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Feb. 18 announcement
Congregational Announcements
Contact person for Mennonite College Task Force needed. Coordinate annual fund raiser meal, Mennonite College visits, Chair meetings with the Task Force when needs arise, communicate with the Scholarship Coordinator (Gayle Funk). Contact Gayle Funk or the church office with questions or to volunteer.
2018 Anabaptist Vision and Discipleship Series (AVDS) with the theme “Before the unthinkable happens: Confronting our role in injustice,” Feb. 23 to 25 on the Hesston College campus. See more information and register at hesston.edu/avds.
Please sign up on the bulletin board if you plan to attend. Cost for registration is $75 but Tabor Deacons will help offset registration costs.
Attention Young Adults! There will be an Area Wide PC-PF (Post College – Pre Family) Pizza and Bowling Night on Saturday, February 24. Meet at the Newton Pizza Hut at 6pm for supper and then bowling afterward at Play-Mor Lanes. Please bring money for supper and bowling. This group is designed for young adults in similar life stages to socialize together. If you have questions, please contact Kristin Unruh- kristin.unruh. Hope to see you there!
Camp WaShunGa: The annual fundraiser meal for our Jr Highers to attend Camp WaShunGa will take place at noon on March 5. Support our Jr. Highers!
Between Me & You, Lent to Easter devotionals are made available to families through MennoMedia. Copies for families with children were placed in mailboxes. Additional copies are available for anyone who would like one on the table in the foyer.
New Hope Shelter: Volunteer training at the shelter on Monday, Feb. 19, 6:30 – 8pm. Contact Austin Unruh with questions.
Commodities for February will be distributed on Friday February 23, at Goessel Mennonite Church from 5-6 p.m. Contact Jenny Girard at 620-747-0046 with questions.
Red Cross has a URGENT need for all blood types! The next drive at Goessel Church is Wed. Feb. 21 from 2:00-6:00. Make an appointment on line at redcrossblood.org (sponsor code: Goessel), by talking to Rosi (367-2418), or calling 1-800-RED-CROSS (800-733-2767).
Conference Announcements
Prayer Requests:
« Western District Conference: Pray for WDC’s Stewardship Commission as they meet this week and give oversight to the financial resources and property of the conference.
Aurora Parchmont started as Associate Pastor at Iglesia Menonita Casa del Alfarero in Pasadena, TX in December 2017, and will celebrate her installation service on February 18.
« Mennonite Mission Network: Mark and Mary Hurst of MMN serve as resource people and pastors with the Anabaptist Association of Australia and New Zealand. Pray for them as they build relationships with people seeking God and a way of living that centers on Jesus’ justice and shalom.
« Mennonite Education Agency: Pray for prospective students and their parents who are visiting Bethel College on Monday, and for all those young people across the church who are exploring the option of a Mennonite higher education.
The WDC/SCC Women’s Spring Supper will be at 6 pm on Thurs., March 15, at Whitestone Mennonite Church, 629 Crescent Drive in Hesston. Meal for $10 by Whitestone Mennonite Youth with payment to them. Program at 7 pm with Joanna Gerber Pinkerton, daughter of Mennonite missionaries in the Belgian Congo, on Faith in Every Day Life. Music, Sadie and the Larks, from Hesston College. Offering for AIMM, Women’s Literacy training in the Congo. Checks made to WDWM and memo line AIMM. Reservations due by March 8 to Marlene Faul, 316-283-3342 or westerndistrictwomen
Camp Mennoscah
—Spring Scrapbook and Crafts Retreats are here! Feb. 23-25 and March 2-4.
—Hymn Sing and Dessert Auction for “Creation, Craftiness, and Cooling Off”! 4-6 p.m. on Sunday, February 25, at Whitestone Mennonite Church, Hesston. Funds raised will go toward the Camp Mennoscah general fund. Come and join us!
—Youth Volunteer Weekend for grades 7-12 is March 16-17!
—Kitchen helpers needed for our summer youth camps. The renovations of the kitchen will be complete and it will be a whole new world of cooking fun. Parents receive a camper discount up to full camp fees.
Information for all events at Camp Mennoscah or to register:
Online at www.campmennoscah.org
Telephone: 620-297-3290.
Email: office.
Contact: olivia.bartel.
