Prayer request for Barbara Perricone

Please pray for Barbara Perricone as she is hospitalized with pneumonia.   Thank you! 

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Update on Milo Owenby

Milo has been discharged from Cardinal Glennon and is back at home already.  Little children who don't know what it means to be sick usually recover a whole lot more quickly than us old people!
 
Thanks for the prayers!

Prayer request for the Heitgerd family

Please pray for the Heitgerd family today as David, Donna's son and Scott's brother, passed away last night at 10:30pm from lymphoma at the age of 59. 

Prayer Request for Milo Owenby

Milo Owenby is the 2 year old son off Ben and Stephanie Owenby.  He has pneumonia and has been admitted to Cardinal Glennon.  He is already improving after getting breathing treatments and medicine, but was admitted just in case.

Daily Email: Tuesday, May 17, 2016

DEVOTION:  Proverbs 8:1-4      English Standard Version (ESV)
 
"The Blessings of Wisdom"

8 Does not wisdom call?
    Does not understanding raise her voice?
² On the heights beside the way,
    at the crossroads she takes her stand;
³ beside the gates in front of the town,
    at the entrance of the portals she cries aloud:
⁴ "To you, O men, I call,
    and my cry is to the children of man.

²² "The Lord possessed^[a] me at the beginning of his work,^[b]
    the first of his acts of old.
²³ Ages ago I was set up,
    at the first, before the beginning of the earth.
²⁴ When there were no depths I was brought forth,
    when there were no springs abounding with water.
²⁵ Before the mountains had been shaped,
    before the hills, I was brought forth,
²⁶ before he had made the earth with its fields,
    or the first of the dust of the world.
²⁷ When he established the heavens, I was there;
    when he drew a circle on the face of the deep,
²⁸ when he made firm the skies above,
    when he established^[c] the fountains of the deep,
²⁹ when he assigned to the sea its limit,
    so that the waters might not transgress his command,
when he marked out the foundations of the earth,
³⁰     then I was beside him, like a master workman,
and I was daily his^[d] delight,
    rejoicing before him always,
³¹ rejoicing in his inhabited world
    and delighting in the children of man.

 
When Solomon uses the pronoun "I" is he talking about himself?  Is he saying that he, Solomon, was with God from the beginning?  No.  He is talking about wisdom, and in fact the personification of wisdom, in essence the pre-incarnate Christ.  Christ is the Word made flesh.  He is wisdom incarnate. 
 
Wisdom starts with a knowledge of Christ and His love and forgiveness.  Wisdom starts with knowing that you don't know it all, that you don't have all the answers.  It starts with knowing that you have and always will make mistakes. 
 
Once you get all that, then you can marvel at the all encompassing wisdom of God.  It is so far above and beyond everything that we can ever comprehend.  So when we question God, as Job did, and try to argue with Him, or change His ways, He has every right to strike us down and say, "who are you that you should question me?" 
 
Instead of destroying us forever He has mercy on us.  In His wisdom He loves us with an eternal love.  In His wisdom He sent His Son to be wisdom incarnate for us and to suffer and die in our stead.  Praise God for His wisdom toward us today!
 
Prayer: Lord God, thank You for sending Your Son, Wisdom Incarnate, to be Wisdom for us.  Give us Your wisdom by the power of Your Spirit, that we might live in peace forevermore.  Amen.

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CALENDAR:
Tues- Quilters 9-2; Board of Outreach meeting 6pm; Gun Club Fun 7pm
Wed- Last day of school in Warrenton; Ladies Aid noon; Choir 7
Thurs-  Social Security seminar 6:30
Fri- Bible study at Hendershots 7pm
Sat-  Men's breakfast 8am; Worship 5pm
Sun- worship 8:30; Sunday school 9:45; Worship 11; Gross Out Challenge Day
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WORSHIP WORKERS:  
Acolyte- 8:30- Hailey Blechle   11- Jack Bunge

Ushers- Don Hance, Rich Boeger, Doug Walters, Don Tate

Altar-  Set up- Lucille Luebke; Clean Up- Lynn Russell, and Elaine Schauer

Elders-  Sat- Roy Bohning;  8:30- John Hachtel;  11- Steve Robine
 
Greeters-  8:30- Dave and Linda Callies;  11- Dan and Lisa Rausch

Lay Readers- Sat- Roy Bohning  8:30- Amber Vossen; 11- Steve Robine

Organist- Rachel Fisher 
 
Piano- Kathy Barrow

Projectionists:  Sat- Pam Bueltmann; 8:30- George Pezold  11- Luke Rausch
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YESTERDAY'S QUIZ:    What is Sheol?

Oh! I know this one too! And don't even have to look it up, because, YES!!!!, I am that dang smart. Despite what all of you may have heard!

 

First off, "Sheol" is not some OLD lady. No. It's. Not. I know. she-ol does sound like it could be, but trust me on this.

It is actually the "abode of the dead." The Jewish version of Hades – if you're into Greek mythology – which I used to read when I was young.

According to the Hebrew texts, it is a "place of darkness to which all the dead go, both the righteous and the unrighteous, regardless of the moral choices made in life, a place of stillness and darkness cut off from life and from God."

