Announcements
The Fifth Sunday after the Epiphany
ST. JOHN’S NEWS
Pastor: Briton Nelson
Organist: Kitty Bierstedt
Elder: Jerry Koestler
Head Usher: John Schutter
Asst. Usher: Boyd Shipler
Greeters Today: Dave and Lisa Haase
Greeters Next Week: Gordon and Mary Shipler-Oleson
Pictorial Directory: It was decided and voted on last Sunday to go ahead with the Picture Directory. Our dates are set now for June 17-18 from 2-8:30 p.m. both dates. If you cannot make this you are welcome to set appointments at Trinity June 11-14, 2025 and have them taken there. A committee will be appointed to help with this process here at Burt.
Thank You St. John’s, Happy New Year! I hope the church is having a great 2025 so far! Thank you for all your support for me and my family during this season of seminary. I am currently taking a “Winterim” intensive 2 week course on pastoral leadership, but at the end of January the spring semester will start in earnest. I’m also happy to tell you that my wife Grace is expecting our third child, a baby boy in April! Blessings to every at St. John’s! In Christ, Justin Hilton, Grace, Epiphany and Ira
- Picture and card is also posted on ramp bulletin board
Lutheran Witness renewal for the new subscription year is coming due soon. If you received it and wish to continue getting it, the price for this year's subscription is $28.25 (includes the District News).
Pastoral Care On Demand - Need Prayer, Scripture, Communion, Absolution, or a listening ear? Feel free to call or text one of the pastors at the following numbers:
· Pastor Benjamin Dose cell: 712-790-0716 and his email is pastordose@trinityalgona.org
· Pastor Nelson cell: 608-415-8228 and pastor Nelson email: pastornelson@trinityalgona.org
Hospitalized? If you or a loved one are hospitalized and would like a pastoral visit, please let us know!
Adverse Weather - When church is to be cancelled due to snow etc, the Elders and Pastors will make the decision and then a Flocknote Cancellation call will be sent out to your cell phone or home phone. We will also try to put it on the Algona Radio.
2024 Thrivent Choice Dollars must be directed by March 31. Consider joining others who have directed their Dollars towards St. John’s ministry.
SYNOD, DISTRICT & PARTNERSHIP NEWS
Want to Help with Hurricane Relief? We’ll be collecting items to send to St. Peter’s Lutheran Church in Conover, NC. Priority needs include Bandaids, Neosporin, medical gloves, cotton gauze, Diva cups (feminine product), adult body wipes, infant wipes, hand wipes, WATERLESS shampoo, & liquid bath soap. Other items include winter hats, gloves, coats, & boots; quilts; water purification tablets; and portable water filters. Many will be without clean water until at least December. Contact: Jade Nelson
Camp Okoboji News
- Annual Meeting - April 26,2025
- 2025 Quilt Auction - June 14, 2025
- IDW Convention - June 8-10, 2025
- Camp Auxiliary will give Six Scholarships for Cub/Jr HighYouth Weeks this summer - due April 22 and forms on back table
- Theme Basket Silent Auction at Annual Meeting
- Cans for Camp project and is used to purchase new mattresses.
TLC Quilters - 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! New quilts on display on the east entry pew!
Building Healthy Families: Are you a Hallmark movie fan? If so, you know the familiar story line: big city woman in crisis returns to her hometown, reluctantly gets pulled into an effort to rally the community around some cause, reconnects with local man who frustrates her plans at every turn but who in the end fulfills all her dreams, and happy ever after begins. While entertaining, these stories can intensify feelings of unrest for the more than 50% of us who are single and living alone, who have never found or have lost our special someone, and also for the less than 50% who are married but whose marriage doesn’t always look like the one depicted by Hallmark. This Valentine’s Day, remember that God – the author and source of love – created us to live in families and communities where love is shared. He is the only one who never fails to meet our need to be seen, connected, cared for, and loved. This week, skip Hallmark and celebrate God’s amazing love! (1 John 4:16) Lutheran Family Service www.LutheranFamilyService.org
A New Member Class is being offered by our Partnership for anyone interested in becoming a member of St. John’s or Trinity as well as those who just want to brush up on the basics of their faith! Class is being held Tuesdays at 6:30 p.m. (Monday this week). Contact the church office or a pastor to sign up. It’s not too late to join us!
THIS WEEK AT ST. JOHN’S Today, February 9, 2025 8:15 a.m. Adult Class 8:30 a.m. Sunday School 9:30 a.m. Divine Service Monday, February 10, 2025 6:30 p.m. New Member Class at Trinity Tuesday, February 11, 2025 8:30 a.m. Pastors at Winkel in Whittemore Wednesday, February 12, 2025 6:00 p.m. Midweek Catechesis Thursday, February 13, 2025 Pastor Dose will be out of town Sunday, February 16, 2025 NO Adult Class 8:30 a.m. Sunday School 9:30 a.m. Divine Service (Rev. Reimers-Guest Pastor) |
St. John’s Lutheran Church – Burt, IA.
Phone: 515-924-3344
Email: churchoffice@stjohnsburt.org
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