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Staunton Mennonite Church

2405 3rd St - Staunton, VA 24401 - 540 886-5869
Office hours Monday and Friday, 9am until 1pm
Pastor: Kevin Gasser    smcpastor@verizon.net   540 292-4507
Elder: Glenn Zendt - 886-3550
 

 

“Love, Hope, and Light in the Community”

  April 5, 2015 No.14 Vol. XLIX
 
 

 

9:30 Sunday School

No Sunday School this week

10:30 Worship Service

We Gather

Gathering Song 
Announcements
Call to Worship
Call to Authenticity/Opening Prayer

We Praise

Congregational Singing
Offering/Offertory
Children’s Time
Congregational Singing

We Hear

Scripture Reading: John 20:1-18
Call to Grace
Message: “The Shame of the Cross”

We Respond

Congregational Sharing/Prayer Time
Closing Song
Call to Commitment/Benediction

Today's Leaders

 
 

*Song Leader: Susan Huyard
*Worship Leader: Dwight Huyard
*Accompanist: Sandy Carter

 *Message: Kevin Gasser

 
 

Announcements

Church Council will meet this Wednesday at 7:00 pm. Devotions: Nelson.

The Bethel Mountain Band will bring their “Gospel Bluegrass Harmonies” to Stuarts Draft Mennonite Church on Friday April 10 at 7:00 pm. CD’s will be available.

Next Saturday, April 11, is the Highland Benefit Auction designed to subsidize summer camps tuition and provide camp scholarships for families in need. The auction will be held at Eastern Mennonite School dining room just off route 42. Doors open at 7:45 a.m. for the silent auction and the live auction begins at 8:45 a.m. Help fund scholarships by enjoying the sausage and pancake breakfast. Pork BBQ, homemade soup, hot dogs, and deserts available after 10:00 a.m.

Please pray for:

• The victims of the college shooting in Kenya.
• Those who lost loved ones in the Germanwings plane crash

Next Week's Scripture

Revelation 5:1-14

 






























 


John 20:1-18 New International Version (NIV)

The Empty Tomb

1 Early on the first day of the week, while it was still dark, Mary Magdalene went to the tomb and saw that the stone had been removed from the entrance. 2 So she came running to Simon Peter and the other disciple, the one Jesus loved, and said, “They have taken the Lord out of the tomb, and we don’t know where they have put him!”

3 So Peter and the other disciple started for the tomb. 4 Both were running, but the other disciple outran Peter and reached the tomb first. 5 He bent over and looked in at the strips of linen lying there but did not go in. 6 Then Simon Peter came along behind him and went straight into the tomb. He saw the strips of linen lying there, 7 as well as the cloth that had been wrapped around Jesus’ head. The cloth was still lying in its place, separate from the linen. 8 Finally the other disciple, who had reached the tomb first, also went inside. He saw and believed. 9 (They still did not understand from Scripture that Jesus had to rise from the dead.) 10 Then the disciples went back to where they were staying.

Jesus Appears to Mary Magdalene
11 Now Mary stood outside the tomb crying. As she wept, she bent over to look into the tomb 12 and saw two angels in white, seated where Jesus’ body had been, one at the head and the other at the foot.

13 They asked her, “Woman, why are you crying?”

“They have taken my Lord away,” she said, “and I don’t know where they have put him.” 14 At this, she turned around and saw Jesus standing there, but she did not realize that it was Jesus.

15 He asked her, “Woman, why are you crying? Who is it you are looking for?”

Thinking he was the gardener, she said, “Sir, if you have carried him away, tell me where you have put him, and I will get him.”

16 Jesus said to her, “Mary.”

She turned toward him and cried out in Aramaic, “Rabboni!” (which means “Teacher”).

17 Jesus said, “Do not hold on to me, for I have not yet ascended to the Father. Go instead to my brothers and tell them, ‘I am ascending to my Father and your Father, to my God and your God.’”

18 Mary Magdalene went to the disciples with the news: “I have seen the Lord!” And she told them that he had said these things to her.

Staunton Mennonite Church

Photo by A. D. Strickland

Sunday, March 29, 2015
Worship Attendance ~ 34
Offering - $2,416.45
(303 Grubert $1,349.00)

Next Sunday, April 12, 2015
Sunday School - Glen Zendt
Worship Leader - Kadrin Anderson
Music Leader - Joe Shenk

No one truly knows Christ unless they follow Him daily in life" - Hans Denck

Thank you for joining us in worship today.  If this is your first time at Staunton Mennonite,
please fill out the “Welcome” card in the back of the pew and place it in the offering plate.

 

On the third day

Call to Authenticity

Leader: There you go again, God,
turning things inside out and upside down.
People: While bringing life out of the grave sounds good to us,
we’re nervous about what else you might have in
mind.
Leader: Following your lead
means letting go of ours.
People: And letting go is hard.
(silence)
Leader: Yet, you are good,
you are the one for whom we have waited.
People: Help us rejoice in your salvation.

Call to Grace

It is good to give thanks to our good God,
whose faithful love lasts forever.
Let Israel say it:
“God’s faithful love lasts forever!”
Let those who honor the Lord say it:
“God’s faithful love lasts forever!”
Let each person, from youngest to oldest, say it:
“God’s faithful love lasts forever!”

Call to Commitment

Leader: God turns the world upside down and inside out,
bringing life out of death and beginnings out of endings.
People: God, we offer you our hands and hearts.
Take from them whatever prevents us from following
Jesus through death and into new life.
We want to be fully useable for you.

Bible readings for today: Isaiah 25:6-9; Psalm 118:1-2, 14-24; 1 Corinthians 15:1-11or Acts 10:34-43; John 20:1-18 or Mark 16:1-8.

Bible readings for next Sunday
: Acts 4:32-35; Psalm 133; 1 John 1:1–2:2; John 20:19-31.