March 19, 2006

Call to Worship
Leader: Come, beloved children of God, come worship the Lord.
People: The Lord heals us and delivers us from destruction.
All: We worship the Lord
who restores us through faith in the crucified Christ..
Leader: Thank you, Lord, for your relentless love. With grateful
hearts, we offer you our songs of adoration and praise. Amen.
Prayer of Invocation
Hymns We gather together HWB 17
Come, thou Almighty King HWB 41
Scripture Reading Ephesians 2:1-10
Letter from God
Hymn Oh, for a thousand tongues to sing HWB 110
Children's Story
Hymn In thee is gladness HWB 114

Hearing

Scripture Numbers 21:4-9; John 3:14-21
Sermon Delighting in the Light
Hymn This little light of mine
Prayer of Confession
Leader: God of the impatient and dissatisfied Israelites,
we, too, think we are entitled to have it all.
Left: We are surrounded by messages that encourage our
insatiable appetites.
Right: We suffer illness from the stress of striving for more
and more.
All: Enlighten our hearts to know your abundance.
Teach us to trust that you provide for all our needs. Amen.
Words of Assurance
Leader: God sends a healing Word to save us and to deliver us from destruction. With generous mercy and relentless love, God has shown us the immeasurable riches of grace and made us alive together with Christ.

Responding

Sharing of Joys and Concerns
Pastoral Prayer
Offering/Hymn Praise God from Whom HWB 119
Announcements
Hymn Abide with me HWB 653
Benediction

Today

Sermon: Roy Hange
Worship Leader: Maren Tyedmers Hange
Music: Dottie Scott, Steve Aker
Nursery: Franz family

Announcements

Please have all bulletin information to Maren by noon on Thursday. Thanks!

Now is the time for the Virginia Mennonite Retirement Community (VMRC) Auxiliary annual membership drive. The annual rate is $10/year or $150/life-time membership. Please join in enhancing the life of each resident by becoming an Auxiliary member. Your fees provide several nursing scholarships and subscriptions for Oak Lea and Crestwood, plus ongoing programs that benefit VMRC residents. Please contact Joyce Hutchinson for more information.

Prayers and Praises

VMBM Roy and Joanne Hunsberger from the Asheville (N.C.) Mennonite Church have been serving in Trinidad for a month. They are encouraging the church leaders and members with their prayer and presence. May God grant them strength to learn the many new things that are before them, and may the Mennonite Church of Trinidad and Tobago flourish with their encouragement.

Mennonite Mission Network: Pray for wisdom and guidance for Mennonite Mission Network worker Linda Oyer in France as she serves on the leadership team of the Lamorlaye Mennonite Church and on the staff of the Paris Mennonite Centre.

Pray for the local services for people in need: Love Inc., Shelter for Help in Emergency, Food Bank, Salvation Army, IMPACT--a justice ministry and PACEM-- the initiative for the homeless.

Gathering in Christ's name

Hearing

Responding

Today

Announcements

Prayers and Praises