Sunday, May 8, 2016 VOL. 29 NO. 18 WATERLOO-KITCHENER UNITED MENNONITE CHURCH 15 George Street, Waterloo, ON N2J 1K6 Telephone: 519-578-0660 E-mail: office@wkumchurch.ca www.wkumchurch.ca Staff: Interim Pastor Rudy Baergen E-mail: rudy@wkumchurch.ca Phone: 519-884-9517 Karen Watson - Parish Nurse parish.nurse@wkumchurch.ca David Harder Refugee Coordinator and Christian Education Program Assistant David.a.harder@gmail.com Katharine Borch Office Administrator Irene Dyck Church Custodian
Welcome to our worship service. May you be blessed as you meet God and be empowered for the week ahead. Sunday, May 8, 2016 9:30 a.m. Worship Leader: Catherine Hunsberger Congregational Prayer: Waldemar Regier Scripture Reader: Catherine Hunsberger Speaker: Ed Janzen Organist: Karen Enns Choir: Janice Harder Children's Story: Janice Harder Children are welcome in the worship service or parents may supervise young children in the Nursery along the Administration Hallway. Worship Focus: When our world seems shaken and the ground unstable, sing and pray as if life depends on it; for, indeed, it does. God s grace finds us even in the midst of the earthquake, a place of calm and a river of peace for the troubled soul. Prelude Gathering Words of Welcome Work and Care of the Church Call to Worship (based on Psalm 97) Leader: The Lord reigns! Let the earth be glad; let the distant shores rejoice! People: The heavens proclaim God s righteousness and all the people see God s glory. Leader: The Lord is most high over all the earth and exalted far above all gods. People: Light is shed upon the righteous and joy on the upright in heart. All: Invocation Rejoice in the Lord, O you righteous, and praise God s holy name. Hymn of Praise: Sing with all the saints in glory STS # 92 Page 1
Confessing Scripture I: Acts 16: 16-34 (New Testament) page 104 Confessing our Sins Affirming our Confidence in God s Mercy HWB # 706 Proclaiming our Faith: This is the threefold truth HWB # 335 (Children come forward during the last verse) Hearing God s Word Children s Time Song of Blessing The Lord lift you up STJ # 73 Congregational Prayer Offering/Prayer Lord of all good STJ # 60 Anthem: Would you bless our homes and families R. Klusmeier Scripture II: Revelation 22: 12-21 (New Testament) page 205 Sermon: Responding and Sending When you ve got the shakes. Hymn of Response: As I went down to the river STJ # 79 Benediction Postlude Welcome to our visitors! We hope our time of worship has been an encouragement to you. Please sign our guest book in the front foyer and join us for coffee along the gym hallway following the service today. God bless you and we hope to see you again! TODAY AT W-K 9:30 a.m. Worship in the Sanctuary 10:00 a.m. Sunday School for Children and Youth Page 2
9:30 a.m. Lectionary Texts: 10:00 a.m. 10:30 a.m. 10:45 a.m. Next Sunday May 15, 2016 Pentecost Sunday Worship Service with Communion Speaker: Pastor Rudy Baergen Acts 2:1-21 or Genesis 11: 1-9 Psalm 104: 24-34, 35b Romans 8: 14-17 or Acts 2: 1-21 John 14: 8-17 (25-27) Sunday School for Children and Youth Coffee Break Adult Sunday School: Michael Hostetler from Canadian Mennonite spent three years working with Christian leaders from Jerusalem and Nazareth to help shape and create what is now known as Nazareth Village. Michael will share a slide show about this process and talk about how MC Canada Witness was instrumental in making Nazareth Village possible. CHURCH NOTES CONGREGATIONAL NOTES Church Office Hours Tuesday Wednesday Friday Page 3 9:00 a.m. 1:00 p.m. 9:00 a.m. 3:00 p.m. Announcements for the bulletin should be in the office by Thursday at 9:00 a.m. Parish Nurse Clinic Hours Waterloo Mennonite Homes - Tuesday 9:30 10:30 a.m. Waterloo-Kitchener United Mennonite Church - Thursday 11:00 a.m. - Noon Financial Report: Thank you for your offering of May 1 st This Week Tuesday, May 10 Noon Silver Spoons 1:00 4:00 p.m. Quilting Group 2:00 4:30 p.m. Fleisch piroshki baking - Kitchen 7:00 p.m. Women s Bible Study Room 7
