Announcements
St. John’s Lutheran Church
109 Maple St. Burt, Iowa|Lutheran Church—Missouri Synod
Pastor: Rev. Thomas Cowell
Secretary: Rosann Shipler
Pastor’s Cell: 319-464-5548
Church Office: 515-924-3344 stjohnsburt.org
Pastor’s Email: pastor@stjohnsburt.org
Church Email: churchoffice@stjohnsburt.org
THE SIXTH SUNDAY OF EASTER
May 9, 2021
O God, the giver of all that is good, by Your holy inspiration grant that we may think those things that are right and by Your merciful guiding accomplish them; through Jesus Christ, Your Son, our Lord, who lives and reigns with You and the Holy Spirit, one God, now and forever. Amen.
THIS WEEK AT ST. JOHN’S Today, May 9, 2021 8:00 a.m. Sunday School/Adult Class 9:00 a.m. Divine Service Tuesday, May 11, 2021 10:00 a.m. Morning Prayer Wednesday, May 12, 2021 6:00 p.m. Christian Catechesis Thursday, May 13, 2021 6:00 p.m. Ascension Day Service at Trinity, Algona | Saturday, May 15, 2021 10:00 a.m. Partnership Hwy Clean-up Sunday, May 16, 2021 8:00 a.m. Sunday School/Adult Class 9:00 a.m. Divine Service (Confirmation) THIS WEEK IN THE CHURCH YEAR May 9, 2021 Commemoration of Job, Patriarch May 11, 2021 Commemoration of Cyril and Methodius, Missionaries to the Slavs |
ST. JOHN’S NEWS
Organist Today: Marcia Hanna
Elder for May: Tony Hatten
Confirmation Sunday - We rejoice to celebrate the rite of Confirmation with Tysen Wickman during the Divine Service next Sunday, May 16th. The congregation is welcome to attend a reception in the church basement following the service.
St. John’s VBS is scheduled for June 9, 16, 23, and 30 from 5:30-7:30 p.m. You can read more about this year’s VBS in your Parish Messenger. There are also VBS fliers on the back table. Feel free to take one for your own information or to hang up at an area business.
Vacation Prayer Cards - On the back table are prayer cards designed for you to put in your car or camper for when you travel. On the card is a prayer for before you travel along with other prayers and Psalms you can pray on the go. There is also information on how to find an LCMS congregation to worship with when you’re away from home on a Sunday. Feel free to take a card, laminated daily prayer folder, and Small Catechism for each of your vehicles!
Skills and Interests Form - We’d love to have your completed Skills and Interests in the church office by Sunday, May 23rd. This will help us plan worship, volunteer, and social events into the summer months.
Pastoral Care On Demand - Pastor Cowell would love to serve you Communion at church or at home, pray, read Scripture, offer Christian counsel, and/or just visit any time that works for you! Call or text him any time at 319-464-5548.
Stained Glass Window Project - We’ve met our financial goal for our new windows and are on track to possibly have them installed soon! There’s more information on the windows on the back table. Thanks for your generous contributions to this project.
St. John’s Live-streamed Service - The easiest way to access our service livestreams and recordings is to click on the links posted on the homepage of stjohnsburt.org.
Cards to the Lund Babies - If you’d like to send a card to Pastor Mark and Hope Lund in celebration of the birth and continued good health of their twins, Henry and Dorothy, their home address is: 605 N Church St., Algona, Iowa 50511.
SYNOD, DISTRICT & PARTNERSHIP NEWS
Ascension Day Partnership Service - Our Partnership congregations will be celebrating the Ascension of our Lord this Thursday, May 13th at 6:00 p.m. at Trinity, Algona. There will be a social time in the Life Center following the service of Scripture and prayer.
Trinity, Algona Schedule - Trinity, Algona continues to stream their worship services and other videos online. You can access these resources at trinityalgona.org/corona or the Trinity YouTube and Facebook pages either live or any time after as a recording.
Partnership Highway Clean-up - St. John’s and Trinity will be cleaning our partnership Adopt-a-Highway ditch on Saturday, May 15th, at 10:00 a.m. If you are interested in volunteering at this event, please sign the sheet on the back table and we will get you more information.
Camp News:
· Quilt Auction at Camp Okoboji has been set for Saturday, June 19. The project and description sheet must be in by May 21. If you would like to donate a quilt for the auction you may pick up an information sheet in the church office.
· Be a Volunteer Counselor! We are seeking high school youth and college-aged young adults to serve as counselors during Cub Weeks, Junior High Week, and Youth Wee. Apply at campokoboji.org
· Omelet Brunches are back at Camp Okoboji! Join us the first Sunday every month for some good food and company.
· Sunday Worship Services at camp are held every Sunday from Memorial Day to Labor day at 9:45 a.m.
Building Healthy Families: God gave woman a special gift--the ability to carry new life within her own body. Psalm 139:13 says, “You knitted me together in my mother’s womb.” It is good that we have a day set aside specifically in honor of motherhood. In a world where human life in the womb is at risk of being aborted, we can encourage girls and young women, sharing with them the immense joy and honor of being a mother. To all our moms…thanks for who you are and all you do. Happy Mother’s Day! Lutheran Family Service –
www.LutheranFamilyService.org
LECTIONARY SUMMARY (Easter 6)
Old Testament: Acts 10:34-48
Peter preaches salvation for both Jew and Gentile alike.
Epistle: 1 John 5:1-8
This is the love of God, that we keep his commandments. For everyone who has been born of God overcomes the world. And this is the victory that has overcome the world—our faith.
Gospel: John 15:9-17
Jesus says: “As the Father has loved me, so have I loved you. Abide in my love. [...] This is my commandment, that you love one another as I have loved you.”
FROM THE CHURCH FATHERS
“The one who has done violence to the love of Christ by faithless dissension will not attain to the reward of Christ, who said, ‘This is my commandment, that you love one another.’ Whoever does not have charity does not have God.” - Cyprian, The Unity of the Church, 14, qtd. in ACCS: John 11-21, p. 172.
LESSONS ON THE LITURGY
Ascension Day
We celebrate the Ascension of our Lord forty days after Easter Day (therefore always on a Thursday). Here is the collect of the day for Ascension Day:
Almighty God, as Your only-begotten Son, our Lord Jesus Christ, ascended into the
heavens, so may we also ascend in heart and mind and continually dwell there with Him,
who lives and reigns with You and the Holy Spirit, one God, now and forever. Amen.
FROM THE BOOK OF CONCORD
Solid Declaration of the Formula of Concord, Article VII: The Holy Supper, para. 79-83
In the administration of the Holy Supper the words of institution are to be publicly spoken or sung before the congregation distinctly and clearly. They should in no way be left out. Obedience should be rendered to Christ's command, "This do." The hearers' faith about the nature and fruit of this Sacrament should be aroused, strengthened, and confirmed by Christ's Word (about the presence of Christ's body and blood, about the forgiveness of sins, and about all the benefits that have been purchased by the death and shedding of Christ's blood that are bestowed on us in Christ's testament). And, the elements of bread and wine should be consecrated or blessed for this holy use, so that Christ's body and blood may be administered to us to be eaten and to be drunk, as Paul declares, "the cup of blessing that we bless." This happens in no other way than through the repetition and recitation of the words of institution.
However, this blessing, or the recitation of the words of Christ's institution alone, does not make a Sacrament if the entire action of the Supper, as it was instituted by Christ, is not kept. (For example, it is not kept when the consecrated bread is not distributed, received, and partaken of, but is enclosed, sacrificed, or carried about.) Christ's command "This do" must be observed unseparated and inviolate.
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