Grace Bible Fellowship Church Sunday Worship, JANUARY 8, 2017
Missions Focus: Steve & Bethany Chmil Serving with ABWE, planning to go to Togo, West Africa. Pray for prayer and financial support.
Flowers – The flowers have been placed in the church today by Sandy Gority to celebrate her husband Dave’s retirement. Congratulations on your retirement Dave!
Today, January 8 8:45 a.m. – Prayer in the Library 9:15 a.m. – Sunday School 10:30 a.m. – Corporate Worship
Annual Congregational Dinner – Sunday, January 29th, following the AM worship service. Please sign up in the narthex what you will bring and how many will be attending from your family. Congregational meeting will follow the meal.
Welcome & Announcements Personal Preparation & Prelude: Call to Worship: Psalm 34:1-3 I will bless the Lord at all times; His praise shall continually be in my mouth. My soul makes its boast in the Lord; let the humble hear and be glad. Oh, magnify the Lord with me, and let us exalt His name together! Invocation Hymn of Praise: #166 – Wondrous King, All Glorious Offering & Offertory: Doxology: Romans 11:33-36 Oh, the depth of the riches and wisdom and knowledge of God! How unsearchable are His judgments and how inscrutable His ways! “For who has known the mind of the Lord, or who has been His counselor?” “Or who has given a gift to Him that He might be repaid? “For from Him and through Him and to Him are all things. To Him be glory forever. Amen. Scripture Reading & Pastoral Prayer Psalm 114 – Elder Tim Swartz Songs of Praise (Children in grades K-2 dismissed for Children’s Church)
Sermon: Philippians 4:1 “Stand Firm in the Lord” Hymn of Response: #518 (Verses 1-3) – Christ, of All My Hopes the Ground Benediction
Wednesday, January 11 5:00 p.m. Table of Grace (Please sign up) Hamburgers and Hotdogs ($2.50 per person. Children 8 and under eat free)
5:30 p.m. – Spiritual Growth MLT 6:30 p.m. – Grace Kids – K-2nd Grade – Club 9.10 – 3rd-6th Grade – Youth Group – Women’s Bible Study and Prayer – Men’s Bible Study and Prayer * Nursery care available Next Sunday, January 15 8:45 a.m. – Prayer in the Library 9:15 a.m. – Sunday School 10:30 a.m. – Corporate Worship 6:00 p.m. – Sunday Evening Service Statistics for January 1 Worship: 191 Offering ......................................... $7,710.50 Benevolence Offering ..................... $1,116.00 Budget amount needed weekly ..... $7,335.00 Dates to Remember: Jan. 18 – Missions & Service MLT and Property & Maintenance Committee Jan. 25 – Worship MLT Feb 1 – Evangelism & Outreach MLT
Attention Grace BFC kids ages 7-12 – We are planning on attending Victory Valley’s Winter Blast on January 2022. You can check out their website www.victoryvalleycamp.org/index.php/winter-blast for info and to register. Also, parents please let Tiffany Strahan know at
[email protected] if your child is planning to attend. Getting to Know Grace – Are you interested in learning more about our church, the Bible Fellowship Church denomination and church membership? Please sign up on the bulletin board in the narthex. Wonderful Outreach Opportunity – We have been given the opportunity to host a Good News Bible Club at North Side Elementary School starting in mid-January 2017. The club would meet every Tuesday after school for roughly an hour. We need three volunteers for the club. What a great opportunity to reach children in our neighborhood with the gospel! If you would like more information or are interested in helping, please see Pastor Steve. Small Groups – The small groups ministry of Grace BFC exists to provide environments where intentional disciple-making can take place and genuine Christian community can be experienced and developed all to the glory of God. In our small groups, we seek to encourage one another to grow in love for the Lord and Savior Jesus Christ, for the Church and for the lost. If you would like to join a small group, see Pastor Steve.
REMEMBER IN PRAYER Betty Lewis, Irene King, Evelyn Neidig, Lois Reed SERVING AT GRACE Today, January 8 Sunday School – Jill Sunday, R. Maurer Corporate Worship Infant Nursery – J. Good, L. Bell & H. K. Arnold Toddler Nursery – Jill Sunday, K. Gunning Children’s Church – Mary Beth Brice Greeters – Will & Marian Mountain, Nancy Marshall Wednesday, January 11 Nursery – Marge Senft, Kathy Gilliland Toddlers – Greg Swartzentruber, Charity Judson Next Sunday, January 15 Sunday School – L. Rayner, R. Miller Corporate Worship Infant Nursery – K. Carpenter, L. & E. Gipe Toddler Nursery – V. McClymont, T. Kurakin, & Joel Prensner Children’s Church – Missy Wolfe Greeters – Tim & Dawn Swartz, Carol Helman Nursery care is available during our worship service. The infant nursery is upstairs at the end of the hall. The toddler nursery (18 months to 3 years) is downstairs at the end of the hall. Children's church is available for kindergarten through grade 2. 4 years old can go to either Children’s Church or toddler nursery.