Berkey Avenue Mennonite Fellowship
November 22, 2009
Pastors:  Anita Kehr and Dan Schrock
Phone:  (574) 534-2398           e-mail: 
Web-Site:  www.berkeyavenue.org

Thanksgiving

Gathering

      Prelude

      Call to Worship

      Songs:    Come, thou fount (HWB 521)

                     In lonely mountain ways (HWB 560)

                     Soon and very soon (HWB 611)

Offering Our Gifts

      Offertory

Hearing

      Children's Time                                                         Seth Krabill

      Scripture:  Colossians 1:9-14

      Sermon:  "Dying and Living"                                     Anita Kehr

      Song of Reflection:  Give thanks for life (STJ 108)

Responding

      Congregational Sharing                                            Dan Schrock

            Pastoral Prayer

Sending

      Welcoming Visitors

            Please pass the friendship registers.

      Announcements

      Song of Benediction:  Shall we gather at the river (HWB 615) 

      Spoken Benediction


Childcare is available for infants and toddlers in the nursery during worship.

Worship Participants:

Worship Leader:  Corine Alvarez     

Song Leader:  Trish Shenk

Accompanist:  Patsy Sherer

Prelude and Offertory:  Anna Nafziger, Morgan Short, Lois Mast

Prelude:  Elise Wenger and Chris Thögersen

Sound/Projection:  David Nussbaum

Ushers:  Jud and Rita Gingrich

Visuals:  Anne and Beth Berry

 

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:

*   The Sermon Discussion Class led by David Heusinkveld and Kirk Stiffney meets in the northeast corner of the meetingroom.

*   A women's class studying the book, The Life You Always Wanted:  Spiritual Disciplines of Ordinary People, meets in the Jubilee Hall after the children have finished singing.

*   A long-term discussion-based group meets in the southeast corner of the meetingroom.

*   The College-Age Class, led by Joe Liechty, John Roth, and Jan and Peter Shetler, meets in the library.

*   Conversation about Mennonite World Conference and global church relationships meets in the northwest corner of the meetingroom.

Children from preschool through fifth grade gather after worship for singing in the 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 the Nursery.

*    The preschool class meets in "Joyful."

*    The primary class meets in "Peace."

*    The middler class meets in "Forgiveness."

Youth:

The JYF (grades 6-8) and MYF (grades 9-12) meet in their classrooms off of Jubilee Hall.
Newsletters are available on the literature rack in the fellowship hall.