GREETING
HWB 236 Oh love, how deep, how broad
SCRIPTURE Matthew 26:67-68, 27:11-14, 27-31, 39-44
INTRODUCTION
CHILDREN’S STORY
TEACHING
RECOGNITION & COMMISSIONING OF COMMITTEE MEMBERS
HWB 545 Be thou my vision
SHARING & PRAYER
ANNOUNCEMENTS, INTRODUCTIONS & OFFERING
HWB 260 When I survey the wondrous cross (African version)
Leading us in
worship: Paul Versluis, speaker; Tim Sh,
worship leader
and song leader; Stan Ry, discernment committee; Michelle Wr-Hn,
pianist; Vija
Ml, visuals; April Hs, Children’s Story.
* 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.
LENTEN SERIES 2007
Studies in contrast – inspiring
stories
from Passion week
LENT 1 February 25:
Extravagance in a world of poverty:
the anointing at Bethany (Mark 14:3-9)
LENT 2 March 4:
Loneliness
among friends: the
LENT 3 Mar 11: Praying the impossible desire: the
LENT 4 March 18: Faith after betrayal: Peter’s
denial (Luke 22:31-34, 54-62 & John 21:15-18)
LENT 5 Mar 25: Dignity in the face of humiliation: the
mocking (Mt 26:67-68, 27:11-14, 27-31, 39-44)
LENT 6 April 1-Palm
Sunday:
Celebrating hope in the shadow of destruction (Luke
Please contact Vija if
you’d like to be involved in any of the Lent worship services
SHALOM COMMUNITY CHURCH HAPPENINGS
Finance Committee
Nurture Comm. Meeting
Mom’s Small Group
Poetry Meeting April 21 7:30AM Ty
Peace and Justice Interest April 10 7:30PM Versluis
Congregational Life Committee 9 AM Versluis
Service – Outreach
March
25
Worship Committee
March
27
Facilities Committee
April
15
Slow Cookers
Readers Club April Ts
The World is Flat by Thomas Friedman
Congregational Meeting
April
22
Thank you to everyone who provided food for the Chris,Emily and Clare.
There will be no Sunday School on Easter for the primary class and the preschool class.
Youth group in April
will be on April 15 and it will be a surprise game night at the Hy
house.
The Facilities Committee has been working busily, if invisibly, 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.
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 congregation. Those meetings will take place after church on Sunday, April 15, and Sunday, April 22. We ask everyone to make an effort to participate in those meetings. We will also have a packet of information available for all that will cover at least much of what will be presented at those meetings.
A more detailed version of this announcement
was e-mailed to all on March 18; printed copies are available on the
lobby
table or from Nelson Sz for anyone who does not use e-mail.
Vija & Ian's Baby
Shower. Sunday Ap 1st,
2 - 4 PM, At Hr C's (
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:
¨
COB Annual Conference: June 30-
¨ Mennonite Assembly/Youth Convention: July 2-7, 07 San Jose CA. [Paul and Joy will attend]
¨
COB District Conference: August 9-12, ,2006,
Please view the
College scholarships: Students can get financial assistance through the MMA College Scholarship program. Each year MMA awards up to 36 scholarships to students who are member of a congregation with an MMA advocate. For details see Gertrude Wn /visit MMA-online.org. Applications are due by Mar 31.
COMMUNITY EVENTS
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 for anyone who needs a few spare chairs
around the
house. 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:
Matthew 26 : 67-68, 27 : 11-14 , 27-31 , 39-44: Then they spat in his face and hit him with their fists; others said as they struck him "Play the prophet, Christ! Who hit you then?"…Jesus, then, was brought before the governor, and the governor put to him this question "Are you the king of the Jews?" Jesus replied, "It is you who say it". But when he was accused by the chief priests and the elders he refused to answer at all. Pilate then said to him, "Do you not hear how many charges they have brought against you?" But to the governor's complete amazement, he offered no reply to any of the charges.
The governor's soldiers took Jesus with them into the Praetorium and collected the whole cohort around him. Then they stripped him and made him wear a scarlet cloak, and having twisted some thorns into a crown they put this on his head and
placed a reed in his right hand. To make fun of him they knelt to him saying,
"Hail, king of the Jews!" And they spat on him and took the reed and struck him
on the head with it. And when they had finished making fun of him, they took off the cloak and dressed him in his own clothes and led him away to crucify him.
The
passers-by jeered at
him; they shook thier heads and said "So you would destroy the