10218 SE 12 St., Whitewater, Ks 67154
Can you help?
Request for this Sunday’s Worship Service – Bethel College Sunday – I request volunteers to assist in the worship service this coming Sunday. Available parts:
- Call to Worship
- Offering & Prayer
- Children’s Story
- Benediction
Anyone is welcome to assist in worship – you need not know who Herman Bubbert is. ☺
On April 18
1506 The foundation stone was laid for the new St. Peter’s Basilica in Rome.
1954 Easter sermon, “Because I Live, You Will Also Live” by Rev. Herb Miller.
1965 Easter sermon, “Easter Experienced” by Rev. E.J. Miller.
1970 2nd Annual MCC Sale on the Harvey County Fair Grounds.
1976 Easter sermon, “The Fire That Does Not Consume” by Rev. E.J. Miller.
1976 appreciation is given to Bethel College student Paul Crabb for direction to the church choir.
1980 Senator Mark Hatfield speaks at Bethel College.
1982 100th Anniversary of the dedication of the First Church Building in America.
Worship Service:
Prelude: Emma Mae Litton
Pastor: Vernon Lohrentz
Former Pastor: Rev. Herbert Miller (Pastor from 1949-1964)
Message: Dr. J. Winfield Fretz
Children’s Story: Elsie Harms
Special Music: Men’s Chorus, Melvin Klaassen, Director
Pianist: Elva Unruh
Song Leader: JoAnn Wedel
Stone Church Model Restoration: Bob, Jeff, & Mike Janzen
Social Committee & Spiritual Council
Historians
John F. Schmidt
David Haury
Special Guests:
Erwin Goering, WDC President
Vern Preheim, GC, General Secretary,
Ed Stucky, Bethel College, Dir. of Alumni and Church Relations
J. Winfield Fretz, Mennonite Biblical Seminary
Larry Nikkel, Prairie View, General Administrator
Marie Wiens, MCC Executive
Sunday School Hour: “Looking Back”
Moderator: Virgil Penner
Introductions: Marianne Harms
Presentation: “The Common Cause” David Haury
Hymn No. 532 “To God Be the Glory”
Presentation: “A History of Commitments” Weldon Martens
Hymn No. 358 “Take My Life and Let it Be”
Presentation: “Bits of Grace Hill History” John F. Schmidt
Announcements
Dinner Prayer: Pastor Lohrentz
Sunday Afternoon: Service of Commitment
Prelude: Kaye Penner
Welcome: Merril Harms
Hymn No. 100 “ Ye Servants of God”
Invocation
Hymn No. 262 “Faith of Our Fathers”
Scripture Reading: 1 Corinthians 10:1-5 & 13-17
Meditation: Pastor Lohrentz “Our Participation on the Covenant”
Hymn No. 386 “Heart With Loving Heart United”
A Litany of Dedication: Weldon Martens, Leader
The Bread and the Cup: Pastor Lohrentz
Hymn 203 “Jesus Shall Reign”
Benediction: Pastor Lohrentz
Postlude
Morning Offering for the Local Church: $3,233.30
1998 For the first time the MCC Sale has a “5K Run For Relief” Bulletin: “It’s a great way to work off all the calories you’ll be eating there.”