MANBECK’S ZION EVANGELICAL

CONGREGATIONAL CHURCH

                                    

Worshiping the Lord in Spirit and Truth

                                    

August 2, 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 91:1-2               

* Opening Chorus #193                                                 God Is So Good

* Invocation 

* Opening Hymn #56                                            To God Be the Glory

First Scripture Luke 11:5-13

Praise Hymn #654                                        Change My Heart, O God  

*Prayer Hymn #718                                                              Day by Day 

**Pastoral Prayer

Offering of Tithes and Gifts to the Lord 

via offering plates in the back of the Sanctuary  

Special Music – Zach Kurtz

Scripture:  Mark 10:17-19 

Sermon:  “God is GOOD all the time!”

* Hymn of response #692                          God Will Take Care of You

*Benediction

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

                                    

Leave to Serve

  *Please Stand                                                **Please kneel (if able)

“We live in a generation where the people ignore God and then blame Him for the chaos that follows.”

ANNOUNCEMENTS

  

TODAY:

• Pig Roast meeting                                                             10:00 A.M.

NEXT SUNDAY:

• Building Fund Offering

LOOKING AHEAD:  

• August 18 – Official Board Meeting                                 7:00 P.M.
• August 29 – Newsletter                                                      7:00 P.M.
• August 30 – Special Offering

Statistics:  July 26, 2020

                                  Attendance:  Worship Service – 33

                                                          Worship Service – $729.00

                                                Special Offering (CEF) – $234.00

                                                  

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

• Deb R. (niece needs hysterectomy) 
• Katie (veterinarian was in an accident)
• Jen (traveling mercies/beach)
• Carol (Chris & family in VA/better trip coming home)
• Jen (4H kids/no fair/will be doing on-line auction)
• Betty (Granddaughter Carlee had knee surgery)
• Carol (Treatment of Jenny)
• Kathy Price (fractured left forearm and she’s healing)
• Pray for our service men and women
• 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: 

• Jen (they learned a few things when Liam came out of wisdom teeth 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)