Wednesday, May 11 9:00 a.m. Noon Mission Circle 10:00 a.m. Noon The Belonging Place Thursday, May 12 11:00 a.m. Memorial service for Agatha Schmidt with reception to follow Friday, May 13 1:00 p.m. House of Friendship Fleisch Piroshki to be sold at the 50 th Annual New Hamburg Relief Sale will be made at W-K from 2:00 4:30 p.m. and at City Café Bakery from 6:15 9:00 p.m. on the following dates: Tuesday, May 10 th ; and Wednesday, May 18 th. The group has made 1,600 fleisch piroshki thus far! Please consider being a volunteer. For further information, please contact Janice Harder Donations to the Fleisch Piroshki Project: Please consider a financial contribution to WK's Mennonite Relief Sale project. Cash or cheques payable to WKUM and designated to WK Mennonite Relief Sale Project. ROMEO (Retired Older Men Eating Out) will meet this Tuesday, May 10 th at 8:00 a.m. at Angel s Diner on Weber Street in Waterloo. Men s Bible Study: The men s Bible study group will meet (following the ROMEO breakfast) on Tuesday, May 10 th, from 9:30 to 11:00 a.m. in the church lounge, and will be led by Jim Brown. All men are welcome to join us. ACCEPTING APPLICATIONS FOR GRANTS FROM THE MEMORIAL FUND The Memorial Fund will be disbursing grant funds again in May. Applications can be submitted until May 15, 2016. Anyone attending our church may apply for a project in our church or for a mission/service/outreach project in which you are involved outside the church. The Memorial Fund Committee tries to disburse funds so that there is some equity between those funds that support our church and those which support projects outside the church. Please feel free to contact a committee member if you have a project in mind and wonder if it might fit the criteria. Applications and brochures about criteria are available in the church office. Committee members: Rita Witt, Pauline Weiland, John Harder. Page 4
Please note: There will be NO BASKETBALL on May 11 th as previously announced. The next planned event is May 25 th at 7:00 p.m. The Knotty Knotters will meet on Tuesday, May 17 th at 1:00 p.m. in the basement. All are welcome to attend. HEALTH AND WELLNESS Mental Health Matters Good Mental Health, like good physical health, requires regular attention. What can we do to better support people and families with mental health challenges? Learn more - your Healthy Reflections is in your mailbox today. W-K Health and Wellness Programs: During May our focus is Mental Health Awareness: Heads Up... Mental Health Matters, Wellness Circle on Tuesday, May 17 th at 1:00 p.m. in the lounge Tips for maintaining optimal mental health - Check the Health & Wellness bulletin board outside the sanctuary for fact sheets from the Canadian Mental Health Association Community Health & Wellness Events: Alzheimer Society Education: Finding Your Way in the Community Tuesday, May 17 th from 1:30-3:00 p.m. at 831 Frederick Street in Kitchener. To register please call 519-742-1422 Woolwich Healthy Community Days - April and May 2016 - plenty of fun, family activities bike rides, hikes, birdwatching, tree planting. See the Health and Wellness Bulletin Board outside the sanctuary or visit www.healthywoolwich.org Parenting with Passion Talking to kids about Sex, Technology and Safety, is the topic on Thursday, May 26 th at K-W Counselling from 6:30 8:00 p.m. Many other single evening or full day parenting workshops on relevant topics. Register or get more information at 519-884-0000 WIDER CHURCH AND COMMUNITY Page 5
Mennonite Disaster Service (MDS) monitoring fires in Fort McMurray. The MDS Alberta Unit is on standby, ready to help when called upon. At this point MDS is accepting financial donations, but is unable to accept material donations, such as clothing and other goods. Check the MDS website www.mds.mennonite.net or call the MDS office at 1-866-261-1274 for further updates on the MDS response. Upcoming Musical Events: A Benefit for Attawapiskat will be held on Tuesday, May 10 th at 7:00 p.m. at St. John s Lutheran Church, 22 Willow Street in Waterloo. The concert will feature performances by Mino Ode Kwewak N gamowak (The Good Hearted Women Singers), Inshallah, Susan Aglukark and many others. The evening will also feature a silent auction and a reception following the concert. Admission is by donation, doors open at 6:30 p.m. Please see the poster on Bulletin Board # 4 for more information. The Cambridge Male Chorus presents their annual Cabaret on Saturday, May 14 th at 7:00 p.m., and Sunday, May 15 th at 3:00 p.m. at Maranatha Christian Reformed Church, 94 Elgin Street in Cambridge. The choir will be joined by the Hot Air Quartet along with a variety of soloists, duets and a sing-along band. Tickets are $25 Adults and $10 Children 12 and under. (Includes dessert and refreshments.) For tickets, a ride or more information, please