Sunday School Mission Update

Our first quarter of Sunday School offerings, along with $80 raised at the July 27^th rummage sale, will be going to buy animal gifts for people around the world with the Heifer International Program.  Right now we have enough to purchase 4 flocks of chickens! 

 

Chicks: A Good Choice

A flock of chicks can help families add nourishing, life-sustaining eggs to their inadequate diets. The protein in just one egg is a nutritious gift for a hungry child. Protein-packed eggs from even a single chicken can make a life-saving difference.

Heifer helps many hungry families with a starter flock of 10 to 50 chicks. A good hen can lay up to 200 eggs a year - plenty to eat, share or sell. With Heifer recipients' commitment to pass on the offspring and training, the exponential impact of adding chickens to communities in poverty is truly a model that helps end hunger and poverty.

Because chickens require little space and can thrive on readily available food scraps, families can make money from the birds without spending much. And chickens help control insects and fertilize gardens.

Tuesday, August 6, 2013

 
DEVOTION: Jeremiah 25:7-11

⁷ Yet you have not listened to me, declares the Lord, that you might provoke me to anger with the work of your hands to your own harm.⁸ "Therefore thus says the Lord of hosts: Because you have not obeyed my words, ⁹ behold, I will send for all the tribes of the north, declares the Lord, and for Nebuchadnezzar the king of Babylon, my servant, and I will bring them against this land and its inhabitants, and against all these surrounding nations. I will devote them to destruction, and make them a horror, a hissing, and an everlasting desolation.

 

I am working through my Daily Bible in a year and this time of the year it always gets a little sad, because I am in the middle of Jeremiah, the weeping prophet.  In our passage above he is proclaiming the judgment that the Lord has pronounced upon Israel.  There is nothing promising in any of the verses, except that there will be  an end to the captivity when God destroys Babylon. 

 

It is especially verses like today that help me to be thankful for the grace, mercy, and peace I have in Christ.   I know that, even though I continually mess up and follow other gods of wood, paper, and stone, my Lord and God will not forsake me.  He will keep me in His grace because of the sacrifice of His Son, Jesus. 

Prayer:  Lord God, we thank you for keeping your wrath and destruction from us.  Help us to live in You!  Amen.

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MONDAY'S QUIZ:  Who was Habakkuk?  Habakkuk was a prophet who was preaching around the same time as Jeremiah. He wanted to know why Israel was not punished for their sins. When God told him Babylon would punish Israel, Habakkuk asked how Babylonians who were evil could punish God's people. God responded that Israel would be punished but a faithful would be rewarded.  (Thanks Denise, Dianne, and Pam)

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TUESDAY'S QUIZ:  How many years were the Israelites held captive in Babylon? 

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CALENDAR

Tues- Quilters 9-2; Bible Study 11:30-12:15

Wed- Jonesburg Nursing Home Worship 10:30; Jr-Sr Hi Youth pool party at Schirrs house 3-8pm

Sat- worship 5pm

Sun- worship 8:30 and 11; Sunday school 9:45; elder's meeting noon

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Attention ALL JR HI AND HS  KIDS!!!  THERE IS A POOL PARTY AT THE SCHIRR'S HOUSE THIS WEDNESDAY BEGINNING AT 3PM!!  Reply to this email or text me at 636-359-1061 to let me know if you are coming!

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GOLF OUTING SATURDAY!!

STILL PLENTY OF SPACES LEFT!!

$60 per person includes- 2 mulligans, Special hole contests, Cash prizes by flight, Lunch with pork steaks and sides.

7am- Registration begins

8am- Shotgun start

1pm Lunch and awards

 $15 per person for Lunch only

 Hole Sponsorship (tee box sign) $50 per hole

 Entry flyers with all of the details are available in the narthex or  the office!!

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WOMEN'S AND MEN'S RETREATS COMING UP AUGUST 17 AND AUGUST 24!!

Please sign up on the table in the Narthex or call the church office TODAY!!

