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 DAY OF PENTECOST
June 5, 2022
O God, on this day You once taught the hearts of Your faithful people by sending them the light of Your Holy Spirit. Grant us in our day by the same Spirit to have a right understanding in all things and evermore to rejoice in His holy consolation; 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, June 5, 2022 9:30 am Pentecost Day Divine Service 3-6:00pm Fishing Day at Smith Lake Tuesday, 7, 2022 10:00am Morning Prayer 6:00pm Evening Prayer-Trinity 7:00pm Call Committee Meeting | Sunday, June 12, 2022 9:30am Holy Trinity Divine Service THIS WEEK IN THE CHURCH YEAR June 5, 2022 Commemoration of Boniface of Mainz June 11, 2022 Feast of St. Barnabas, Apostle |
ST. JOHN’S NEWS
Organist Today: Marcia Hanna
Elder: Jerry Koestler
Greeter Today: Harold Lavrenz
St. John’s Family Fishing Day - Mark your calendars for St. John’s Family Fishing Day today 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 members of St. John’s, Burt so very much for your very generous gift [of money] and your love and support! We miss you! Love, the Lund Family (A Notecard and pictures of the family are posted on the ramp bulletin board).
Parish Messenger for the May/June edition is on the table in the back of the church.
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.
A Volunteer is needed to pull the St. John’s float in the Burt Summer Celebration parade. If you can help, please contact the office.
Portals of Prayer - The July-September edition is available in the basket along the east wall.
Brochures Available - Help support the ministry to the armed forces through Operation Barnabas of the Lutheran Church Missouri Synod by giving to chaplains who serve military families and by sending devotional materials and resources to those stationed around the world. Brochures are available on the back table today.
Pentecost Chasuble - The red chasuble that Pastor Cowell is wearing today is an anonymous gift in celebration of his five years of service as Pastor at St. John’s and Trinity this June. Pastor Cowell is deeply grateful for the generous gift and for being blessed to serve among us for five years!
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.
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:
· 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.co
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 - In her book, “The Power of a Positive Mom,” Karol Ladd notes the importance of intentionally planning for summer activities with your children. She suggests making a large poster with “The Summer of 2022” written across the top. Invite your kids to join you in making a list of fun activities you want to do over the next two months. Also include some summer rules, like how much television and screen time will be allowed, what chores will be required and how late is too late to sleep in. A little planning will help you enjoy these months off and avoid that regretful September statement, “Where did the summer go?” Lutheran Family Service - www.LutheranFamilyService.org.
COMMUNITY NEWS
Kossuth County Kids Camp Day at Smith Lake on Thursday, June 23 from 3-7 p.m. The theme “Off the Beaten Path” will have 4 different stations for the groups to work through: owl pellet dissection, bird house building, bugs as food, and a program by Billie Wille. A live American eagle program will be presented by SOAR (Saving Our Avian Resources) at 6 p.m. Hot Dog lunch will be served. Everyone is welcome! Contact the Burt Library 515-924-3680 to sign-up. Sponsored by all twelve libraries in Kossuth County.
LECTIONARY SUMMARY (Day of Pentecost)
Old Testament: Genesis 11:1-9
People tried to build a tower into the heavens, and God came down and confused their languages and dispersed them over the face of all the earth.
Epistle: Acts 2:1-21
The Holy Spirit descends as tongues of fire on each of the Apostles.
Gospel: John 14:23-31
Jesus promises that the Father will send to the Apostles the Helper, the Holy Spirit.
FROM THE CHURCH FATHERS
“After the flood, as if striving to fortify themselves against God, as if there could be anything high for God or anything secure for pride, certain proud men built a tower, ostensibly so that they might not be destroyed by a flood if one came later. For they had heard and recalled that all iniquity had been destroyed by the flood. They were unwilling to abstain from iniquity. They sought the height of a tower against a flood; they built a lofty tower. God saw their pride, and he caused this disorder to be sent upon them, that they might speak but not understand one another, and tongues became different through pride.” - Augustine, Tractates on the Gospel of John 6.10.2, qtd. in ACCS: Genesis 1-11, p. 167.
LESSONS ON THE LITURGY
Creation, Redemption, and Sanctification
When we confess the Apostles and Nicene Creed we acknowledge the Father to be the Creator, the Son to be the Redeemer, and the Holy Spirit to be the Sanctifier. However, it is important to recognize that as the undivided Holy Trinity, the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit are all three our Creator, Redeemer, and Sanctifier. So too on this Day of Pentecost as we recognize this to be a day of special significance for the Holy Spirit, we also see the work of the Father and the Son in the spreading of the Gospel to all nations.
FROM THE BOOK OF CONCORD
Solid Declaration of the Formula of Concord, Article VII: The Holy Supper, para. 74-76
The word or work of any man does not produce the true presence of Christ's body and blood in the Supper. This is true whether we consider the merit or recitation of the minister or the eating, drinking, or faith of the communicants. Christ's presence should be credited only to Almighty God's power and our Lord Jesus Christ's word, institution, and ordination.
Jesus Christ's words, which He spoke at the first institution, were effective not only at the first Supper. They are valid, and are still effective. So where the Supper is celebrated according to Christ's institution and His words are used, Christ's body and blood are truly present, distributed, and received, because of the power and effectiveness of the words that Christ spoke at the first Supper. Chrysostom says:
Christ Himself prepared this table and blesses it. For no man makes the bread and wine set before us into Christ's body and blood, only Christ Himself, who was crucified for us. The declaration "Be fruitful and multiply and fill the earth" was spoken only once. But it is ever effective in nature, so that it is fruitful and multiplies. So also this declaration ‹,This is My body; this is My blood,› was spoken once. But to this day in the Supper of the Church His true body and blood are present.
St. John’s Lutheran Church – Burt, IA.
Phone: 515-924-3344
Email: churchoffice@stjohnsburt.org
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