Thursday, April 25, 2019

Announcements

ANNOUNCEMENTS and NOTICES

April 28, 2019

Second Sunday of Easter

Collect of the Day – Almighty God, grant that we who have celebrated the Lord’s resurrection may by Your grace confess in our life and conversation that Jesus is Lord and God; through the same Jesus Christ, Your Son, who lives and reigns with You and the Holy Spirit, one God, now and forever.

Quarterly Voter’s Meeting is today following the service.  Also, a Special Thanks to Lynn and Kitty Bierstedt for representing St. John’s as our delegate to the Camp Okoboji Annual Meeting yesterday!

 

Teacher Needed - St. John’s Lutheran Church in Burt is accepting applications for a preschool teacher for the 2019-2020 school year for Kids of the Kingdom Preschool.  Please send or email application letter and resume to: St John’s Lutheran Church, PO Box 98, Burt, Iowa 50522 or churchoffice@stjohnsburt.org.

 

Registration for Preschool - Kids of the Kingdom Preschool in Burt, IA is accepting registrations for the 2019-2020 school year.  Please call the St. John's Lutheran church office at 515-924-3344 for information or email, churchoffice@stjohnsburt.org.

 

Public Examination of the Confirmands is on Wednesday, May 1st at 7:30 p.m.  The congregation is invited to attend.  Confirmation Day is Sunday, May 5th.  Also, check out the Confirmation quilts at the back of the church.  These are a gift from the TLC Quilters (including several St. John’s sewers) to our Confirmands. 

 

LWML Ladies Aid Meeting will be held Thursday, May 2 at 1:30 p.m.  The devotion will be led by Caradene Parsons & hostess for the meeting is Mary Gifford.  Also, The LWML wish to Thank You for your wonderful help in our mission to IOWAY of underwear for the homeless of Iowa.

 

Partnership Adopt a Highway - Our Trinity/St. John’s partnership is participating in the Adopt a Highway program. The section we have adopted is six miles north of Algona on Highway 169.  Our first clean-up day is today at 2:00 p.m.  We will meet at Trinity at 2:00 p.m. to go over safety and carpool to the site from there.  Refreshments will be served afterward at St. John’s.

 

Flood Clean-up – IOWAY director Ellie Menz is asking for help with flood clean-up in Pacific Junction, IA.  See the note on the back table for more details.  If you’d like to help, be sure to call the number listed ahead of time to confirm that they’ll have work lined up for you to do.

Flocknote Text Sender Wanted - I'm looking for a volunteer who would like to take over sending out our daily "text on the Text" or our daily prayer chain text (or both) on Flocknote.  Creating text messages on Flocknote is very easy to do and I will walk you through the process.  Messages can be created on your computer or cell phone, and they can be pre-scheduled as far in advance as you'd like.  I'm happy to continue sending these messages, I just thought this would be a good way to serve St. John's that can always work with your schedule. - Pastor Cowell  

 

The Blessings of Weekly Communion – If you weren’t able to attend our Lenten Bible study on the blessings of weekly Communion I encourage you to pick up the handout on the side table in back of the sanctuary that contains all five of the Bible study topics.  As we keep learning about and considering the blessings of weekly Communion I encourage you to continue to bring me your questions and comments.

 

Call Days at the Seminaries – Candidates at our seminaries will soon be receiving their calls into the office of the Holy Ministry.  Call day at Concordia Theological Seminary, Fort Wayne is April 30th and Concordia Seminary, St. Louis is May 1st.  Please pray for these students and the congregation whom they will be called to serve.  

 

Camp Okoboji Events - As summer gets closer, don't forget to check out the schedule of events at Camp Okoboji found at: www.campokoboji.org/camp-schedule.php.  Camp Okoboji will also be hosting a volunteer day on Saturday, May 18 if you would like to help beautify the camp for the summer season.  Meals and lodging if needed are provided to volunteers at no cost.  Call the camp office at 712-337-3325 to let them know you're coming or to ask about what projects they have for you to help with.  

