MANBECK’S ZION EVANGELICAL

CONGREGATIONAL CHURCH

                                    

Worshiping the Lord in Spirit and Truth

                                    

September 27, 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 #34                                                            He Is Lord

* Invocation 

* Opening Hymn #143                                This Is My Father’s World

First Scripture:  Judges 4:14-17

Praise Hymn #681                                                                 In His Time  

*Prayer Hymn #635                                                         In The Garden 

**Pastoral Prayer

Offering of Tithes and Gifts to the Lord 

via offering plates in the back of the Sanctuary  

Special Music – Congregational Favorite 

Scripture:  Judges 4:1-8

Sermon:  “Deborah”

* Hymn of response #575               Leaning on the Everlasting Arms

*Benediction

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

                                    

Leave to Serve

  *Please Stand                                                **Please kneel (if able)

“He who covets is always poor.”

ANNOUNCEMENTS

  TODAY:

• Special Offering/Christmas gift/Missionaries

WEDNESDAY:

• Bible Study/continuing with Abraham                           7:00 P.M.

NEXT SUNDAY:

• World Wide Communion Sunday/individual at pews
• Autumn Stroll meeting                                                    10:00 A.M.

LOOKING AHEAD:  

• October 11 – Building Fund Offering

                          – Autumn Stroll meeting                             10:00 A.M.

• October 17 – Autumn Stroll
• October 20 – Official Board Meeting                                7:00 P.M.
• October 25 – Special Offering

                          – Fellowship Brunch

Statistics:  September 20, 2020

                                  Attendance:  Worship Service – 21

                                                                  Bible Study – 8                                                

                                                                       Offering – $3,616.00

Next Sunday is World Wide Communion and we will be doing it in a safe way by using individual packets distributed to the pew.

We will be returning to the book of Galatians on October 11^th.

Don’t forget to pick-up your Newsletters.

You will find a slip in your bulletin requesting your favorite hymns or choruses.  Pastor Norm will start incorporating them into the service.  

PRAYER CONCERNS

• Baby boy Hardenstine, Nichol and Rory/continued growth)
• Lois (Grace, 5 year old with leukemia)
• Jon R. (Tim McMiller, cancer)
• Jon R. (Luke at E-Town and Granddaughter at Bloomsburg)
• Pastor Jim (Kathy traveling to TN to help 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: 

• 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)