DEVOTION: "For two whole years Paul stayed there in his own rented house and welcomes all who came to see him. He proclaimed the kingdom of God and taught about the Lord Jesus Christ-- with all boldness and without hindrance. " The Story p. 452
Some people think there is just no way they could ever speak up and tell someone about Jesus. Some think they are just too shy. Others think that because they can't get out and go anywhere that they are hindered in their ability to care for people and share the gospel. Still others, because they are worried about what people will think about them, don't do it. There are hundreds of reasons that Christians often give for not sharing the gospel. NONE OF THEM ARE GOOD ONES!
Paul was taken as a prisoner to Rome. On the way he was shipwrecked and almost died. He could have sulked away and just quit. He didn't. Instead he proclaimed the gospel to the natives on the island of Malta, one of the first Christian churches was on that island.
That still didn't get him free. He still went, as a prisoner under house arrest, to Rome. You would have thought that this would have driven him into depression and that he would have quit. Yet, for two years he proclaimed the kingdom of God in his house. People came from everywhere to hear him and to be taught about the good news by him. Thousands of people came to faith in Rome. And now today we see Rome as one of the biggest Christian places in the world.
Stop making excuses. Stop thinking that you can't do it. Stop saying that circumstances won't allow you. Stop having pity parties for yourself because you feel like your life is hard and terrible. Your job, your purpose is to love the Lord Jesus so much that you can't help but proclaim his kingdom despite the circumstances you are in.
Then realize that when you do share the gospel you will have such satisfaction and fulfillment that it will make your life more complete than anything else ever could. At the end the Lord Jesus will say to you, "Well done good and faithful servant. Come and take the place prepared for you in heaven!"
Let us pray: Lord God bless us as we proclaim your kingdom to the lost so that they will believe and join us in paradise. Amen.
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YESTERDAY'S QUIZ: What happened to Paul when he entered the temple in Jerusalem for the last time? He was beaten and arrested. (Some say he did it on purpose. Others say he went directly against the Holy Spirit who had warned him not to do it.)
Moral of the story: Always listen to the Holy Spirit!
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TODAY'S QUIZ: What was the name of the centurion that Paul and some other prisoners were handed over to when it was decided that they would sail for Italy?
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CALENDAR:
Tues- Quilting 9-2; Bible Study 11:30-12:15; Praise Band Practice 6pm
Wed- Choir practice 7pm
Fri- Assemble Newsletter 9am
Sat- Bible Study 4; Worship 5
Sun- worship 8:30; Bible Study and Sunday school 9:45; worship 11
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WORSHIP WORKERS FOR THIS WEEK
Acolytes- 8:30- Ian Brunson 11- Alaina Heitgerd
Altar guild- Set up- Linda Callies; Clean Up-- Lois Boeger
Greeters- 8:30- Don and Wanda Turnure; 11- Joan Sexton
Communion Assistants- Sat- Jim Rahn; 8:30- Randy Sweet; 11- Charlie Figura
Lay Readers- Sat- Jim Rahn; 8:30- Steve McDowell; 11am- Lynn Figura
8:30 Ushers- Sott Heitgerd, Tom Linke, Alex Heitgerd, Bob Linke
Projectors- Sat- Pam Bueltmann; 8:30- Terry McKenzie; 11- Oliver Landwehr
Sat pianist- Molly Hendershot; Sun- Melissa Pedersen
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NEWS:
FLOAT TRIP UPDATE
We could still handle more floaters!! Who's up for it? Call Teresa Scott or reply to this email and I will let her know.
At this point we have the following crew for the float trip -
Pastor's Message from yesterday, 8/24/14. Enjoy it and pass it along to someone who needs to hear the good news!
http://youtu.be/mn1mY_V5xQo
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CHOIR STARTS THIS WEDNESDAY AT 7pm!!
If you have always wanted to join choir this is your chance! They'd love to have you to be a part of it!
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PRAISE BAND PRACTICE TONIGHT AT 6PM!!
If you play an instrument, especially the piano or keyboard, they'd love to have you. They are planning on making their debut on Sunday, Sept. 7 at the 11am worship!
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EMERGENCY PLANNING WORKSHOP ATTENDEES NEEDED!!
Is there someone or a group of two or three to go to this workshop as representatives from our church? If you are interested in disaster and emergency ministry and helping in time of need, please reply to this email or rsvp to the folks listed below.
Below is the information:
Just another reminder that the registration request for the workshop is this Friday, August 29th. Please select someone from your congregation to attend this FREE and informative event. Continental Breakfast and a lunch will be served. It is necessary to have pre-registration so the planning committee can arrange to have enough food for everyone.
