Berkey Avenue Mennonite Fellowship

February 21, 2010

Pastors:  Anita Kehr and Dan Schrock

Phone:  (574) 534-2398           e-mail: 

Web-Site:  www.berkeyavenue.org

Lent 1: Holding on, letting go

Prelude

Opening Song

      Come, thou Almighty King (HWB 41)

Call to Worship

Singing

      Great is thy faithfulness (HWB 327)

      I am leaning on the Lord (HWB 532)

      We give thee but thine own (HWB 384)

Offering and Prayer

Children’s Time                                                     Ruth Miller Roth

Lenten Theme

      God, fill me now (hymnal pocket)

Scripture/Dramatic Reading                Jonathan and Alex Neufeld

Sermon:  “Remembering the Future”                               Anita Kehr

Congregational Confession

      Silence

      All:      Let your Word within us

                  comfort, disturb, and convert us.

Singing

      I know not why God’s wondrous (HWB 338)

Congregational Sharing and Prayer                          Dan Schrock

Introduction of Visitors

       Please pass the friendship registers.

Announcements

Benediction

Worship Participants:

Worship Leader:  Alex Neufeld

Song Leader:  Patsy Sherer 

Accompanist:  Paul Leichty

Prelude/Offertory:  Lana and Greg Smucker    

Sound/Projection:  Phil Bauman

Ushers:  Darin and Lisa Short and family

Lent Planning Committee:  Bryan Kehr, Alex Neufeld, Ruth Miller Roth, Jennifer Schrock (chair), Patsy Sherer

Bulletin Cover:  Tavi Mounsithiraj 

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

You’re all invited to the fellowship meal and congregational meeting following the nurture hour today.  (Nurture class options are on the back of the bulletin.)

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 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.

*   A Bible study on Matthew, “Christ the Fulfillment,” led by Ginny Martin, 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.