MANBECK’S ZION EVANGELICAL

CONGREGATIONAL CHURCH

Worshiping the Lord in Spirit and Truth

November 8, 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 103:1-4

* Opening Chorus #107                    Lord, I Lift Your Name on High

* Invocation

* Hymn #21                                   O for a Thousand Tongues to Sing

First Scripture:  Psalm 25:1-10

Praise Chorus #91                                             In Moments Like These

Persecuted Church:  DVD Central African Republic

* Prayer Hymn #581            ‘Tis So Sweet to Trust in Jesus (marked)

**Pastoral Prayer

Offering of Tithes and Gifts to the Lord/plates in the back 

Shoebox Moment

Special Music – Ladies Chorus

Scripture:  Ephesians 1:17-19

Sermon:

* Hymn of response #526                                               The Solid Rock

*Benediction

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

Leave to Serve

  *Please Stand                                                **Please kneel (if able)

“God didn’t remove the Red Sea, He parted it.  

God doesn’t always remove your problems, but 

He will make a way through.”

ANNOUNCEMENTS

TODAY:

• Building Fund offering  
• Brief Official Board meeting                                           10:00 A.M.

WEDNESDAY:

• Bible Study/Abraham (Genesis 19)                                 7:00 P.M.

NEXT SUNDAY:

• Shoe Boxes are due
• Stewards Meeting                                                            10:00 A.M.

LOOKING AHEAD:  

• November 26 – Thanksgiving
• November 28 – Newsletter
• November 29 – Special Offering/Thank offering for the

                                  International Churches  

Statistics:  November 1, 2020

                                  Attendance:  Worship Service – 38

                                                                  Bible Study – 12                                                

                                                                       Offering – $1,517.00

• Our Daily Bread for December-February are available.
• If you didn’t get a copy of “The Voice of the Martyrs” magazine last week you can still pick one up
• Pick-up shoeboxes if needed
• Don’t forget to turn in hymn request slips.
• Shoe Boxes are due at church on November 15.  The Church will cover the cost of shipping.

Wednesday, November 11 is Veterans Day.  

A thank you to all who served or are serving in the military.

PRAYER CONCERNS

• Florence (Al/moved to regular floor/needs all kinds of therapy/question of home or nursing home)
• Lois (Bettys husband Gene, going to rehab)
• Judy (kids today and world events/fear)
• Jon R. (Mrs. Powell/lives in Ohio/cancer)
• Ron Bachert (by-pass surgery)
• Cosmo Hardenstine (continued growth)
• Hannah Bossler (Type 1 diabetes/kidneys becoming compromised)
• 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 round of radiation)                     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 Fritz Lehr (Town Centre)

PRAISE: 

• Carol Lengle (doing very well)

• Week Day Church School/CEF Good News Clubs in person/video)
• 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)