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This page is broken down into the following sections:
If you need more information than is provided here, please feel free to contact the church directly at the following address, phone number, or e-mail address:
Lockport
Mennonite Church
09269 County Road 21-N
Stryker, Ohio, 43557
Phone: (419) 682-1831
Church e-mail: lockport@bright.net
WORSHIP
Worship is our response to God's invitation to dwell in God's presence. When we gather, we worship through prayer, music, giving, scripture, silence, and proclamation. Through these various acts of worship we also open ourselves to God's dwelling in us.
Worship Services:
Sunday Morning Worship:
9:15 - 10:30 AM*
Sunday School Hour: 10:40 - 11:30 AM*
Sunday Evening Service: 7:00 - 8:00 PM
- * A nursery, staffed by adult members of the congregation for infants up to 3 years of age, is offered for use during both the Sunday Morning Worship and Sunday School Hour.
Sunday Morning Worship:
The Sunday Morning Worship service includes scriptural readings, prayer, singing, special music, sermons, sharing, and children's lessons. These various activities help to draw us closer to God and to better discern God's plan for our lives.
Sunday School Hour:
The Sunday School Hour offers classes for everyone above 2 years of age. Bible stories and current issues are discussed as to how they apply to our lives.
Adult Sunday School Classes:
After the Sunday worship service, there are many Sunday School classes to choose from for the adults:
- Post High - for college-age persons
- Open Door - for singles and newly married couples
- Peacemakers - for persons in their 30's
- Agape - ages from late 30's & early 40's
- New Life - ages from middle 40's to early 50's
- Galilean - for persons in their 50's
- Gleaners - ages from late 50's early 60's
- Beacon - for persons in their 60's
- Friendship - for persons in their 70's
- Berean - ages from late 70's to early 80's
- Maranatha/Ambassador - for persons that are 85+ years of age
Sunday School classes meet for approximately 1 hour after the worship service. These classes also normally meet once a month outside the Sunday School Hour to build community, interacting together in worship, prayer, and social activities.
Children's Sunday School Classes:
There are also Sunday School classes designed for the youth above 2 years of age. These classes are broken down by the child's grade in school.
Sunday Evening Worship:
The Sunday Evening Worship service is an informal time designed for worship though Bible teachings, sharing, and singing to promote spiritual growth. For children ages 2 through 4th grade, the Joy Bunch meets bi-monthly during the Sunday Evening Worship service. Joy Bunch gives children the opportunity to enjoy and participate in crafts, Bible stories, games, and singing. These activities enable children to experience God's grace in their lives.
MISSION
New life in Christ Jesus transforms our life-style and becomes the mirror of God's purpose. Because of the compassion Jesus has shown to us we reach out to the downtrodden. Lockport provides avenues of common involvement to keep Christ's life and ministry alive in our community and world.
Rest Homes, Rescue Missions:
Through the involvement of the Lockport Sunday School classes, services are provided every month for the area Rest Homes and the Toledo Cherry Street Mission.
Relief, Voluntary Service (VS), Mennonite Disaster Service (MDS):
These church-wide organizations provide help for persons who experience personal tragedy. Many within the community are involved in the Relief, MDS and VS programs.
Vacation Bible School:
An outreach program to introduce boys and girls to Jesus Christ and Christian living. Adult supervision activities stimulating physical, mental, and spiritual growth are provided for age 4 through the 8th grade.
Mennonite Women
MW provides the ladies of Lockport an opportunity to recognize and be involved in service to others. This objective is fulfilled through quilting, making blankets, rolling bandages, and other sewing projects. Meetings take place on the first Wednesday of each month at 9:00 AM. A nursery is provided.
Professional Business Women:
A group of area-wide business women meet for a time of inspiration and fellowship in a Christian atmosphere, enabling them to discern their full potential in Christ and in meeting the needs of people.
COMMUNITY
We are called out and called together -- called to be Christ's people -- intertwined together in fellowship and mutual commitment. Lockport provides care, study, and fellowship groups where people meet for worship, study, prayer, and social activities to demonstrate Christ's way of positive love by building open relationships and friendships.
Life Planning:
Our Life Planning program is designed for youth in grades 9 through 12. An adult advocate is chosen by and assigned to the youth for mentoring purposes. This relationship is intended for personal growth, focusing on developing skills in decision making with emphasis on clarifying the options for their life after high school.
Mennonite Youth Fellowship (MYF):
The MYF consists of young persons in grades 9 through 12. They meet weekly and do various activities including Bible Studies and social events. Adult sponsors interact with the group as advisors / counselors.
