Berkey Avenue Mennonite Fellowship

March 15, 2009
Pastors:  Anita Kehr and Dan Schrock
Phone:  (574) 534-2398     e-mail: 
Web-Site:  www.berkeyavenue.org
Gethsemane
Lent 3

Gathering

      Prelude

      Call to Worship

      Songs:   O Breath of Life (STJ 35)

                    Longing for light (STJ 54)

Hearing

      Children's Time                                                  Jennifer Schrock

      Song:   Stay with me (HWB 242)

      Scripture:  Mark 14:32-52

      Sermon:  "Tests"                                                      Dan Schrock

Responding

      Song of Response:  O thou, in whose presence (HWB 559)

      Offering and Offertory

      Devotional Response

      Special Music:  So much wrong

      Congregational Sharing                                              Anita Kehr

      Pastoral Prayer

Sending

      Introduction of Visitors

             Please pass the friendship registers.

      Announcements

      Song of Sending:  Lead me, Lord (HWB 538)

      Benediction


Worship Participants:

Worship Leader: Denise Risser            Song Leader:  Greg Smucker
Accompanist:  Patsy Sherer                 Prelude:  Quinn Brennema
Offertory: Leslee Smucker, Jocelyn Valderrama
Special Music:  Ben Mast, Lois Stoltzfus Mast
Sound/Projection:  Ben Buckwalter     Ushers:  Ron and Lori Good

Childcare is available for infants and toddlers (generally ages three and under) in the nursery on the right side of the hallway.

Nurture Hour begins ten minutes after the end of worship.  Re-gather in the meetingroom for these opportunities:

Please attend the intergenerational adult class of your choice :
¨      Sermon Discussion Class led by David Heusinkveld and Dale Shenk will meet in the library today.
¨      A women's class is studying the book, Really Bad Girls of the Bible, and meets in the Jubilee Hall after the children have finished singing.
¨      All other classes will gather in the meetingroom to hear Analisa Gerig-Sickles give her C. Henry Smith Peace lecture.  There will be opportunity for questions and discussion.

Children from preschool through fifth grade gather after worship for singing in Jubilee Hall (the large room north of the fellowship hall).  Younger children may go directly to their classroom (see the room assignments below).
¨      Infants and 2-year-olds meet in "Cherub Corner."
¨      Preschool (3- and 4-year-olds) meet in "Gentleness."
¨      Primary I (kindergarten) meet in "Joyful."
¨      Primary II (first and second grades) meet in "Peace."
¨      Middler (third, fourth, and fifth grades) meet in "Forgiveness."

Youth:  

The JYF (grades 6-8) and MYF (grades 9-12) meet in their classrooms off of Jubilee Hall. 

If you are visiting, please pick up a newsletter on the literature rack in the fellowship hall.