Larry's Sunday message is available to watch on our facebook page Cerro Gordo Church of the Brethren.
If you aren't on facebook and/or would like to read his script, here it is.
MATTHEW 10:16 – Behold, I send you out as sheep in the midst
of wolves; be ye therefore wise as serpents, and innocent as doves.
Below are our announcements for the week.
April
4: Lord’s
Storehouse Easter box contributions due. Suggested amount, $25.00 per box.
Please put any donations in Carol’s mailbox at church or drop them off on Carol’s
front porch. Checks can be made out to The Lord’s Storehouse.
April
5: Palm
Sunday, no worship in the church
Offerings:
Please
mail your offerings to the church at PO Box 45 or, if you have a key to the
church and would rather put it in the donation box at the back of the
sanctuary, you may do so but please use a regular offering envelope or an
envelope that you have labeled “offering.”
**Let
Stacie Warren know of any supplies you need and are unable to get for yourself.
Someone in the church will get them for you.
Tentative:
April
8:
7:00 p.m. Executive Committee
April
12: 7:00 Easter Sunrise Service & Breakfast HERE
April
19: 12:00
All church birthday dinner—potluck
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First Sunday of the month: Food
Banks
Food
needs: boxes of cereal, boxes of prepared foods, such as soups, potatoes, rice,
mac & cheese, peanut butter, jelly
Donation Box: Camp
Emmanuel
--Don’t
forget to check mailboxes when you are able.
--Women’s
Fellowship is looking for a strawberry festival chair or co-chairs.
Keep
in Your Prayers
Adiline Young; Barb
Baker; Kim Lehmann; Dylan Junior; Doug Fansler; Clyde and Nancy Fansler; Liam
Martina; Ali Bryant; Jeff Sawyer; Liza
Yore; Candy Dobson; Anna Rose Larrick; Mike Gentry; Gary Jesse; Robert
& Laurie Morr; Norm & Marge Starr; Shawn Cain; Robert Cripe; Mayo
Hanaver; Zola Copeland and family; Tim and Betty Sue Laird; Larry Nall; Leslie
Lake; Jennifer Like; Patty Cripe; Lauren Gross: Denice Mosbach; Stacie Warren; Parker
West; many unspoken requests; traveling mercies for those on the road;
Coronavirus crisis
Military and Other
Services and their families
Brethren Volunteer
Service workers; Disaster project workers
Prayers and cards of encouragement are requested for our Shut-ins:
Zola Copeland – 214 E. Fitch St. Forsyth, IL.
62535-9668
Anna Rose Larrick – C/O Evergreen Place
#110
4825 E. Evergreen Ct.
Decatur IL. 62521
Shawn Cain – 208
West Wait St. Cerro Gordo IL. 61818
217-871-5179
Robert Cripe – 21
Park Street Danville IL. 61832
"Prayer for a
Pandemic"
by Dr. Cameron Wiggins Bellm of Seattle, Washington:
May we who are merely inconvenienced
Remember those whose lives are at stake.
May we who have no risk factors
Remember those most vulnerable.
May we who have the luxury of working from home
Remember those who must choose between preserving their health or making their rent.
May we who have the flexibility to care for our children when their schools close
Remember those who have no options.
May we who have had to cancel our trips
Remember those that have no safe place to go.
May we who are losing our margin money in the tumult of the economic market
Remember those who have no margin at all.
May we who settle in for a quarantine at home
Remember those who have no home.
As fear grips our country,
Let us choose love.
During this time when we cannot physically wrap our arms around each other
Let us yet find ways to be the loving embrace of God to our neighbors.
Amen.
