Gehman Mennonite Church July 15, Wed.

-Bowmansville District Sewing Circle will meet at the

July 5, 2009 Bowmansville Mennonite Church in the morning and afternoon. The project for
Sunday School 9:00 A.M. this month is Health Kits. A Health Kit includes the following new items:
Worship Service 10:00 A.M. 1 toothbrush (adult, leave in wrapper)
1 squeeze-tube toothpaste (min. 6 oz.)
Order of Worship 1 bar soap (4-5 oz.)
Prelude Mildred Wenger 1 fingernail clipper
Call to Worship Psalm 30 Nicole Horning 1 hand towel (bright or dark color)
Offering Kits can be brought to the church and Sewing Circle will see they are taken to
Worship in Song Worship Team MCC.
Sharing Time/Pastoral Prayer Pastor Phil Horning July 19,Sun.- Outdoor Historical and Inspirational Service at the Alleghany
Song Selections Mennonite Meetinghouse, 6:30 p.m.
Message: “Zion, City of Our God” Psalm 48 Bishop Carl Sensenig July 19, Sun.- Singing at Denver Nursing Home, 2:45 p.m.
Hymn of Response Sylvia Eberly July 25, Sat.- Join friends of Sunday School Meditations at our annual Chicken
Benediction BBQ being held at Tel-Hai Camp, Honeybrook, PA. The meal will be served from
4-6:30 p.m. at a cost of $7.50 each. Following the meal, a music program will be
Today: presented featuring Harmony Ministry. Come prepared to receive a blessing and to
Greeters Ed & Marlene Martin enjoy a delicious meal. See the poster on the bulletin board for ticket information.
Sunday School Nursery Tamarah & Sylvia An offering will be received to benefit the radio ministry of SSM.
Church Nursery Chrystle & Roxanne July 26, Sun.- Our church service will be at Woodcrest Retreat.

Next Week: -We will be providing meals for Cliff, Lisa ,William and Daniel for the month of
Song Leader Darlene McCosby July. Please sign up on the sheet in the narthex.
Sermon Glen Martin -Woodcrest Retreat is seeking kitchen volunteers and food donations for the
Sunday School Nursery Chrystle & Tamarah week of July 13 - 17. If you are interested in helping out in either of these ways,
Church Nursery Dianne & Nelson Gehman please check the sign up sheets on the table in the narthex today. Thanks to all
Greeters David & Mildred Mohler who have already signed up! Please see Kelly Horning with any questions.
-Please know I was profoundly touched by the very generous “farewell”
extended to me in our worship service this past Sunday. The numerous cards and
Offerings: The offering for July will go toward Home Ministries: Reading expressions of goodwill from your kind hearts and hands washed over me in a
Churches and Missionary Retirement Fund. warm and comfortable manner. Please know too I hold each one of you very near
The offering last week was $3,340.50 to my heart. Thank you again for the numerous ways you enriched my life as
Attendance last week was 105. interim pastor. –Mel Thomas

June 2009 offering report

Total offerings: $ 9,873.55
Designated Youndt 320.00
First fruits giving 831.66 (District Bishop Fund/Lanc Menn Conf)
Budgeted funds 5,361.00 (Insurance, Ministers, Operating,
Gehmans missions, Youndt property purchase, youth)
July 10, Fri.-Plan to join us for our second Game and Movie Night at 7:30 p.m. in
the Adamstown Grove. Thanks to each of you who supported us last month with Gehman Mennonite Church missionary support 3,295.89
your prayers, your presence and your cookies. -The Outreach Committee MT gift 65.00
July 11, Sat.- EMMs Global Fair a Crossroads of Cultures, 11 a.m.-3 p.m.
July 14-19, Tues.-Sun.- Paraguay ‘09- MWC fifteenth world assembly. Happy Birthday! Danae Gockley on Thurs.