Fairmont Evangelical Covenant Church

FAIRMONT EVANGELICAL

COVENANT CHURCH MISSION

STATEMENT

We, the Fairmont Evangelical Covenant Church,

are a Praying, Bible-Based God-Fearing,

Christ-Centered, Spirit-Alive Congregation.

We love the Lord Jesus Christ

and desire to serve Him, one another,

our community, and the world.

In obedience to His Word, we seek to fulfill

our calling, each sharing our spiritual gifts.

We have been called and commissioned

by faith in Christ to minister to and pray

for all to know the Lord.

To that end may God, our Father,

be given all the glory!

Church Phone 507-235-6407 Church E-Mail

office@fairmontcovenant.com Church Website

www.fairmontcovenant.com Church Address

901 Woodland Ave. PO. Box 443

Church Office Hours Mon. 9-1 Tues. 9-3 Wed. 9-3 Thurs. 9-3

Office will be closed for the lunch hour

11:45 am to 12:45 pm

Welcome To Worship. We’re Glad You’re Here! Sunday, August 19th, 2018

Opening Song “Open the Eyes of My Heart” Responsive Call to Worship Opening Prayer Praise Song “Come As You Are” Offering Praise Songs “Light the Fire” “Your Mercy” Kids Message Scripture John 6:60-69 “” Morning Message “Follow: Unfollow” Pastor Dan Wheeler Prayer Closing Song “There’s A Light” Benediction

Sermon Notes

THIS WEEK IN OUR CHURCH

Today, Sunday, August 19 9:00 am Worship 10:30 am Summer Coffee—Engman Group Serv-ing 12:00 pm Church on Channel 12 Monday, August 20 Tuesday, August 21 6:30 pm Elders Wednesday, August 22 9:30 am Staff Meeting 5:00 pm Music 6:12 pm Hunger for Healing in the Library

Thursday, August 23 5:15 pm Sacred Steps 6:30 pm Meyer Bible Study 7:00 pm Prison Ministry 8:00 pm Abuse Support Group

Friday, August 24 Saturday, August 25 Youth Room Clean Up Day

Next Sunday, August 26 9:00 am Worship 10:30 am Summer Coffee’s—Diegnau Group Serv-ing 10:30 am Sunday School Teachers and Parent Meeting

FOR YOUR PRAYERS

Our Community Huntley Community Covenant Church

St. John Vianney Church Our Local Outreach

Serving Our World Francisco & Stephanie Ramos Daron & Kristen Jagodzinske

(Kitsap County, WA) Jeff & Angie Martin (UPBC Mission's) Jim & Gloria Senenfelder Mourning

Glory’s Ministry Rachel Hart—Linwood Covenant Church

Kyle & Matilda Tromanhauser—Converge Munich Germany

Say Special Prayers for those Serving Our Country

Parker Hahn (Bob & Kathy Lake’s son-law)

Nathan Lake (Bob & Kathy Lake’s son) David Hoppe

(Roger & Gretchen Hoppe’s grandson) Mark Knobel (Jan Olson’s grandson)

Prayer Requests Many, many prayers have been answered through our prayer chain. We care and are waiting to help you! Please call Dorothy Deguise at 238-1371 to get prayer chain started. On the weekend please call pastor Dan at home 399-2134.

On-line giving to the church is now available on our church website fairmontcovenant.com.

Happy Birthday Jim Barringer August 19 Lathan Rogge August 21 Nola Jongberg August 24

Happy Anniversary Joel & Sheila Zuehlke August 10 Jeremy & Erin Hinkle August 15 Brooks & Sarah Rohman August 21 Doug & Dawn Willner August 21 John & Georgie Pfaffinger August 29

GIVING REPORT General Budget 2018 Weekly Need $4190.16 Received August 12th $3103.06

BUILDING MINISTRY REPORT FOR JULY

Our Goal $ 5772.00 Gifts Received $ 7237.49 Loan Balance $47729.80 During July we received a special gift from a family who has chosen to stay anonymous for $3796.79, which brought our total for July up to $7237.49. Count down to zero!!! On Jan 1st our loan balance was $89,856.65 and today seven months latter we are at $47,729.80. We have paid down the loan by $42,126.85. Dur-ing the next five months we need to average a little over $8500 per month including interest to have our beautiful home paid for in full. We say home because it’s God’s home. It’s home because people who love and care for each other gather here. It’s home because peo-ple share their good and bad time here. It’s home because people find and feel close to God here. We love this building that our fami-ly shares and invites the Holy Spirit to come and bless his children as we bless others. Wel-come Home!!

