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1 Sunday, June 17, 2018 Father s Day Child Dedication Worship Service 10 am Worship Leader: Gerry Willms Speakers: Greg Driedger, Paul Warkentin, Kendall Jongejan Harder Growing relationships, in Christ. NLUMC Vision Statement, 2011 Order of Worship Welcome Hymn #89, For the beauty of the earth STJ #90, Lord, we bring to you our children Call to worship Worship music Children of the Heavenly Father Children s feature Child Dedication Natalya Willow Lee Wilkins, born March 3, 2018 daughter of Magdalena (Maggie) DeVries & Adam Wilkins Congregational response #791 Hymn #76, Praise, I will praise you, Lord Scripture reading 1 John 3:1-3 Messages Faith Filled Fatherhood STJ #91, Like a mother who has borne us Sharing time Offering with hymn #332, Blessed assurance Offering prayer Closing hymn #430, God be with you Benediction Please join us for coffee and fellowship after the worship service. Next Sunday, June am, Join us for worship with Pastor Alicia bringing the message: God sees the Heart. 1

2 Church Life... Worship Team meeting, Wednesday, June 20, 7:30 pm. Friday Fellowship at the Roma Club. People of all ages who are part of NLUMC (and friends) are invited to the Roma Club, 19 Seacliff Drive, East, Leamington, to purchase your own pizza and have a chance to connect with your friends the fourth Friday of the month, from June through September, starting Friday, June 22, at 6 pm. No RSVP is needed, just show up! Community Meal, Wednesday, June 27 at St. John s Anglican Church, Leamington. An investment for you, bonus interest for your church! Kindred Credit Union offers you a unique way to invest through Church Builder GICs. You invest in a guaranteed investment certificate (GIC) that earns a competitive interest rate and, in return, Kindred donates an additional 0.25% interest to the church of your choice. If you are interested in investing, please contact Kindred before June 29 and consider naming North Leamington United Mennonite Church as the bonus interest recipient. For more information, call or visit your local branch or kindredcu.com. Shipwrecked Vacation Bible School, LUMC, July For children moving into Grades JK - 6. Register at Hosted by NLUMC, Faith and LUMC. Looking for adult volunteers to lead the JK, SK, and Gr. 2 classes. No prep needed. Leaders guide children through the activities. Please see June DeVries if you can help. Music CD s of the DVBS songs will be available for $10 each. If you would like to pre-order a CD of the DVBS music, please contact the church office at office@nlumc.com or Would you have any of the following items that you would be willing to lend to DVBS for that week? Artificial tropical plants, old suitcases, or wooden crates, or a treasure box, stuffed toy animals/birds we are looking for parrots, leopards, lizards, iguanas, sloths, and stingrays and small anchor, or boat oars are all needed. If you have any of these, please label everything clearly with your name, and leave at the church office. For more information on decorating items, please contact Judy Koop. Sound Equipment. NLUMC has some used sound equipment available. Please contact Justin Neufeld for a complete list or to purchase an item(s). If there is no interest, we will advertise to the larger community. 2

3 Extra Supplies are available from the church picnic. We have four boxes of assorted chips, frozen hotdog buns and some pop leftover from the church picnic. If you are interested in purchasing some of these items, please contact June DeVries. When you are on holidays remember God goes with us! On a weekend get-away, a stay-cation, or an extended excursion, God goes with us! While camping, driving, sailing, flying, cruising, hiking or biking, God goes with us! This summer our church is launching our first social media campaign. Add this hashtag to your travel photos: #godgoeswithus Take a selfie photo of your family or group making the sign of a cross and share the photo on our North Leamington United Mennonite Church Facebook page. Pick up a rock to bring home (but not from a National/Provincial Park) and on Education Sunday, September 9, we will build a cairn of rocks from our collective journeys as a reminder of God s faithfulness on our journeys. Community/Conference Events... Leamington Mennonite Home News With the summer weather here, we invite families and friends to visit on the balconies and terraces of the Long-Term Care Home and the courtyard of the Retirement Residence. These beautiful venues provide a quiet and comfortable place to visit for families and friends. UMEI Christian High School News Everyone is welcome to join the staff and students at the Graduation Ceremony on Sunday, June 24, 2:30 pm at LUMC. Refreshments to follow. Pancake Breakfast & Worship Service Sunday, July 8. Join us for a delicious pancake breakfast from 8:30-9:45 am with a worship service to follow at 10 am. Admission is by donation. Camp Explore U - A fun filled day camp with activities like basketball, science, cooking, water games, and much more, July 16-20, 9 am 3 pm for grades 3-6 (entering September 2018), co-ed. Cost: $100 and $85 for each subsequent sibling, includes t-shirt and two daily snacks. Rockets & Robotics - Rockets & Robotics is a hands-on science camp for students who are passionate about building and programming robots and learning the physics behind rocket design and launching, July for grades 7-8 (entering September 2018) has limited spaces available and July for grades 4-6 (entering September 2018) is full; 9 am 3 pm. Cost: $300, includes t-shirt and rocket materials. For more information and to register for either of these camps, visit umei.ca/camps. Join us for UMEI s 7 th annual Surf &Turf event Friday, August 10 at Mastronardi Estate Winery in Kingsville. Appetizers at 6 pm followed by 3

