Anouncerments
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 22, 2022
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 22, 2022 9:30 am Divine Service Tuesday, May 24, 2022 10:00am Morning Prayer Thursday, May 26, 2022 3:00 p.m. Titonka Care Center Sunday, May 29, 2022 9:30am Ascension Divine Service | THIS WEEK IN THE CHURCH YEAR May 24, 2022 Commemoration of Esther May 25, 2022 Commemoration of The Venerable Bede |
ST. JOHN’S NEWS
Organist Today: Marcia Hanna
Elder: Tony Hatten
Greeters Today: Hannah Cowell, Penny & Amelia
Partnership Pastor Nominations - Information about submitting a nomination for our Partnership senior and associate pastors is available in the back of church. Deadline is today. Please return your completed form into the church office.
St. John’s Family Fishing Day - Mark your calendars for St. John’s Family Fishing Day Sunday, June 5th from 3:00-6:00 p.m. at Smith Lake. We’ll meet at the southwest shelter house and enjoy fishing, fun, Scripture, and supper. This event is for all ages and we encourage you to bring along friends as well!
Thank You for all the many cards, gifts and best wishes we received for our 25th Wedding Anniversary. God bless each of you for your kindness! Vern & Joan Koestler
Parish Messenger for the May/June edition is on the table in the back of the church.
Thank You for your generosity and support to the Kossuth County Food Pantry project with your contributions through Thrivent! We collected 3 bags of food items and $174. Deb Steven & Mary Schmidt.
A Volunteer is Needed to take over replenishing and purchasing cards for the card rack in the back of the church. If you are interested, contact the church office.
Pastoral Care On Demand - Need prayer, Scripture, Communion, Absolution, or a listening ear? Feel free to call or text Pastor Cowell anytime for a visit at 319-464-5548.
To my St. John’s family and friends, thank you so very much for your thoughts and prayers and cards. My heart condition is more stable for now. As St. Paul says in Philippians, “I thank my God for you and I love you.” Thanks for your continued prayers! In Christ Jesus, Mary Shipler-Oleson.
SYNOD, DISTRICT & PARTNERSHIP NEWS
Trinity Bible Study - Join Pastor Cowell Wednesdays at 9:30 a.m. for Bible study at Trinity’s Life Center conference room. We are studying biblical interpretation.
TLC Quilts Available - Don’t forget about the TLC Quilter’s “giving pew” by the east doors of St. John’s. Feel free to take and give away as many quilts and bears as you’d like!
Volunteer Needed - We are looking for a volunteer to coordinate the Churches of Burt coffee fellowship the morning of the Burt Summer Celebration on July 9th. Please contact Pastor Cowell if you are interested.
Summer Prayer and Scripture Series - An Evening Prayer Service will take place at 6 pm in Trinity’s Life Center on Tuesdays, June 7 & 21; July 5 & 19; & August 9. This will be a spoken service and include reflections from 1 John followed by refreshments & social time. See the handout (yellow) on the back table about this special opportunity to gather for prayer and Scripture in the summer months.
Ascension Day Service - You are invited to join our circuit in celebrating the Ascension of our Lord at St. Paul Lutheran Church, 805 Harrison Street, in Emmetsburg Thursday, May 26th at 6:00 p.m.
Young Adult Bible Study - You are invited to attend a young adult (post-high school) Bible study opportunity hosted in our circuit. The Bible study is every 2nd and 4th Sunday at 6:00 p.m. in the old parsonage next to Zion Lutheran Church in LuVerne. Contact Pastor Steve Struecker at 515-320-2014 with questions.
Camp News:
· Summer Staff Needed! We are still recruiting Summer Staff at Camp Okoboji. If you know a High School Senior or College student who is looking for summer employment, we are looking for Summer Staff at Camp. You may call Camp for more information - 712-337-3325.
· Camp Okoboji Travel Camp - Creation Museum & Ark Encounter, Sept 5-9. Cost: $559 per person, double occupancy. Visit grouptrips.com/campokoboji for more information or contact Izaak at 507-766-0072 or izaak.campokoboji@gmail.com
· May 29 - Summer Sunday Morning worship services begin.
· June 3-5 - Kids’ Kamp is the perfect weekend to get your K-2nd grade child acclimated to camp before they attend on their own in a couple of years!! Campers and families (parents, grandparents, aunts & uncles) can enjoy activities including canoeing, swimming, arts & crafts, Bible Studies, campfire devotions, and so much S’more!
