MANBECK’S ZION EVANGELICAL

CONGREGATIONAL CHURCH

                                    

Worshiping the Lord in Spirit and Truth

                                    

September 20, 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 – Ernie          

* Opening Chorus #26 Blue Chorus – It’s Time to Praise the Lord

* Invocation 

* Opening Hymn #372                                                  Our God Reigns

Devotion/Cathy

Favorite Hymn #589                                                    Here I Am, Lord

Favorite Hymn

Favorite Hymn

** Prayer/Lois

Offering of Tithes and Gifts to the Lord 

via offering plates in the back of the Sanctuary  

Special Music – Eve Kurtz

Devotion /Lois 

Favorite Hymn #139                                     Great Is Thy Faithfulness

Favorite Hymn

Favorite Hymn

Devotion/Ernie 

Favorite Hymn

Favorite Hymn

* Hymn of response #431                                         Shine, Jesus, Shine

*Benediction

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

                                    

Leave to Serve

  *Please Stand                                                **Please kneel (if able)

ANNOUNCEMENTS

  TODAY:

• Favorite Hymn Sunday

WEDNESDAY:

• Bible Study resumes                                                            7:00 P.M.

FRIDAY:

• Newsletter                                                                            7:00 P.M.

NEXT SUNDAY:

• Special Offering/Christmas gift/Missionaries

LOOKING AHEAD:  

• October 4 – Autumn Stroll meeting                               10:00 A.M.
• October 11 – Building Fund Offering

Statistics:  September 13, 2020

                                  Attendance:  Worship Service – 37

                                                                        Offering – $1,630.00

                                                             Building Fund – $356.00

                                                                      Pig Roast – $1,678.00

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Favorite hymns can come from hymnal or blue chorus book.

Large print Daily Bread for October-December are available.

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

Pastor Norm and Arti will be away this week. For pastoral services please call Cathy.

PRAYER CONCERNS

• Marion (Faith’s mother has some health issues)
• Betty (Nichol and Rory’s baby and Chris & Rich traveling to FL)
• Pastor Jim (Kathy helping daughter as she transitions back to work)
• 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)Carol Shira (last stages of cancer)

Bill (Deb had 2^nd 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: 

• Carol (amazing day at pig roast and working together and her daughter and son-in-law are in today)
• Ardella (Donna encouraging to have pig roast no matter what and Cathy for not giving meals away free)
• Deb R. (wonderful vacation with family and Evan got the check for the go ahead for back surgery)
• Lois (Granddaughter received her masters degree)

• 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)