Berkey Avenue Mennonite Fellowship

July 31, 2011

Pastors:  Dan Schrock and Lois Stoltzfus Mast

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

Gathering

Prelude

Opening Song

O, worship the Lord (blue book, 124)

Call to Worship

Worship in Song 

      Blessed Jesus, at your word (blue book, 13)

            God is here among us (blue book, 16)

Offering

      Offertory

Hearing

      Children’s Time (in the library)                                 Trish Yoder

      Song  

Open, Lord, my inward ear (blue book 140)

Scripture:  Acts 10:1-5, 9-20, 23b-24, 34-43, 44-47

      Sermon                                                                     John Rempel

                  “The Hidden Friendships of the Holy Spirit”      

Song of Response

Lord, you give the great commission (green book, 63)

Congregational Sharing

      Pastoral Prayer                                                 Laverne Nafziger

Sending

      Welcoming Visitors         

Please pass the friendship registers.

      Announcements

Song of Sending

 Lord Jesus, you shall be my song (green book, 14)

Benediction 

Worship Participants:

      Worship Leader:  Roxanna Sommers

      Song Leader:  Greg Smucker 

      Accompanist, Prelude and Offertory:  Patsy Sherer

      Sound/Projection:  Ben Buckwalter

      Ushers:  Ron and Lori Good

      Visuals:  Dee Albrecht and Anne Berry

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

Nurture Hour begins ten minutes after the end of worship.

      Adult classes are combined during the summer and meet in the meetingroom. Today, the adult nurture class led by Eric Hostetler

will be viewing and discussing the NOOMA video titled Open.

The video touches on the subject of how and why we pray.

Children from preschool through fifth grade go directly to their classrooms after worship for a snack.

¨      Infants and Toddlers meet in “Cherub Corner.”

¨      Preschool (2 and 3 year-olds) meet in “Joyful.”

¨      Primary (4 and 5 year-olds) meet in “Peace.”

¨      Middler (grades 1-5) meets 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.