Water and Life
August 13, 2023
Hidden Acres Camp
We gather to praise our loving God …
Prelude
Call to worship & prayer
Hymns: Morning has broken VT 495
Praise, I will praise you, Lord VT 131
Thanksgiving for water
All: We praise you, O God, for water!
Hymn: Your Love is Washing Over Me VT 166
….to listen for God’s Word ….
Scripture: Genesis 1: 1-9
Hymn: For the Beauty of the Earth VT 120
Children’s time
Song: I’ve Got Peace Like a River
Scripture: Psalm 104: 10-13; Isaiah 41:17-18
Meditation
….responding with gratitude ….
Give Us This Water: A Group Reflection
All: Give me this water, that I may not thirst.
Hymn: O Healing River VT 706
Congregational sharing and prayer
Hymn: I Saw a Tree by the Riverside VT 514
Offering/Offertory
….and sent forth as bearers of God’s peace.
Announcements
Hymn: The Peace of the Earth be with You VT 838
Grace and Benediction
Leading us in worship:
Worship leader/Congregational prayer: Joy Wagler
Scripture readers: Leah Finnie, Caleb Finnie
Readers: Chris Finnie, Christine Helmuth, Andrea Kennel, Esther Kennel, Mark Scheerer, Sandy Scheerer, and Joanne Schwartzentruber.
Children’s Time: Mark Scheerer
Musicians: Darryl Drudge, Elaine Finnie, Marilyn Steinmann
Meditation: Pastor Louise Wideman
Grace & Benediction: Pastor Sara Erb AV:
Cliff Kennel & Steve Kennel
August Special Offering and Kid’s Offering: Mennonite Central Committee school kits. Donate directly or find kit contents at https://mcccanada.ca/get-involved/kits/school. Content lists are on the table in the main hallway.
Today
Outdoor service at Hidden Acres Mennonite Camp. Potluck lunch following the worship service; everyone welcome.
The service will not be livestreamed; rather, it will be posted to the website later in the day.
Next Sunday August 20
10:00 a.m. Livestream and in-person worship in the sanctuary.
Scripture: 2 Kings 5:1-19
Speaker: Pastor Sara Erb
Congregational Life
August 17 (Thur.) at 9 a.m. – 12 noon Steinmann members are needed to help cut rags at the MCC Material Resources Centre. Thank you for your help.
Aug. 22 (Tues.) 4 – 5 p.m. & 6:30 p.m. Pickleball.
Note: no Pickleball on Tues. Aug 15th
Wider Community
Ontario Mennonite Music Camp, community events
- Aug. 20 (Sun.) 10:30 a.m. Chapel Service at Luther Village on the Park, 139 Father David Bauer Dr.
- Aug. 25 (Fri.) 7 p.m. Final Concert at Conrad Grebel University College, 140 Westmount Rd. N.
Sept. 25 (Mon.) 7:00-8:30 p.m. Online. MCC Ontario Annual General Meeting. For details mcco.ca/AGM.
Oct. 14 (Sat) 5 p.m. & 7 p.m. Empty Bowls for Haiti at Steinmann Mennonite Church. Tickets go on sale Aug. 16.
MCEC Seeks an Operations and Finance Director: This person will be a strategic thinker, experience serving on an executive team, is able to think long-term while also able to shape the appropriate execution through the Operations team. This is a full-time, permanent position. More information at mcec.ca
The Abner Martin Music Scholarship ($4,000 value last year) is awarded annually by Menno Singers to a student who: 1) will be enrolled in a full-time music major or minor program at the undergraduate or graduate level in 2023-2024); 2) is affiliated with an MCEC congregation; and 3) has demonstrated involvement and proficiency in musical activities in church and community. Application deadline is September 15, 2023. For more information and/or an application form contact Lewis Brubacher, lbrubacher@sympatico.ca.
MCC Material Resource Centre (65 Heritage Dr., New Hamburg) is offing a tour at 10 a.m. the 3rd Thursday each month.
Come sing in the Mennonite Mass Choir in a performance of Handel’s Messiah with the Kitchener-Waterloo Symphony at Centre in the Square on Sun., Dec. 10 (afternoon). Monday evening rehearsals begin on Sept. 25 at First Mennonite Church (800 King St E, Kitchener) from 7:30-9:30pm. For more info and to register go to www.mennosingers.com.
The Inter-Mennonite Children’s Choir is still looking for a few more singers to join us. Rehearsals start on Tuesday Sept. 12 at W-K United Mennonite Church for children in grades 1 and up. For more information www.mennosingers.com/imcc sign up by August 28.
MCEC announces the appointment of Myrna Miller Dyck to the positon of Regional Ministry Associate (RMA).
Personal Notes
Jon & Alex Lebold are preparing for Alex’s radiation treatment beginning August 23. A meal train has been set up. Click on the link to sign up https://bit.ly/3OEw8sC.
Administrative Assistant, Dawna Whitehead will be on vacation Tuesday, Aug. 15 –Monday, Aug. 28. Thanks to Marilyn Steinmann and Darlene Gingerich for helping with the bulletin while Dawna is away.
Ben Cassels will begin as Pastor of Witness and Resourcing on Tuesday, August 22.
Congratulations to Jean Gingerich who is celebrating her 93rd birthday on Monday, August 14.
Congratulations to Richard & Ardys Brenneman who are celebrating their 53rd anniversary on Tuesday, August 15.
Remember in Prayer
Let us pray for all involved in leadership for Bible Camp at Steinmann MC next week.
We continue to remember Nyle & Kathleen Hofstetter; Sandra Roth and family; and Ruby Gingerich and family as they live with changes in their lives.
Prayer request from Mennonite World Conference:
- India – for cooling rains, and the All India Mennonite Woman’s Conference being planned for October.
This week join Mennonite Church Eastern Canada (MCEC) in prayer for Mannheim Mennonite Church, Petersburg, ON and Nith Valley Mennonite Church, New Hamburg, ON.