Do you know high-school students with gifts for leadership and ministry? AMBS’s !Explore program gives students in grades 10–12 the opportunity to explore ministry and theology, grow in spiritual practices and biblical engagement and listen for God’s call. The program includes a 100-hour congregational internship and a Group Experience (July 3–18, 2018). Tap a shoulder! Applications are due Feb. 15. ambs.edu/explore
MCC Annual Meeting: Everyone is invited to join the board and staff of Mennonite Central Committee Central States for our annual meeting on Friday, February 23 at 10:30am at the MCC Center (121 E. 30th, North Newton, KS 67117).
MCC SALT positions now available! Serving and Learning Together (SALT) is a year-long, cross-cultural service experience. Through SALT, Christian young adults from Canada and the U.S. serve internationally in a wide variety of positions in fields like education, agriculture, health care, information technology, peace and more! Start now at salt.mcc.org, to find answers to frequently asked questions, assignment options and to apply, don’t delay. The deadline to sign up is Feb. 15!
Bethel College
—Sun., Feb. 25 – Sunday-Afternoon-at-the-Museum with Christy Davis, executive director, Symphony in the Flint Hills, 3 p.m., on “The Other Chisholm Trail: Little-Known Facts About the Great Cattle Drives,” Kauffman Museum
—Sun., Feb. 25 – Staley Lecture with Malinda Elizabeth Berry, a professor of theology and ethics at Anabaptist Mennonite Biblical Seminary, 7 p.m., on “Practicing and Embodying Nonviolence,” Krehbiel Auditorium in Luyken Fine Arts Center at Bethel College. Berry will also speak in convocation, Mon., Feb. 26, 11 a.m., Krehbiel Auditorium.
Verenike supper at First Mennonite Church, 427 W 4th in Halstead, February 24 from 4:30-7 pm. Cost by donation, proceeds go to church missions.
The Newton Et Cetera Shop is hiring a housewares sorter/receiver for 20-30 hours/week. The sorter/receiver maintains an active presence in the processing area, in both receiving and sorting donations. S/he will be primarily responsible for sorting through houseware donations, placing items in appropriate price categories, recycling and discarding, as needed. The full job description and applications are available at the store (619 N. Main in Newton) or via e-mail at generalmanager@
newtonetceterashop.com. Applications are due Monday, March 5, and can be submitted in person to the general manager or by e-mail.
Kansas Mennonite Relief Sale
Praising God Through Service
Sale Dates: April 13 – 14, 2018
REMEMBERING 50 years of the Relief Sale in Kansas
The 7th Annual Relief Sale was held April 12, 1975. It was still the Mid-Kansas MCC Relief Sale at that time. Ed Reimer, chief auctioneer, commenced the auction at 9:00 AM after some music, opening remarks, and prayer. According to Chairman Eldo Kroeker’s report, the bidding was brisk, the items were of high quality and approximately $100,000 of receipts were received. Attitudes were great as well. “The Lord loveth a cheerful giver” and you (the people who worked to put on the Sale) were most cheerful. Attendance was estimated at around 15,000 people. $108,200 was sent to MCC. Two hundred sixty-six quilts, comforters, afghans and crocheted items were sold. As we celebrate our 50th Annual Sale may we remember the service and ministry provided by MCC around the world.
Sale Announcements
—This is the LAST SUNDAY to sign up for the Tabor Lasagna Meal on Feb. 25. Recommended donation of $20 for adults, $6 for kids 6-12 and Children under 6 FREE. Your contact people are donating the food–COME and enjoy it with us as we raise some funds for MCC.
—Children’s COIN offering was $38.20. THANKS
—The MCC Sale Website is getting started with MORE items added daily. Go check it out at: kansas.mccsale.org
—IF you have larger items PLEASE contact Jerry so he can take a picture of your item(s) to get on the website and/or sale bill. Getting pictures on facebook and the website is VERY important in helping your donations bring a good price.
—PRE-SALE EXPENSE report. $77,000 is budgeted for Pre-sale Expense this year. Of that Kansas Mennonites have already raised $52,000. Have YOU helped along?? We are not looking for large gifts; we are looking for mass involvement. Everyone doing a little gets us there. We only have $25,000 to go with 8 weeks left. EXCELLENT work!!! Keep putting your checks in our boxes.
