Abundance. Some see it as a blessing and some weather under it as a curse. Strange that the same phenomenon has two very opposite effects. It is a simple Biblical principle, however, that clears this up: the amount may/may not be the issue, but the heart is always the issue. A heart fully devoted to Christ finds blessing and opportunity in little and in much. A heart far from God is consumed by too little or never enough. May you find blessing in your abundance - great or small - with a heart rested in God. Morning Worship 9:30 a.m. Scripture Reading 1 Peter 5:5b-11 Lenten Message Series: Humility - The Crux of the Cross Today’s Message Measured Mindfulness (vs. Need Apathy) Offering Lead Worshippers General Ministries Everyone The Weekly Calendar Sunday (Today) 9:30a.m.: Worship Celebration * Children ages 3-PreK are dismissed to Children’s Church * Coffee Hour - Fair Trade coffee by Dunn Bros. * Sunday School after the morning worship - offering going to COTP Formula Nutrition Program Monday 6:00p.m.: SRYG 6th - 12th Open Rock - The van leaves Unity at 5:40p.m. Tuesday 9:15a.m.: Ladies Bible Study Wednesday 6:30p.m.: Cadets Lunch: Ryder Punt & Brody Slagter 6:30p.m.: GEMS Girls Club 7:00p.m.: SRYG HS at The Rock - Van leaves Unity at 6:30p.m. Friday 6:30a.m.: Men’s Bible Study Saturday 9:00-11:00 a.m.: Brouwer-Zwart Open House Bridal Shower UNITY FAMILY ‘19- ’20 Budget Update Budgeted Actual Giving +/- Need 3/1/20 $6,746.68 $10,135.44 $3,388.76 3/8/20 $6,746.68 $6,516.00 -$230.68 3/15/20 $6,746.68 3/22/20 $6,746.68 3/30/20 $6,746.68 March Monthly $13,493.36 $16,651.44 $3,158.08 YTD Total $242,880.48 $267,288.28 $24,407.80 Betty Himmelspach continues therapy following knee surgery. Lord willing, she anticipates being home this weekend! Jeff Brown continues to battle pain as he navigates several different forms of therapy. Pray for fortitude and peace for both him and Sheryl as well as their family. Pray for our community and world as we together navigate uncertain times in front of us. Be fervent in prayer and generous in spirit as we come alongside each other. Be considerate towards each other with health needs or concerns. Be generous with your time and resources to those with need. Be attentive towards one another so as to discern well and help generously. Let's make this our shining moment as the Church of Jesus Christ. Unity Monthly Budget—Giving Update You are invited to an open house shower honoring Kennedy Brouwer, bride elect of Aaron Zwart. The shower will be held at Unity CRC on Saturday, March 21, 9-11am. Aaron and Kennedy are also registered at Amazon, Bed, Bath, & Beyond, and Target. Friendship Bible Class at ROL will be cancelled this tomorrow, Monday, March 16th. Looking for a Meal Train Coordinator to setup meals for our members when a need arises. If this is something that you would enjoy working with please contact Merri-Sue for more details. The Fortress men's ministry of Willmar will be having their annual banquet at the Willmar Conference Center on Friday, March 27, with a silent auction beginning at 5:30pm, and the banquet at 6:00pm Unity has reserved a table at this event! Tickets are just $35. Contact the church office to reserve your ticket today! Please note: No Ladies Bible Study this week; they will resume March 10th. Praise and Pizza Night Sunday, March 15th Starting at 5:00p.m. with pizza to follow TONIGHT!!
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Abundance. Some see it as a blessing and some weather under it as a curse. Strange that the same phenomenon has two very opposite effects. It is a simple Biblical principle, however, that clears this up: the amount may/may not be the issue, but the heart is always the issue. A heart fully devoted to Christ finds blessing and opportunity in little and in much. A heart far from God is consumed by too little or never enough. May you find blessing in your abundance - great or small - with a heart rested in God.
