Pastor s Page. April What s Happening? Prayer Changes Things. Church Directory Updates. Next Deadline: April 15, 2018

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1 Joyful Noiz April May Page What s Happening? Be sure to join us for the Eastern District Conference meeting which will be held at Zion on Saturday, May 5. Keystone Miller Blood Drive is scheduled for Tuesday, April 17. from 11:00 a.m. to 7:00 p.m. Register online at Calling all March & April Birthdays! Join Roger and Sonya on Sunday, April 29 for the Birthday Potluck Luncheon. Look for a sign up outside Fellowship Hall. Guess Who s Coming to Dinner? Save the date for May 18, 19 and 20. More details will be available soon! Church Directory Updates Darlene & Scott Humphrey 204 N. Fourth Street Telford, Pa topfuel33@verizon.net The Joyful Noiz is published monthly by Zion Mennonite Church. The editor is Jennifer Moyer. Contributors this month included: Barb Musselman, Yvonne Detweiler, Bekki Dibble, Judy Francis, Donna Halteman, Sonya Stauffer Kurtz, Ilacir Piano,Jr, Laura Martin, Eric Musselman. Stories and information for the newsletter can be submitted to Jennifer via <jenn@zionmennonite.org> or left in the mailbox marked Joyful Noiz in the church office. Next Deadline: April 15, 2018 Joyful Noiz April 2018 Pastor s Page Prayer Changes Things It s a great encouragement to know you are praying for us. That is a statement Mennonite World Conference leaders often hear as they talk to churches across the global south. Cesar Garcia, in his December newsletter, reminded me that often we in the north devalue the importance of prayer. As a friend once told me, when I lived in Ethiopia and got sick, I prayed. When I get sick here, I google! One of the special benefits of Christian community is that we can support one another in prayer. Through Lent we ve been challenged to try a prayer walk around our neighborhood or church. We ve had the opportunity to pray with our whole body as we walk the Labyrinth in Fellowship Hall. And we ve been challenged to try to pray daily, increasing our time in prayer each week. I don t know about you, but it s hard for me to be disciplined to pray in the same way each day. I ve found reading written prayers aloud sometimes is the best way to keep my mind from drifting off when I try to pray. As I think over the last month, I am encouraged by the many ways I ve seen Zion people praying for one another. I see Sunday School classes sharing prayer concerns. I ve seen requests for prayer and regular weekly prayer before worship, with nursery school teachers before the week starts, and many other ways in between. It matters to me when I feel people are praying for me; I hope you also have had a chance to be supported in prayer. Remember that you can request prayers anytime by calling or ing the office, Beth or me. Continued to page 3... Zion Mennonite Church Cherry Lane Souderton, PA Fax:

2 Joyful Noiz April May Page 2 2 Softball Roast Beef Fundraiser Sunday April 8 at 11:30 a.m. In Fellowship Hall Joyful Noiz April 2018 Page 15 March Church Board Highlights 1. Discussed further refinements to the position description for the new Youth and Family Ministry position. 2. Moved forward in discussing re-creating a Spiritual Council 3. Moved forward towards an Every home visitation program 4. Approved 7 Memorial Endowment Fund requests Ron Price, Church Chair 28th Annual Summerfest & Benefit Auction May 26, 2018 Every year hundreds of kids come through our summer camp program where they spend a week in the great outdoors and hear the good news of the Gospel of Christ. Summerfest is Camp Men-O - Lan s spring fundraiser and helps us support our operating costs and Campership program. Camperships are scholarships for families that could not otherwise afford a week of summer camp. The following are ways you can help us reach our fundraising goal of $25, for this year s Summerfest event: Donate Auction Items: Any new items or certificates, baked goods, adventures, etc. Monetary Donation: Make a donation in any amount to purchase an auction item. Sponsorship: Businesses or individuals can sponsor the event. Participate: join us for a day of fun! All auction items are needed by May 14. Items can be dropped off at the camp office or have it picked-up. Contact x324 for more information.