Questions, please talk with John, Brad or Doug

Operation Christmas Child needs:

School Supplies, Crayons and Coloring

A big THANK YOU goes

out to Lye and Katie Rip-pentrop for mowing the

church grounds. We know it takes a lot of your time to get the job

done, but you do a great job and it looks so nice. We are so appre-

ciative of this.

Another big THANK YOU goes out to Ste-ve Meyer. Steve has been keeping up the flower garden in the front of the church

for many of years. It looks so nice. Keep

up the good work and again thanks.

If you see these people please thank them

for their work they do. We are so blessed.

On Sunday August 26th

there will be a meeting for teacher and parents during

the coffee time to explain the upcoming changes in

our children’s K-6th grade Sunday

School. Also at this same time Pastor Dan will give a brief explanation to the rest of the congregation regarding these

changes.

The Youth Room is in need of a facelift!

The youth leaders and Christian Education

commission are asking for some help to pre-pare the room for paint-

ing and decorating. There are several pieces of furniture that need to

be moved out and the walls need to be cleaned. Anyone available to begin this

project on SATURDAY, AUGUST 25th

would be most appreciated.

Fairmont Elementary School Take It

or Leave it Winter

Clothing Drive will be during the

school conferences on Sept. 4-5 in the cafeteria. There will

be a selection of gently used winter gear (snow pants, coats, gloves, hats, boots)

for families to take as needed for their children. Families are also asked to bring such items that their children have

outgrown to the Elementary Office (anytime during business hours) or bring

Prayer Requests This can be used to share with the body a prayer request, a word from the Lord, a word of encour-agement, or other news you would like the congregation to be praying about. (births, deaths, cele-brations) Fill out this sheet and place it in the offering. Half sheets available from ushers or can be found in back of the church _________________________________________________________________________________

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SOME OF OUR CHURCH

LEADERSHIP

Senior Pastor Dan Wheeler

399-2134 Youth Pastor

Jen Kahler Church Secretary

Barb Smith Bookkeeper

Harriet Troman-hauser

Church Chair Curt Howard Vice Chair

Larry Peterson Council Secretary

Sheila Zuehlke Financial Secretary

Roger Bloomgren Worship Chair

Jayne Tonn Christian Ed. Chair

Jenni Diegnau Fellowship Chair Cathy Gladfelter

Evangelism Chair Debra Engman

Stewardship Chair Georgie Pfaffinger Properties Chair Kyle Koerselman

Elders Bob Engman Craig Diegnau

Kurt Hines Janet Malo

Prayer Chain Coordinator

Dorothy Deguise 238-1371

Barb Smith Church Custodian Dick Tromanhauser

Advocacy for Victims of Abuse Georgie Pfaffinger

507-301-5592

Women’s Retreat at Lake Beauty

The speaker for the women’s retreat at Lake Beauty this year is

Meagan Gillan, executive minister of the Evangelical Covenant Church’s Depart-ment of Women Ministries. “I heard Ruth Hill, former director of ECC’s women ministries, speak at a women’s retreat many years ago. She was by far my fa-vorite speaker ever at a women’s retreat. Because of the caliber of directors the

Covenant chooses, I fully expect Meagan to also present talks with depth and humor. I’m excited to hear her!” said Liz Wheeler. “I

think it’ll be a great weekend!” For women attending their first ever Women’s Retreat at LBBC, the cost is about $85, which is half off. However, the full price depends on which building you stay in (some will be more, some will be

less). Linens are available for an extra $10 fee. Other activities at the retreat include a silent auction (you can bring a themed gift basket to donate if you want—proceeds go to camp upkeep), workshops, hot tub and sauna, pontoon rides, na-ture walk, climbing tower and zip line, skeet shooting (for $10 ex-

tra), massage (for $30 extra) and more! Scholarships for the main registration fee are available; contact

Dan Wheeler for those. You can register online or by phone at 320-732-3218. Camp can

work with food allergies if you contact them ahead of time. The event is September 21-23. More information on the retreat, in-cluding online registration info, can be found at http://lbbc.com/

womens-retreat-fall.html. Liz will be driving her van and has room at this time for four more women. She’ll be leaving the church parking lot at 10 am on Sep-tember 21. They will be stopping in Hutchinson for lunch on the

way up.