Morning Worship 9:30 a.m.
Scripture Reading
1 Peter 5:5b-11
Lenten Message Series: Humility - The Crux of the Cross
Today’s Message
Measured Mindfulness (vs. Need Apathy)
Offering Lead Worshippers General Ministries Everyone
The Weekly Calendar Sunday (Today)
9:30a.m.: Worship Celebration * Children ages 3-PreK are dismissed to Children’s Church
* Coffee Hour - Fair Trade coffee by Dunn Bros.
* Sunday School after the morning worship - offering going to COTP Formula Nutrition Program Monday
6:00p.m.: SRYG 6th - 12th Open Rock - The van leaves Unity at 5:40p.m. Tuesday
9:15a.m.: Ladies Bible Study Wednesday
6:30p.m.: Cadets Lunch: Ryder Punt & Brody Slagter
6:30p.m.: GEMS Girls Club
7:00p.m.: SRYG HS at The Rock - Van leaves Unity at 6:30p.m. Friday
6:30a.m.: Men’s Bible Study Saturday
9:00-11:00 a.m.: Brouwer-Zwart Open House Bridal Shower
UNITY FAMILY
‘19-’20
Budget Update
Budgeted Actual Giving
+/- Need
3/1/20 $6,746.68 $10,135.44 $3,388.76
3/8/20 $6,746.68 $6,516.00 -$230.68
3/15/20 $6,746.68
3/22/20 $6,746.68
3/30/20 $6,746.68
March Monthly
$13,493.36 $16,651.44 $3,158.08
YTD Total $242,880.48 $267,288.28 $24,407.80
Betty Himmelspach continues therapy following knee surgery. Lord willing, she anticipates being home this weekend!
Jeff Brown continues to battle pain as he navigates several different forms of therapy. Pray for fortitude and peace for both him and Sheryl as well as their family.
Pray for our community and world as we together navigate uncertain times in front of us. Be fervent in prayer and generous in spirit as we come alongside each other. Be considerate towards each other with health needs or concerns. Be generous with your time and resources to those with need. Be attentive towards one another so as to discern well and help generously. Let's make this our shining moment as the Church of Jesus Christ.
Unity Monthly Budget—Giving Update
You are invited to an open house shower honoring Kennedy Brouwer, bride elect of Aaron Zwart. The shower will be held at
Unity CRC on Saturday, March 21, 9-11am. Aaron and Kennedy are also registered at Amazon, Bed, Bath, & Beyond, and Target.
Friendship Bible Class at ROL will be cancelled this tomorrow,
Monday, March 16th.
Looking for a Meal Train Coordinator
to setup meals for our members when a need arises. If this is something that you would enjoy working with please contact Merri-Sue for more details.
The Fortress men's ministry of Willmar will be having their annual banquet at the Willmar Conference
Center on Friday, March 27, with a silent auction beginning at 5:30pm, and the banquet at 6:00pm Unity has reserved a table at this event! Tickets are just $35. Contact the church office to reserve your ticket today!
Please note: No Ladies Bible Study this week; they will resume March 10th.
Praise and Pizza
Night
Sunday, March 15th
Starting at 5:00p.m.
with pizza to follow
TONIGHT!!
