Call to Worship Announcements Announcements A beautiful fall evening, perfectly roasted hot dogs and memorable Prelude: conversation around a crackling fire. Fellowship Around the Fire will be Call to Worship Reading Psalm 121 October 27 at 5:30. Please bring lawn chairs and a dessert. Song
Goessel Ministerial Alliance invites the entire community to eat and Worship in Giving give thanks together. The 7th Annual Goessel Community Epistle Reading 2 Tim. 3:14-4:5 Thanksgiving Meal is will take place Sunday, November 10 in the Offering: Goessel Elementary School Gymnasium between 5-6:30pm. Come with your neighbors, family, and friends to this free event! Please consider signing up [in lobby location] to contribute to the meal. There will also be Worship in Prayer an opportunity to donate to the ministries of GMA. If you have any Gospel Reading Luke 18:1-8 questions, please contact [ ]. Share and Prayer
The 2019 Goessel Area Harvest Giving Walk took place on Sunday, Worship in Song October 6 at Tabor Church. Forty-six participants enjoyed the beautiful Praise Team fall afternoon and completed a route between 2 and 6 miles. Over $5,000 was raised for this event and will be dispersed to MCC’s Central American Migrants Program and the Tabor Church Food Pantry. Worship and the Word Additionally over 100 items were collected for the Tabor Food Pantry and 150+ items were donated for MCC’s Immigration Detainee Care Kits! Sermon Pastor Brad Thank you for your support of this annual community event – by walking, “God’s Breath” donating money or non-perishable items, providing cookies, and praying for us! ~Kevin & Yvette Nickel, area coordinators
Worship and Mission The Hillsboro Area Meat Canning will be held at the MCC Center in Response North Newton October 24 thru November 5. Our church is responsible for 3 workers on Thursday, October 24 from 9:30 a.m.-1:30 p.m. Please let Kathy know if you are Benediction able to help. *Next Sunday, October 20, donations of cash or checks, made out to Hillsboro Area Meat Canning, will be accepted to offset expenses for this worthwhile project. Donations can be given to Kathy.
The MCC Mobile Meat Cannery will be at MCC in North Newton from THE WORD Oct. 24-Nov. 5. Please contact your church's representative for more information and to sign up. If you don't know or don't have a meat The Holy Spirit canning representative, please call the MCC office for more information Everyone Welcome 316.283.2727. Not sure what meat canning actually is? Check out this video for a quick introduction: https://youtu.be/eAxo0moMz3M. People of all ages are encouraged to sign-up, there’s a job for everyone!
Attendance: October 13, 2019……………………….…………...…....…39 Offering: October13, 2019……………………….….………....…... $700.00 GOESSEL MENNONITE CHURCH Lead Pastor Brad Penner: cell - 620-532-1400 Next Week’s Music: Videos………… ……..…………………….…...…..… Pastor Brad’s email - [email protected] Piano:Marcia Hiebert………………………………………………………….. Website WWW.goesselchurch.org Ph# 620-367-2446 Worship 10:30 a.m. Church e-mail [email protected]
Vol. 72 October 20, 2019 No. 42
This Weeks Events -October20: Deadline for Pillars Banquet reservations -October 24- Nov 5: MCC Meat Cannery -October 23- 27:Hesston Theatre Play -October 27: Fellowship around the fire 5:30 p.m.
Up Coming Events: -November2: “Just Sitting” 8:00 a.m. -November3: Pillars Banquet 5:30 p.m. -November 7: Swiss Menno and Historical Assoc. Banquet 6:00 p.m. -November 10: Second Sunday Social -November: Community Thanksgiving Meal 5-
THE WORDDeacon Jaynette Miller 367-3727 Church Moderator: Mickey Harvey ([email protected])
The annual Swiss Mennonite and Historical Association banquet this year features Patricia Goering Smith, a graduate of Moundridge High 16 All Scripture is breathed out by God and profitable for School, who will talk about her book, Revolution Revisited: Behind the teaching, for reproof, for correction, and for training in Scenes in East Germany, 1989. It tells the inspiring story of East righteousness,17 that the man of God may be complete, Germany’s non-violent revolution in 1989 and features a handful of equipped for every good work. mostly young activists in Leipzig, East Germany. The organization and actions of this small group of activists mobilized the movement for democratic reforms and ultimately brought down the East German state This is my Bible. and the Berlin Wall and changed the world. I am who it says I am. I have what it says I have. The banquet will be held at the Pine Village Wellness Center in I will do what it says I can do. Moundridge on November 7, starting at 6:00 p.m. The cost of the meal is I will go where it says I can go. $20 per plate payable at the door. RSVP by texting or calling Nancy Today I will be taught God’s Word. Stucky, 620-532-5693, by November 2.
Coming! The Great Winter Warm-UP! In celebration of Mennonite God’s Word is milk to my soul. Central Committee’s 100th anniversary, MCC is collecting 6,500 God’s Word is seed for my faith. comforters to deliver to people affected by disaster and conflict all around God’s Word is light to my path. the world. Join hundreds of others across the nation who are making God’s Word brings the power for my victory. comforters. Alexanderwohl and Tabor Mennonite Church will host an God’s Word sets my life free. MCC Comforter Blitz for everyone in the Goessel Community, at the Tabor Mennonite Church Fellowship Hall on Saturday, January 18, 2020, When I read God’s Word, it brings me hope and joy. 9am - 4pm. Something for everyone—pin, tie, trim, sew, or help in the When I study God’s Word, it equips my heart. kitchen with snacks and the noon meal. In the meantime, you can start When I quote God’s Word, my enemies “must flee” and I’m now to make comforter tops for this event. Use your own fabric or contact delivered from shame. Ruth, Sharon or Kim for fabric available from MCC and for instructions to When I meditate on God’s Word, my soul finds rest. make a 60” X 80“ top. Deadline to receive tops is January 1. A donation When I abide in God’s Word, I grow… in confidence. box can be found in the foyer if you would like to help purchase batting God’s Word is His very breath and life to me. and supplies for the comforters. Contact Ruth Goertzen ([email protected]; 620-747-0074), Sharon Adrian I boldly confess: ([email protected]; 620-877-7239), or Kim Funk My mind is alert, My heart is receptive. ([email protected]; 620-747-0408) with questions. We look forward to seeing many of you at this Goessel Community Winter Warm- As a Bible-believing follower of Jesus Christ I am ready to hear up! and receive God’s Word?
{This is a compilation from several different sources.} Trunk or Treat: Several more have volunteered to help with food, still needing several more Trunks. Kirsten and Denise have expressed interest in doing a trunk… so, there still is room in the “trunk line up” for you. Please let me know today. Pastor Brad