Berkey Avenue Mennonite Fellowship

March 28, 2010

Pastors:  Anita Kehr and Dan Schrock

Youth Pastor:  Lois Stoltzfus Mast

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

Web-Site:  www.berkeyavenue.org

Palm Sunday:

Holding on, letting go

Praise

      Prelude

      Scripture:  Luke 18:31-34

      Gathering Song:   Open now thy gates of beauty (HWB 19)

      Welcome

      Congregational Reading from Psalm 118

      All:        O, give thanks to the Lord!

      Left:        God is good!

      Right:    God’s steadfast love endures forever!

      Center:  Let those who fear the Lord say, 

                 ‘God’s steadfast love endures for ever.’

      Voice 1: Out of my distress I called on the Lord;

                 the Lord answered me and set me in a broad place.                               

                 With the Lord on my side I do not fear.

                 What can mortals do to me?

                 The Lord is on my side to help me;


                 I shall look in triumph on those who hate me. 



      Left:      Open to us the gates of righteousness,

                 that we may enter through them


                 and give thanks to the Lord.

      Right:    This is the gate of the Lord;

                 the righteous shall enter through it.

     Voice 2: I thank you that you have answered me

                 and have become my salvation.

                 The stone that the builders rejected

                 has become the chief cornerstone. 


      All:        This is the Lord’s doing;

                       it is marvelous in our eyes.

      Left:      This is the day that the Lord has made;
                 let us rejoice and be glad in it.

    Right:    Save us, O Lord! Give us success!

      Left:     Save us, O Lord! Give us success!

    Center:  Save us, O Lord! Give us success!

      Voice 1: Blessed is the one

                 who comes in the name of the Lord.

      Voice 2: Blessed is the one

                 who comes in the name of the Lord!

      Voice 3: Blessed is the one

                 who comes in the name of the Lord!

      Right:     You are our God, and we will give thanks to you;

      Left:    you are our God, we will extol you.

      All:         O give thanks to the Lord, for God is good; 

                       God’s steadfast love endures forever.

      Hymns:  Hosanna, loud hosanna (HWB 238)

                   Ride on, ride on in majesty (HWB 239)

      Children’s Time with Processional Song                                         

Reflection

      Scripture Reading:  Luke 19:41-44  

     Sermon:  “Two Processions”                                       Dan Schrock

     Silence

     Hymn:  Where cross the crowded ways (HWB 405)

Connections

     Offering and Offertory

     Sharing and Pastoral Prayer                                           Anita Kehr

     Introduction of Visitors

           Please pass the friendship registers. 

      Announcements 

      Closing Words of Scripture

      Sending Song:  What wondrous love is this (HWB 530)  

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

Worship Participants:

Worship Leader:  Jennifer Schrock

Song Leader:  Emily Grimes    

Accompanist:   Terri Plank Brenneman

Prelude/Offertory:   Rachel Mast and Lois Mast

Sound/Projection:  Evan Grimes

Ushers:  Ron and Lori Good  

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

Bulletin Cover:  Tavi Mounsithiraj 

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, “Teachings on Community,” led by Eldon Nafziger, meets in Lois Mast’s office off of Jubilee Hall.

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.