 

A Camp on Biblical Masculinity - Are you a man? Then this camp is for you.  The LCMS camp near Solon, IA is hosting an event for men of all ages 8 and up - single, married, with children or no children on June 9-12.  The camp will be focused on learning the characteristics of biblical masculinity and doing various "man stuff." There will be a 45 minute Bible study each day, and the rest of the day will consist of outdoor activity.  This would be a great father/son/grandfather outing or just an opportunity to enjoy time with other Christian men.  Pastor Cowell will be attending this event.  See the flier in back, and register at: evanguard.org/csmpregistrstion  

 

Lessons on the Liturgy – The Office of the Keys

What is the Office of the Keys?  The Office of the Keys is that special authority which Christ has given to His church on earth to forgive the sins of repentant sinners, but to withhold forgiveness from the unrepentant as long as they do not repent.  Where is this written?  This is what St. John the Evangelist writes in chapter twenty: The Lord Jesus breathed on His disciples and said, “Receive the Holy Spirit.  If you forgive anyone his sins, they are forgiven; if you do not forgive them, they are not forgiven.” (John 20:22-23) [Luther’s Small Catechism, Confession]

 

This Week at St. John’s – (April 28, 2019-May 5, 2019)

Today (28th )              9:00  am       Divine Service

                                10:00  am       Quarterly Voter’s Meeting                                                         

Tuesday (30th )           8:30  am       Circuit Winkel at St. John’s, Burt

Wednesday (1st )        7:00  pm       Religion School

                                 7:30   pm      Public Examination of the Confirmands

Thursday (2nd )           1:30  pm       LWML (Ladies Aid) Meting                                                                            

Sunday (5th)               9:00  am       Divine Service (Holy Communion) Confirmation

                                10:00  am       Reception for the Confirmands                                            

                            

Greeters Next Week:     Nicolle, Elyssa & Peyton Marlow

Acolyte for Today:        Peyton Marlow

Ushers for April:            *Don Madsen and Wendell Christensen Jr.

Elder for April:               Jeff Schutjer

 

 

 

 

Tuesday, April 23, 2019

Announcements

ANNOUNCEMENTS and NOTICES

April 21, 2019

Easter Day

 

Collect of the DayAlmighty God the Father, through Your only-begotten Son, Jesus Christ, You have overcome death and opened the gate of everlasting life to us. Grant that we, who celebrate with joy the day of our Lord’s resurrection, may be raised from the death of sin by Your life-giving Spirit; through Jesus Christ, our Lord, who lives and reigns with You and the Holy Spirit, one God, now and forever.

The Children’s Easter Story Booklets are available on the back table.  Be sure to pick one or more up to give to family and friends.

 

Quarterly Voter’s Meeting will be held on Sunday, April 28th.

 

Parish Messenger Articles for the May/June edition are due to Linda Kerkove by Tuesday, April 23rd.

 

Confirmation Students Almsgiving Projects - The amount of $1,182.00 was collected during the weekly Lenten services for the following student almsgiving projects: Jordan Blocker, Loving Hands Nursery; Jacob Haase, Lutherans in Africa; Peyton Marlow, Kids of the Kingdom Preschool; and Crystal Ditsworth, TLC Quilters.  Thank you for your generosity this Lent!

 

Teacher Needed - St. John’s Lutheran Church in Burt is accepting applications for a preschool teacher for the 2019-2020 school year for Kids of the Kingdom Preschool.  Please send or email application letter and resume to: St John’s Lutheran Church, PO Box 98, Burt, Iowa 50522 or churchoffice@stjohnsburt.org.

 

Registration for Preschool - Kids of the Kingdom Preschool in Burt, IA is accepting registrations for the 2019-2020 school year.  Please call the St. John's Lutheran church office at 515-924-3344 for information or email, churchoffice@stjohnsburt.org.

