This Sunday, we will dig one of Jesus’ most challenging parables in Luke 16:1-15

Our readings will be Amos 8:4-7, Psalm 113, 1 Timothy 2:1-7, Luke 16:1-15.

We will sing these songs this week:

• “What a Friend We Have in Jesus” LBW 439
• “Praise God from Whom All Blessings Flow”
• “How Great Thou Art” LBW 532

Thank you to the following people who are serving on Sunday, September 21st.

Greeters and Ushers: Diane Summers and Milo Hunter

Keyboardist: Kay Rossow

Reader: Wade Freiboth

Children’s Message: Joe Olson

Children’s Church: Joe Olson and Jan Rehberg

Worship Leader: Rich Robbins

Preacher: Bob Pedersen

Communion Assistants: Cinda Robbins and Wade Freiboth

Lunch Hosts: Joy Members with Last Names K-R

Blessing our Community in 2025

• Eagle Mount Billings - $1000
• Love INC of Yellowstone County - $1000
• Ramsey Keller Memorial Foundation - $1000
• Montana Association for the Blind - $716
• Love & SONshine Ministries - $1500
• Family Promise of Yellowstone Valley - $1500
• Montana Re-entry Program - $1000
• The Family Tree Nurturing Center - $500
• Special K Ranch, Inc. - $500
• YWCA - $481
• MontanaRescueMission - $1,000
• Cru (formerly Campus Crusade for Christ) - $1,000
• HabitatForHumanity- $2,000
• Family Promise - $1,000
• Education Foundation for Billings - $1,091

Upcoming Events and Opportunities to Serve

Do you want to be in a Missional Community? We are launching Missional Communities for people who want to encourage each other and grow to be more like Jesus. If you are interested or have questions, you can talk with our pastor.

We partner with Tumbleweed  to provide a hot lunch for 60-75 youth and young adults at least once a month. Tumbleweed provides safety, assistance, and hope to our community’s vulnerable and homeless youth, creating lasting life changes. If you are interested in this opportunity, let us know.

Here are some other ways we serve the Billings community:

• Cookie Drive for Tumbleweed (February)
• Mother's Day Diaper Drive for Family Promise (May)
• School Supplies for Ponderosa Elementary (August)
• Socks, Gloves, and Mittens for Tumbleweed (October)
• Gift Cards for the Billings Sr. High Food Pantry (December)

Announcements

Prayer Requests? Joy has a team who gathers for prayer twice a month. Additionally, we pray for our prayer list regularly between those times. If you or someone you know needs prayers, please let us know. All prayer requests are kept confidential. You can either:

• Connect with a member of the prayer ministry team (Mary Ann Hall, Diane Summers, Carol Wahl, Jan Wolf, Dave Hall),
• Call or email the church office
• Or submit a prayer and let us know  “How Can We Pray For You?”
  

Father, I want those you have given me to be with me where I am, and to see my glory, the glory you have given me because you loved me before the creation of the world. - John 17:24