—The 1st KS MCC Sale was held at the newly built Marion County Fairgrounds in 1968 (FIFTY YEARS AGO). The auction attracted about 4,000 people and raised over $18,000. Due to wet weather as well as new highway construction in the area, a shuttle bus was set up to haul hundreds to and from the area. Items ranged from baked goods to antiques, to livestock and quilts. Some of the 150 quilts were reported to sell as HIGH as $1000 each. Verenike were made during the sale. HELP us CELEBRATE 50 years by making something for the sale this year.
New for the 50th Annual Kansas Mennonite Relief Sale. As we meet for our 50th anniversary Sale to raise money for the Mennonite Central Committee, the Sale Board is providing a few new events. One of those events is a program with Mini Auction on Friday night, April 13, and featuring the vocals of the Kansas Mennonite Men’s Chorus. A scavenger hunt for all ages is being organized to help you find things and learn about the workings of the sale. We are providing a time capsule for each Church and Sale Committee to have the opportunity to put a memory into the capsule. The capsule will be opened at the Sale in 25 years. Finally, our brothers and sisters with MDS will be putting on their MCC hats and building a tool shed on the Fairgrounds during the Sale weekend. Construction will start on Friday at noon and the blitz build will be completed by Saturday noon. Sale attendees of all ages will be encouraged to pick up a hammer or a paint brush to help with the construction. The tool shed will be auctioned as part of the General Auction. Please mark your calendars for April 13 and 14 for the 50th Annual MCC Sale!
For more information on any sale announcements, please see Tabor liaisons, Kristin and Archie Schmidt, Eric Litwiller, or Jerry and Leann Toews.
Feb. 11 announcements
Congregational Announcements
Olympic Couple’s Competition: Come join us on February 18 from 3-5pm in the Tabor Fellowship Hall for a fun couple’s competition featuring Olympic style minute-to-win-it games! Sign up on the bulletin board with your partner. Couples of all ages and stages are welcome, whether married, engaged, dating, single friends, etc… Childcare will be provided in the parsonage basement. Olympic medals will be awarded for each event! We look forward to seeing you there!
Tabor Mennonite Women
—Coming to your mailbox soon! A schedule of events that we hope many of you would love to attend. And, a sign up sheet for you to help in a variety of ways.
—Our first event will be a fun evening of hearing Carol Duerksen interview exchange students from Spain and Germany. This event will be on Monday, Feb. 12 at 7 p.m.
—We are looking for a couple volunteers to join Violeta on the social committee.
Please contact Barb Banman for more information.
Tabor Church’s week of service at New Hope Shelter is February 14 to 20.
We are asked to fill the 5-11 schedule each day and also the 11 pm to 8 am schedule on Friday and Saturday, February 16 & 17. We need 2 volunteers for each shift.
Please sign-up on the sheet posted in the foyer. Your help is appreciated so very much and shelter residents will tell you that when you are with them. They are all very appreciative. If you have questions, please let Austin Unruh or Barb Abrahams know. We have a sheet that can guide you through the evening activities and tells you what to do when, during your shift. If anyone is interested, we can give you a copy of that. This can be helpful when you are volunteering. Thanks to all of you!
Stories & Stuff is meeting on Thursday, February 15 at 10am. Bring a friend and come for good fellowship and tasty food!
2018 Tabor Church Directory will be printed soon. Please email updates/changes to kfunk or place in the secretaries mailbox.
Contact person for Mennonite College Task Force needed. Coordinate annual fund raiser meal, Mennonite College visits, Chair meetings with the Task Force when needs arise, communicate with the Scholarship Coordinator (Gayle Funk). Contact Gayle Funk or the church office with questions or to volunteer.
2018 Anabaptist Vision and Discipleship Series (AVDS) with the theme “Before the unthinkable happens: Confronting our role in injustice,” Feb. 23 to 25 on the Hesston College campus. See more information and register at hesston.edu/avds.
Please sign up on the bulletin board if you plan to attend. Cost for registration is $75 but Tabor Deacons will help offset registration costs.
Attention Young Adults! There will be an Area Wide PC-PF (Post College- Pre Family) Pizza and Bowling Night on Saturday, February 24. Meet at the Newton Pizza Hut at 6pm for supper and then bowling afterward at Play-Mor Lanes. Please bring money for supper and bowling. This group is designed for young adults in similar life stages to socialize together. If you have questions, please contact Kristin Unruh- kristin.unruh. Hope to see you there!