3 Joyful Noiz April May Page Anniversaries April Birthdays & Anniversaries Birthdays 1- Scott Heckler 1 - Chadd Ziegler 2 - Nicole Yoder 3 - Betty Musselman 4 Jim Grasse 4 - Phil Schanz 5 - Sarah Bergstresser 5 - Erica Robbins 6 - Isaac Martin 6 - Brad Schanz 7 - Abe Landes 7 - Cheri Ziegler 8 - Kyler Mannon 9 - Tallon Dalbey 7 - Ray & Linda Landis 8 - Lito & Lisa Reinoso 10 - Bill & Donna Baum 10 - Dave & Bonnie Moyer 11 - Willis & Jeannette Delp 15 - Barry & Jackie Murphy 10 - Angela Borisow 11 - Pat Kratz 12 - Ben Russell 12 - Jed Slagel 13 - Betty Sell 14 - Bryn Constanzer 14 - Trisha Watkins 15 - Bryce Reinoso 16 - Leah High 16 - Victor Reinoso 17 - Emily Freed 17 - Barb Schanz 18 - Sandi Hershey 20 - Millie Linsenbigler 21 - Jonathan Landis 21 - Katie Musselman 23 - Liam Musselman 24 - George Gaugler 24 - Peg Lauderback 25 - Wyatt Dalbey 25 - Tim Groff 26 - Barb Musselman 27 - Kerry Mannon 30 - Juliana Borisow 30 - Nate Dibble 30 - Priscilla Newman 16 - Jim & Suzanne Gunden 17 - Dennis & Nancy Detwiler 21 - Randy & Nancy Hartzel 24 - Kurt & Andrea Keller 30 - Donald & Jean Shelly If your birthday or anniversary is incorrect or missing, please notify the office. Library News Many thanks to those who supported the library book fair fundraiser through the purchase of books or monetary donations. With your help we were able to select more than 50 free books for Zion's library valued at over $800! Check future issues of the Joyful Noiz to see when these great titles will be ready for check out! Laura Martin Joyful Noiz April 2018 Page 3.Pastor s Page continued from Front Page You can request prayer by filling out the form in the attendance pad at worship. Each Church Board member has been assigned a group of Zion members to pray for; you may contact your Board member with special prayer requests, also. Don t be shy about asking for or offering prayer for one another! A healthy church is a praying church let s continue to grow in praying for one another and our community! Pastor Sonya Mark your calendars for this year s VBS ultimate pep rally on July :30-8:30 p.m. Kids who ve completed preschool through 5 th grade will gear up for life s big game. In Jesus, we have everything we need to live a life that honors God. When we trust in Jesus as Savior and Lord, He rescues us from sin and death and gives us power to live joyfully for Him. Let s join God s team, train hard, celebrate salvation, and encourage one another. Registration opens on June 24. Gear up! Get Ready! Game on! How can you help make this year s VBS a big win? Encourage your family, friends, and neighbors to register and join the fun! VOLUNTEER TO HELP: we need lesson leaders, recreation leaders, group escorts, and craft and snack helpers. Talk to Judy Francis or Jenn Landis to volunteer and don t forget to get your child clearances. Pray for this wonderful outreach program. His divine power has given us everything required for life and godliness through the knowledge of him who called us by his own glory and goodness. 2 Peter 1:3

4 Joyful Noiz April May Page 4 4 Creati n Care Tidbits This month we have a guest author, Ilacir Piano,Jr., a volunteer with MCC International Volunteer Exchange Program, working this year at Dock Mennonite Academy and living with Amy Cummings-Leight & Ned Leight. Joyful Noiz April 2018 Page 13 First of all, you can pronounce ti as chee, like cheese, now you are ready to go! Curitiba, located in the State of Paraná, Brazil is well known for being such a unique city, but what actually makes the city so interesting? Starting with the structure, the city was built in a sustainable way, the entire city is connected via bus system. You can travel the entire city with connected buses in bus stations. Also, the buses are used by 80% of the almost 2 million people in the city. Curitiba is a Metropolitan city, which means that we have connections with our neighbor cities, for job and housing opportunities. There are an impressive number of employees who live outside of Curitiba, but they can use the bus system or drive a car and be at their job in one hour. Today we have lanes for bicycles, and you can go to work without a car or a bus if you want, the number of cars in the traffic is becoming lower because of the new ways of transportation. We also love grass! We have more than 40 parks in the city, with some lakes and shared rivers in the city. In a good weather, the parks will be full of people getting out with family, for exercise or just to have fun. What about the trash? Well, we have separated our trash for years, and the recycled items go to the recycling company, or you can donate to people who can take that, and transform the trash into money. We have a lot of places that you can sell plastic, paper, aluminum, and all sorts of stuff and it will be recycled. Because of that, there are a lot of people who work gathering these materials to sell. Normally these people are poor, and they walk in the city with a big cart gathering the resources. Also, the trucks who pick up your garbage, and the recycled trash, work for the company who is provided by the state, it s the same for the entire city and no one needs to pay for that (well this is part of our the taxes). The same happens with electricity and water supply, we have the same company for the entire city, Copel for the electricity, and Sanepar for the water treatment. We have clean energy sources. We use hydroelectric plants, using the rivers gives us enough power without using any combustion or bad stuff for the environment. Itaipu, the biggest hydroelectric plant, supplies power for the entire country and we share the energy with Paraguay, because we use the river which is between the two countries. Continued to page 5...

