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 4, 2012

Prayer Sunday School Worship Service Prelude Call to Worship Hymn of Praise Offering Worship in Song Message: God Speaks Through Prayer Hymn of Response Sharing Time/Pastoral Prayer Benediction Today: Greeters Sunday School Nursery Church Nursery Fellowship Meal today, all are welcome! Next Week: Greeters Song Leader Offering Scripture Reading Message Sunday School Nursery Church Nursery 8:15 AM 9:00 AM 10:00 AM Liz Good Doug Musselman John Miller Worship Team Steve McCosby John Miller Steve McCosby

Glenn & Margaret Gockley Tamarah & Shelby Lamar & Michelle

Nelson & Cindy Horning Irvin Martin Maranda Gockley Mike Brown Glen Martin Karen & Kelly Steve & Darlene

Offerings: The offerings in November are for Gehman Missionary Support (Flamms, Millers, Miners, Phillips, and Snader) and budgeted items. Attendance for last week was 127. Offering for last week was $3,835.00. Nov. 4, Sun.-Gap Male Chorus at 7 p.m. at Blainsport Mennonite Church. Nov. 7, Wed.-Youth Bible Study, 7 p.m. at the church. Nov. 8, Thurs.-Dr. D. Holmes Morton, cofounder of the Clinic for Special Children

in Strasburg, Pa., presents two lectures about the clinics work at 3:45 p.m. and 7:30 p.m., at Elizabethtown Colleges Gibble Auditorium in Esbenshade Hall. In the 3:45 talk, Caring for the Patient in the Time of Genomics, Morton describes the benefits of the small-scale way the clinic practices medicine. In the 7:30 talk, Plain People and Modern Medicine, he discusses how the clinics work has affected medical outcomes and provided economic value for Plain communities. For more information, contact the Young Center for Anabaptist and Pietist Studies at 717361-1470 or visit www.etown.edu/youngctr. Nov. 10, Sat.- Jr.Youth Fall Party at Carl and Sylvia Eberly's house from 6:30-8:30 p.m. Weather permitting we plan to be outside. Please dress warmly. If you have any questions please contact Todd and Heidi Carvell or Doug and Maria Musselman. Nov. 18, Sun.-During the offering, the children, as well as anyone else, can bring food as well as money to the front of the church and what is collected will be given to a homeless shelter for the Thanksgiving meal. On the table in the back is a list of food that the homeless shelter would be able to use. Thanks! -Outreach Committee Nov. 18, Sun.-Everyone is welcome to participate in a time of singing hymns together with the residents of Denver Nursing Home. Please meet in the dining hall on the lower level at 2:45 p.m. Nov. 19, Mon.-Ministry Team meeting at 6 p.m. and Board of Elders meeting at 7 p.m. Thanks for your prayers for these meetings. If you have questions, encouragement, suggestions, etc. for our church please share them with the ministry team. Your input is welcomed! -Share your faith this Christmas holiday! Christmas International House links international students from colleges across the US to Christian host families willing to open their hearts and homes for 2 weeks in Dec. Hosting brings missions to your family as cultures are exchanged and relationships built. Students pay their own transportation and host families provide lodging, meals and a family centered American Christmas. This years program, hosted by Hinkletown Mennonite Church, runs from 12/18-01/02. Visit our website at: www.cihtown.com for more information and to sign up to host. -If anyone is aware of a small house, duplex or large apartment for rent that would be suitable for a family with two young children, please contact Darlene. Thank you! -There is interest in a new members/baptism class in the near future. Contact Pastor Phil if you would like to participate in this bi-weekly class or have interest in baptism and/or becoming a member of our church or have questions about this. -If anyone is in need of or knows someone with a need for food, Morgan has a limited number of turkeys and chickens that may be available, possibly donated, depending on the situation. Please contact her at church or call 717-575-3531. -An MDS work week in Birmingham , Alabama is planned for Jan. 27-Feb. 1, 2013. Please sign up on the sheet on the table in the narthex by November 4. Thank you for considering helping others in this way. John Miller -On the table in the narthex is a sign up sheet for families or individuals to do dramatized performances or readings on Biblical accounts of Christs birth for the 2012 Christmas program. Sign up by Nov. 4th. Happy Birthday! Brandon Horning on Mon., Bethany Horning on Fri., and

Phonsavan Panyanouvong on Sat. October 2012 Offering Report-Total offerings: $12,537.35 Designated Youndt property 460.00 Designated Esther Snader 100.00 Designated China Trip 160.00 First fruits giving 1,181.74 (District Bishop Fund/Lanc Menn Conf) Budgeted funds 8,088.00 (Insurance, Ministers, Operating, Gehmans Missions, Youndt property purchase, Youth) Friendship Community 849.21 Landis Homes 849.20 Philhaven 849.20