 

Partnership Adopt a Highway - Our Trinity/St. John’s partnership is participating in the Adopt a Highway program. The section we have adopted is six miles north of Algona on Highway 169.  We will have our first clean-up day on Saturday, April 27th.  We will meet at Trinity at 10:00 am to go over safety and carpool to the site from there.  Lunch will be served at St. John’s, Burt. Advanced notice isn't required, but if you plan on helping contact Kathy Bichel at 515-320-5864 to help estimate how many we have to help.   

 

The Congregation Is Invited to attend the Public Examination of the Confirmands on Wednesday, May 1st at 7:30 p.m.  Confirmation Day is Sunday, May 5th.

 

Call Days at the Seminaries – Candidates at our seminaries will soon be receiving their calls into the office of the Holy Ministry.  Call day at Concordia Theological Seminary, Fort Wayne is April 30th and Concordia Seminary, St. Louis is May 1st.  Please pray for these students and the congregation whom they will be called to serve.  

 

In-Gathering Outreach - Continue to bring your items for the homeless outreach project.  We will be delivering those to Zion Lutheran at the LWML Rally on Thursday, April 25th.  We are collecting the following items: children’s colored socks and underwear (new) and men’s colored new socks, briefs or boxer shorts. You can bring these items to the church and place them the blue basket provided in the back.

 

The Blessings of Weekly Communion – If you weren’t able to attend our Lenten Bible study on the blessings of weekly Communion I encourage you to pick up the handout on the side table in back of the sanctuary that contains all five of the Bible study topics.  As we continue learning about and considering the blessings of weekly Communion I encourage you to keep coming to me with your questions and comments so that I can know when it will be appropriate for us to give Communion every Sunday a try.

 

Trinity Bible Study on Facebook Live - Join Pastor Schlund at 7:30 p.m. tonight for his last Bible based study on the theme “Behold the Man.”  You will be able to ask questions and participate in the discussion if you’d like, but you won’t need to leave home. Visit facebook.com/TrinityAlgona on your computer or use the Facebook App on your smartphone or tablet.

 

Lessons on the Liturgy – The Date of Easter

Page xxiii of our hymnal gives this explanation for the date of Easter: “Easter Day is always the Sunday after the full moon that occurs on or after the spring equinox on March 21.  This full moon may happen on any date between March 21 and April 18 inclusive.  If the full moon falls on a Sunday, Easter Day is the Sunday following.  Easter Day cannot be earlier than March 22 or later than April 25.”  Praise God that we are saved by faith in Christ’s death and resurrection for us, and not by our ability to calculate the appropriate time to celebrate it!

            

This Week at St. John’s – (April 21, 2019-April 28, 2019)

Today                       8:00  am       Easter Resurrection Divine Service (Holy Communion)

                                 9:00  am       Rolls/Coffee served in church basement                                

Wednesday              6:30  pm       Religion School

Thursday                  4:30  pm       LWML Zone Rally

Saturday                 10:00  am       Partnership Highway clean-up

Sunday                     9:00  am       Divine Service

                                10:00  am       Quarterly Voter’s Meeting                                              

                            

Greeters Next Week:   Duane and Ann Heyes

Acolyte for Today:      Jordan and Caelum Blocker

Ushers for April:          *Don Madsen and Wendell Christensen Jr.

Elder for April:            Jeff Schutjer

 

Trinity Bible Studies – St. John’s members are welcome to attend any of the following Bible Studies at Trinity:

  • Wednesday AM Adult Bible Class – Mornings at 9:30 a.m.
  • BYOB (Bring Your Own Bible) – Tuesday Evenings Bible Study at 7:30 p.m. at parsonage.
  • Women’s Bible Study Mondays: 7:00 a.m. and 9:30 a.m.

·         Trinity Bible Study “Behold the Man” on Trinity’s Facebook Page on Sunday evenings during Lent at 7:30 p.m.

