Weight Outline Party is Saturday, June 23 from 10:00 AM to 4:00 PM at Good Shepherd Lutheran Church in preparation for the Anniversary Blanket Making Marathon in July.  See full details on the Church Bulletin Board.

Eicher Emmanuel Mennonite Church – Sesquicentennial Celebration – June 30 – July1 . . We are "Honoring the Past - Celebrating the Future" with a video presentation of our history Saturday night, June 30 at 6:30pm followed by ice cream! Sunday morning at 10:00am will feature comments from former pastors as we worship together. Lunch at noon and an Eicher cemetery tour by local expert Michael Zahs to conclude the day.

Birthdays & Anniversaries June 11-17:
Dani Piper-June 11; Kari & Linzy Jones-June 13; Micah Zook-June 17;

When I Dislike Things in the Bible, Love Thy Neighbor as Mister Rogers Did and What is the Ideal Church Size, Anyways are featured articles on The Pastor’s Plank of the Church Bulletin Board.

Upcoming Sunday Morning Themes & Messages:
June 17: Creed # 16: ‘I Believe in the Forgiveness of Sin”
June 24: Tim Friesen as guest preacher
July 1: Creed # 17: ‘I Believe in the Resurrection of the Body’ (Communion)
July 8: Ryan Harker as guest preacher
July 15: Creed # 18: ‘I Believe in Life Everlasting. Amen!’
July 22: ‘Life is One Hot Mess—in the Book of Psalms?’
July 29: Guest Preacher
August 5: Stories from Camp Barnabas & ‘Jeans Sunday’
August 12: ‘How Much Sin Will God Forgive?’ –Psalms 51
August 19: ‘Song of a Doubting Saint’ –Psalm 73
August 26: Camp Overnighter at Crooked Creek
September 2: ‘How God Views Children’ –Psalm 127 & 128
September 9: ‘The Gateway to the New Testament Book of Hebrews’