Bulletin: October 7, 2007                                                                                                  

Call to worship.

Prayer                                                                                                    HWB 672

Hymn                                      Holy God, we praise thy name          HWB 121

Introduction to speaker

Scripture                             Romans 5:6-11, 1Peter 3:14-18

Children's Time

Speaker                                 “Why Peace is Good News:

Pacifism, Spirituality and the Future of  the Mennonite Peace Witness “

Hymn                       Lord of light, your name outshining               HWB 410

Sharing and Prayer

Offering

Announcements

Hymn                                     Spirit of God! descend                      HWB 502

Benediction

 

Speaker and Children’s Time: John D. Rh;  Worship leader: Norene Ky;  Song leader: Nelson Sz;  Piano: 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. 

 

 

Through the end of 2007 the Sunday morning schedule is as follows:

10:00-10:15:  opening, scripture, singing, children's time

10:15-10:20:  children to Sunday School and speaker begins

11:00-11:15:  sharing, announcements, prayer, offering, closing

11:15-11:30: break for visiting  (Nurture Committee to coordinate drinks

and snack)

11:30-12:15:  discussion with the guest speaker. (Adults  meet in the sanctuary with speaker. Youth attend Sunday School or at times meet with adults. Children K-5 attend activity time. Preschoolers and infants attend nursery). 

Sunday School for elementary age and younger children occurs during church.  Children will be in the service until after the "children's time."  They will then go to their 
Sunday School classes or to the nursery. They will  have refreshments together with the adults between worship and adult Sunday School.  During adult Sunday School, 
preschool children will be in the nursery until 12:15.   K-5 children will return to their Sunday School room for planned activities which will last until 12:15.  Thanks for your 
cooperation on this arrangement.
                    Preschool children will have their Sunday School class in their old room.  Nursery will still be in the regular nursery room.  
                     Elementary age children will meet in the adult classroom with  the big table in it through the end of 2007.

 

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  wish.  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 Group, Monday, October 8, 7:30 p.m., at

                                                                Wks’

·         Gertrude Wn 

Readers Club:  Priscilla Cn            

Slow Cookers:  Tuesday, November 13, 6:30 p.m. Rs’

·         Gertrude Wn 

 

 Meetings:

Finance Committee                                             

Nurture Comm. Meeting    

Worship Committee, Monday, October 22, 7:30,  Ws’

Congregational Life Committee, Thursday, October 25 , 7:00 p.m., Rs’

Congregational Business Meeting

Service – Outreach Committee

                               

 


SERVICE OUTREACH

 

TODAY!  The annual CROP Walk is this afternoon beginning at 2:00 p.m. at First United Methodist, 120 S. State Street, Ann Arbor.   See Caleb Mr Py for information.

 

A list of local service agencies that our congregation supports every year has been posted on our website.  Please take a look at the list and explore what is going on 
around us.
http://www.shalomcommunitychurch.mi.us.mennonite.net/Service%20agencies.html
 
You can read about Mennonite Church USA’s fundraising campaign Joining together, Investing in hope at www.mennoniteusa.org/joiningtogether.
This campaign is raising money for a new office building in Elkhart IN and for strengthening Mennonite Mission Network leadership programs and ministries.
 
The Church of the Brethren Disaster Ministries are active in reconstruction in the Gulf Area.  See www.brethrendisasterministries.org for more information.
 
FINANCE COMMITTEE

To prepare the 2008 congregational budget, the Finance Committee has distributed a memo requesting your household’s expected financial contribution to SCC for the coming year.  We ask that you provide this information to either Emily Br or Anita Ts via one of the suggested methods (form in mailboxes, email or verbally) by October 14.  Thank you for your commitment to this aspect of our congregation’s life.

Dwelling in the Word: A corporate spiritual discipline of being attentive to God through the practice of meditation on Scripture.
·         Suggested passages for the reading are Isaiah 42:1-4, or 1-7, and John 15:1-11, or 1-17.

ANABAPTIST VOICES:  GUEST SPEAKERS AND RESOURCE MATERIALS:

 

October 7 –   Our speaker today is John D. Roth .  He teaches history at Goshen College and is the Director of the Mennonite Historical Library.  Copies of his article, “Polls Apart:  Why Believers Might Conscientiously Abstain from Voting” were circulated by email last week.  

 
October 21 – Ann Hostetler, -- published poet (Empty Room with Light), editor of a capella:  Mennonite Voices in Poetry,  teaches English at Goshen College.  On 
Saturday evening, October 20, Ann will lead a poetry writing workshop for all who are interested from 7 – 9 p.m. at the home of the Tys.  All are welcome.  Please RSVP 
to Janet if you plan to attend.
 

October 28 – Reuben Sairs – teaches New Testament, ethics, world religions and evangelism at Rosedale Bible College, and plays guitar.  He will speak on Anabaptist Nonconformity, "What Does it Mean to be Different?"  A copy of his M.A. thesis, “Mennonite Nonconformity,” can be found at www.rosedale.edu/rsairs/default.htm (click on “thesis for my MA.”)  For anyone wanting to do some Biblical study ahead of time, he suggests these passages:  Romans 12.1-2,  I Cor. 6.14-18,  James 4.3-6,  I John 2.15-17,  I Cor. 5.9-13,  Colossians 2:20-23.

 
November 4 --  Owen Gingerich  -- former research professor of Astronomy and 
History of Science at Harvard and senior astronomer emeritus at the Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory.  He will speak on “Is the Universe God’s?”  On Saturday 
evening, November 3, he will speak at a meeting of the Science and Theology discussion group organized by Rolf Bouma, a group that meets monthly to discuss topics
 in science and religion.  It is an open group and people from Shalom are invited to attend.  More information on time and place to follow.  A recent book of his is 
God’s Universe.
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Help build bridges of hospitality and understanding:

Invite 2 or 3 international students from the University of Michigan to dinner in your home in the months of October -December. This can be offered any evening of the week or week-end.  You may prefer to have students over for Thanksgiving or any holiday dinner but it can be also any time that works for you and your family.  Please contact Esperanza at ECIR, (Ecumenical Center and International Residence) 734-662-5529 or email ecir@provide.net for registration information.  

Sherry Ty has more information.