 

Thursday, April 11, 2019

Announcements

ANNOUNCEMENTS and NOTICES

April 14, 2019

Palm Sunday

 

Collect of the DayAlmighty and everlasting God, You sent Your Son, our Savior Jesus Christ, to take upon Himself our flesh and to suffer death upon the cross. Mercifully grant that we may follow the example of His great humility and patience and be made partakers of His resurrection; through the same Jesus Christ, our Lord, who lives and reigns with You and the Holy Spirit, one God, now and forever.

Quarterly Council Meeting will be held today following the service.  Voter’s Meeting will be held on Sunday, April 28th.

 

Easter Flowers – If you would like to purchase an Easter lily for the church to use on Easter Sunday, there is a sign-up sheet on the table in the back of the church for you to place your order. Each lily is $13.00 and you may pay Cheryl Batt by today. Please feel free to take your lily home after the Easter morning worship service.

 

Partnership Holy Week Services – Check out the flier in back for information on our two partnership Holy Week services: the Stations of the Cross here at St. John’s on Good Friday at 8:30 a.m. and the Easter Vigil at Trinity on Holy Saturday at 7:00 p.m.  These are in addition to our regularly scheduled Holy Week services. 

 

Parish Messenger Articles for the May/June edition are due into Linda Kerkove by April 23rd.

 

Teacher Needed – St. John’s Lutheran Church in Burt is accepting applications for a preschool teacher for the 2019-2020 school year for Kids of the Kingdom Preschool.  Please send or email application letter and resume to: St John’s Lutheran Church, PO Box 98, Burt, Iowa 50522 or churchoffice@stjohnsburt.org.

 

Registration for Preschool – Kids of the Kingdom Preschool in Burt, IA is accepting registrations for the 2019-2020 school year.  Please call the St. John's Lutheran church office at 515-924-3344 for information or email churchoffice@stjohnsburt.org.

 

Pray for our Legislatures – On Tuesday Lutheran Family Service organized nearly fifty LCMS pastors from Iowa Districts West and East at the Iowa capitol to show our support for God's love of all people from conception to natural death.  We met with our ten LCMS legislatures and thanked and encouraged them in their support of pro-life legislation. We then had the opportunity to lobby our local representatives on your behalf and share with them our Synod's support of anti-abortion and anti-physician assisted suicide legislation.  Please pick up the LFS flier on the back table and pray for our ten LCMS legislatures by name, as well as our local senator Dennis Guth and representative Tedd Gassman, that God direct them to serve in their vocations according to His will and to His glory. 

 

In-Gathering Outreach – We are asking the congregation to help with a project for the homeless.  We are collecting the following items; children’s colored socks and underwear (new) and men’s colored new socks, briefs or boxer shorts. You can bring these items to the church and place them the blue basket provided in the back. These items will be taken to Zion Lutheran in LuVerne on April 25th to the LWML Rally.  Contact Bev Skadburg with any questions.

 

Trinity Bible Study on Facebook Live - Join Pastor Schlund at 7:30 p.m. on Sunday nights during Lent on Trinity's Facebook page for a Bible study based on their Lent theme “Behold the Man”.  You’ll be able to ask questions and participate in the discussion if you’d like, but you won’t need to leave home. Visit facebook.com/TrinityAlgona on your computer or use the Facebook App on your smartphone or tablet on Sunday nights to join the study.

 

Lessons on the Liturgy – The Easter Triduum

Maundy Thursday, Good Friday, and Holy Saturday are all part of a single liturgy called the Easter Triduum, or the Paschal Triduum.  We begin the Easter Triduum with the Invocation (“In the Name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit”) on Maundy Thursday and end with the Benediction (“The Lord bless you and keep you…”) on the Easter Vigil.  This liturgy is of great comfort to us because it reminds us that Christ’s Holy Supper is never without the power of His death, and His death is never without the power of His resurrection.

             

Easter in Lone Rock on Saturday, April 20th at 9:00 a.m. at the Fire Station.  Activities of Egg coloring, games, with prizes and an Egg Hunt will begin at 9:30 a.m.  Refreshments served.