March 15
5:00p.m.: Praise and Pizza Night
March 22
GEMS Sunday
April 12 - 19
Family Promise at Unity
April 21
Ridgewater Campus Ministry meal
provided by Unity
Sunday,
March 15, 2020
Unity Christian Reformed Church
Pastor Steve Zwart
510 Sixth Street North Prinsburg, MN 56281
Office Information 320-978-4300
UNITY MINISTRIES
Today Greeters Andy & Amber Knight Servers Jason & Melissa Ver Steeg Jeremiah & Krista Slagter Ushers Gregg Duininck Caleb Vander Beek Valet Parking Eric Watson Sound/Computer Ryan Moorlag Dave Brouwer Lobby Monitor Jeremiah Slagter
Nursery Laura Brouwer
Camden Brouwer Ella Brouwer
Floater Sara Ahrenholz
Children’s Church
3-PreK Taryn Buteyn Alysia Buteyn
Library
Katrina Miedema
Greeters GEMS Girls Club Servers GEMS Girls Club Ushers GEMS Girls Club Valet Parking Darrell Frikke Sound/Computer Trapper Swierenga Jay TeBrake Lobby Monitor Dan Ohden
Nursery
Paulaine Jean Louis Joyce Marcus
Carene Jean Louis Floater
Linda Brouwer
Children’s Church 3-PreK
Natalie Vander Beek Caleb Vander Beek
Library
Carter Swierenga
Next Sunday , March 22
New York Mission Trip Tip Night Fundraiser at the Willmar Pizza Ranch will be Monday, March 23rd from 5:00 to 8:00p.m. Please come
out and support the over 50 students and leaders that will be heading out to New York in April. Grab your friends and family for a great night!
Please join us for an open house baby shower honoring Kaitlyn Pearson (Dan & Gina’s daughter) on Saturday, April 4th, 10am-12pm,
here at Unity CRC. They are expecting a baby boy on Gina’s birthday, June 6! Registered at Target, Amazon and buybuyBaby. Please feel free to send bulky items automatically to Kaitlyn and Philip’s home in California.
You are invited to the JAM Soup and Homemade Pie Supper on Wed., March 18 from 5-7:30pm in the Bunde CRC fellowship hall. Money raised will be used to support JAM
and Jr. JAM ministries. Please join them for some great food and great fellowship!
The Prinsburg Fire Department and First Responders invite you to their annual Pancake Feed on Saturday, March 28 from 7:00
to 10:00 a.m. at the Prinsburg Fire Hall. A freewill donation will be taken and all proceeds go toward equipment needs of the Prinsburg Fire Department and First Responders.
Upcoming Events to look forward to:
More details in
the Weekly Email
Men’s Lenten Breakfast Come join Men of all ages for a delicious pancake & sausage breakfast at Bethany RC in Clara City on Wednesday mornings beginning March 4th – April 8th 6:30am. Breakfast will be served with a short
message from area speakers to follow. They encourage everyone to bring a friend who has not yet experienced this great time of fellowship! Freewill offering to offset costs for the use of the Bethany Community Space.
Finding your Freedom Join Bunde CRC at the Best Life Ministries One-Day event on Saturday, March 21, at Bunde CRC, Clara City, MN. This conference will run from 8:30am-2:30pm. The cost is $24 per ticket
and it includes lunch. You can get tickets by calling the Bunde CRC Church Office at 320-847-3520, Jennifer Wassenaar at 320-894-2345, Sarah Hankel 320-220-4068 or https://bestlifeministries.com/
Living Hope in Willmar, in cooperation with Community Christian School, is hosting Dr. Tedd Tripp as he presents from his book “Instructing A Child’s Heart”. This two-day FREE event begins Friday evening, April 3 with registration at 6:30pm and seminar from 7-9pm. On Saturday morning, April 4 there is a light breakfast fellowship from 8-9am with seminar beginning at 9-12:30pm. Childcare will be provided.
Men’s Lenten Breakfast Come join Men of all ages for a delicious pancake & sausage breakfast at Bethany RC in Clara City on Wednesday mornings beginning March 4th – April 8th 6:30am. Breakfast will be served with a short
message from area speakers to follow. They encourage everyone to bring a friend who has not yet experienced this great time of fellowship! Freewill offering to offset costs for the use of the Bethany Community Space.
