Assisted listening devices
are available at the audiovisual desk.
Please stand and use a
microphone during announcements and sharing
Worship Leader: Jolene
Boshart
Music Leader:
David Breckbill
Greeters: Jerry
& Susan Burkey
Children's Story Next Sunday: Wanda Stauffer
Nursery Today: Tonya
Roth
Nursery Next Sunday: Derek & Terah Stewart
Calendar
Today, 6:30 pm
Holmes Lake Lantern Float
Sunday, August 9
Parent-Child Dedication
Birthdays
and Anniversaries
Thursday, August 6 - Dave Nitzsche
Saturday, August 8 - Stan Harder
Saturday, August 8 - Amber Ratzlaff
Record
for July 26
Attendance: 85
Offering $2,189
July Budget $8,564
July Offerings $8,668
YTD Budget $64,230
YTD Offerings $63,863
Announcements
SPEAKER
TODAY - We welcome Gordon Brubacher, our special speaker this morning.
Gordon received his Ph.D. in Hebrew Bible and Ancient Near Eastern Studies
from Drew University. He has been a professor of Bible, Archeology, and
Ancient Near Eastern Studies at Messiah College, Doane College, and the
Tantur Ecumenical Institute in Jerusalem. He is currently teaching at
Creighton University.
PARENT-CHILD DEDICATION - Next Sunday there will be a
dedication service for Britton Fast and Zachary Boyd and their parents. If any parents are interested in a later child
dedication service that will take place in the fall, please let David Orr
know.
TEACHING OPPORTUNITIES - New opportunities are coming
this fall for Sunday School teachers. Be thinking about how you might help out.
LEARNING TOGETHER - The women of FMC will have the
opportunity to study the Bible together this fall. We will meet on Saturday mornings at 6:30 a.m. at church
beginning September 12. The 12-week
study will follow Beth Moore's video series, "Believing in God". All women are welcome! Please let Barb or Wanda know soon if you
can come so that they can order you a book.
LETTER TO FIRST MENNONITE
CHURCH:
Hello Church Family,
I have been offered the
opportunity to participate a peace workshop this August.
I am looking forward to sharing what I
have learned from this experience here and in Canada, where I go to
University. I am already scheduled to
speak at First Mennonite the first Sunday I am back, and am excited to see
what that initiates.
If you are interested in hearing more or
possibly helping with finances for the trip, I have a letter with more
information. I will be in the lobby after the service. Thank you for your
support!
Peace,
Sara Brubacher
TOO BUSY TO COME TO A RETREAT? - Then this is the retreat
for you! Women's Retreat at Swan Lake
Christian Camp, Viborg, South Dakota on September 19-20, 2009. Andrea Wall will help us to spend time
reflecting on our busy lives and addressing the question, "God is not in a
hurry...so why are we all the time?"
This will be a weekend where you can put on the brakes, take a much
needed rest, be offered permission to consider slowing down and to discover
pathways to the abundant life that God is offering you. For a schedule of the weekend, check the
registration form and poster that was sent to our church. Cost: $55.
HOLMES LAKE LANTERN FLOAT TODAY - The Annual Hiroshima-Nagasaki
Commemoration and Lantern Float at Holmes Lake commemorates President
Truman's August 2, 1945, decision to drop the atomic bomb on Japan. It also
looks forward to recently promised agreements to reduce the number of nuclear
weapons in the world and examines the threat that STRATCOM may pose to
nuclear peace. The event will include
statements from the victims of the bomb, the construction of the Japanese
lanterns for the float, traditional instrument music, clerical statements,
poetry and more. The event will begin
at 6:30 P.M. with the making of the lanterns, the formal program will begin
at 7 P.M., and the floating of the lanterns on the lake will come when
darkness comes, about 9 P.M. Materials
for the lanterns will be provided.
First Mennonite Church is a co-sponsor.
BIRTHDAY OFFERING NEXT WEEK - We will celebrate all the
August birthdays and anniversaries next Sunday with a special offering during
the worship service. All the money is
used to help with the education of three Indian students. You are invited to contribute if your
celebration is in August.
First Mennonite Church, 7300 Holdrege, Lincoln, NE 68505 (402)467-1526
