Worship

At the heart of Waterford Mennonite is worship. We gather every Sunday morning to worship with joy-filled sharing of gifts, wisdom and life experiences that represent the full diversity of the congregation, all to the glory of God. An intentional effort is made to blend worship and music styles, mixing hymns and choruses, instrumental and vocal, lively and contemplative. We value the God-given gifts of all ages and work diligently at their discernment, practice and growth. Drawing upon scriptural themes, we include visual arts, drama, and other art forms to further our praise of God in our worship services.

If you would like to be involved in worshiping with us at Waterford Mennonite Church come to one of our two services and become an active part of our community praising God.

Winter Worship Series

Holistic Health, cont.

On January 11 we will return to our Holistic Health Worship Series. Prior to Advent, we devoted two Sundays to focusing on our spiritual health and one Sunday focusing on our healthy boundaries and sexuality. As we pick up the series again, we will spend time considering how we are invited as followers of Jesus to seek health and wholeness with our physical, emotional and mental, and relational health.

Layna and Lacy Stoltzfus will continue to offer the gift each week of a liturgical dance. Loanne Harms will continue to work on our visual arts collage of items we have contributed. As a reminder, here are items to bring for the upcoming Sundays. There will be a basket located at the entrances to the sanctuary where you can place your items.

• Jan. 11: Physical health—something medical, an adhesive bandage, a splint, gauze, medicine bottle, etc.
• Jan. 18 & 25: Emotional/mental health—incense, CD, mantra, yoga pose, stress ball, anything that helps you relax or focus
• Feb. 1: Relational health—photo of friends, family, social media post, address book page, thank you card, etc.
• Feb. 8: Relational health—(although we are not including financial in this series, we did focus on this last year and want to include it in our collage, so) check book page, check, balance sheet, small coins, etc.
• Feb. 15: Holistic Health—weaving it together and final collage (hopefully)

We are grateful for the wealth of knowledge, wisdom, and experience within our faith community. We look forward to hearing from a variety of voices during this series as guest preachers, members of panels, and weekly testimonies.

Date	Theme	Preacher or Panel Members
1/11	Physical Health	Cindy Voth
1/18	Mental and Emotional Health	Panel: John Kaufman, Judy Snyder, Sheldon Swartz, facilitated by Deron Bergstresser
1/25	Mental and Emotional Health	JE Misz
2/1	Relational Health	Deanna Beth Chupp
2/8	Relational Health	Panel: John Hershberger, Gilberto Perez, Cindy Voth, facilitated by Brent Beck
2/15	Holistic Health:  Weaving them all together	Katie Misz

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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