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First Mennonite Church
405 Myrtle Avenue Iowa City, IA 52246 Phones: 319-338-0302; 338-5397 Fax: 319-887- 6903 e-mail:
Directions: Map
Ministers: All members of the congregation
Co-Pastors: Bob and Mag Richer Smith Minster of Community Life: Karla Stoltzfus Detweiler
Pastoral concerns may be shared with the pastors or one of the elders: Lynn Gingerich, Noreen Gingerich, Rosie Hochstetler, Tim Krabill, Dave Sickles,
Donna Wiebe
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GOD GATHERS US
Gathering Music
Welcome and Announcements
(Please pass the friendship books)
Music for Meditation
Call to Worship
Come, let us give thanks to God!
We give thanks today
with our hearts and hands and voices.
Give thanks to our Maker
in whom the whole world rejoices!
We give thanks to the God who gave us birth,
and blesses our journeys with love.
All thanks and praise to God,
who heals and sustains all Creation.
Now thank we all our God,
the Giver of every good and perfect gift!
Hymns:
#94 (blue) Come, ye thankful people
#267 (red) My God, I thank thee
Prayers of the people
GOD SPEAKS TO US
Sharing with the children
Hymn:
#96 (blue) We plow the seeds
Scripture: Genesis1: 1-4, selected Psalm verses,
James 1:17-18
Message Through Testimony. . . .
ALL GOOD GIFTS
GOD WELCOMES US TO THE TABLE
Hymn:
#327 (blue) Great is thy faithfulness
Offering our lives and our gifts
Receiving the bread and cup
Prayer of Thanksgiving
Blessing
PARTICIPANTS
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