Junior Mennonite Youth Fellowship (Jr. MYF):
This group is designed for children in grades 7 and 8. They meet two Sunday evenings per month. Activities include playing games, have a short Bible study that the kids can relate to, food, etc. Social activities include roller skating and swimming parties. They also do community service projects.
Wayfarers:
This adult-directed program is designed for girls in grades 4 through 6 to provide activities that stimulate physical, emotional, and spiritual growth.
Torchbearers:
Boys in grades 4 through 6 meet once a month in this adult-directed program. Activities are provided to stimulate spiritual, emotional, and physical growth. Some time each evening is spent in Bible study and is followed by a fun activity such as roller hockey, campouts, and going to hockey games.
Quiz Teams:
The Bible Quiz will be over the book of Matthew this year. The meets start the end of January & go through March. The churches participating are North Clinton, West Clinton, Central, Zion, Tedrow & Lockport. We take turns hosting at our own church. The home schoolers also have a team. About the 3rd week of March, we have a mini tournament for this area. The last week of March, the Invitational Tournament is with Lancaster, PA & Wayne Co, OH areas. We have a 3 year rotation of taking turns for hosting the tournament. The meets are every Sunday - either afternoon or evening. Last year, we had 11 teams (about 65 quizzers). Our goal is to study & learn more about the Bible in a fun atmosphere with friends. This also encourages mingling among other church youth groups.
Junior Choir:
When a choir director is available, they meet between Sept. and May. Grades 4-8 can participate. They may give a program to the church during that time or possibly sing on Sunday morning.
Adult Choir:
Meets September thru May one night per week. They sing for broadcast Sunday (4th Sunday of the month). Each year they alternate between giving the Easter program or Christmas program.
Ladies Bible Study:
A group of inter-denominational ladies meet for Bible study and prayer to encourage each other in their daily walk with Jesus. Meetings are scheduled on Tuesdays at 9:30 - 11:00 AM, September though November and January though March. A nursery is provided.
Yearly Church Picnic:
One Sunday each summer the church service is held in a tent on church grounds for an informal time of worship. A potluck lunch and afternoon activities follow. This year's picnic was held on Sunday July 18 with an afternoon celebration of the new covered bridge by Lockport.
Care Groups:
Care Groups are designed for adult persons to find release spiritually and emotionally with empathy. Care Groups meet regularly throughout the year for personal nurture, Bible Study, prayer, and social activities.
Golden Age:
There is a ministry to the elderly within the congregation. Throughout the year some are adopted by Sunday School classes to support them spiritually and physically. An annual fellowship banquet is also held.
DOCTRINE -- WHAT WE BELIEVE
At the core of the Mennonite Church is a belief in Jesus Christ. We believe in Jesus Christ as God's special and divine revelation for all humanity. Jesus is the model for life. He died and rose from the dead in order that people could live in union with God. We believe the church should keep Christ's life and ministry alive in the world; thus we are "the body of Christ."
The Bible is Central:
"All scripture is God-breathed and is useful for teaching, rebuking, correcting, and training in righteousness." We believe that God's "Holy Spirit" helps the community of believers understand that Word. The "Holy Spirit" uses the written word to give new life to the church and to help people grow in faith.
New Life in Christ:
We all sin. We commit wrongs. We do things we should not, and we are out of touch with God. In history, God sent Jesus Christ into the world so that all those who believe in Him can receive forgiveness for all their sins, as well as the gift of whole life today and the promise of living forever with God.
Voluntary Membership and Commitment to Christ:
We believe Jesus Christ taught adult repentance and that when the church's members experience God's love and are wholeheartedly committed to its purposes, the church is strongest. For that reason, "believer's baptism" is practiced. This symbolizes the decision of an adult to make a public commitment to live as Christ's disciple.
Evangelism:
We believe Jesus Christ commissioned all believers to go into the world and share the "Good News" of the Gospel. This includes all persons throughout the world. Jesus wants his followers to help each other and minister to every human need. We believe it is important to be concerned for both the "spiritual" and the "physical" aspects of life.
Community:
We believe in community -- that is, we belong to each other. "In Christ we who are many form one body, and each member belongs to all the others" (Romans 12:5). We need each other for encouragement, accountability, and growth in a supportive and caring way. We need each other in moments of crisis. Church growth is dependent upon its corporate faith, unity, service, and witness as exercised in community.
Jesus' Teachings:
We belive we are called to be Christ's disciples. This means we take Jesus' words as recorded in scripture as authoritative for life. As disciples of Jesus we try to live under Christ's rule. For many of us, this means loving the enemy and refusing to use violence or participating in military service, living peaceably with others at all levels, serving the poor and needy, working for justice and mercy.
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Creation Date: 4/97 Date of Last Revision: 07/12/05