19 | 3:30pm | Women's Flower Picking

20 | Baptisms

20 | 11:15pm | Church Family Dinner

25 | 9am | MOPS Open House

25 | 7-10pm | Middle School RIOT

26 | Media and Music Workshop

Saturday, August 19 | 3:30pm | Join us at the church at 3:30pm as we carpool to Wilmington to Proclamation Flower Farm. We will pick flowers and then come back to church to make arrangements to take home. Please bring something to arrange your flowers in: a vase, a bowl, an old boot, etc. Please RSVP with Casey Cleveland.

Sunday, August 20 | 11:15am | Let's join together for dinner. Things are about to change. We are going into a new season. Baptisms happened earlier today. It's time to come together as family. The menu: smoked pulled pork, coleslaw, mac & cheese, baked beans, chips, desserts, and a few chicken nuggets for the kids.

We are asking that people with the names bring the following:

A-K - individual bags of chips

L-S - desserts

T-Z - hamburger buns

​​​​​​​We ask that you have those to the church kitchen before the 10:00am service. Thank you for your willingness to help with these items!

Thursday, August 24 | 6:30-8:30pm | GriefShare, a weekly grief support group for people experiencing grief and loss, is starting back up again on August 24. It is a 13-week cycle that you can join at any time. Everyone is welcome. Contact Pat for information and register at griefshare.org/findagroup

Friday, August 25 | Manteno MOPS will be kicking off the 2023-24 year at their annual Open House on Friday, August 25 at 9:30am at our church. MOPS is a great way for mothers with little ones to form a community where they can come together to share their parenting journey and learn from one another. Our MOPS meets on Friday mornings twice a month in the Children's Center. Childcare is provided for ages 6mos- 5 years at each meeting. If you have any questions leading up to the Open House, please reach out to our MOPS coordinator at 815-468-8946.

Saturday, August 26 | Calling all tech team and worship band, and all people who have thought, "I'd be cool if I was on tech team or on stage in the worship band." We are having a training day on August 26 in the morning. We invited some outside experts to evaluate what we are doing and help us come up with ways to improve, or just congratulate us on our excellence. We will be dividing up into small teams to work on the different aspects. It will, hopefully, be educational.

Sunday, September 10 | Due to growth and growth to come, we are splitting into two services. They will be at 9am and 10:30am. Invite your friends, there should be plenty of room.

Sunday, September 10 | Journey Groups will be back for the Fall session the week of September 10 (why yes, that is the same day we go to two services.) Check out a list of Journey Groups to chose from at: https://bit.ly/47rTOaS , at the welcome desk, or on our website.

Wednesdays | Starting September 13 | 5:30-6:15pm | Bring the whole family out and we’ll take care of preparing dinner. The suggested donation for an individual is $4 or feed the whole family for no more than $20. Great food, great fellowship, and a great deal! Just to make it easier for planning, could let us know if you are coming to the first dinner? https://forms.gle/ZyRLm8GoHpP7JwFu9

We are still looking for a part-time custodian. Go to the employment page under resources on the church website, www.mantenonazarene.org, if you are interested or want more information.

Crisis care kits are sent out by the Nazarene Church all over the world when disaster strikes. The kit is made up of personal care items and is designed to get you thru the first couple hard days after disaster strikes. Kits are assembled by individual churches and sent to warehouses where they wait till they are needed. For the disaster in Hawaii, we as a global church have so far sent over 6,000 kits. We continuely collect for these kits locally, but are in special need of a few items at this time. We are looking for Shampoo (12-18oz), Toothpaste (4-6.4oz), and Handtowels. Donations can be dropped in the box in the coat room.

Monthly Budget: $62,250

August 6: $21,411

August 13: $10,643

Month to Date: $32,054

Pastor Ken Bushey | Lead | kbushey@mantenonazarene.org | 812.583.1542

Pastor Amy Kilpatrick | Children | akilpatrick@mantenonazarene.org | 815.573.6322

Pastor Marcus Cleveland | Student Ministries | mcleveland@mantenonazarene.org | 517.525.7648

Church Office | 815.468.8946 | mantenonazarene.org | 698 N. Locust | PO Box 698 | Manteno, IL 60950

Martha Krueger | mkrueger@mantenonazarene.org |

Jenny Lyle | jlyle@mantenonazarene.org |

Connect Card | https://bit.ly/mcconnectcard

Giving | https://pushpay.com/g/mantenonazarene

Website | www.mantenonazarene.org

Worship Service | 10am | Sunday

Teen Bible Quizzing | 5pm | Sunday

9th-12th Grade Youth Group | 6pm | Sunday

Volleyball | 7-9pm | Mondays (Weather nice? - Sand Volleyball at ONU)

5th-8th Grade Youth Group | 6:30pm | Wednesday

Manteno Kids Wednesdays | 6:30pm | Wednesday

Men's Prayer Breakfast | 8am | Saturday