MANBECK’S ZION EVANGELICAL

CONGREGATIONAL CHURCH

                                    

Worshiping the Lord in Spirit and Truth

                                    

August 9, 2020

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 117               

* Opening Chorus #18                                   Let’s Just Praise the Lord

* Invocation 

* Opening Hymn #8                                 Come, Thou Almighty King

First Scripture Luke 10:30-37

Praise Hymn #654                                        Change My Heart, O God  

*Prayer Hymn #707                                           He Giveth More Grace 

**Pastoral Prayer

Offering of Tithes and Gifts to the Lord 

via offering plates in the back of the Sanctuary  

Special Music – Ardella Newswanger

Scripture:  Luke 10:25-29

Sermon:  “The Good Samaritan”

* Hymn of response #668                               I’ll Go Where You Want

*Benediction

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

                                    

Leave to Serve

  *Please Stand                                                **Please kneel (if able)

ANNOUNCEMENTS

  

TODAY:

• Building Fund Offering

NEXT SUNDAY:

• Worship Service                                                                  9:00 A.M.

LOOKING AHEAD:  

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

Statistics:  August 2, 2020

                                  Attendance:  Worship Service – 27

                                                          Worship Service – $1,399.00

                                                

                                                  

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.

“The first question which the priests and Levite asked was, ‘If I stop to help, what will happen to me?’  

The Good Samaritan reversed the question. ‘If I don’t stop to help this man what will happen to him?’

Martin Luther King, Jr.

PRAYER CONCERNS

• Lois (Betty’s husband was hospitalized on Friday, not sure what the problem is)
• Deb R. (nieces hysterectomy is on Tuesday) 
• 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 2^nd round of radiation)

 

• 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: 

• Betty (talked to Patti White and Mae appreciated all the cards)
• Ardella (the rain)
• Betty (sister-in-law was in an accident, Betty was just innocent bystander, all involved are okay)

• 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)