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National Life Chain Sunday 2014 – October 5
Kelsey updates our website weekly! Check it out!! www.stjohnwarrenton.org
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LABOR DAY FLOAT TRIP-- Float trip will be through Ozark Outdoors. Meet at the river at 10am for a 4 mile float. Please contact Teresa Scott to sign up. She can be reached by email at tscott@usmo.com, cell phone or text at 636-359-5041 or at Schraer heating and air conditioning at 636-456-5041. When signing up, [please provide your best phone contact number and email address, if you have one. More info to follow
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Some people think there is just no way they could ever speak up and tell someone about Jesus. Some think they are just too shy. Others think that because they can't get out and go anywhere that they are hindered in their ability to care for people and share the gospel. Still others, because they are worried about what people will think about them, don't do it. There are hundreds of reasons that Christians often give for not sharing the gospel. NONE OF THEM ARE GOOD ONES!
Paul was taken as a prisoner to Rome. On the way he was shipwrecked and almost died. He could have sulked away and just quit. He didn't. Instead he proclaimed the gospel to the natives on the island of Malta, one of the first Christian churches was on that island.
That still didn't get him free. He still went, as a prisoner under house arrest, to Rome. You would have thought that this would have driven him into depression and that he would have quit. Yet, for two years he proclaimed the kingdom of God in his house. People came from everywhere to hear him and to be taught about the good news by him. Thousands of people came to faith in Rome. And now today we see Rome as one of the biggest Christian places in the world.
Stop making excuses. Stop thinking that you can't do it. Stop saying that circumstances won't allow you. Stop having pity parties for yourself because you feel like your life is hard and terrible. Your job, your purpose is to love the Lord Jesus so much that you can't help but proclaim his kingdom despite the circumstances you are in.
Then realize that when you do share the gospel you will have such satisfaction and fulfillment that it will make your life more complete than anything else ever could. At the end the Lord Jesus will say to you, "Well done good and faithful servant. Come and take the place prepared for you in heaven!"
Let us pray: Lord God bless us as we proclaim your kingdom to the lost so that they will believe and join us in paradise. Amen.
________________________________________________________________________________________________
YESTERDAY'S QUIZ: What happened to Paul when he entered the temple in Jerusalem for the last time? He was beaten and arrested. (Some say he did it on purpose. Others say he went directly against the Holy Spirit who had warned him not to do it.)
Moral of the story: Always listen to the Holy Spirit!
__________________________________________________________________________________________________
TODAY'S QUIZ: What was the name of the centurion that Paul and some other prisoners were handed over to when it was decided that they would sail for Italy?
___________________________________________________________________________________
CALENDAR:
Tues- Quilting 9-2; Bible Study 11:30-12:15; Praise Band Practice 6pm
Wed- Choir practice 7pm
Fri- Assemble Newsletter 9am
Sat- Bible Study 4; Worship 5
Sun- worship 8:30; Bible Study and Sunday school 9:45; worship 11
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WORSHIP WORKERS FOR THIS WEEK
Acolytes- 8:30- Ian Brunson 11- Alaina Heitgerd
Altar guild- Set up- Linda Callies; Clean Up-- Lois Boeger
Greeters- 8:30- Don and Wanda Turnure; 11- Joan Sexton
Communion Assistants- Sat- Jim Rahn; 8:30- Randy Sweet; 11- Charlie Figura
Lay Readers- Sat- Jim Rahn; 8:30- Steve McDowell; 11am- Lynn Figura
8:30 Ushers- Sott Heitgerd, Tom Linke, Alex Heitgerd, Bob Linke
Projectors- Sat- Pam Bueltmann; 8:30- Terry McKenzie; 11- Oliver Landwehr
Sat pianist- Molly Hendershot; Sun- Melissa Pedersen
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NEWS:
FLOAT TRIP UPDATE
We could still handle more floaters!! Who's up for it? Call Teresa Scott or reply to this email and I will let her know.
At this point we have the following crew for the float trip -
Klaustermeiers (or part of them)
Hofelts
Overbeck +1
Rahns
Scotts
Woolfs
Schlenthers
Some of us are camping -
Scott's whole weekend at Onondaga State Park
Hofelt's - did you get a spot for Sunday night?
Schlenthers -???? when are you planning to camp
Laney Woolf +1 - Sunday night
Bill Woolf - Sunday night???
Information you need:
Meet at Ozark Outdoors around 9:30 - float starts at 10 and there will be paperwork and organization to accomplish. Bring whatever you need for the day - hat, sunscreen, lunch + beverages of your choice, sense of adventure, and anything else that will make the day more pleasant. We should be done no later than 5 (but I make no promises - depends on how many swim/lunch/etc breaks we take).