 

This Week at St. John’s  – (April 14, 2019-April 21, 2019)

Today (04/14)          8:00  am       Sunday School/Adult Class

                                 9:00  am       Divine Service – Palm Sunday (Holy Communion)                              

                                10:00 am       Council Meeting

Tuesday (04/16)      8:30  am       Morning Prayer

Wednesday (04/17) 2:30  pm       Lenten Services at Accura Nursing Home

                                                      No Religion School

Thursday (04/18)        8:30           am Morning Prayer

                                 6:30  pm       Holy Thursday Divine Service (Holy Communion)

Friday (04/19)          8:30  am       Stations of the Cross

                                 6:30  pm       Good Friday Tenebrae Service

Saturday (04/20)     7:00  pm       Easter Vigil Divine Service (Trinity, Algona)                  

Sunday (04/21)        8:00  am       Easter Day Divine Service

                                 9:00  am       Rolls/Coffee served in church basement                       

                            

Greeters Next Week:   Bud and Mary Lou Marlow

Acolyte for Today:      none-assigned

Ushers for April:          *Don Madsen and Wendell Christensen Jr.

Elder for April:            Jeff Schutjer

 

Trinity Bible Studies – St. John’s members are welcome to attend any of the following Bible Studies at Trinity:

  • Wednesday AM Adult Bible Class – Mornings at 9:30 a.m.
  • BYOB (Bring Your Own Bible) – Tuesday Evenings Bible Study at 7:30 p.m. at parsonage.
  • Women’s Bible Study Mondays: 7:00 a.m. and 9:30 a.m.

·         Trinity will also be having a Morning Prayer Service each Monday at 8:30 a.m. during Lent. 

·         Trinity Bible Study “Behold the Man” on Trinity’s Facebook Page on Sunday evenings during Lent at 7:30 p.m.

 

 

 

Thursday, April 04, 2019

Announcements

ANNOUNCEMENTS and NOTICES

April 7, 2019

The Fifth Sunday in Lent

 

Collect of the Day – Almighty God, by Your great goodness mercifully look upon Your people that we may be governed and preserved evermore in body and soul; through Jesus Christ, Your Son, our Lord, who lives and reigns with You and the Holy Spirit, one God, now and forever. Amen.

Flood Relief Offering – Today is the final day we’ll be collecting the special offering for flood relief.  You will still be able to donate electronically at: www.ndlcms.org/disaster-response/. We’ll continue to look for ways we can provide long-term assistance to those in need.

 

Easter Flowers – If you would like to purchase an Easter lily for the church to use on Easter Sunday, there is a sign-up sheet on the table in the back of the church for you to place your order. Each lily is $13.00 and you may pay Cheryl Batt by Sunday, April 14th. Please feel free to take your lily home after the Easter morning worship service.

 

Wednesday Lenten Service will be held Wednesday, April 10, 2019 at 6:30 p.m. followed by a Bible study on the blessings of weekly Communion.

 

Holy Week/Easter Choir - St. John's needs your voice!  The choir will sing on Holy Thursday, Good Friday, and Easter Sunday.  We'll be practicing in the balcony after church today (April 7) and before the Holy Thursday service if we need to.  All ages and experience levels are welcome to sing!

 

Partnership Holy Week Services – Check out your bulletin insert for information on our two partnership Holy Week services: the Stations of the Cross here at St. John’s on Good Friday at 8:30 a.m. and the Easter Vigil at Trinity on Holy Saturday at 7:00 p.m.

 

Quarterly Council Meeting will be held on Sunday, April 14th following the service.  Voter’s Meeting will be held on Sunday, April 28th.

 

Almsgiving Projects – St. John’s has the opportunity again this year to help our Confirmation students learn the value of showing mercy to those in need.  Each student has chosen an organization to which our offering from our Wednesday Lenten services will be given.  Pick up a sheet on the back table for more information on the students’ almsgiving project and the organizations they have chosen.