Between Me & You, Lent to Easter devotionals are made available to families through MennoMedia. Copies for families with children were placed in mailboxes. Additional copies are available, for anyone who would like one, on the table in the foyer.
Rejoice is a daily devotional made available by our Education Co. to anyone who would like one. The March – May issue is now available on the table in the foyer or on the north facing mailbox shelf. Please feel free to take one for your personal use.
Commodities for February will be distributed on Friday February 23, 2018 at Goessel Mennonite Church from 5-6 p.m. Contact Jenny Girard for questions at 620-747-0046.
Red Cross has a URGENT need for all blood types! More than 500 drives have been cancelled due to weather and on top of that, illness has kept people from donating. Currently, blood donations are put to use as soon as they are collected. The next drive at Goessel Church is Wed. Feb. 21 from 2:00-6:00. Make an appointment on line at redcrossblood.org (sponsor code: Goessel), by talking to Rosi (367-2418), or calling 1-800-RED-CROSS (800-733-2767).
Conference Announcements
Prayer Requests:
« Western District Conference: Pray for WDC’s Gifts Discernment Committee as they begin to consider nominees to fill leadership roles on WDC’s Executive Board and commissions next year.
« Mennonite Mission Network: Join MMN in praising God for the growth of Christ’s body in Israel. A mission worker reports that when the nation was founded in 1948, only 12 Jewish people counted themselves believers. Now, there are about 25,000-30,000 believers in approximately 300 Arab and Messianic congregations.
« Mennonite Education Agency: Thank God for Bethel College alumni who share their musical gifts with the college community, such as Roseann Penner Kaufman, organ, presenting a recital, “Moved by the Spirit,” in Bethel’s chapel this afternoon.
The WDC/SCC Women’s Spring Supper will be at 6 pm on Thurs., March 15, at Whitestone Mennonite Church, 629 Crescent Drive in Hesston. Meal for $10 by Whitestone Mennonite Youth with payment to them. Program at 7 pm with Joanna Gerber Pinkerton, daughter of Mennonite missionaries in the Belgian Congo, on Faith in Every Day Life. Music, Sadie and the Larks, from Hesston College. Offering for AIMM, Women’s Literacy training in the Congo. Checks made to WDWM and memo line AIMM. Reservations due by March 8 to Marlene Faul, westerndistrictwomen
Camp Mennoscah
— Recruiting summer staff! Hesston, Tabor, Bethel, McPherson Colleges Feb. 12-15 respectively. Summer staff applications are available online at campmennoscah.
org/application. Pizza gathering at Papa John’s in Newton, Feb. 14 at 6:15pm-ish. Please let us know you’re coming!
— 2018 catalog is available. Copies can be found online or on the table in the foyer. Our summer theme is “Beyond Belief! The Universe of God” and we’ll be learning how God’s endless love launches amazing adventures.
—Spring Scrapbook and Crafts Retreats are here! Feb. 23-25 and March 2-4.
—Hymn Sing and Dessert Auction for “Creation, Craftiness, and Cooling Off”! 4-6 p.m. on Sunday, February 25, at Whitestone Mennonite Church, Hesston. Funds raised will go toward the Camp Mennoscah general fund. Come and join us!
Information for all events at Camp Mennoscah or to register:
Online at www.campmennoscah.org
Telephone: 620-297-3290.
Email: office.
Contact: olivia.bartel.
Do you know high-school students with gifts for leadership and ministry? AMBS’s !Explore program gives students in grades 10–12 the opportunity to explore ministry and theology, grow in spiritual practises and biblical engagement and listen for God’s call. The program includes a 100-hour congregational internship and a Group Experience (July 3–18, 2018). Tap a shoulder! Applications are due Feb. 15. ambs.edu/explore
MCC Annual Meeting: Everyone is invited to join the board and staff of Mennonite Central Committee Central States for our annual meeting on Friday, February 23 at 10:30am at the MCC Center (121 E. 30th, North Newton, KS 67117).
