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 SECOND SUNDAY AFTER PENTECOST

June 6, 2021

 

Almighty and eternal God, Your Son Jesus triumphed over the prince of demons and freed us from bondage to sin. Help us to stand firm against every assault of Satan, and enable us always to do Your will; through Jesus Christ, 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, June 1, 2021   8:00 a.m.      Adult Class    9:00 a.m.      Divine Service    Tuesday, June 8, 2021   No Morning Prayer    Wednesday, June 9, 2021 5:30-7:30 p.m.   Vacation Bible School

Sunday, June 13, 2021     8:00 a.m.     Adult Class      9:00 a.m.     Divine Service   THIS WEEK IN THE CHURCH YEAR    June 11, 2021     Feast of St. Barnabas, Apostle    June 12, 2021     Commemoration of The Ecumenical          Council of Nicaea, A.D. 325

 

ST. JOHN’S NEWS

 

Organist Today: Marcia Hanna

Elder for June:  Jerry Koestler

Officiant:  Rev. Mark Lund

 

Pastor Cowell on Vacation - Pastor Cowell is on vacation till Tuesday, June 8th.  If you need to reach him during that time you can call or text him on his cell phone at: 319-464-5548.  If you are in immediate need of pastoral care, please call the Trinity pastoral care phone at 515-361-1269, which either Pastor Schlund or Lund will be carrying.  

 

St. John’s VBS is scheduled to begin this Wednesday, June 9, 2021.  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. Registration forms are on the table or you may email the church office for one to fill out.  

Other Scheduled VBS are Wednesday  June 16, 23 & 30th 5:30-7:30 p.m.

 

VBS Volunteers - If you would like to volunteer to help at VBS any of the four Wednesdays, or to make cookies/bars for any of the meals, please sign up on the sheets on the back table.

 

Greeter and Usher Sign-up - We're excited to reintroduce greeters to our Sunday mornings at St. John's!  Your family or you and a friend are welcome to sign up for a Sunday to greet on the back table.  Of course, hand shaking will be optional.  Also, we'd love to have at least one usher per month to help Jeff with duties as needed.  You can sign up for this on the back table as well. 

 

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 - If you have not yet completed your Skills and Interests form, you are still welcome to turn it in at the church office.  If you need an extra copy, they are available on the back table. 

 

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 waiting for them to be 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. 

 

SYNOD, DISTRICT & PARTNERSHIP NEWS

 

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.

 

St. Lukes (Fairville) 125th Celebration - You are invited to join us as we celebrate one year later our 125th Anniversary! On Sunday, June 13, we will have a meal for everyone from noon-1:30 p.m., followed by our anniversary service at 2:00 p.m. After the service, we will have fellowship with cake and ice cream with our time capsule on display. Everyone is invited to join us at one or all events!

 

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 Week. 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: It’s wedding season! You may be attending a wedding or celebrating your own anniversary soon. Consider taking time this week to look through your old wedding photos. Revisit the fun, emotion, fears, laughs, and tears of the day with your spouse. Have a conversation about all you’ve learned about life, family, and faith since that day. Who are you now compared to who you were then? What has changed? How has God made His presence known as the third person in your marriage described in Ecclesiastes 4:12? Lutheran Family Service - www.LutheranFamilyService.org

  COMMUNITY NEWS

Burt Fire Department Pancake Breakfast will be held today (June 6, 2021) from 8 a.m. to 12 p.m. in the Burt Activity Complex. Menu: Pancakes, eggs, bacon and drinks. Free-will donation.

 

LECTIONARY SUMMARY (Proper 5)

Old Testament: Genesis 3:8–15

The Lord meets Adam and Eve in the Garden and they confess that they have eaten from the Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil. 

 

Epistle: 2 Corthinans 4: 13-5:1

We look not to the things that are seen but to the things that are unseen. For the things that are seen are transient, but the things that are unseen are eternal.

 

Gospel: Mark 3:20-35

The scribes accuse Jesus of being possessed by Beelzebul, and Jesus tells the crowd: “Whoever does the will of God, he is my brother and sister and mother.”

 

FROM THE CHURCH FATHERS

“[The adversary] enticed man to transgress his Maker's law, and thereby got him into his power; yet his power consists in transgression and apostasy, and with these he bound man [to himself]; so again, on the other hand, it was necessary that through man himself he should, when conquered, be bound with the same chains with which he had bound man, in order that man, being set free, might return to his Lord, leaving to him (Satan) those bonds by which he himself had been fettered, that is, sin. For when Satan is bound, man is set free; since none can enter a strong man's house and spoil his goods, unless he first bind the strong man himself. [...] And justly indeed is he led captive, who had led men unjustly into bondage; while man, who had been led captive in times past, was rescued from the grasp of his possessor, according to the tender mercy of God the Father, who had compassion on His own handiwork, and gave to it salvation, restoring it by means of the Word — that is, by Christ — in order that men might learn by actual proof that he receives incorruptibility not of himself, but by the free gift of God.” - Irenaeus, Against Heresies, 5.21.3, retrieved from newadvent.org/fathers/0103521.htm. 

 

LESSONS ON THE LITURGY 

Prayer after Communion

Some people find it helpful to pray a silent prayer by themselves after they receive the Lord’s Supper.  This prayer from the inside cover of our hymnal can help you give thanks after receiving the sacrament:

     “Almighty and everlasting God, I thank and praise You for feeding me the life-giving body and 

       blood of Your beloved Son, Jesus Christ.  Send Your Holy Spirit that, having with my mouth 

       received the holy Sacrament, I may by faith obtain and eternally enjoy Your divine grace, the 

       forgiveness of sins, unity with Christ, and life eternal; through Jesus Christ, my Lord. Amen.”

 

FROM THE BOOK OF CONCORD

Apology of the Augsburg Confession, Article II: Original Sin, paragraph 14

These were the reasons why, in the description of original sin, we made mention of concupiscence also, and denied to man’s natural strength the fear of God and trust in Him. For we wished to indicate that original sin contains also these diseases, namely, ignorance of God, contempt for God, the being destitute of the fear of God and trust in Him, inability to love God. These are the chief faults of human nature, conflicting especially with the first table of the Decalog.