Park View Mennonite Church

Bulletin

Sunday, January 14, 2007

This Morning at Park View

WORSHIP (9:30-10:45 a.m.) Nursery attendants today: Lynette Mast, Leah Jacobs; next Sunday: Becky Rhodes, Everett Brubaker

FELLOWSHIP BREAK (15 min.) All are invited for beverages and visiting in fellowship hall. Please exit promptly when buzzer sounds.

Children’s Assembly: Age 2-Kindergarten(room 4); Grades 1-5 (room 17)

SUNDAY SCHOOL (11:00-12:00) – Classes for all ages. Everyone welcome.

Nursery attendant during Sunday school: Helen Nafziger

Ages 2 & 3: in room 4, with Lynette Mast

Kindergarten: in room 5, with Deb Nyce

Grades 1-2: in room 10, with Ethan Zook

Grade 3: in room 9, with Jim Leaman, Selamawit Stifanos

Grades 4-5: in room 8, with Jill Landis /Dave Brubaker

Grades 6 - 8: in room 18, with Jim Burkholder

MYF (high school): meet in room 14-A for ice skating, 11:30 a.m. - 4 p.m.

College-age: (room 13) with Rachel Whitmer

Colloquy: (room 16) Speaker: Sandy Kubosh of People Helping People

Faith and Issues: (fellowship hall) Clair Mellinger: “Is God Green? The Evangelical Approach to the Environment” (video clips and discussion)

Helping Hands: (conference room) teacher: Shirley Yoder Brubaker; Uniform Lesson: “Ultimate Fairness”

Interrogatio: (room 6) “Development of a theology: Stories of our works in progress,” with Liz Benbow

Logos: (room 12) Sermon response / discussion

Prayer: Prayer Room is available downstairs for silent meditation

SALT: (room 11) teacher: Don Steiner; Uniform Lesson: “Ultimate Fairness”

Shalom: (room 7) Roy Hange discusses the spiritual formation of the major faith founders: Jesus (Christianity), Mohammad (Islam) and Abraham (Jews).

SuppportNet.com: (fireplace room) Barbara Moyer Lehman: “Epiphanies from the Bible / how we experience God in our daily lives” (new series)

Young Adults: (balcony) sermon discussion

This Week

TODAY: Adult SS coordinators’ meeting, 8:30 a.m., fellowship hall

inView articles and personal news due

Last day to claim items from “lost and found” table/rack in fellowship hall

MYF ice skating, 11:30 a.m. - 4 p.m. Others are invited to join them; contact Ross Erb if interested (cost, including skates:

Congregational meeting, 6 p.m., fellowship hall (childcare provided): Discussion of 2007 Spending Plan and revision to bylaws. Proposed spending plan is in mailboxes; bring also your “notice of proposed bylaw change.”

MONDAY-FRIDAY: Morning Prayer, 9:30 a.m., conference room

MONDAY: RSVP by noon for fellowship meal on Wednesday

TUESDAY: Men’s Bible study and breakfast, 7 a.m., with Ervin Stutzman: “Men at Work”

Children’s Council, 7 p.m., at Becky Rhodes’ home

WEDNESDAY: Fellowship meal, 5:30 - 6:15 p.m., fellowship hall

THURSDAY: Council, 7 p.m., conference room

FRIDAY: LivingRoom coffeehouse, 7 -11 p.m., fireplace room

NEXT SUNDAY: Adult choir rehearsal, 8:45 a.m., for ecumenical service at Blessed Sacrament on Wednesday, January 24, at 7 p.m.

Sand Dam project offering during worship

Ballots on 2007 Spending Plan and on bylaws revision, during worship

Upcoming Events

24 Ecumenical Service of Prayer for Christian Unity, 7 p.m., Blessed Sacrament Catholic Church

Announcements

Pastoral whereabouts: Phil Kniss will be in Lombard, Illinois this week, for a D.Min. study seminar at Northern Seminary.

A special offering for the Building Fund was taken December 31 during worship; if you were not able to give then, you may still do so, using the marked envelopes on shelf below mailboxes.

EMU Early Learning Center is taking applications for the 2007-08 school year. Developmental preschool classes are offered for two, three, and four-year-old children. PVMC children receive priority if registered before January 31. Register by calling the EMU education office at 432-4142.

Membership Sunday is planned for February 11. If you have questions about becoming a member at Park View, please contact one of the pastors.

Elmer & Marianne Kennel announce the engagement of their son, Timothy to Jayne Thomas, daughter of J. Richard and Joyce Thomas, Lancaster, PA.

Lost... and found, we hope! Check the lost and found area in the fellowship hall for your missing items and take them with you today. Any items that remain after today, January 14, will be taken to Gift and Thrift. Also, if you misplaced a women’s watch, a gold bracelet, a gold necklace, or a small nativity set in recent years, stop by the church office to identify and claim it.

Please return to the kitchen any dish towels you have taken home to wash.

Join us for morning prayers Mon-Fri in the conference room. All staff participate, so phones are not answered from 9:30 to 9:45 a.m. Everyone is welcome, every day. If you would like to join us from home or work, the prayer book we use is available online at www.pvmchurch.org/week2.pdf

In case of inclement weather on a Sunday morning, listen to WEMC, WSVA, or WHSV TV to find out whether services will be held; there will also be a voice message, if possible, on the church phone.

Worship attendance last Sunday: 285; Faith Promise offering: $10,851.25