Berkey Avenue Mennonite Fellowship

August 14, 2011

Pastors:  Dan Schrock and Lois Stoltzfus Mast

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

Gathering

      Prelude

      Hymn:  Holy Spirit, come with power (blue book, 26)

Welcome

Four Directions Prayer

Congregation:  Creator, it is I. (repeated five more times)

Hymn:  Open now thy gates of beauty (blue book, 19)

Hearing

Children’s Time                                                   Lauren Hooley

Hymn:  My soul cries out (purple book, 124)

Scripture:  Matthew 15:21-28

      Leader:  And his disciples came and urged him, saying,

Congregation:  “Send her away, for she keeps shouting  

     after us.”

Sermon:  “Outsiders and Insiders”                          Dan Schrock

Confessing

Preparation for confession

Hymn:  Slowly turning, ever turning (green book, 23)

Writing our psalms of confession

Prayer

Responding

Hymn:  Praise with joy the world’s Creator (green book, 16)

Moment in Mission                                                   JD Nafziger

Prayer for Offering

Offering/Offertory

Congregational Sharing                                           Peter Shetler

            Pastoral Prayer

Sending

      Introduction of Visitors

            Please pass the friendship registers.

Announcements

Hymn:  Longing for light (green book, 54)

Benediction

            Congregation:

God be in my head and understanding

            God be in my eyes and in my looking

            God be in my mouth and in my speaking

            God be in my heart and in my thinking

            God be at my end and at my departing.

            Amen.

Worship Participants:

      Worship Leader:  Deb Brubaker

      Song Leader:  Paul Leichty 

      Accompanist:  Patsy Sherer

      Prelude/Offertory:  Jenny Hooley

      Scripture Readers:  Miriam Augsburger and Lane Miller

      Sound/Projection:  Michael Sherer

      Ushers:  Tavi and Anita Mounsithiraj  

      Visuals:  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 is led by Dan Schrock, using the Nooma video entitled “She.”

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.