5 Joyful Noiz April May Page Recipes Worth Sharing Snickerdoodle Cake Servings: 12 ================== Ingredients: Cake Ingredients: Frosting Ingredients: 1 package yellow cake mix 1/2 cup butter 1 cup milk 4 ounces cream cheese 1/4 cup butter, melted 3-1/4 cups powdered sugar 1/2 cup applesauce 3 tablespoons milk 3 large eggs 1 teaspoon vanilla 1 teaspoon vanilla 1 teaspoon cinnamon 2 teaspoons cinnamon Instructions: Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Mix the cake ingredients and pour into three, greased round cake pans. Bake for 25 minutes (or until a toothpick stuck in the middle comes out clean). Let cool, while mixing the frosting ingredients. Turn layers out of the pans, then frost. Sprinkle a bit of cinnamon sugar on top. And enjoy! NOTE: I used a 9 x 13-inch pan. I used a can of Cream Cheese Icing. I softened it and added the cinnamon. Yvonne Detwiler Hearty Breakfast Muffins Mix: 2 cups flour 2 cups (or less) sugar 2 teaspoon baking soda 2 teaspoon cinnamon ½ teaspoon salt Add: 2 cups grated carrot ½ cup raisins ½ cup coconut Mix & add: 3 eggs 1 shredded apple 2 teaspoon vanilla 1 cup oil (or applesauce or pumpkin) Bake minutes makes 2 dozen I used 1 1/2+ cup sugar, omitted the coconut (only because I didn't have it on hand) and used 1/2 cup pumpkin and 1 1/2 cup oil. Joyful Noiz April 2018 Page 5...Creati n Care Tidbits, continued from page 4. Overall, the city has a lot of new initiatives started by people who help to provide resources for charity. For example, we have one Hospital, which collects the aluminum ring of the soda cans, and with a lot of those, you can transform it into a wheelchair for someone who doesn t have one. So perhaps the idea of the city is not to find ways to sell stuff, or create new fake necessities for selling something new, but instead, look for some real necessity of the people, and try to supply that, without the government being involved sometimes. If you have the opportunity of coming to Brazil, please visit Curitiba! I m sure you will enjoy it! And I will be your guide! Note: Sunday, April 22 is Creation Care Sunday. We have a challenge for the congregation. Please consider coming to church that day by walking, riding your bicycle or car pooling with other people. We will have our new bike rack installed so there is even a place for you to put it. Make it a family affair! The Property Line Thursday, April 4:00 p.m. Ilacir Piano,Jr Rain Date: Thursday, April 4:00 p.m. Please join us as we work to spruce up our grounds. We will be picking up sticks, edging, and mulching beds. A pizza dinner will be served! Contact Mike Landis with any questions! Barb Musselman

6 Joyful Noiz April May Page 6 6 Mission Moment Greetings once again from Ouagadougou. We're in the midst of the hot and dry season, missing the cooler weather of a couple of months ago, and looking forward to the rainy season, which is still a few months away. It's challenging to keep one's energy level up during the hot season, but we're thankful for our fridge, fans, air conditioners in our bedrooms, and fewer electricity cuts so far this year. Thank you for your prayers and notes of concern after the March 2 terror attacks in downtown Ouagadougou. We are thankful for fewer victims than preliminary reports anticipated. We feel safe here and haven't felt the need to change our day-to-day lives in significant ways. But we are aware that periodic attacks seem to have become part of life, so we pay more attention to our surroundings and try to be prepared for the unexpected. Pray for peace and security in Burkina Faso. Ask God to touch the hearts of those who might be tempted to use violence, that they find constructive and peaceful ways to express themselves. Bruce has a few teaching gigs over these months and will travel to Sierra Leone in April and to Nigeria in May for additional teaching assignments. The students of the International School of Ouagadougou (ISO) have begun their service projects over the past few weeks. After almost half a year of setting up the service learning program, it is heartening to see the students engage in service. Many of them desire to make a lasting contribution to their community. Please join us in praying: Pray for those who are grieving or traumatized by the events earlier this month. Pray for peace and stability in the country and in the region. Pray for Bruce as he travels later this month and pray for his teaching to be effective. Pray for Pastor Bananzaro as he travels for various projects both inside and outside the country. Pray for the students of ISO that they might develop a heart for service. Thank God for the Mennonite Congregation of Ouagadougou and for the many young adults actively engaged in the congregation. Pray that it will continue to grow and be a place of spiritual nurture. Pray that we will have health and energy over the hot season For more information, please see the newsletter posted on the missions bulletin board or contact Judy McVaugh. Joyful Noiz April 2018 Page 11 Congratulations Pinewood Derby Winners!! 1st Place: Juliana Landis 2nd Place: Katelyn Fox 3rd Place: Jonny Landis 4th Place: Brayden Helfrich What makes HOPE possible? Fighting the opioid crisis in OUR community SATURDAY, APRIL 21 AT 7:00 P.M. Please join us for this important event to help those impacted. A Mother s story of losing her son to addiction. Sandi Naso, Director of Outreach Counseling Center at Re:VIVALS in Perkasie provides support and resources for families inflicted with addiction. Desiree Arney, Author of Bound by Love Anchored in Truth, educates and equips families impacted by addiction to develop a plan of action that supports recovery for those they love. Amy McCrary public speaker and certified recovery specialist, shares her son s successful battle with heroin addiction to help illustrate that addiction does not discriminate. As her story unfolds, she describes the signs she missed, tips for prevention, and hope for recovery. For more information about her story and services, visit: A young man named TJ, who lived to share his story of recovery. You can watch his video on YouTube TJ s story Lifepoint Church and he works with Teen Challenge. For details, contact Lisa Grasse