The Catholics call it purgatory. I know, because after my Catholic grandmother bit the dust, the priest hit us up for some cash to get her out. Not sure if the Jews do the same thing, but doubt it. That was more of a pre-Reformation thing.

 

 

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TODAY'S QUIZ:  According to Solomon, what is the purpose of his Proverbs?

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NEWS!!!! 

 

DO YOU WANT TO LEARN ALL ABOUT GUNS AND HOW TO USE THEM?  TONGHT IS YOUR NIGHT TO BE AT CHURCH AT 7PM!!!  

Paul Brockfeld and Jason Cluver will bring a wide variety of guns (shotguns, rifles, and handguns) for us to look at and learn how to operate.  We will all get to handle the guns.  No shooting. 

 

This will be a great opportunity check out all sorts of guns so you can be more confident and sure of your ability and knowledge, and even learn which one would best fit you!

 

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SOCIAL SECURITY:  READY OR NOT WORKSHOP IS ON THURSDAY, MAY 19 at 6:30pm! 

Come learn how a little planning could help you avoid making a mistake.  You may save thousands over the rest of your life.  Our government has made Social Security a moving target.  Know how the new rules may affect you.  The workshop will be sponsored by the Senior Services Resources Group!  Drinks and Sandwiches will follow!  Please call Marilyn at 456-2888 to reserve your seat.   

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MEN'S BREAKFAST THIS SATURDAY AT 8AM!

Pancakes, bacon, sausage, eggs, fruit

 

We will finish our video study of other religions by looking at "New Age" religions, the Unification Church (Moonies), and Scientology (L. Ron Hubbard, Tom Cruise)

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NEW PAPER RECYCLING AT CHURCH

You may have noticed the big red dumpster on the parking lot.  That is for you to dump your used paper!!

Any kind and color of paper is acceptable.  No cardboard. 

 

Church will get money per pound.

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GROSS OUT CHALLENGE ENDS THIS SUNDAY!

If you want to see Kelsey or Pastor covered in all sorts of gross stuff, get your money in the jugs by this Sunday!!  Whoever gets the most money in their jug will get dumped on.  So get that money into Kelsey's jug asap!!

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TRIBUTE TO VETERANS MEMORIAL PAVER PROJECT IS UNDERWAY

Place your order online at www.tributetoveteransmemorial.org  or get an application from the office.

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PASTOR KLAUSTERMEIER IS BIKING 1,000 MILES THIS SUMMER FOR LEADACHILD!!!

We have been blessed beyond measure in the United States haven't we?  I want you to join me in making a global difference by releasing children from poverty through Christian education.

 

Instead of taking a week off and joining my fellow Lead a Child bikers who are riding the Fault Line across four states this year,  I have decided to go solo and bike 1,000 miles locally and while on vacation by August 1 to raise funds for LeadaChild. Would you sponsor me so that I can raise funds to support this most worthy organization?  In my opinion, there is no more worthy organization to support than LeadaChild!

 

LeadaChild  provides educational assistance to over 26,000 children and shares the love of Jesus Christ with the students and their families! LeadaChild supports the poorest of the poor children through Christian education in the following countries:

Guatemala                    Chad                       Honduras               Palestine               Haiti             Uganda

Gambia                          Ivory Coast            El Salvador            Nigeria                   Panama       Nicaragua

Burma                            Ghana                     Chile                       Venezuela             Bolivia         Mexico

Liberia                            Uruguay                Sri Lanka                India                       Guinea        Sierra Leone   

Bangladesh                   Cambodia              South Africa         Togo                       Thailand

 These students need your help to find a way out of poverty through Christian education and learn of the hope of Christ our Savior.

 

Please fill out your information below and send it with your check or donate online through the LeadaChild website: http://www.leadachild.org/bike

 

Every dollar makes a difference. Please give generously.  Please remember all of the riders in your prayers!  Thank you much for your support!

 

Biking For Kids Together,

Pastor Jeremy Klaustermeier

 

LeadaChild  is a 501 C-3 non-profit organization and is a Recognized Service Organization of the Lutheran Church Missouri Synod.

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HELP LITTLE LAMBS GET SOME NEW PLAYGROUND EQUIPMENT!!!

Order some Avon "Skin So Soft"  from Little Lambs to help them raise money for new playground equipment!  Call Karin at 314-691-7283 to place your order!

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OPERATION BACKPACK FOR MAY IS CANNED FRUIT!!!

Remember this is for the poor and needy children of our community and county that often receive two breakfast and lunch at school, and have very little or no food at home.

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GENERAL PRAYER 

For OUR CONGREGATION, that monetary giving would increase so that we can afford the ministries that we are currently doing and can increase in the ministries that are needed.

 

 For CHERYL, a cousin of Tony and Sandra Perricone, who is going through breast cancer treatment right now. 

 

For DONNA HEITGERD'S SON , DAVID, who has cancer and is going through chemo and radiation treatment.

 

For DON AND CAROL BRAZEE who were both in church on Saturday night and are doing better. 

 

For DENISE SCHLESSELMANN as she finishes up her current mission work in the Czech Republic and makes her decisions for her future.