Gehman Mennonite Church

Physical address: 127 Witmer Road, Reinholds, PA 17569

Mailing address: PO Box 842, Adamstown, PA 19501

717-484-4548
www.gehmanmennonitechurch.org
Ministry Team
Phil Horning - Lead Pastor - (church: 717-484-4548) (home:717-484-0998)
Glen Martin - Associate Pastor- 717-484-2162
Steve McCosby - Deacon - 717-336-8275

Lets walk with Jesuspersonally, locally, and globally.

November 2, 2014
Prayer
Sunday School
Worship Service
Prelude
Call to Worship
Hymn of Praise
Offering
Worship in Song
Message: Psalm 113 "God's Call to Peacemaking"
Hymn of Response
Sharing Time/Pastoral Prayer
Benediction

8:15 AM
9:00 AM
10:00 AM
Mike Brown
Tom Martin
Liz Good
Worship Team
Peter & Christy
Tom Martin
Phil Horning

Today:
Greeters
Sunday School Nursery
Church Nursery
Fellowship Meal today, all are welcome!

Randy & Karen Sauder

Chrystle & Kelly
Steve & Darlene

The offering for the month of November is for Gehman Missionary support
(Flamms, Millers, Miners, Phillips & Snader) and budgeted items.
Offering for last week: $3,909.49
Attendance for last week: 116
Next Week:
Greeters
Travis & Carolyn Sauder
Song Leader
Sylvia Eberly
Offertory
Darlene McCosby
Scripture Reading
Lena Brown
Message
Phil Horning
Sunday School Nursery
Cindy & Sylvia
Church Nursery
Carolyn & Travis
Nov. 5, Wed.-Fall Bible Study will meet here at church, 7 p.m.
Nov. 5, Wed.-There will not be Youth Bible Study. Youth are encouraged to attend
the last Church Fall Bible Study Group.

Nov. 6-8, Wed.-Fri.-LMS is presenting Arthur Miller's drama, "The Crucible," at

7:30 p.m. each night, with a Sat. matinee at 1 p.m. Tickets are $5 for students and
$8 for adults, and may be reserved by calling the box office at 299-0436, ext. 340.
Nov. 8, Sat.-5 p.m. Coffeehouse For A Cause- We will be raising money for
Christmas gifts for students in India. There will be a bean bag tournament, other
games and food, all the money will go for the Indian gifts. There is a sign up sheet
for teams to enter the tournament- the cost is $10 per team of two, you will play at
least three games and the top two teams will receive a prize. any questions ask any
out reach member.
Nov. 13, Thurs.-Jared Burkholder presents Heroes and Heretics: Pietists and
Anabaptist in the Evangelical Imagination at 7:30 p.m., at Elizabethtown Colleges
Young Center for Anabaptist and Pietist Studies. Burkholder, professor of history at
Grace College in Winona Lake, Ind., will examine several episodes in history when
evangelicals have either revered or condemned Pietist and Anabaptist traditions and
discuss what that says about all three groups and their places on the landscape of
American society. For more information, call 717-361-1470 or visit
www.etown.edu/youngctr.
Nov. 15, Sat.-7 p.m. - Friendship Community is holding our 13th Annual Harmony
Concert. The concert will be held at the Forest Hills Mennonite Church in Leola.
The concert is a free event, and no reservations are required. A freewill offering will
be collected, and all proceeds benefit Individuals with developmental disabilities.
www.friendshipcommunity.net
Nov. 15 & 16, Fri. & Sat.-LMS is hosting a variety of activities on the Lancaster
Campus as part of its Fall Festival. Check www.lancastermennonite.org for more
information about all these events.
Nov. 18, Wed.-Bowmansville District Sewing Circle will meet at the Bowmansville
Mennonite Church in the morning and afternoon. Everyone is welcome to come to
help quilt, knot comforters or sew on a sewing machine. Floy Baker and Liz Martin
have done sewing on the sewing machines for many years, but at this time neither is
able to attend Sewing Circle! Would you be able to take their place? Persons are
also needed to piece comforter tops and cut patches. Both of these jobs can be done
at home, when you have time. We have material we can give you, if you would be
able to cut patches and/or piece tops. If you would like to know more details about
this work, please call Janice Horning (717-445-5687). Many thanks to those of you
who have already supplied us with tops!
Nov. 23, Sun.-All are invited to a Thanksgiving and Welsh Hymn Concert at 4:30
p.m., at Neffsville Mennonite Church. Vigorous congregational singing will be led
by Glenn Lehman, assisted by the Harmonies Vocal Ensemble, the Bravura Brass
quintet, and organ. A suggested $5 donation at the door will defray expenses and
benefit www.harmonies.org.
-MCC Project: Each year, Anabaptist churches in the East Coast region donate
nearly 3,000 bags of nonperishable food items to urban areas, including New York
City and Philadelphia. A grocery bags contents are as follows: 32 oz. veg. oil; 2
lbs. pasta; 1 lb. raisins; 32 oz. white rice; 2 cans chicken or tuna (12 oz. ea.); 15 oz.
can tomato sauce; 2 cans fruit (14-16 oz. ea.); 2 cans vegetables (14-16 oz. ea.); 2
cans beans (15.5 oz. ea.); 1 box cereal (14-18 oz.) and 28 oz. peanut butter. Bags

can be brought to the church and Sewing Circle will see they are taken to MCC.
Thank you!
-We are looking at the fourth week of February 2015 to go on an MDS work
week. I would like to have a count of volunteers who plan to go along by Sunday,
November 9.-John Miller
-Thank you for your prayers, words of encouragement, cards and gifts during
Pastor Appreciation Month. We are blessed by your thoughtfulness and generosity!
We ask that you would continue to keep us in your prayers in the coming year.
Thank you! Phil & Kelly, Glen & Mary and Steve & Darlene
-The China team wishes to thank everyone who participated in the Mystery
Supper fundraiser last Saturday. We appreciate your continued support as we plan
for our trip (December 11-24th). Please pray for Gods leading as travel details are
worked out...and pray that God would prepare our hearts and the hearts of the
Chinese people with whom we interact.
-MCC has two urgent Financial Services openings in Akron, PA: Accountant and
Shared Program Accounting Assistant. For more info visit serve.mcc.org or contact
MCC HR at inq@mcc.org or 717-859-1151. Resume and Letter of intent due by
November 4.
Happy Birthday! Caleb Horning today and Brandon Horning on Wed.
October 2014 Offering Report: Total Offerings: $11,816.02
Designated Esther Snader
50.00
Designated China trip
700.00
Designated Playground Improv
400.00
First fruits giving
1,066.61 (District Bishop Fund/Lanc Menn Conf)
Budgeted funds
8,384.00 (Insurance, Ministers, Operating, Gehmans
Missions, Youndt property purchase, Youth)
Friendship Community
405.14
Landis Homes
405.14
Philhaven
405.13