 

In-Gathering Outreach- We are asking the congregation to help with a project for the Homeless.  We are collecting the following items; Children’s colored socks and underwear (new) and Men’s colored new socks, briefs or boxer shorts. You can bring these items to the church and place them the blue basket provided in the back. These items will be taken to Zion Lutheran in LuVerne on April 25th to the LWML Rally.  Questions contact Bev Skadburg

 

Trinity Bible Study on Facebook Live - Join Pastor Schlund at 7:30 p.m. on Sunday nights during Lent on Trinity's Facebook page for a Bible study based on their Lent theme “Behold the Man”.  You’ll be able to ask questions and participate in the discussion if you’d like, but you won’t need to leave home. Visit facebook.com/TrinityAlgona on your computer or use the Facebook App on your smartphone or tablet on Sunday nights to join the study.

 

Lessons on the Liturgy – Christian Questions with Their Answers

Lent is traditionally the time when catechumens would be receiving their final instruction in the faith before their baptism and first Communion on the Easter Vigil.  It’s now the case that Lent is a time for all Christians to review the foundational doctrine of our faith, which for us Lutherans is summarized in the Small Catechism.  In addition to the six chief parts of the Small Catechism Martin Luther also prepared several questions that Christians can ask themselves before receiving the Lord’s Supper.  They are on pages 329-330 in our hymnal.  Consider taking some time this Lent to read through these questions and reflect on their answers, especially as you prepare to receive the Lord’s Supper on the night on which He instituted this blessed meal.

                   

Silent Quilt Auction is being held at Trinity during the Lenten season. Quilts can be viewed in the office lobby.  All proceeds go to Camp Okoboji’s 2019 quilt auction projects.  Winners will be announced on Wednesday, April 10th

 

Chicken and Biscuit Meal will be held today (April 7) from 10:30-1:00 p.m. at Burt Complex.  All proceeds go to Burt Summer Celebration to keep this a free day!  Silent Auction being held during this event.

 

Biscuits and Gravy Meal will be held on Saturday, April 13th from 9 a.m.-1 p.m. at the Burt Community Center.  Free Will Donation for the upkeep of the Burt Community Center. Sponsored by the Burt City Council and Employees.

 

This Week at St. John’s  – (April 7, 2019-April 14, 2019)

Today (04/07)             8:00am           Sunday School/Adult Class

                                 9:00am           Divine Service (Holy Communion)

                                  10:00am        Choir Practice

Tuesday (04/09)          8:30am           No Morning Prayer- Pastor’s Day on the Hill

Wednesday (04/10)     6:00pm          Religion School

                                 6:30pm          Lenten Service

                                 7:00pm          Bible Study on Communion

Thursday (04/11)         8:30am           Morning Prayer

Sunday (04/14)           8:00am           Sunday School/Adult Class

                                 9:00am           Divine Service

                                  10:00am        Council Meeting

 

Holy Week at St. John’s – (April 15, 2019-April 21, 2019)

Tuesday (04/16)          8:30am           Morning Prayer

Thursday (04/18)         8:30am           Morning Prayer

                                 6:30pm          Holy Thursday Divine Service

Friday (04/19)             8:30am           Stations of the Cross

                                 6:30pm          Good Friday Tenebrae Service

Saturday (04/20)         7:00pm          Easter Vigil Divine Service (at Trinity, Algona)

Sunday (04/21)           8:00am           Easter Day Divine Service (followed by breakfast)

 

Greeters Next Week:      Duane and Ann Heyes

Acolyte for Today:          Breckin Borchardt

Ushers for April:            *Don Madsen and Wendell Christensen Jr.

Elder for April:               Jeff Schutjer

 

Trinity Bible Studies – St. John’s members are welcome to attend any of the following Bible Studies at Trinity:

·         Trinity will also be having a Morning Prayer Service each Monday at 8:30 a.m. during Lent. 

·         Trinity Bible Study “Behold the Man” on Trinity’s Facebook Page on Sunday evenings during Lent at 7:30 p.m.