“When the days drew near for him to be taken up, he set his face to go to Jerusalem”  Luke 9:51

 

Gathering

 

¨       Call to worship     Responsive reading                                             HWB 666

¨       Hymn                     There’s a wideness in God’s mercy                  HWB 145

 

Sharing

 

¨       Introduction to the morning

¨       Congregational sharing

¨       Praying together

¨       Hymn                     Lord, Listen to you children                               HWB 353

 

Hearing

 

¨       Children’s story:  If God had a wallet

¨       Scripture                Matthew 20:1-16

¨       Hymn                     Wonderful grace of Jesus                                  HWB 150

¨       Scripture                Romans 3:21-28

¨       Morning meditation

 

Responding

 

¨       Offering

¨       Announcements

¨       Closing hymn       God of grace and God of glory                          HWB 366

¨       Closing prayer

 

Leading us in worship:  Joe Hy, Worship leader and speaker.  Nelson Sz, Song leader.  Michelle Wr-Hn, Pianist

 

* Visitors are invited to stand and introduce yourselves during the sharing time so we can  welcome you.

** 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

¨       Patti Sr                                                  

Poetry Meeting                                                    July 9      7:30 AM @ Ry

¨       Don Ty                                 

Peace and Justice Interest                                  July 9      7:30PM  @ Wk

¨       Janet Ry                

Readers Club:                                                       July 22    6:30PM   Gertrudes

¨       Priscilla                  Radical hope: ethics in the face of cultural devastation by Jonathan Lear

Slow Cookers       

¨       Gertrude Wn 

 

Meetings:

Finance Committee                                             

Nurture Comm. Meeting    

Worship Committee                                             July 1      7:30         Wk

Congregational Life Committee                         July 11    9AM       Py/Mr    

Congregational Business Mtg.                         

Service – Outreach                                              July 22    12:30       Versluis home      

 

The worship committee has decided that the worship services will begin at 11:00 am this summer.  On September 9, 2007 until January 1, 2008 the worship service
will begin at 10:00 am  Please feel very free to contact any of the worship committee members with questions or comments.  Worship Committee: Rebecca We, Shelly
Wk, Tim Sh, Titus Kg, Paul Vs

 

All chuch invitation: Firework and desserts:  8PM, on July 7^th.  Bring a dessert.  Fireworks at dark.  Bring lawn chairs and bug spray.  For those of you who have
never been here, the lake association puts on a fireworks show (approximately 45 minutes in length).  Leland Ropp, 1314 Long Lake Drive, Brighton, MI  48114You are
also invited to a table tennis tournament.  This will begin at 5 PM on Sat. July 7th at my house.  This is the same evening as the desserts and fireworks, so feel free to come for both.  Leland Rp and Noah Wk.

 

Last call for submissions for a Summer issue of The Shepherd.  Please send items by July 12th.

 

Congregational concerns?  Contact the Congregational Life Committee, Janet Ry, , Patti Sr / or Dave Py

 

Betsy Hy and Patti Sr are interested in getting some people to volunteer to help during the Sunday School and post Sunday School time in the new fall schedule. 
This could involve preschool or elementary age children. 

 

DENOMINATIONAL NEWS

COB= Church of the Brethren; CD = Mennonite Church Central District Conference

¨       Central District Conference: June 21-23 meeting in Berne Indiana 

¨       COB Annual Conference: June 30- July 4 Cleveland Ohio.  [Roxanne Cs will attend and be our delegate to the annual conference]

¨       Mennonite Assembly:   July 2-7, San Jose CA. [Paul and Joy Versluis and Tom and Kathy Br will attend]

¨       COB District Conference:  August 9-12, ,2006, Hastings Michigan.  Tim Sh will attend and be our delegate.

 

View the Mennonite Church online giving website.  You are able to make credit card donations to all Mennonite Church organizations, including congregations.  http://giving.menoniteusa.org, https://giving.mennoniteusa.org/organization/detail/1254/. 

 

Some of you have been making donations to Shalom through the Mennonite Foundation at www.MennoniteUSA.org.  If you are doing so or intend to do so, please
know that Mennonite Foundation will issue receipts for tax purposes for all of those donations.  Those donations will NOT be included in the statement that is supplied
by Shalom Community Church at the end of the year.  Additionally, the Foundation takes a fee of 3% on all transactions before they are deposited in the SCC account. 
If you have questions, please contact Anita Ts. 

 

SERVICE OUTREACH

 

The Silent Auction collected over $700 for the youth fund.  

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 Jamaica, and Susie Fk for her medical mission work in Argentina.  Please contact Paul Versluis if you are interested in applying.

Matthew 20:1-16  ‘For the kingdom of heaven is like a landowner who went out early in the morning to hire labourers for his vineyard. ²After agreeing with the labourers
for the usual daily wage, he sent them into his vineyard. ³When he went out about nine o’clock, he saw others standing idle in the market-place; ⁴and he said to them,
“You also go into the vineyard, and I will pay you whatever is right.” So they went. ⁵When he went out again about noon and about three o’clock, he did the same. ⁶And about five o’clock he went out and found others standing around; and he said to them, “Why are you standing here idle all day?” ⁷They said to him, “Because no one has hired us.” He said to them, “You also go into the vineyard.” ⁸When evening came, the owner of the vineyard said to his manager, “Call the labourers and give them their
pay, beginning with the last and then going to the first.” ⁹When those hired about five o’clock came, each of them received the usual daily wage. ¹⁰Now when the first
came, they thought they would receive more; but each of them also received the usual daily wage. ¹¹And when they received it, they grumbled against the landowner, ¹²saying, “These last worked only one hour, and you have made them equal to us who have borne the burden of the day and the scorching heat.” ¹³But he replied to
one of them, “Friend, I am doing you no wrong; did you not agree with me for the usual daily wage? ¹⁴Take what belongs to you and go; I choose to give to this last the same as I give to you. ¹⁵Am I not allowed to do what I choose with what belongs to me? Or are you envious because I am generous?” ¹⁶So the last will be first, and the
first will be last.’