ANNOUNCEMENTS FOR APRIL 6, 2025

Candy Mustamaa will be purchasing our Easter plants from Wagner’s Flower Shop this year. Available are Lilies ($14.95), Tulips, Hyacinths, & Daffodils (all at $13.95). Orders are due by Friday, April 11th. Please see Candy to order.

Our remaining 2025 Bascom Ecumenical Lenten Worship will be as follows:

• Maundy (Holy) Thursday (April 17^th) at 7:00 p.m. with a Tenebrae and hand washing service at St. John’s UCC.
• Good Friday (April 18^th) at 2:00 p.m. with Pastor Bob providing the message at Bascom Community Church.
• Please remember that our Lenten Ecumenical Services provide the primary funding for our Ecumenical Vacation Bible School, and we ask that you generously and lavishly support during these worship services. Please see the Narthex bulletin board or our website (bascomchurch.com) for additional information.

Our next Administrative Board meeting will be Tuesday, April 8th at 6:00 pm.

Please mark your calendars for this year’s Ecumenical Vacation Bible School, which will be June 9^th-13^th from 9:30 am-noon.  Our theme this year is “Rocky Railway: Jesus’ Power Pulls Us Through.”

We are collecting some items that will be used by our VBS decorating team. They are as follows and can be dropped off in the office:

Toilet paper tubes 80-100

15-20 liter bottles

Christmas trees the weekend of decorating (June 7-8th).

THIS WEEK’S BIRTHDAYS AND ANNIVERSARIES

April 6             Lily Nosko

April 7             Jane Rex

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ANNOUNCEMENTS FOR MARCH 30, 2025

Candy Mustamaa will be purchasing our Easter plants from Wagner’s Flower Shop this year. Available are Lilies ($14.95), Tulips, Hyacinths, & Daffodils (all at $13.95). Orders are due by Friday, April 11th. Please see Candy to order.

Our remaining 2025 Bascom Ecumenical Lenten Worship will be as follows:

• Maundy (Holy) Thursday (April 17^th) at 7:00 p.m. with a Tenebrae and hand washing service at St. John’s UCC.
• Good Friday (April 18^th) at 2:00 p.m. with Pastor Bob providing the message at Bascom Community Church.
• Please remember that our Lenten Ecumenical Services provide the primary funding for our Ecumenical Vacation Bible School, and we ask that you generously and lavishly support during these worship services. Please see the Narthex bulletin board or our website (bascomchurch.com) for additional information.

Our next Men’s Breakfast will be this Saturday, April 5^th, at the American Table in Fostoria.

Our next Administrative Board meeting will be Tuesday, April 8th at 6:00 pm.

Please mark your calendars for this year’s Ecumenical Vacation Bible School, which will be June 9^th-13^th from 9:30 am-noon.  Our theme this year is “Rocky Railway: Jesus’ Power Pulls us Through.”

THIS WEEK’S BIRTHDAYS AND ANNIVERSARIES

April 2             Dalton Park

April 4             Jodi Rainey (in memory)

Due to scheduling and commitment conflicts, the 2025 Bascom Ecumenical Lenten Worship will be as follows:

• Ash Wednesday (March 5th) at 7:00 pm with Pastor Dean Durant providing the message at Hopewell Church of God. Pastors Amy Kinney, Bob Greene, and Dean will all participate in the Imposition of Ashes for those wishing to receive them.

• We will be ecumenically celebrating Maundy (Holy) Thursday (April 17th at 7:00 pm) at St. John’s UCC. This will be a Tenebrae service that includes Holy Communion followed by a Hand Washing Service for those who wish to participate.

• We gather at 2:00 pm on Good Friday (April 18th) with Pastor Bob providing the message at Bascom Community Church.

As All Saints Parish celebrates these three services, Deacon Greg Siebenaller will not be joining us this year.

Our Lenten Ecumenical Services provide the primary funding for our Ecumenical Vacation Bible School and we ask that you generously and lavishly support it during these three worship services.

Saturday, April 5, at 9:00 a.m.

Join Pastor Dean and the men of the church for breakfast at The American Table located at 603 Plaza Drive.

JOYS: Patty Bradner’s son Don had to have another back surgery this past week and is doing much better as his pain level has decreased tremendously! Also, there were some concerns about a possible blood clot that was ruled out. Don says “Thank You” for all your thoughts & prayers; Ed Smith’s procedure this past Monday to cut his eye lids and tighten the eyeball muscle tendons was successful; and we have a Heavenly Father who loves us, a Savior who redeems us, and the Holy Spirit who strengthens us.

CONCERNS: James & Robin Gardner (Cheryl [Edinger] McDaniel’s daughter] lost his father Alan last Sunday morning. Please pray for Alan’s wife Kay & the rest of the Gardner family; travel mercies for Lori Clay as she drives down to Florida for a visit with Barb Saunders; Jenny Ratchen has been scheduled for breast cancer surgery at The James Cancer Center this coming  Friday, April 4th; Jeanne VanBuskirk will be undergoing a mammogram tomorrow, March 31st; Lori Zimmerman will be undergoing a procedure at Nationwide Children’s Hospital related to her gastrointestinal issues; Tim Heiserman says “thank you” for all the cards and prayers as he awaits his meeting with his surgeon on Monday to discuss the treatment plan for the infection in his replaced right hip; Pastor Dean & Danene’s great-niece Cambria has been diagnosed with scoliosis that is in the surgical range. Since she is still growing, she will spend the next 12-18 months in a brace for 18 hours a day, to try to hold the curve at 45 degrees. Her treatment will be followed up with a spinal fusion of a minimum of 7 vertebrae when appropriate. ; and Crystal Helberg (Heather Kreh’s friend) has been diagnosed with an infection at the site of her intracranial pressure relief tube incision as well as a need for a higher level of drainage as she continues to work with her medical team

PRAYER LIST: Leticia Caudill, Carri Breidenbach, Delores Kinn, Jean Mertes, Sandy Lehner, Laverne Ruth, Jacqueline Freeman, Sue Brickner, Michelle Steinmetz, Pat Scherger, Ron Pollard, Joe Stacy, Courtney Kourtney, Mike Grandillo, Pat & Janet Bowen, Lee Arnold, Butch Payne, Danny Pelton, Natalie Hay, Eileen Whetsel, Terry Vitt, Nancy Bailey, Helen Emerine, Tina Newman, Don Asselin, and Rev. Bill McDaniel.

Please go to either our Facebook page (Bascom Community Church) or YouTube channel (DeanDurant5660 – hyperlink  https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCTYUdwW5I8wiQwTrTI75NkQ ) to view our Sunday messages or Monday through Friday devotions. God Bless!!