Prayers needed for Pastor Andrew Johnson whose cancer has relapsed and will be receiving chemo treatments at Mayo. He will be undergoing a tandem autologous stem cell transplant requiring him to be in Rochester for 10 weeks.
Building Healthy Families - Humility is hard to come by during an argument - especially when you’re sure you are right and your husband (or wife, or child, or parent, or co-worker…) is wrong. Here are three simple but powerful words to remember that will help when conflict comes in any relationship: I am sorry. In conjunction with this, equally as powerful are these three: I forgive you. “A soft answer turns away wrath, but a harsh word stirs up anger.” Proverbs 15:1 Lutheran Family Service - www.LutheranFamilyService.org.
COMMUNITY NEWS
Memorial Day Services will be held at 10 a.m. May 30th at the Burt Activity Complex by the Burt VFW, followed by a retreat to the Burt Township Cemetery. Lunch will be served afterwards.
LECTIONARY SUMMARY (Easter 6)
Old Testament: Acts 16:9-15
Paul goes to Macedonia, baptizes Lydia, and stays at her house.
Epistle: Revelation 21:9-14, 21-27
John sees the new Jerusalem, which has no temple, for its temple is the Lord God the Almighty and the Lamb.
Gospel: John 16:23-33
Jesus says “In the world you will have tribulation. But take heart; I have overcome the world.”
FROM THE CHURCH FATHERS
“We are not to suppose that each individual must contend with all these adversaries, which would be impossible for anyone. [...] For I think that human nature has definite limitations, even though there is a Paul, of whom it is said, ‘He is a chosen vessel unto me,’ or a Peter against whom ‘the gates of hell shall not prevail,’ or a Moses, ‘the friend of God.’ For not even one of these could face the whole crowd of opposing powers at once without destruction to himself, except perhaps on the condition that there was working within him the power of him who said, ‘Be of good cheer, I have overcome the world.’” - Origen, On First Principles 3.2.5, qtd. in ACCS: John 11-21, p. 224-5.
LESSONS ON THE LITURGY
Lydia, Dorcas, and Phoebe
On October 25th the Church commemorates three faithful women of Scripture: Dorcas (Tabitha), Phoebe, and Lydia from our Scripture lesson today. These three women demonstrated their faith in Christ through their service of the Church through material means. Dorcas made clothes for the poor in the city of Joppa, among other acts of charity. When she died suddenly, the apostle Peter was called from the city of Lydda and raised her from the dead (Acts 9). Lydia, from Thyatira worked at Philippi, selling purple dye. Since she worshiped at the local Jewish synagogue, she heard Paul preaching the Word on his missionary journey. When she heard the Gospel of Jesus Christ, she was converted and she and her friends were the first of the Christian community in Philippi (Acts 16). Phoebe was also associated with the apostle Paul. She was a deaconess from Cenchreae. Paul sent her to the Church in Rome with the Epistle to the Romans, where he writes about her support of the Early Church (Romans 16) [adapted from post on facebook.com/LCMSEurasia from October 25, 2021].
FROM THE BOOK OF CONCORD
Solid Declaration of the Formula of Concord, Article XI: God’s Eternal Election, para. 22-26
God will eternally save and glorify in life eternal those whom He has elected, called, and justified.
God has prepared salvation not only in general in this counsel, purpose, and ordination. In grace He has considered and chosen to salvation each and every one of the elect who are to be saved through Christ. He has also ordained that in the way just mentioned He will, by His grace, gifts, and efficacy, bring them to salvation. He will aid, promote, strengthen, and preserve them. All this, according to the Scriptures, is included in the teaching about God's eternal election to adoption and eternal salvation, and is to be understood by it. It must never be excluded or omitted when we speak about God's purpose, predestination, election, and ordination to salvation. When our thoughts about this article are formed according to the Scriptures in this way, we can simply adapt ourselves to it by God's grace. The following also belongs to the further explanation and teaching about God's foreknowledge to salvation: Only the elect, whose names are written in the book of life [Rv. 21:27], are saved… We should listen to God's revealed will. For He has made "known to us the mystery of His will" (Eph. 1:9) and made it clear through Christ so that it might be preached (2 Ti. 1:9).
St. John’s Lutheran Church – Burt, IA.
Phone: 515-924-3344
Email: churchoffice@stjohnsburt.org
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