MANBECK’S ZION EVANGELICAL

CONGREGATIONAL CHURCH

Worshiping the Lord in Spirit and Truth

September 6, 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 103:1-5

* Opening Chorus #672                    What a Mighty God We Serve

* Invocation

* Opening Hymn #368                                                              He Lives

First Scripture:  James 1:12-18

Praise Hymn #681                                                                 In His Time

*Prayer Hymn #358                                                  Because He Lives

**Pastoral Prayer

Offering of Tithes and Gifts to the Lord

via offering plates in the back of the Sanctuary

Special Music – Congregational Favorite

Scripture:  James 1:1-2

Sermon:  “James and John”

* Hymn of response #448 I’ll Tell the World That I’m a Christian

*Benediction

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

Leave to Serve

*Please Stand                                                **Please kneel (if able)

“It is a terrible thing to see and have no vision!” Helen Keller

ANNOUNCEMENTS

TODAY:

 Pig Roast meeting                                                             10:00 A.M.

FRIDAY:

 Pig roast prep at Flynns                                                     5:00 P.M.

SATURDAY:

 Pig roast                                                           4:00 P.M. – 7:00 P.M.

NEXT SUNDAY:

 Building Fund Offering

LOOKING AHEAD:  

 September 20 – Favorite Hymn sing Sunday

 September 23 – Bible Study resumes                                7:00 P.M.

 September 25 – Newsletter                                                 7:00 P.M.

 September 27 – Special Offering/Christmas gift/Missionaries

Statistics:  August 30, 2020

Attendance:  Worship Service – 36

Offering – $876.00

Student Aid Offering – $95.00

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

Bible Study will resume on September 23 and we will begin by looking at Abraham.

September 20 is Favorite Hymn Sing Sunday.  If your favorite is not in the hymnal let Cathy know and we’ll try to find it.

Address for:

Grace Kimmel

c/o Tremont Health and Rehabilitation

44 Donaldson Road, Room 707

Tremont, PA   17981

 

PRAYER CONCERNS

❖ Mae passed away.  Pray for her family and friends

❖ Hannah Bossler (Type 1 diabetes/kidneys becoming compromised)

❖ Betty (husbands health and salvation)

❖ Carol (Treatment of Jenny)

❖ 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:  Keith Gillespie      Lois’s grandson, Kolby – Air Force

Ashley Somers, Navy     Caleb Reiter

❖ Nursing home/Assisted living residents

Grace Kimmel   Nancy Wildsmith

Edgar Bennett     Caroline Zimmerman

PRAISE:

❖ Kathy Price (thank you to everyone for their prayers)

❖ Arti (David was back in the classroom at Messiah and computers were not working right and it was a crummy day.  He then got an encouraging email from a student.)

❖ 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)