Announcements

The Sixth Sunday of Easter

 

ST. JOHN’S NEWS

 

Pastor:  Ben Dose

Organist: Marcia Hanna

Elder: Tony Hatten

Head Usher:  John Schutter

Asst. Usher:  Dave Kerkove

Greeters Today: Mike and Amy Bierstedt

Greeter Next Week:  Boyd and Rosann Shipler

 

Services at St. John’s will have a few changes for a couple weeks.  Pastor Dose will be doing both churches until Pastor Nelson can return. There will be no Adult Bible Class which will continue again in September.  Sunday School will be done Sunday, May 17.

 

New Baby - Pastor Briton and Jade were blessed with a baby daughter, Elora Fern born on April 28. Keep baby and parents in your prayers as Elora was taken to Children's Hospital in Iowa City. 

 

Swaddling Clothes: A free will donation will be taken today through Sunday, May 17 for this mission work at St. Paul’s Lutheran Church in Spencer. St Paul’s assembles a collection of items associated with pregnancy and motherhood etc.. The second Saturday of each month St. Paul hosts a “shopping day” where you can survey our collection and take whatever you need. The Sunday School and Lenten Wednesday service offering will also be used for this project to help purchase items for this worthwhile cause.  *More information is on the back table about this mission work! “The mission of the Swaddling Clothes is to share the mercy of Christ with our neighbors through the gifts of clothing, food, friendship, and the forgiving Word of God.”

 

Transfer Out to Trinity: James Struecker and Darrel and Mary Schmidt!

 

Graduation Party for Breckin Borchardt will be held on May 16 from 4-7:00 p.m. at Summit Center 304 S. Summit Street, Bancroft, Iowa.  Join us in celebration of this milestone in Breckin’s life!!

 

Notice to All - Make sure if you are one of the last people out of the church, to check the whole church to see if all the lights have been shut off!!  Also, be sure that doors are locked!     -Trustees

 

Hospitalized?  If you or a loved one are hospitalized and would like a pastoral visit, please let us know!

 

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

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SYNOD, DISTRICT & PARTNERSHIP NEWS

New TLC Quilts are available for you to take anytime on the church bench at the east door.  You have someone special you wish to give it to feel free to take!!

Camp News -

·         Camp Okoboji Quilt Auction will be held on June 20, 2026. Auction starts at 12:30 p.m.  Lunch served at 11:00 a.m.

·         Camp Personnel: We need 2026 Summer Staff! Please encourage youth (at least 16 years of age) and college students to consider serving with us. Those interested in serving at Camp Okoboji, or any LCMS camp in 2026 should complete a NLOMA profile. Visit NLOMA.org for the profile link.

 

Building Healthy Families:: How do you put a mother’s love into words? It’s steady and selfless, quiet yet powerful—woven into everyday moments and lifelong sacrifices. Scripture paints this kind of love in many places, and while 1 Corinthians 13:4–8 isn’t always labeled as a “mother’s passage,” it beautifully reflects what so many mothers live out each day: Love is patient and kind; love does not envy or boast; it is not arrogant or rude. It does not insist on its own way; it is not irritable or resentful; it does not rejoice at wrongdoing but rejoices with the truth. Love bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things. Love never ends. Happy Mother’s Day to all women who so lovingly care for their children and others. (P.S. No texting or snapchatting today: call or visit your mother!) www.LutheranFamilyService.org Lutheran Family Service 

 

STEWARDSHIP IS THE FREE AND LOVING RESPONSE TO THE GRACE OF GOD IN OUR LIVES.

 “And God is able to make all grace abound

to you, so that having all sufficiency in all

things at all times, you may abound in every

good work” (2 Corinthians 9:8).

 

The Lord Jesus Comforts Us with the Preaching of His Resurrection

“The God who … gives to all mankind life and breath and everything” (Acts 17:24–25) wants all people to seek Him that they might “feel their way toward him and find him” (Acts 17:27). But in our sinful ignorance, we humans turn instead to idols “formed by the art and imagination of man” (Acts 17:29). Therefore, God appointed the Man of Righteousness, Jesus Christ, and “has given assurance to all by raising him from the dead” (Acts 17:31). Because He lives, we also live (John 14:19) in His forgiveness, and thus we love Him and keep His commandments (John 14:15). While the risen Lord prepares us for His ascension, He will not leave us “as orphans” (John 14:18), but He gives “another Helper,” the Holy Spirit, to be with us forever (John 14:16) through the preaching of “Jesus and the resurrection” (Acts 17:18). Because He “suffered once for sins, the righteous for the unrighteous” (1 Peter 3:18), we “honor Christ the Lord as holy” and are always “prepared to make a defense to anyone who asks” for the reason for our hope (1 Peter 3:15). Our Baptism “now saves” us “as an appeal to God for a good conscience, through the resurrection of Jesus Christ” (1 Peter 3:21).

 

THIS WEEK AT ST. JOHN’S         Today, May 10, 2026         No Adult Class          8:30 am>Sunday School        9:30 am>Divine Service                 Thursday, May 14, 2026       Pastor Dose in Burt        Sunday, May 17, 2026        No Adult Class        8:30 am>Sunday School – Last Session        9:30 am>Divine Service  -        2:00 pm>Graduation at Algona

 

 

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

Phone: 515-924-3344

Email:  churchoffice@stjohnsburt.org