Finding your Freedom Join Bunde CRC at the Best Life Ministries One-Day event on Saturday, March 21, at Bunde CRC, Clara City, MN. This conference will run from 8:30am-2:30pm. The cost is $24 per
ticket and it includes lunch. You can get tickets by calling the Bunde CRC Church Office at 320-847-3520, Jennifer Wassenaar at 320-894-2345, Sarah Hankel 320-220-4068 or https://bestlifeministries.com/
Living Hope in Willmar, in cooperation with Community Christian School, is hosting Dr. Tedd Tripp as he presents from his book “Instructing A Child’s Heart”. This two-day FREE event begins Friday evening, April 3 with registration at 6:30pm and seminar from 7-9pm. On Saturday morning, April 4 there is a light breakfast fellowship from 8-9am with seminar beginning at 9-12:30pm. Childcare will be provided.
More details in
the Weekly Email
You are God & I am not.
Your words in my mouth,
my life in Your hands.
Change me.
You are God & I am not.
Your words in my mouth,
my life in Your hands.
Change me.
School Page… New York Mission Trip It's time to clean out those closets and help the NYMT kids from your church earn money for their upcoming trip in April. Just contact one of the students below and they will come and pick up
your items and bring them to the store for you. This is a partnership between the store and the students, so please have them bring in your items otherwise it will not be counted towards the NYMT funds. Thank you for supporting them in their efforts to reduce the cost of the trip. Unity students going: Addi Brouwer, Aiden Brouwer, Ethan Huisinga, Tanner Swierenga, Skyler Watson, Reegan Duininck, Neika Leininger, Austin TeBrake, Elli Stoel, Matt Pederson, Heidi Brouwer, Jeremy Brown, Jonny Bloomquist
We invite you to come out to Central MN Christian's choir concert on Monday, March 16 at 7pm in the CMCS High School Gym. You will hear a laughing song from the 6th grade choir, an upbeat arrangement of 3 spirituals from the 7/8th grade choir, and a
beautiful Latin piece (created in honor of Austria's largest cathedral) from the Concert Choir. Like in the past, we will need your voices to help out on our final piece of the night!
Homeschool Co-op will be having their Spring Program at the Living Hope Church in Willmar, Friday, April 24 from 7:00-8:30pm. The public is welcomed to come and enjoy!
If your child is participating in school activities that are open to the general public, we would love to have the Unity church family notified of these. Please let the church office know of this information the Thursday prior to these events.
School Page… New York Mission Trip It's time to clean out those closets and help the NYMT kids from your church earn money for their upcoming trip in April. Just contact one of the students below and they will come and pick up
your items and bring them to the store for you. This is a partnership between the store and the students, so please have them bring in your items otherwise it will not be counted towards the NYMT funds. Thank you for supporting them in their efforts to reduce the cost of the trip. Unity students going: Addi Brouwer, Aiden Brouwer, Ethan Huisinga, Tanner Swierenga, Skyler Watson, Reegan Duininck, Neika Leininger, Austin TeBrake, Elli Stoel, Matt Pederson, Heidi Brouwer, Jeremy Brown, Jonny Bloomquist
CMCS invites you to come out to Central MN Christian's choir concert on Monday, March 16 at 7pm in the CMCS High School Gym. You will hear a laughing song from the 6th grade choir, an upbeat arrangement of 3 spirituals from the 7/8th grade choir, and
a beautiful Latin piece (created in honor of Austria's largest cathedral) from the Concert Choir. Like in the past, they will need your voices to help out on their final piece of the night!
Homeschool Co-op will be having their Spring Program at the Living Hope Church in Willmar, Friday, April 24 from 7:00-8:30pm. The public is welcomed to come and enjoy!
If your child is participating in school activities that are open to the general public, we would love to have the Unity church family notified of these. Please let the church office know of this information the Thursday prior to these events.
For A Cause For A Cause
Lenten Message Series: Humility - The Crux of the Cross
Message: Measured Mindfulness (vs. Need Apathy)
Scriptures: 1 Peter 5:5b-11
Lenten Message Series: Humility - The Crux of the Cross
