MANBECK’S ZION EVANGELICAL

CONGREGATIONAL CHURCH

                                    

Worshiping the Lord in Spirit and Truth

                                    

July 19, 2020

A Year in Ephesians

Norman Dixon, Pastor

610-589-2034

Email: Dixonnorm@comcast.net

Web Site:  www.manbecks.org

Organ Prelude to prepare your heart for worship

Welcome and opportunities to Worship and Serve

Greet one another in the Name of Jesus          

 

Call to Worship – Psalm 62:1-2; 11-12               

* Opening Chorus #83             There’s Something About That Name

* Invocation 

* Opening Hymn #571                                Trust and Obey (stz. 1,3,4)

First Scripture – Matthew 5:1-10

Praise Hymn #669                                                    Make Me a Servant  

*Prayer Hymn #549                                     Higher Ground (stz. 1,2,3) 

**Pastoral Prayer

Offering of Tithes and Gifts to the Lord 

via offering plates in the back of the Sanctuary  

Special Music – Judy Lengle

Scripture:  Hebrews 5:11-14 

Sermon:  “How to tell if someone is a real Christian”

* Hymn of response #429                 They’ll know We Are Christians

*Benediction

* Recessional Response #235        Take the Name of Jesus (1^st verse)  

                                    

Leave to Serve

  *Please Stand                                                **Please kneel (if able)

“God always answers knee-mail.”

ANNOUNCEMENTS

  

NEXT SUNDAY:

• Special Offering/Child Evangelism Fellowship

LOOKING AHEAD:  

• July 25 – Newsletter                                                           7:00 P.M.
• August 9 – Building Fund Offering
• August 29 – Newsletter                                                      7:00 P.M.
• August 30 – Special Offering

Statistics:  July 12, 2020

                                  Attendance:  Worship Service – 27

                                                          Worship Service – $1,117.00 

                                                                Building Fund – $470.00

                                                  

See Cathy or Deb Lehr for Chicken BBQ tickets for Saturday, August 1^st.  Donation is $8.00 for ½ chicken and baked potato.  Pick-up will be drive thru from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m.

Pig Roast will be held on September 12.  Meetings will be held during the next few weeks.

At this date the Autumn Stroll is still going to be held.

PRAYER CONCERNS

• Pray for our service men and women
• Those of our church family who are traveling this summer
• Those battling cancer:

Pastor Lloyd Yeager (prostate cancer)  

Tim Ditzler – stage 4 pancreatic cancer            Bob Kramer

Mike  S   is Sagusky     Jake Wolfe           Rick Fidler

Cindy Segal (liver cancer)

 

• Military:  Zack Frankfort, Navy     Keith Gillespie   

               Ashley Somers, Navy       Caleb Reiter

         Lois’s grandson, Kolby – Air Force

• Nursing home/Assisted living residents

               Grace Kimmel   Nancy Wildsmith          

  Edgar Bennett 

PRAISE: 

• Donna (had a safe trip to work after the pile up on 81)
• Laure (husband got his blood pressure under control)

• Decision on Week Day Church School
• Joe Toy (Street ministry in Philadelphia)
• Jamie and Anita Farr (Wycliffe in Florida)
• Robert and Bettina Schaeffer (L.I.F.E. Ministries in New York City)
• Wagner’s & Stoltzfus’s (Rift Valley Academy in Africa)