MANBECK’S ZION EVANGELICAL

CONGREGATIONAL CHURCH

Worshiping the Lord in Spirit and Truth

October 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 95:1-3          

* Opening Chorus #83            There’s Something About That Name

* Invocation 

* Opening Hymn #348              My Savior’s Love (stanzas’ 1, 4, & 5)

First Scripture:  John 3:1-6; 14-18

Praise Hymn #459                                                   We Remember You

*Prayer Hymn #157                  The Love of God (marked stanzas’)

**Pastoral Prayer

Offering of Tithes and Gifts to the Lord

via offering plates in the back of the Sanctuary​

Special Music – Congregational Favorite

Communion Meditation:  God SO loved!

Scripture:  I Corinthians 11:23-26

The communion elements will be distributed in a sealed package to everyone in their seat.  We will partake of the elements at the direction of the pastor.

* Hymn of response #324     When I Survey the Wondrous Cross

*Benediction

* Recessional Response #426   Bless Be the Tie that Binds (1^st verse)  

Leave to Serve

 *Please Stand                                                **Please kneel (if able)

People don’t care how much you know until they know how much you care.  

The Cross is a declaration of how much God cares.

ANNOUNCEMENTS

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

WEDNESDAY: Bible Study/Abraham (Genesis 13-14)                            7:00 P.M.

NEXT SUNDAY: Building Fund Offering Autumn Stroll meeting                                                  10:00 A.M.

LOOKING AHEAD:   October 17 – Autumn Stroll October 20 – Official Board Meeting                                7:00 P.M. October 25 – Special Offering (EC Missions General Fund)

                         – Fellowship Brunch

Statistics:  September 27, 2020

                                 Attendance:  Worship Service – 39

                                                                Bible Study – 10                                              

                                                                      Offering – $1,230.00

                              Missionary Christmas Offering – $252.001. 
We will be returning to the book of Ephesians on Oct. 11^th.2. Don’t forget to turn in hymn request slips.

Operation Christmas Child

Due to any number of issues resulting from COVID-19 we will not be doing a Pack a Shoebox campaign this year. If you would still like to participate there are options available for you.

 Pack a Traditional Shoebox-shop for the items you wish to put into a shoebox, pack them in a box and drop the box, along with shipping costs, off at The Lighthouse Church during National Collection Week • November 16-23. Drop off times will be posted on the Lighthouse Church website at: www.thelighthousechurch.com1. Build a Shoebox Online- Go to the Samaritans Purse website (www.samaritanspurse.org) Select: What We Do, along the top menu bar of the website and choose: Operation Christmas Child. Select: Build a Shoebox Online, and follow the onscreen instructions

PRAYER CONCERNS❖ Fritz Lehr (fell and broke his nose)
❖ Cosmo Hardenstine (over his birth weight)❖ Jon R. (Luke at E-Town and Granddaughter at Bloomsburg)

❖ Wayne (Dan’s uncle passed away this week)

❖ 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:

​Grace, 5 year old with leukemia

​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 another spot on her lung)​Tim McMillen❖ 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: ❖ Mark (only broke 2 bones/not more serious)❖ Arti (while in college/opened every class with “This Is My Father’s World”, God is in charge.❖ Glen (strength for a friend God put in his life)❖ Deb R. (Rain)

❖ 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)