MCC SALT positions now available! Serving and Learning Together (SALT) is a year-long, cross-cultural service experience. Through SALT, Christian young adults from Canada and the U.S. serve internationally in a wide variety of positions in fields like education, agriculture, health care, information technology, peace and more! Start now at salt.mcc.org, to find answers to frequently asked questions, assignment options and to apply, don’t delay the deadline to sign up is Feb. 15!
“Writing to Save Your Life” workshop offered on Saturday, Feb. 17, 2018, at Pine Village Wellness Center, Moundridge. Learn how writing can be used as a tool for healing and transformation. Katherine B. Wiens M. Ed, LPC author of Bars, Dumps and Other Childhood Hangouts, will share her insights and experience in using writing as a healing tool. Joanna Pinkerton, freelance artist and creator of the book Scripture Doodle will explain her new creative process “Until We Have Wings” using art and writing to work through the grief process. The $20 workshop will be from 9am–12noon. The $10 bonus, hands-on workshop 1-3pm will be opportunity to apply what was introduced in the morning session. For info or to register, contact Barb Orsi (barborsi kjgo 316-371-6189). Sponsored by the StoryTellers of the Great Plains.
Graduate Students in Healthcare Professions: Mennonite Healthcare Fellowship (MHF) offers educational grants for Anabaptist students to learn and serve in cross-cultural mission/service settings in developing countries. Deadline for 2018-19 academic year is May 15, 2018. For details and application form, see info, or call 1-888-406-3643.
Bethel College Alumni Choir concert, Sunday, Feb. 11, 3 p.m., at Trinity Heights United Methodist Church in Newton.
Verenike supper at First Mennonite Church, 427 W 4th in Halstead, February 24 from 4:30-7 pm. Cost by donation, proceeds go to church missions.
Kansas Mennonite Relief Sale
Praising God Through Service
Sale Dates: April 13 – 14, 2018
REMEMBERING 50 years of the Relief Sale in Kansas
In 1974 the Quilt and Comforter Committee reported 208 numbered items that brought a total of $18,096 to be used by MCC. The highest price received for a quilt was $820. The amount sent to MCC in ’74 was $68,400.23 which was a substantial increase from the ’73 donation of $45,787.43. Sale day, April 6 of 1974 was described as “No rain but lots of wind” with the Sale held at the Fairgrounds in Hutchinson. The indoor auction was started after music by the Ebenfeld Mennonite Church Men’s Quartet and words of encouragement and prayer by Pastor Paul Isaac of Bethel Mennonite Church, Inman. The outside Sale of farm machinery and miscellaneous items began at 10:00 AM. The 5th Annual Open House on Friday was considered a great success. The Sale went beyond expectations thanks to the people who came with generosity in their hearts. Chairman Kroeker thanked people in his report with the phrase “May our Lord bless you richly as you do it ‘in the name of Christ’”.
Sale Announcements
—Children’s Coin offering brought in $54.71. EXCELLENT, THANKS for helping. Bring your coins and paper money to church each Sunday to help along.
—Thanks for putting your Pre-Sale Expense checks into our church boxes. Keep it up. More is needed to meet the $80,000 budget. MANY small gifts make it happen. Do what you can.
—We are celebrating the 50th Anniversary of the KS Relief Sale this year. LOTS of special events are being planned with Special emphasis on helping elevate all types of World Suffering thru Positive MCC Programs.
—MCC is one of the MOST efficient run Humanitarian Aid Organizations in the World where 93 Cents of every Dollar goes directly to where the suffering is. That is a VERY good “bang for your buck”.
—Plan what YOU can make in your shop, or kitchen to donate to the 50th Anniversary Sale.
—Sign up for the Delicious Lasagna Fellowship Meal on Sun., Feb. 25.
For more information on any sale announcements, please see Tabor liaisons, Kristin and Archie Schmidt, Eric Litwiller, or Jerry and Leann Toews.
Feb 11 bulletin
Feb. newsletter
Attached is the February Tabor Church Newsletter. In this issue:
–Worship plans for the season of Lent
–Report from Pastor Phil from the Congregational Concensus Building Conversation held on Jan. 28
–Find out how to help Karina Brandt, serving with Mennonite Mission Network Journey International, by donating coats for the people she is serving
–and more……..
Feb 4 bulletin
Jan 28 bulletin
Jan 21 bulletin
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Jan 21 web.pdf