this week's bulletin

Holyrood Mennonite Church

Sunday, March 14, 2010

Welcome to Holyrood Mennonite Church

Sunday School: 9:30 am

Worship Service: 10:30 am

Please respect the sanctuary as a place of solitude and reflection,

in preparation for the morning worship.

GATHERING

     Musical Prelude

     Welcome/Announcements

     Call to Worship

PRAISING GOD

     Songs of Praise: There Was a Man Named Job

Joy Overflows My Heart

Receive My Praise Oh! Lord

What a Mighty God We Serve

     Offering: Joyce Baergen - H 327 - Great is Thy Faithfulness

HEARING GOD'S WORD

     Puppet Feature

     Children's Sunday School (ages 4-8): Teacher - Emmanuel

     Share & Prayer

     Song: H 76 - Praise, I Will Praise You Lord

     Scripture Reading: 2 Cor 5:16-21 (page 1211)

     Meditation: Peace With God - Pastor Werner

RESPONDING TO THE WORD

     Songs of Response: Cast Your Burden Unto Jesus

You Are The Lifter of My Hands

SENDING

     Benediction

     Postlude

FOR HOLYROOD

• TODAY: Farewell for Florence King - we are all very sad to say good-bye to our dear sister and friend. After 54 years of attending and serving at Holyrood, she is leaving to be closer to her daughter in Carstairs. Please join us in prayers and well wishes on March 14^th, which will be her last Sunday with us. Coffee and sweets will be served after church.
• Food Bank (16) Hosts: ?; Driver: Dave
• Council Meeting: Tuesday (16^th) at 5:30pm.
• Elders Meeting: Wednesday (17^th) at 6pm at the church.
• Women's Group: Thursday (18^th) at 7pm at the church.
• Homework Clubs: Wednesday at 6 - 7:30pm (Trinity Manor)
• * There will be NO homework club this Thursday (18^th) at The Haven.
• Church Potluck and Liberia Trip Report: We will have a church potluck following the worship service on Sunday, March 28. After the potluck Pastor Werner will give a report on his recent trip to our church partners in Liberia.
• A sign up sheet to purchase Easter lilies is on the back bulletin board. Thie lilies will be used in the Easter service and can be taken home afterwards. Cost $10. Please pay Carol Lint or Helena Ball.
• Passion Week Services: April 1-4 with guest speaker Dan Epp. See the insert for more details. If you would like to purchase tickets for the Easter Saturday breakfast, please speak to Joanne.
• SEW Important! Anyone interested in helping to sew school bags contact Faye Friesen.

PRAYER CONCERNS

• Pray for Leo & Bonnie's daughter as she goes to Haiti to serve as a nurse.
• Pray for Florence as she prepares to move to Carstairs to be closer to her daughter.
• Continue to pray for Ruth's colleague, Joanne, as she battles lung cancer.
• Pray for the youth group as they prepare for their Mexico mission trip.
• Continue to remember those in our congregation with health issues as well as family and friends: Joyce's dad Frank, Reta, Jodi Tse.
• If you have any prayer requests that you would like to share with the Liberian church partners, please pick up a form from the bulletin board. Let's pray together, across the nations! Please see the "Our Liberian Partners" bulletin board.
• Pray for a just resolution of the conflict between First Nations in northern Ontario and mining companies as the provincial government opens lands in the boreal forest for mineral exploration without land use plans or consultation.

WIDER CHURCH

• Thank God for the response to the Canadian Peacemakers International (CPI) Computer Assisted Literacy (CAL) School in Honduras. This week the student registration hit 70, and the only way so many can be accommodated is to develop satellite centers. The main site is in Santa Cruz de Yojoa, where 17 computers have been shoehorned into a living/dining room and two bedrooms of small house . By double shifting these, and by opening the CAL center on Saturday, 45 learners can be accommodated. There are now satellite centers in the villages of El Cipres(2), Buenos Aires, El Balin, El Olvido, Pina Lapa (2). One of the satellites in Pina Lapa was set up in response to a request from the principal of the Santa Cruz school jurisdiction, who lives in Pina Lapa. More information about CPI programming is available on Bryan Butler’s blog (honduranproject.blogspot.com).
• Please pray for the seven participants taking part in the Mennonite Church Canada Learning Tour to the Philippines (Mar 4-15) as they prepare to engage, grow and learn through the Peacebuilders Community in Mindanao. (WoW Prayer Directory pg. 77-79).
• MC Canada Witness and Native Mennonite Ministries (U.S.) are planning for Native Assembly 2010, "I Am the Potter; You are the Clay," which will take place July 19-22 on the Northern Cheyenne reservation in Montana. Thank you for supporting this vital, relationship building ministry!

ANNOUNCEMENTS

• The FRIESEN FAMILY BAND releases their new album, "Dappled Things," in concert Thursday, March 25, 7 pm, at St. Andrew's United Church, 9915 148 St., Edmonton. Tickets at the door: $5; $20 for a family. Reception to follow, everyone invited. For more info call 780-989-5358 or visit www.friesenfamilyband.com
• The Mennonite Historical Society of Alberta Annual General Meeting will be held on Saturday, April 10, @ 9:30 am, at Abbeydale Christian Fellowship (1352 Abbeydale Dr. SE, Calgary). The afternoon session will feature presentations by Eleanore Woollard and Ted Regehr. Lunch will be provided for $12.00. Please RSVP for lunch to Colin Neufeldt at (780) 433-2127 by April 5. Everyone is welcome.
• Register now to take your choice of five-day courses for professional development or academic credit at the 2011 Canadian School of Peacebuilding to be held at Canadian Mennonite University (CMU) in Winnipeg, MB, June 14 to July 2, 2010. Visit www.cmu.ca/csop or e-mail csop@cmu.ca

NEXT SUNDAY (21)

• Speaker: CJ
• Worship Leader: Joyce
• Music: Ruth, Emily
• Ushers: Brock, Antoinette
• Greeters: Pearl, Millie
• Preschool Teacher(s): Key Family
• Food Bank (23) - Hosts: ? ;Driver: Dave

Our Vision:

Training Apprentices of Jesus to share God's abundant hospitality with people of all ages and cultures through the power of the Spirit.