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Bulletin • Sunday, August 16

MANBECK’S ZION EVANGELICAL

CONGREGATIONAL CHURCH

                                   

Worshiping the Lord in Spirit and Truth

                                   

August 16, 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 66:1-4            

* Opening Chorus #391                                       Sweet, Sweet Spirit

* Invocation

* Opening Hymn #147                                      How Great Thou Art

First Scripture:  Responsive Reading from Power Point

Praise Hymn #654                                       Change My Heart, O God

*Prayer Hymn #611                    He Hideth My Soul (stanzas 1,2)

**Pastoral Prayer

Offering of Tithes and Gifts to the Lord

via offering plates in the back of the Sanctuary​

Special Music – Judy & Ardella

Scripture:  Psalm 62

Sermon:  “A Realistic Faith”

* Hymn of response #545                                 Moment by Moment

*Benediction

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

                                   

Leave to Serve

 *Please Stand                                                **Please kneel (if able)

“Prayer is asking for rain.

Faith is carrying the umbrella.”

ANNOUNCEMENTS

 

TUESDAY:

Official Board Meeting                                                       7:00 P.M.

 

NEXT SUNDAY:

Worship Service                                                                  9:00 A.M.

 

LOOKING AHEAD:  

August 23 – Pig Roast Meeting                                      10:00 A.M.
August 29 – Newsletter                                                      7:00 P.M.
August 30 – Special Offering – Student Aid

 

Statistics:  August 9, 2020

                                 Attendance:  Worship Service – 27

                                                        Worship Service – $1,553.00

                                                            Building Fund – $215.00

                                                 

 

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

❖ Caroline Zimmerman (health issues)
❖ Robert Trout Sr. (pray for recovery from a fall)
❖ Carol (granddaughter leaves for college in Pittsburgh)
❖ Betty (husbands health and salvation)
❖ Katie (veterinarian was in an accident)
❖ 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 2nd 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:

❖ Deb R. (nieces hysterectomy went well)
❖ Larue (beautiful field of sunflowers)

 

 

❖ 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)