First meeting hour
Pre-service music
Call to worship
Introduction
Gathering hymn All Praise to Our Redeemer, An Easter Hymn, Words and Music by Leo Hartshorn
Litany of Musical Praise Psalm 150 (based on Psalms Anew)
Leader: Alleluia! Praise to you, Yahweh, in your sanctuary!
People: Praise to you in
the firmament of your strength.
Leader: Praise you for your mighty deeds;
People: praise you for
your sovereign majesty.
Leader: Praise to you, Yahweh, with the blast of the trumpet,
People: praise with lyre
and harp.
Leader: Praise with drums and dance;
People: praise with
strings and flute.
Leader: Praise to you, Yahweh, with resounding cymbals;
People: praise with
crashing cymbals.
Leader: Let everything that has breath praise Yahweh.
People: Alleluia!
I Will Love the Lord Words and Music by Leo Hartshorn
Based on Matthew 22:37
Song Breath in the wind A field of voices
The Sacred Rhythm of
Life: Creation, Drumming, and Peacemaking
PowerPoint Presentation by Leo Harshorn
Sharing and prayers
Our offering to God to
the rhythm of the drum
Neo-tribal Doxology
Words
and Music by Leo Hartshorn
Second meeting hour
Drumming for Peace
program: Joyful Noise by Leo
Harshorn
Children’s
teaching
Leading us in
worship: Paul Versluis and Leo Hartshorn
* The offering is a commitment of our regular attendees. Visitors should feel no obligation to donate. Visitors and regular attendees are invited to submit the “I wish card” found in the back of the hymnal.
SHALOM COMMUNITY CHURCH HAPPENINGS
Small Group Opportunities: the following groups meet regularly and are open to interested persons in the SCC community. You can drop in and ‘drop out’ as you are able. Call the contact person for information, dates, times, direction or location.
Mom’s Small Group
¨
Poetry Meeting April 27 7:30AM @Ty
¨ Don Ty
Peace and Justice Interest
April
¨ Janet Ry
Readers Club: April 22 6:30 PM @Ts
¨ Priscilla The World is Flat by Thomas Friedman
Slow Cookers Gertrude Wn 663-9187
Meetings:
Finance Committee
Facilities Cmt. report to Congregation
April
15
*please bring a bag lunch
Congregational Meeting
April
22
*please bring a bag lunch
Nurture Comm. Meeting
April
24
Service – Outreach
May
6 Lunch
Worship Committee
May
Congregational Business Mtg.
May
13
Congregational Life Committee May
Do you like to smile? Do you enjoy seeing new faces? Have people said you made them feel welcome? If you answered yes to any of these, please consider serving our community as a greeter. We are looking for one or two people to join Joy Versluis as a team to alternate Sunday mornings. Contact Joy if you are interested.
Youth group April 15, game night at the Hy’s 6:30-8:30 bring a snack to share.
The Shepherd--You are invited to submit pieces for the congregational newsletter, The Shepherd. Please pass them on to Carolyn H. or Joy V. or discuss any ideas
you might have with them. We are working towards a late spring issue, so gentlewomen and gentlemen, start your writing engines.
The Shalom Facilities Committee has been working busily since our last report to the congregation in December, 2006. Most of you will know that this committee is working with two other partners to design and build a jointly-owned facility that can be used by all partners. That work has reached a critical juncture in its development, and we are calling the congregation together for review and for consideration of next steps.
On
We
have recently concluded work on redesigning the building and site plan
in
response to all of these constraints. We are re-submitting these plans
along
with an application for a ‘special use’ permit to
While that process goes forward, we are also planning a pair of meetings to present these plans to the Shalom congregation. Those meetings will take place after church on Sunday, April 15, and Sunday, April 22. We ask everyone to make a concerted effort to participate in those meetings.
On April 22, there will be additional input and discussion of the April 15 presentations. The second part of the April 22 meeting will be a congregational business meeting to be led by the moderator. The Facilities Committee expects to bring a recommendation to the congregation for acceptance of the preliminary designs and commitment to a share of partnership in the facility. Since there are still some issues to be settled among the partners, this recommendation will be conditioned on satisfactory resolutions of those issues.
Participation in the April 15 meeting and review of the handout that will be available to all households on April 15 will be valuable preparation for this very important decision-making meeting on April 22.
We
plan to provide child care. We plan
to begin shortly after the end of worship, at about
If
you have Congregational concerns, please contact the Congregational
Life Committee. Janet Ry, Patti Sr or Dave
Py at
DENOMINATIONAL NEWS
COB= Church of the Brethren; CD = Mennonite
Church
Central District Conference
¨
Central District Conference: June
21-23 meeting
in Berne
¨
COB Annual Conference: June 30- July
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¨ Mennonite Assembly: July 2-7, San Jose CA. [Paul and Joy will attend]
¨
COB District Conference: August 9-12, ,2006,
Interested in serving on the board of Adriel School for Central District? See Paul
Please view the
SERVICE OUTREACH
Attention Shalom's
active
participants! The Service
Outreach Committee would like
to encourage you to do service through an organization or take personal
involvement in a service project.
We have a special budget to sponsor you in doing this work. Past examples have been Mandy &
David Kn for their recent work in
Property
Disposal Department. Ten folding
wooden chairs are available. These
are remnants from the historic days of the ‘basement church.’ They are presently in Nelson Sz’s
workshop but will not be kept after April 15. A
small donation to Shalom’s
coffers is suggested. Talk to
Nelson.
HIWAY PICKUP for 2007: Pickup dates
are April 21-29, July 14-22, Sept 8-16.
Paul
and Joy will be at the