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 FEAST OF THE HOLY TRINITY
June 12, 2022
Almighty and everlasting God, You have given us grace to acknowledge the glory of the eternal Trinity by the confession of a true faith and to worship the Unity in the power of the Divine Majesty. Keep us steadfast in this faith and defend us from all adversities; for You, O Father, Son, and Holy Spirit, live and reign, one God, now and forever. Amen.
THIS WEEK AT ST. JOHN’S Today, June 12, 2022 9:30 am Holy Trinity Divine Service Tuesday, 14, 2022 NO Morning Prayer Sunday, June 19, 2022 9:30am Divine Service (Confirmation) | THIS WEEK IN THE CHURCH YEAR June 12, 2022 Commemoration of The Ecumenical Council of Nicaea, A.D. 325 June 14, 2022 Commemoration of Elisha |
ST. JOHN’S NEWS
Organist Today: Kitty Bierstedt
Elder: Jerry Koestler
Greeter Today: Jerry and Betty Koestler
Greeters Next Week: Barb Harms & Donna Haase
Pastoral Call Process Update
- The Partnership senior pastor call committee has received a list of fifteen pastoral candidates
who were nominated for our consideration by members of our congregations and by
President Turner.
- The committee is now in the process of reviewing the candidates’ information and availability
for a call and selecting several to interview to get a better idea of if they would be the right
pastor for our congregations.
- These interviews will result in the committee making a recommendation to the congregations
who will then vote to extend a call to one of these candidates.
- We have received a self-evaluation document of each of these fifteen pastors in which they
describe their ministry style as well as their preferences regarding various church practices
and traditions. You are welcome to read these documents for yourself in the church office
Tuesday-Thursday 8:00 am-12:00 pm, or by special appointment. These documents cannot be
copied or leave the church office.
- We will give the congregations two weeks’ notice of our voters meeting when we are ready to
make our decision as a congregation.
Parish Messenger for the July/August edition are due to Linda Kerkove on Sunday, June 19.
A Reception in celebration of Breckin Borchardt’s Confirmation day next Sunday (June 19) will take place in the back of church following the service.
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.
Portals of Prayer - The July-September edition is available in the basket along the east wall.
St. John’s Pool Party! - Join us Sunday, July 10th at 2:00 p.m. at the Bancroft Swimming Pool for a St. John’s day at the pool! Let the front desk know you’re with St. John’s Burt for free admission. If you’re not a swimmer we’ll have snacks and games at the park as well, and pizza in the park at 5:00 p.m.
SYNOD, DISTRICT & PARTNERSHIP NEWS
Volunteer Needed - We are looking for volunteers to help with the Churches of Burt coffee fellowship the morning of the Burt Summer Celebration on July 9th. Please contact Pastor Cowell if you are interested.
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!
Summer Prayer and Scripture Series - An Evening Prayer Service will take place at 6 pm in Trinity’s Life Center on Tuesdays, June 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
· Quilt Auction at Camp Okoboji will be held on Saturday, July 16 beginning at 12:30 p.m.
· Jr. High Week Camp for 6-8th Grades - July 10-16
· Concordia Cub Week for 3-5th grades - July 17-23.
Contact Camp Okoboji for more information and to register:
https://www.campokoboji.org/youth-camps.php or 866-449-3326.
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.
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 (Holy Trinity)
Old Testament: Proverbs 8:1-4, 22-31
Wisdom was with God before the beginning of the earth.
Epistle: Acts 2:14a, 22-36
St. Peter preaches the good news of Jesus’ death and resurrection to the Pentecost crowd.
Gospel: John 8:48-59
Jesus says to the Jews: “Before Abraham was, I am.”
FROM THE CHURCH FATHERS
“Christ himself … together with the Father is the God of the living who spoke to Moses and who was also manifested to the patriarchs. In teaching this very thing he said to the Jews, ‘Your father Abraham rejoiced that he would see my day; he saw it and was glad.’” - Irenaeus, Against Heresies 4.5.2-3, qtd. in ACCS: John 1-10, p. 315.
LESSONS ON THE LITURGY
Invocation
Invocation is Latin for “call upon.” We begin every Divine Service with the Invocation of the name of the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit. In so doing we call upon the name of the Lord to be present to deliver His Word and Sacrament to us during His Divine Service. We make the sign of the cross on ourselves during the Invocation to remind ourselves that the name of our Triune God is always upon us because we have been Baptized into His name. – The content of this lesson comes from Scot Kinnaman, Worshiping with Angels and Archangels: An Introduction to the Divine Service, 8-9.
FROM THE BOOK OF CONCORD
Solid Declaration of the Formula of Concord, Article VIII: The Person of Christ, para. 31-34
Another doctrine flows from the way in which the divine and the human nature in the person of Christ are united with each other. The two natures not only have the names in common, but they also have communion with each other (in deed and truth) without commingling or equalizing their essences. From this point flows teaching about the true communion of the properties of the natures.
This is certainly true: properties do not leave their subjects. In other words, each nature keeps its essential properties. These are not separated from the nature and poured into the other nature, as water from one vessel into another. So there could not be any communion of properties if the personal union or communion of the natures in the person of Christ were not true. Next to the article of the Holy Trinity this is the greatest mystery in heaven and on earth. Paul says, "Great indeed, we confess, is the mystery of godliness: He was manifested in the flesh" (1 Timothy 3:16). The apostle Peter testifies in clear words that we also, in whom Christ dwells only by grace, on account of that great mystery, are "partakers of the divine nature" in Christ. Therefore, what kind of communion of the divine nature must that be of which the apostle says, "in [Christ] the whole fullness of deity dwells bodily" so that God and man are one person?
St. John’s Lutheran Church – Burt, IA.
Phone: 515-924-3344
Email: churchoffice@stjohnsburt.org
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