 

It is a wonderful, lighthearted, fun time of relaxation, refreshment and meditation on God's Word!! 

Both of them begin around 8am and end around 5pm! 

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BARB DREYER WANTS YOU TO SING IN CHOIR!!!

Adult choir will be starting up again here at St. John's under the direction of Barb Dreyer.  Rehearsals will be on Wednesday evenings from 7:00-8:00 p.m. in the balcony.  The plan is to sing 2-3 Sundays per month for services.  The first rehearsal will be on August 28th at 7:00 p.m.  If interested, please contact Barb at 636-359-1906, abdreyer@centurytel.net or the church office at 456-2888

 

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SIGN UP TO GET YOUR PICTURES TAKEN FOR OUR PICTORIAL DIRECTORY!!!

Time for us to get a new directory!!  And guess what else!!! If you buy pictures from the photographer, (Lifetouch) St. John's gets 5% of all sales.  You can also get some money off of your purchase by giving them your email address or by bringing in canned goods for their "Feed the Hungry" drive.  Sign up by calling the church office TODAY or at the sign up table in the narthex before or after worship this weekend.

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SUPPORT OUR MISSIONARY DENISE SCHLESSELMAN!!!!!

She will be leaving in a month for the Czech Republic to do mission work for a year and most probably two!!  She needs your support!  First she needs PRAYER support.  Pray for her safety, for her witness and for her life, that God would do His work through her. 

 

Secondly she needs your FINANCIAL support!  She is trying to get 75% of her needed funding in either one time gifts or pledges. 

 

Please pray about God's will for you in this and support her as best as you can!! 

 

Go to www.lcms.org/schlesselman to learn more about how you can support her.  You can also call her directly at 260-579-2942 and she will tell you more about it!!

 

 

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PRAYER REQUESTS:

For BOB NITZSCHKE who is recovering from knee replacement surgery.

 

For WILMA WEIGLE who is recovering from a slight stroke and will have to have surgery soon.

 

For ROSETTA JONES as she recovers from a broken hip at Delmar Gardens.

 

For WILMA SMITH who is now in Warrenton Manor Nursing Home.

 

For JILL JACOBSMEYER as she recovers from knee surgery at home. 

 

For NANCY SPINIOLAS who is having sever back and hip pain .

 

For PAUL TOEDEBUSCH who is recovering from bladder surgery due to cancer.  

For RICK SPINIOLAS who has been diagnosed with pancreatic cancer and continues to go through treatments.

For JONAS BORCHERT, grandson of Don Nolte, and Pat King's cousin on your prayers today as well. 

For TYLER WEST, a little brother of a preschooler, who is going to have to have a third surgery to remove a tumor on his brain. .   

 

PRAYERS FOR OUR SERVICEMEN

I have been compiling a list of servicemen who are members of St John's so that we can pray for them.  Below is a list of them and where they are currently stationed.  Please note that their stationing changes quickly, so this may not even be up to date, but it is the last known whereabouts that I have of these guys. 
 
Danny Dreyer-  Army- 2nd Lieutenant- Ranger, GERMANY
 
Sam Hargrove- Army- 2 Lieutenant- Ft Rucker, Alabama, will be going through helicopter flight school and other training
 
David Mincemeyer- Army- Army Specialist- Ft. Carson, CO
 
Jon Rahn- Navy- Hawaii, not sure of his rank at this time
 
David Tate- Air Force- 2nd Lieutenant- Jacksonville, Florida
 
Alex Walters- Navy- E4- Guam
 
Ryan Woolf- Air Force- Airman 1st Class- Buckley Air Force Base, near Denver, CO
 
 
If there are more out there that I just don't know about, please let me know, and I will include him/her on the list.
 
Also, if you would like your family member or friend included in this list, please reply to this email with all the information!
 
 
Pray for these guys.  Some of these guys are in harm's way right now, others are training to put themselves in harm's way.  All of them have volunteered to serve and protect their country (which is you). 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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