Welcome to St. John Lutheran Church-LCMC

Greetings to you in the name of Christ! 

 In many churches November is either a time to have a Stewardship Sunday or to have a mission festival. Certainly, both of these are very appropriate for this time of the year when we celebrate Thanksgiving  and  realize that the  earthly harvest is  being

completed. So, in thanksgiving to God, we celebrate the blessings that He has given us and focus on how we can be a blessing to others. It is also a time for a mission festival as we focus on the end of the church year and the second coming of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. Yes, it is time to celebrate the blessings God has given us and to recall how the heavenly harvest is still in progress. I love those words of the hymn, “Hark the Voice of Jesus Calling” that say, “Who will go and work today? Fields are white and harvests waiting, Who will bear the sheaves away?” (LW 318) That beautiful hymn speaks of the harvest of souls that will continue until Christ comes again. Until He comes, we are to be about bringing people to know Jesus as Lord and Savior. Through our lives, there is something that we can do. That something is to tell the Good News of Jesus and His love and forgiveness for all.

As we reflect on our lives, what is our focus? Is it to live for ourselves and to be keepers of an aquarium, or is to be using our gifts and the opportunities God gives us to share the truth and knowledge about what God alone has done to give us forgiveness and eternal life through the death and resurrection of Jesus? As the Holy Spirit uses us the church to share the love of Christ, we are to be about populating heaven and de-populating hell. This is all about how God is at work through our lives sharing the Good News of Jesus Christ. St. Paul said it so well when he wrote, “It was He who gave some to be apostles, some to be prophets, some to be evangelists, and some to be pastors and teachers, to prepare God's people for works of service, so that the body of Christ may be built up until we all reach unity in the faith and

some as apostles, and some as

prophets, and some as evangelists,

and some as pastors and teachers.

in the knowledge of the Son of God and become mature

attaining to the whole measure of the fullness of Christ.” (Ephesians 4:11-13 NIV)

As we go through this month celebrating the end of the church year, focusing on mission and ministry, may each of us reflect on how God has abundantly blessed we all attain to the unity of

us. May we pray that God would challenge us and renew us to be faithful stewards of His gifts and to use a portion of what He has given us to extend His love through our offerings of time, talents, and treasures. May His church, our congregation, be about boldly reaching out and sharing the hope and love of Jesus.

As we continue to reach out with Christ’s love and forgiveness, may this blessing written by Paul be yours, “May the grace of the Lord Jesus Christ, and the love of God, and the fellowship of the Holy Spirit be with you all.” (2 Corinthians 13:14 NIV) May God be with us as we are in His house, being about His business as we are sharing His love with our world.

In Christ,

Pastor Jeffrey D. Geske

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 and your child or grandchild

to be a part of learning more about the 

love and forgiveness of Jesus.

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a  priority  for  you  and  your

family. A church that is growing is a church that is in God’s Word.