MANBECK’S ZION EVANGELICAL
CONGREGATIONAL CHURCH
Worshiping the Lord in Spirit and Truth
October 11, 2020
A Year in Ephesians
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 117
* Opening Chorus #54 My Tribute
* Invocation
* Opening Hymn 104 O Worship the King
First Scripture: Ephesians 1:1-10
Praise Hymn #456 Find Us Faithful
*Prayer Hymn #561 I Would Be like Jesus
**Pastoral Prayer
Offering of Tithes and Gifts to the Lord
offering plates in the back of the Sanctuary
Special Music – Congregational Favorite
Scripture: Ephesians 1:11-14
Sermon: “Praise the Lord”
* Hymn of response #12 Praise Him! Praise Him!
*Benediction
* Recessional Response #235 Take the Name of Jesus (1st verse)
Leave to Serve
*Please Stand **Please kneel (if able)
“When the outlook seems difficult
try the up-look.”
ANNOUNCEMENTS
TODAY:
- Building Fund Offering
- Autumn Stroll meeting 10:00 A.M.
WEDNESDAY:
- Bible Study/Abraham (Genesis 14:18 – 15:21) 7:00 P.M.
FRIDAY:
Autumn Stroll Prep
SATURDAY:
- Autumn Stroll
LOOKING AHEAD:
- October 20 – Official Board Meeting 7:00 P.M.
- October 25 – Special Offering (EC Missions General Fund)
– Fellowship Brunch
- October 31 – Newsletter 7:00 P.M.
Statistics: October 4, 2020
Attendance: Worship Service – 37
Bible Study – 10
Offering – $1,741.00
- 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.com
- 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
- Family and friend of Tim Ditzler who passed away from pancreatic cancer)
- Fritz Lehr (moved to rehab)
- Cosmo Hardenstine (over his birth weight/2 lb. 14 oz.)
- Jon R. (Luke at E-Town and Granddaughter at Bloomsburg)
- Carol Mills (in hospice)
- Hannah Bossler (Type 1 diabetes/kidneys becoming compromised)
- Betty (husbands health and salvation)
- Pray for our service men and women
- Those battling cancer:
Grace, 5 year old with leukemia
Pastor Lloyd Yeager (prostate 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
PRAISE:
- Carol (Treatment of Jenny went well, no sign of cancer)
- Ardella (that Fern is still capable of going out and about)
- Carol (Talked to Carolyn Zimmerman, at home and doing good)
- 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)
Manbeck's Church • Schuylkill Haven, PA 17972 