contact Paul Enns or John Reimer The WLU Alumni Choir presents Mozart Mania featuring Ave Verum Corpus, Te Deum and Requiem as the final 40 th Anniversary Event of the WLU Faculty of Music. The concert will take place at St. Andrew s Presbyterian Church, 54 Queen Street North in Kitchener on Sunday, May 15 th at 3:00 p.m. Admission is by donation with all proceeds going to support the WLU Alumni Choir Voice Award at Wilfrid Laurier University. The Martin Family Singers and Waterloo Chamber Players present Haydn The Creation on Sunday, May 15 th at 7:30 p.m. at Steinmann Mennonite Church 1316 Snyder s Road West in Baden. Ticket price is $20.00 all proceeds will go to the New Hamburg Mennonite Relief Sale. Please see the poster on the Courtyard window for more information. Page 6
Rockway Mennonite Collegiate will hold their annual Spring Concert on Tuesday, May 17 th with two concerts. Grade 7 & 8 students will perform from 6:45 7:30 p.m. and Grade 9-12 students will hold their event from 8:00 9:30 p.m. Everyone is welcome. Bulletin Board # 4. The Final Word is Love A Fundraising Concert for Shalom Counselling. St. Jacobs Mennonite Church invites you to a concert featuring choirs from the Mennonite Collegiate Institute in Gretna, Manitoba. A free will offering will be accepted in support of Shalom s recent building renovation. Please join us on Thursday May 19 at 7:00 p.m. Refreshments to follow. (1310 King Street North, St. Jacobs) Poster on Bulletin Board # 4. To mark Rockway s 70 th Anniversary, the school is assembling a choir made up of Rockway Alumni to be led by past music directors Jan Overduin, Bob Shantz, and Ann L. Schultz. Concert will be held on Sunday, June 19 th at 3:00 p.m. All alumni are welcome to join in. Please see the poster on Bulletin Board # 4. Ecumenical Prayer Shawl Ministry Gathering will take place on Tuesday, May 10 th from 1:00 3:30 p.m. for all who are involved in Prayer Shawl Ministry or would like to learn about it. (Doors will be open at noon.) The event is hosted by the St. Michael s Prayer Shawl Ministry, at St. Michael s Church, corner of 240 Hemlock Street and University Avenue, Waterloo. Bring your shawls to display. There will be a free-will offering. Prayer Shawl knitting and crochet books will be available for sale. Please register by Friday, May 6 th by contacting Linda at 519-888-6954 or prayershawlgathering@gmail.com See the poster on Bulletin Board # 4. Theatre of the Beat presents: This Will Lead to Dancing - A play about wholeness, belonging, and LGBTQ inclusion on Friday, May 13 th at Preston Mennonite Church, 791 Concession Rd., Cambridge. Show begins at 7:00 p.m., doors open at 6:30 pm. Admission is by donation and refreshments will be available. Come and invite your friends. Hosted by Breslau, Preston, and Wanner Mennonite Churches. For more info visit www.theatreofthebeat.ca See the poster on Bulletin Board # 4. All are welcome to attend the next MEDA breakfast to be held on May 19th at 7:30 a.m. at the Stone Crock in St. Jacobs. The cost is $10. We will be joined by Jim Loepp Thiessen, who started the Gathering Church twelve years ago. Jim will talk about the critical role business played in his Page 7
church startup, and what it means to wear an entrepreneurial hat in ministry. We would like to encourage you to bring your pastor to the breakfast! The United Mennonite Home in Vineland will be holding its annual delegate meeting on Saturday, June 4 th at 2:00 p.m. As in previous years, the Board of Directors is asking anyone who is interested in being on the Board of Directors or who knows of someone that would be a good candidate for the Board to put the name forward before May 15 th. There will be no nominations from the floor. Nominations can be brought forward to Ron Wiens (Administrator) at 905-562-7385 ext. 5001 or rwiens@umh.ca. Loved by God and empowered by the Holy Spirit, we follow Jesus Christ. As a welcoming Mennonite community, we worship God, nurture each other and extend God's love and peace to all. Page 8
Our Father in heaven, hallowed be your name, your kingdom come, your will be done, on earth as in heaven. Give us today our daily bread. Forgive us our sins as we forgive those who sin against us. Save us from the time of trial and deliver us from evil. For the kingdom, the power, and the glory are yours now and forever. Amen. Page 9
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