Leighton Christian Reformed Church

12/09/2025

11/30/2025

All church activities have been cancelled for today. Stay safe❄️

04/12/2025

ANNOUNCEMENTS

1. Our church education classes for all age levels meet
this morning after our morning worship. We welcome
you to join us.

2. Our evening worship and church history class is
scheduled to meet at 6:30 this evening. We intend to
get acquainted with the Athanasian Creed.

3. We express our Christian sympathy to Sue Van Ee and
to Ben and Krystal Lefevre and to Lily and Abby and
Mary Lefevre in the death of their dearly beloved
husband, father, and grandfather, Keith Van Ee, this
past Thursday morning, April 10, 2025. The funeral is
planned for this Tuesday morning, April 15, at 10:00 in
the Peoria CRC. May the God of all comfort, comfort
you with His love and peace as you mourn. We love
you and are keeping you in our thoughts and prayers.

4. We continue to pray for Mary and Don and Dorothy.

5. The church council is scheduled to meet tomorrow
evening, April 14, at 7:00 in the council room.

6. Our annual Maundy Thursday communion service is set
for 7:00 this Thursday evening, April 17. To accommodate our pastor’s schedule, our Resurrection Day Service is scheduled to begin at 9:30 next week.

04/12/2025

April 13, 2025 Leighton CRC 9:00 AM

Prelude - Marsha Groenendyk

Announcements

* Call to Worship: (Psalm 63:1)
O God, You are my God, earnestly I seek You; my soul thirsts for You, my body longs for You, in a dry and weary land where there is
no water.

* Singing: Gray PH #375 “All Glory, Laud, and Honor”

*Prayer

*God’s Greeting:

God’s Will for Our Lives: (John 3:16-17)

Reading of the Preparatory Form for Communion
pages 983-984

Singing: PH #374 “No Weight of Gold or Silver”

Offering Our Prayers:

Hearing God’s Word

Singing: Gray PH #199 “I Am the Lord Your God”

*Scripture: Matthew 16:21-28 (Read by Josie Hol)

Message: “The Guardian of Our Souls”

Prayer

* Singing: Gray PH #486 “Come, Thou Fount
of Every Blessing”

*Confession of Faith: Heidelberg Catechism, Lord’s Day
18, Q and A 49

*Doxology: (Monitors) “My Friends, May You Grow in
Grace”

*God’s Blessing

*Moment of Meditation

*Postlude

*if you are able, please stand

04/11/2025

Keith Van Ee Funeral Information

A. Visitation
Monday, April 14, 2025
2:00PM - 6:00PM
Grace Fellowship Church
2497 Hwy 163
Pella, IA 50219

B. Visitation with FAMILY PRESENT
Monday, April 14, 2025
4:00PM - 6:00PM
Grace Fellowship Church
2497 Hwy 163
Pella, IA 50219

C. Funeral Service
Tuesday, April 15, 2025
10:00AM
Peoria Christian Reformed Church
120 West Street
Pella, IA 50219

D. Final Resting Place
Peoria Cemetery
Pella, IA 50219

04/10/2025

We have received information from Sue that Keith passed away peacefully about 6:30 am today.

04/05/2025

ANNOUNCEMENTS

1. Our church education classes for all age levels meet this morning after our morning worship. We welcome you to join us.

2. Our evening worship and church history class is scheduled to meet this evening at 6:30. We intend to complete our study of the Nicene Creed.

3. Please keep Mary, Don and Dorothy, and Keith and Sue and their family in your thoughts and prayers.

4. The young people are scheduled to meet this Wednesday evening at 7:00.

5. The church council is scheduled to meet next week Monday evening, April 14, at 7:00.

04/05/2025

Happy Birthday
Mariah Vande Voort
April 9

04/05/2025

April 6, 2025 Leighton CRC 9:00 AM

Prelude - Kathy Groenendyk

Announcements

* Call to Worship: (Psalm 95:6-7)

* Singing: Gray PH #95 “Now With Joyful Exultation”

* Prayer

* God’s Greeting:

God’s Will for Our Lives: Romans 12:9-21

Singing: Gray PH #288 “Take My Life and Let It Be”

Offering Our Prayers:

Hearing God’s Word

Singing: Gray PH #485 “O Christ, Our Hope, Our Heart’s Desire”

*Scripture: Matthew 16:13-20 (Read by Lily Lefevre)

Message: “The Church’s One Foundation”

Prayer

* Singing: Gray PH #502 “The Church’s One Foundation”

* Confession of Faith: Heidelberg Catechism, Lord’s Day 21, Q and A 54 and 55

*Doxology: (Monitors) “My Friends, May You Grow in Grace”

*God’s Blessing

*Moment of Meditation

*Postlude

*if you are able, please stand

03/29/2025

ANNOUNCEMENTS

1. Our church education classes for all age levels meet this morning after our morning worship. We welcome you to join us.

2. Our evening worship and church history class is scheduled to meet this evening at 6:30. Pastor Al plans to give a presentation on the orphanage, the orphanage farm, and the soccer ministry before we continue studying the Nicene Creed. The Tracy congregation is being invited to join us.

3. We continue to pray for Mary, Don and Dorothy, and Keith and Sue Van Ee and their family.

4. The church council is scheduled to meet on Monday evening, April 14, at 7:00.

03/29/2025

Happy Birthday
Abby Lefevre
April 4