Pre-Service music
Call to worship
Gathering hymn O worship the Lord HWB 124
Scripture reading John 15:1-17
L: The Master Gardener comes,
Ready to prune and trim the branches.
P: We
abide in the Vine.
L: The Gardener lops off withered branches
And removes dead blossoms for more growth.
P: We
abide in the Vine.
L: In due time, the Gardener harvests the fruit,
Juicy, ripe, and nourishing.
P: We are
fruit-bearing disciples
Who love and obey the
Vine and Vinedresser.
L: We are no longer called servants.
P: We are
called friends
Who know the
Master’s trade.
L: Let us boldly love and abide in the Vine,
Giver of complete joy.
P: We
joyfully abide in the Vine.
Poetry
reading
The
garden poem
by
Ben Bn
God who touches earth with beauty HWB 511
Children’s
teaching
Saying
“I’m sorry.”
Congregational
hymn My life flows
on
HWB
580
Congregational
discipline of attentiveness to God
Congregational
hymn Beyond a
dying
sun
HWB
323
Sharing
and prayers
Hymn of
sending
God
be with you
HWB
430
Benediction
Post-Service Music
Worship Leader: Paul
Versluis Scripture & Children’s
Story: Tim Sh; Song leader: Marty
Sr; Pianist: Anita Ts
* 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
¨ Don Ty
Peace and Justice Interest
¨ Janet Ry
Readers Club:
July
22
¨ 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
Congregational Life Committee
Congregational Business Mtg.
Service – Outreach
July
22
The Pastoral Review
Committee is distributing a survey document via regular mail and
email to
all participants of the congregation, asking for your reflections
on whether Paul and the congregation continue to meet each other's
needs. Completed surveys are to be returned to the committee
by Aug.
5. Please note that the committee is meeting the evenings of Aug.
1 and
Aug. 15, so if you wish to meet with the committee for any reason,
please
contact Laura Br, Joe Hy, or Janis Mr.
Youth group for august will be on SATURDAY AUGUST 11 from 6:30 -8:30 . It will be an ALL CHURCH SOCCER GAME, Ya'll come!!!!!!!! WE're trying to get in a youth
group while there are still youth here who will return/go to college. The game will occur where we have played before --Las Vegas Park
Stadium/Greenview/Avondale/Las Vegas. This is a game for all ages and skill levels and also a game for watchers. Come---it's a lot of fun. Bring a drink and snack to
share.
A status report on
Ten Thousand Villages of Huron Valley for the first half of 2007
will be
appearing in the next issue of The Shepherd. You are
invited to
read it.
We appreciate the congregation’s support and patronage of
this important outreach mission of SCC and other groups in
The worship committee has decided that the worship services will begin at
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 Wyse, Shelly
Wk, Tim Sh, Titus Kg, Paul Versluis
The Worship Committe has decided to audio tape the services this fall during Paul's sabbatical. Curtis and Mark have offered to co-ordinate the effort-- they will transfer the recordings to disc which will be available for anyone to borrow.
Congregational
concerns? Contact
the Congregational Life Committee, Janet RyPatti 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.
Thank you, Shalom family, for remembering me and
my siblings
during this time of grieving my father's passing. Your kind words
and
prayers are tucked inside my heart. We will have a memorial service
July 21st
in
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
4
¨
Mennonite Assembly:
July 2-7, San Jose CA. [Paul and
Joy Versluis and Tom and Kathy Br will attend] For
a summary of the conference news go
to
¨
COB District Conference: August 9-12, ,2006,
View the
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
SERVICE OUTREACH
Hi-way pickup is finished for
this year. Thank you for those who worked.
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 Kaufman for their recent work in
The American Association of University women have a major book sale in Sept. The money goes to scholarships for girls. They do not accept text books or books with a lot of underlining. If any of you have books to donate, let Gertrude Wn know and she is willing to take them to the collection site , or you could take them to 3744 Carpenter on Monday, Thursday, or Saturday between 10 and 2.. They are collecting until Aug. 26.