MANBECK’S ZION EVANGELICAL
CONGREGATIONAL CHURCH
Worshiping the Lord in Spirit and Truth
October 18, 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 111:1-3
* Opening Chorus #125 How Excellent Is Thy Name
* Invocation
* Opening Hymn #87 Fairest Lord Jesus
First Scripture: Ephesians 1:4-11
Praise Hymn #456 Find Us Faithful
*Prayer Hymn #692 God Will Take Care of You
**Pastoral Prayer
Offering of Tithes and Gifts to the Lord
offering plates in the back of the Sanctuary
Special Music – Congregational Favorite
Scripture: 1 Peter 1:13-16
Sermon: “In love, adopted.”
* Hymn of response #574 A Child of the King
*Benediction
* Recessional Response #235 Take the Name of Jesus (1st verse)
Leave to Serve
*Please Stand **Please kneel (if able)
“Doubts and fears crumble under the weight
of God’s promises”
ANNOUNCEMENTS
TUESDAY:
- Official Board Meeting 7:00 P.M.
WEDNESDAY:
- Bible Study/Abraham (Genesis 15:2 – 16:16) 7:00 P.M.
NEXT SUNDAY:
- Special Offering (EC Missions General Fund)
- Fellowship Brunch
LOOKING AHEAD:
- October 31 – Newsletter 7:00 P.M.
- November 1 – Daylight Saving Time Ends
- November 3 – Election Day
- November 8 – Building Fund offering
Statistics: October 11, 2020
Attendance: Worship Service – 37
Bible Study – 10
Offering – $931.00
Building Fund Offering – $215.00
- Don’t forget to turn in hymn request slips.
- Birthday card shower for Grace Kimmel. October 28
- Operation Christmas Child/Jen Flynn will drop our boxes off at the drop off site in Orwigsburg. There are also Shoeboxes left over from last year. They will be made available for those who would like to use them.
Thanks to everyone who helped with the Autumn Stroll.
PRAYER CONCERNS
- Family and friends of Carol Mills who recently went to be with her Lord
- Fritz Lehr (moved to rehab)
- Ron Bachert (by-pass surgery)
- Jim Price (had an accident with uninsured/unlicensed person)
- Cosmo Hardenstine (over his birth weight/2 lb. 14 oz.)
- Jon R. (Luke at E-Town and Granddaughter at Bloomsburg)
- Judy (horse trailer disconnected with the horse in it/Judy and horse are okay)
- 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:
- Pastor Norm (beauty of creation with all the fall colors)
- Deb (Her sister, Sue Ann was tested for Covid/came back negative)
- Larue (Going through her mother-in-law’s stuff and found many little things that were funny and touching)
- 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)