There is still room on the river, so if there is anyone else who you know that would like to go, let me know.
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http://youtu.be/mn1mY_V5xQo
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CHOIR STARTS THIS WEDNESDAY AT 7pm!!
If you have always wanted to join choir this is your chance! They'd love to have you to be a part of it!
____________________________________________________________
PRAISE BAND PRACTICE TONIGHT AT 6PM!!
If you play an instrument, especially the piano or keyboard, they'd love to have you. They are planning on making their debut on Sunday, Sept. 7 at the 11am worship!
________________________________________________________________________________________________
EMERGENCY PLANNING WORKSHOP ATTENDEES NEEDED!!
Is there someone or a group of two or three to go to this workshop as representatives from our church? If you are interested in disaster and emergency ministry and helping in time of need, please reply to this email or rsvp to the folks listed below.
Below is the information:
Just another reminder that the registration request for the workshop is this Friday, August 29th. Please select someone from your congregation to attend this FREE and informative event. Continental Breakfast and a lunch will be served. It is necessary to have pre-registration so the planning committee can arrange to have enough food for everyone.
To sign up, please go to https://www.eventbrite.com/e/faith-based-emergency-planning-workshop-registration-12062442089 or call Doug Bolnick at 636-949-7408.
Thanks to those of you who have already signed up. If you have any questions, please call Mike Daniels, Emergency Management Director at 636-456-3786.
National Life Chain Sunday 2014 – October 5
National Life Chain Sunday 2014—on October 5, across the U.S. and Canada—will provide a visible and resolute voice for voiceless children who are threatened by the surgical abortionists’ cruel instruments or by the deadly chemicals in abortive birth controls. The location and time of each Life Chain will be posted at www.LifeChain.net (by state in the U.S. and by province in Canada).
In this our 27th year of public witness on behalf of rejected Preborns, Life Chain will again fill sidewalks in hundreds of cities and towns (over 1500 in 2013). Sign messages will include Abortion Kills Children, Adoption The Loving Option, Jesus Forgives and Heals and other poignant signs available to participants, plus original, creative messages approved by local coordinators.
In brief, Life Chain is an earnest ecumenical prayer ministry rightly viewed as an afternoon extension of Sunday morning worship. Pastoral leadership is key, idle talk is shunned, and the foundational intent of each Chain is to provide God an outreach to anoint and work through. Only He can defeat the powerful spiritual forces that crafted the abortion holocaust now ravaging America and Canada, but God has assigned His church a strategic role. And how strategic is that role? Renown missionary Arthur Matthews reminded us in Born for Battle that “for every provocation against God’s cause there is provision for victory,” but “without God man cannot” (achieve victory) and “without man God will not” (provide victory). Thus, the rightful heart for prayer against the scourge of legal child killing is surely one of partnering—of partnering our love and protection for local Preborns “being led away to death” (Proverbs 24:10-12) with God’s eternal sovereignty.
In preparation for October 5, let us trust in the faithfulness of our almighty God and commit humbly to His cause for desperate Little Ones in our church communities. German church leaders who failed to so commit and who witnessed God’s fierce intervention against holocaustic powers 70 years ago wrote: “We did not fear God above all the powers of men and government; we did not trust and obey God unconditionally—that is what brought us under the sway of the tempter; that is what cast us into the abyss! That is what gave the demon of humanity free rein among us…. Before Him there cries out against us all the innocently shed blood, all the blaspheming of his Holy name, and all the inhumanities which occurred in our midst, especially against the Jews.” That occasion was the Berlin-Brandenburg church leadership Day of Repentance in 1945.
Opportunity awaits us. National Life Chain Sunday 2014 can be a national day of repentance in America and Canada if we choose to make it so. Let us so choose and then see God work mightily among us to save numerous rejected Preborns whose lives rely solely on our partnership with God.
_____________________________________________________________________________________________________Kelsey updates our website weekly! Check it out!! www.stjohnwarrenton.org
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LABOR DAY FLOAT TRIP-- Float trip will be through Ozark Outdoors. Meet at the river at 10am for a 4 mile float. Please contact Teresa Scott to sign up. She can be reached by email at tscott@usmo.com, cell phone or text at 636-359-5041 or at Schraer heating and air conditioning at 636-456-5041. When signing up, [please provide your best phone contact number and email address, if you have one. More info to follow
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MAKE PLANS TO ATTEND THE CHURCH PICNIC!!!!!
The church picnic is going to be held at CHURCH this year on Sunday, September 7 at noon.