4 dinner, silent auction and entertainment. Tickets will be available for $125 and go on sale soon. For more info, contact the UMEI office at Proceeds this year will help us pave the way at UMEI. Save-the-Date The UMEI Lightning Bolt. On Saturday, September 22 at 9 am, UMEI will host the second annual 5/10 K Run, 5 K walk and 1 K Kid s Dash at Point Pelee National Park. Employment Opportunity The Leamington Mennonite Home invites applications for the position of Activity Helper, who assists with meals, social activities, portering, and worship services. Students over the age of 15 may apply. Applicants should have experience and/or an interest in working with the elderly. Please forward resumes by Monday, June 18, to Jacquie Turnbull at jacquie@mennonitehome.ca. Youth... Friday, June 29, Games night at NLUMC, 7 9 pm. Contact Pastor Alicia if you are planning to come. Photography and Media Policy North Leamington United Mennonite Church (NLUMC) takes photographs/videos of participants at various church services and events. NLUMC may use any photos/videos taken from any service and events for promoting, publicizing or explaining NLUMC and its activities in the form of print, broadcast, website and social media, or in any manner deemed appropriate without prior notification to the participants. Photos could be used in these public forums without consideration and/or compensation. If church members/or participants consent to the use of their photo/or their child s photo to be included in any church broadcasts, they are asked to contact the church office and sign the appropriate Photography and Media Consent Form. The NLUMC Photography and Media Policy has been implemented to inform church participants that NLUMC is committed to a safe environment for all. See bulletin board for the following... Mennonite Disaster Service, June 6 update See brochure rack for the following... Behind the Hammer, Mennonite Disaster Service, Spring 2018 Breaking Bread, Canadian Foodgrains Bank, Spring 2018 Abundance, Annual Report

5 Prayer List... Neighbouring Congregation Today area churches are praying for Leamington Church (Seventh Day Adventist) and their pastor Laurentiu Prelipcian. Please pray for Fred Neufeld, son of Aggie Neufeld, who will be undergoing heart surgery next week. Please remember to pray for all those struggling with serious illness, and the family and friends supporting them. Meat Canner Leamington, 19 th Annual Canning Project passed inspection! Our canned chicken has successfully passed the incubation period. The cans are currently in Plum Coulee, Manitoba awaiting shipping directions from Mennonite Central Committee. We've also reached our goal! We have received sufficient donations to cover the cost of canning this year. The 2018 Leamington Meat Canner committee would like to thank this extremely generous community for their support. Your prayers, financial support, time and effort have made this worthy project a success once again. Together We Can. We invite you to let the church office know of any requests for visitation you might have by calling or ing the church office, or office@nlumc.com, Tuesday, 9 am through Friday, 3 pm. In case of emergency, contact Pastor Alicia at , Pastor Charleen at or Pastor Kendall at Pastors cell Alicia Good...alicia@nlumc.com cell Charleen Jongejan Harder... charleen@nlumc.com cell Kendall Jongejan Harder... kendall@nlumc.com Church phone: office@nlumc.com Website: Facebook: North Leamington United Mennonite Church Office hours: Tuesday Friday, 9 am 3 pm 5

Growing relationships, in Christ.

Sunday, May 20, 2018 Pentecost Worship Service 10 am Worship Leader: Keith Klassen Speaker: Kendall Jongejan Harder Growing relationships, in Christ. NLUMC Vision Statement, 2011 Order of Worship Welcome