Announcements

 

 

  Nineteenth Sunday after Pentecost

October 19, 2025

 

ST. JOHN’S NEWS

Pastor: Ben Dose

Organist:  Marcia Hanna

Elder: Jerry Koestler

Acolytes:  Ryder Parsons & Kasey Thomas

Head Usher:  John Schutter ~ Asst. Usher: Lynn Bierstedt

Greeter Today: Cheryl Batt

Greeters next week:  Lynn and Kitty Bierstedt

 

Quarterly Voter’s Meeting will be held today following the service.      

 

Share the Blessing Letters are in your boxes this morning!!  Be sure to stop and pick them up!

 

A Memorial Service will be held on Monday, October 27th at 7 p.m. at Trinity for families dealing with infancy or pregnancy loss. October is National Pregnancy and Infancy Loss Month. We come together to remember and offer comfort and hope during this unthinkable loss. All are welcome even if this loss happened many years ago. Come join us and receive support from God’s Word.

 

Care Packages! - We are looking for donations to send to our troops, Aly and Christian Bierstedt and Brandon Hoover. On the back table is a list of ideas if you would like to contribute.  Contact Jessie Parsons or Kelly Fitzgerald, LYF Youth Leaders

 

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!

SYNOD, DISTRICT & PARTNERSHIP NEWS

A New Member Class is being offered by our Partnership for anyone interested in becoming a member of Trinity or St. John’s as well as those who just want to brush up on the basics of their faith! Class will be held Tuesday evenings at 6:30 pm, October 21 – December 23. Let Pastor Dose or Pastor Nelson know if you wish to attend.

 

Pledge to Pray for Our Troops - On the back table are cards for you to pick up and pray each day Psalm 91 for all Our troops and Our Nation.  This is a chance to pray with other Christians as we Band together to remember those who are serving. 

TLC Quilters Invite you to join them in the basement to help with their many projects on Tuesdays & Thursdays, anytime from 8 a.m.– 3 p.m.. No experience needed - just a willing heart!

 

Women’s Bible Study at Trinity are held on Mondays at 7 & 9:30 a.m. We’ll study ELIZABETH, DEALING WITH DISAPPOINTMENT, part of the Women of the Bible study series. We have all been disappointed! The question is, how do we deal with disappointment with grace and how do we continue to trust the Lord when our longings remain unfulfilled? The ELIZABETH study books will be available to look at then. Please contact Jane (320-0490) or Cheryl (320-1288) if you’d like to join us……we’d love to study Elizabeth with you!

Building Healthy Families:  Have questions about same sex relationships or whether it’s possible for someone to change their gender come up in conversation within your family recently? Check out the “Resources” section of the LFS website for help you can use to navigate these conversations in ways that are grounded in God’s truth, and compassion for all people who struggle. Lutheran Family Service  www.LutheranFamilyService.org

St. John’s - We appreciate your generous gift to Camp Okoboji! Thank You!  Your donation of $800 to support our annual fund is a wonderful blessing as we work together to fulfill our mission of providing Sanctuary which connects guests with God and His Creation. Adam Hengenveld, Executive Director

COMMUNITY NEWS

Halloween Party will be held at the Burt Complex from 5-7 p.m. with Tables of Trick and Treat, a Halloween Carnival and a Light Lunch will be served by the churches of Burt. St. John’s lunch contact is Jessie Parsons if you wish to help.

• Note: Burt Halloween Trick or Treat night will be that same night from 5:30-7 p.m. 
• Contact Callie Monson at 515-320-5781 to do a table.

 

Lakota Ambulance Annual Soup Dinner Sunday, November 2nd 10-1:00 p.m. at Fire Station.  Free Will Donation

“Each one must give as he has decided in his heart, not  or under compulsion, for God loves a cheerful giver” (2 Corinthians 9:7).

Stewardship Corner -The first words of the Bible are “In the beginning God…”  That is how everything begins—with God.  God created all things, and He gives us all things.  All of life is a gift from God.  “Every good gift and every perfect gift is from above” (James 1:17).  We are the recipients of all of God’s gifts and blessings, and we are stewards of everything He entrusts to us.  Receiving lies at the heart of what it means to be human.  We are needy beings: dependent on God for our existence and all the good gifts of creation, and dependent on one another for community, relationship, sustenance, and so much more.  We are needy.  God created us that way.  We receive, and then we can give.  If we reject our dependence upon God, we are putting ourselves in God’s place.

 

THIS WEEK AT ST. JOHN’S           Today, October 19, 2025          8:15 a.m.  Adult Bible Class       8:30 a.m.  Sunday School       9:30 a.m.  Divine Service         10:30 a.m.  Voter’s Meeting       Tuesday, October 21, 2025       Pastor Nelson at Burt   Wednesday, October 22, 2025       6:00 p.m.  Catechesis Class         Thursday, October 23, 2025       Pastor Dose at Burt      Sunday, October 26, 2025        8:15 a.m. Adult Bible Class        8:30 a.m. Sunday School        9:30 a.m. Reformation - Divine Service

 

 

 

St. John’s Lutheran Church – Burt, IA.

Phone: 515-924-3344

Email:  churchoffice@stjohnsburt.org