7 Joyful Noiz April May Page Zion Youth Spotlight Eli Martin Age: 10 months Parents names: Isaac & Laura Grade/school: pre-nursery school Activities you are involved in at Zion: singing along during hymns and praise songs Activities you are involved in outside of church: trying to crawl Things you like to do for fun: jump Favorite vacation spot: anywhere I'm being held Jeremiah Martin Age: 10 months Parents names: Isaac & Laura Grade/school: pre-nursery school Activities you are involved in at Zion: playing Jesus and helping lead music Activities you are involved in outside of church: cutting teeth Things you like to do for fun: eat Favorite vacation spot: lounging on the changing pad Layla Martin Age: 10 months Parents names: Isaac & Laura Grade/school: pre-nursery school Activities you are involved in at Zion: sleeping during the sermon Activities you are involved in outside of church: sleeping through the night Things you like to do for fun: spend time with my kitty (pacifier) Favorite vacation spot: Opa & Oma's house Joyful Noiz April 2018 Page 7 Just a note of Thanks Thank you for partnering with Mennonite Mission Network in 2017! We couldn t do it without you! Sharing Jesus love is the essence of the church s calling and the primary reason for its existence. It has been an honor to share in God s mission with Zion Mennonite Church. We are grateful for your generosity of $38,320 in Thanks to your congregation, we continue to respond to invitations for ministry around the world. With your support we are able to expand the ministry of discipleship and encourage women church leaders in the United States and Latin America. We teach the Bible in West and Central Africa. We support racial reconciliation in the United States and South Africa. We look forward to working together with you in 2018 as we share God s love and God s word in the United States and around the world. As always, we appreciate hearing from you, our partner in ministry; whether it s a question, concern and affirmation drop me a note! Gratefully, Marisa Smucker Thank you everyone at Zion Mennonite Church for your very generous financial support, volunteer time and prayers during The children, families and school staff greatly appreciate the food which you provide through the Bean Bag Food Program. $10 goes a long way in providing encouragement to a single mother and a young child. Thank you for making a difference in their lives.

8 Joyful Noiz April May Page 8 8 April Children s Ministries Joyful Noiz April 2018 Page 9 May Children s Ministries Bible Mania Children s Church Bible Mania Children s Church April 1 Enjoy Time in Worship Mike & Steph Helfrich May 6 Enjoy Time in Worship Eric & Katie Musselman April 8 Enjoy Time in Worship Lori Groff & Dawn Repsher May 13 Enjoy Time in Worship Mike & Stephanie Helfrich April 15 Enjoy Time in Worship Andy & Erin Constanzer May 20 Enjoy Time in Worship Andy & Erin Constanzer April 22 Heidi Borisow Sherry & Ben Russell Brad & Susan Schanz May 27 Enjoy Time in Worship No Children s Church April 29 Enjoy Time in Worship Matt & Laura Musselman Infant & Toddler Nursery Sunday Morning Child Care Worship Service Sunday School April 1 Matt & Laura Musselman No Sunday School April 8 April 15 April 22 Mike & Steph Helfrich Dan & Tana Bencsik Tim & Lori Groff Judy McVaugh & Barb Schanz Deb Godshall & Ashlen Godshall Donna Halteman & Suzanne Gunden Infant & Toddler Nursery May 6 May 13 May 20 May 27 Sunday Morning Child Care Worship Service Bekki & Nate Dibble Betty Bergstresser & Edie Landis Sue High & Terri Musselman Nancy Detwiler & Judy Francis Sunday School Barb Musselman & Beth Rauschenberger Amy Cummings Leight & Wendy Levin Judy McVaugh & Barb Schanz No Sunday School April 29 Eric & Katie Musselman Mark & Trish Watkins