There will be a sign up sheet to tell us how many from your family and friends are coming and what kind of food you will be bringing (Please bring a salad/side dish or dessert to share). Hamburgers, hotdogs, buns, drinks, and eating utensils will be provided.
We will need a few guys to volunteer to help with grilling on Sunday morning. STEVE MCDOWELL and BRENT DAVIS have volunteered to head that up! Thanks guys!
Everyone will need to help with clean up at the end, but it would be good to have a few volunteers to be in charge of clean up.
WE ARE GOING TO HAVE AN INFLATABLE OBSTACLE COURSE AND BOUNCE HOUSE AS WELL AS A GIANT SLIP AND SLIDE FOR THE KIDS!!
There will be a sign up sheet to tell us how many from your family and friends are coming and what kind of food you will be bringing (Please bring a salad/side dish or dessert to share). Hamburgers, hotdogs, buns, drinks, and eating utensils will be provided.
We will need a few guys to volunteer to help with grilling on Sunday morning. STEVE MCDOWELL and BRENT DAVIS have volunteered to head that up! Thanks guys!
Everyone will need to help with clean up at the end, but it would be good to have a few volunteers to be in charge of clean up.
WE ARE GOING TO HAVE AN INFLATABLE OBSTACLE COURSE AND BOUNCE HOUSE AS WELL AS A GIANT SLIP AND SLIDE FOR THE KIDS!!
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FROM YOUR QUILTERS!!!
I have a person interested in learning to quilt in the evening. Are there any more ladies that work and would be interested in setting up an evening? Also any experienced quilter that might want to work with us as an instructor helper. Please contact Pam Bueltmann 636 745 2500 or pbueltmann@centurytel.net. Lets keep this wonderful old craft going for future generations. Thanks, Pam Bueltmann
I have a person interested in learning to quilt in the evening. Are there any more ladies that work and would be interested in setting up an evening? Also any experienced quilter that might want to work with us as an instructor helper. Please contact Pam Bueltmann 636 745 2500 or pbueltmann@centurytel.net. Lets keep this wonderful old craft going for future generations. Thanks, Pam Bueltmann
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MEN'S RETREAT COMING UP Friday, Sept. 26- Sunday Sept. 28 AT MARK TWAIN LAKE!!
Go to t3mensretreat.org for all the info you will need and to sign up! It would be wonderful to get a big group of guys from St. John's to go! I never miss it.
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MISSION STATEMENT NEEDS REVISION AND UPDATES
Our mission statement needs to be updated to reflect our emphasis on children and youth and to be made more concise and easy to read. I would like to get a group of two or three interested people to help me to formulate something that we can print on all of our materials and share in the community. If you have any interest in that please reply or call 359-1061
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DO YOU HAVE THE INACTIVE MEMBERS OF ST. JOHN'S ON YOUR HEART AND MIND? SO DO I!
God has put the inactive members of St. John's on my heart and mind in different and new ways over the past month. They need our care, concern, prayers and love. I would like to get a committee of two or three people who also have them on their hearts and want to care for them in more and different ways. Please reply or call 359-1061 if interested!
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PRAYER REQUESTS: (If you have a prayer request please reply to this email or call me at 636-359-1061)
For RICH BOEGER as he recovers from some painful urinary tract issues. He is doing much better today than he was this weekend.
For FRANCES LAMKIN, Sandra Perricone's aunt, who is dealing with many health issues.
For FRANCES LAMKIN, Sandra Perricone's aunt, who is dealing with many health issues.
For our NATION'S MILITARY LEADERS AND SOLDIERS as they figure out what to do about the imminent threats from ISIS.
For those who are heartbroken because of the loss of a loved one or a broken relationship that God would lift them up in his arms, show them his love and remind them that all will be restored in paradise.
For MIM DUNN, as she is recovering from a fractured pelvis at home.
For GARRETT SPOEDE as he goes in for yet another surgery. It is outpatient to clean out an infection in his thumb.
For JONAS BORCHERT as he has been put on hospice but is still fighting.
For the community of FERGUSON, and all of North County, as they deal with the civil unrest, rioting, and looting that continues.
For HUNDREDS OF THOUSANDS OF CHRISTIANS IN THE MIDDLE EAST AND AFRICA, who are being persecuted to the point of death for their faith.
For NANCY SPINIOLAS as she recovers from a car accident and a fall.
For RICK SPINIOLAS as he continues to deal with pancreatic caner and the effects of the chemo on his body.
For LYNN MESSER, a friend of Jo Fahrni, who is has been missing for a month, that she will be found safe and well very soon.
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