MANBECK’S ZION EVANGELICAL

CONGREGATIONAL CHURCH

                                    

Worshiping the Lord in Spirit and Truth

                                    

July 26, 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 113:1-4               

* Opening Chorus #48                                             Mighty Is Our God

* Invocation 

* Opening Hymn #21         O for a Thousand Tongues (Marked stz)

First Scripture – Matthew 24:3-14

Praise Hymn #669                                                    Make Me a Servant  

*Prayer Hymn #746                         He Keeps Me Singing (stz. 1 & 5) 

**Pastoral Prayer

Offering of Tithes and Gifts to the Lord 

via offering plates in the back of the Sanctuary  

Special Music – Eve Kurtz

Scripture:  Luke 21:5-13 

Sermon:  “Signs of the return of Jesus”

* Hymn of response #759                                What If It Were Today?

*Benediction

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

                                    

Leave to Serve

  *Please Stand                                                **Please kneel (if able)

“If you plant weeds 

don’t expect to pick flowers.”

ANNOUNCEMENTS

  

TODAY:

• Special Offering/Child Evangelism Fellowship

SATURDAY:

• PGACOC Chicken BBQ/pick up at Church School
• Newsletter                                                                            7:00 P.M.

NEXT SUNDAY:

• Pig Roast meeting                                                             10:00 A.M.

LOOKING AHEAD:  

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

Statistics:  July 19, 2020

                                  Attendance:  Worship Service – 30

                                                          Worship Service – $ 

                                                  

Not too late for Chicken BBQ tickets.  See Cathy or Deb Lehr for 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. at the Church School building.

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

• Betty (Granddaughter Carlee had knee surgery)
• Carol (Treatment of Jenny)
• Kathy Price (fractured left forearm and she’s left handed)
• 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     Sis Sagusky      Jake Wolfe           Rick Fidler

Cindy Segal (liver cancer)

Bill (Deb had radiation and they got the spot but found more)

 

• 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: 

• Hannah Wagner got engaged
• Jonathan (painted barn roof/done safely)
• Deb R. (Evan got approval for back surgery)

• 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)