Welcome to St. John Lutheran Church-LCMC
September
Important Events for September
Lutheran Men -Monthly Breakfast - Come One and Come All!
On September 7, 2024, we will have a Lutheran Men Monthly breakfast. Breakfast will be served at 8:00 a.m. We will have a hot breakfast, devotion, and a Bible study. Please come and feel
free to invite a friend or neighbor.
Rally Day
It's Rally Day! It's that time of year again- back to school - fall, and the beginning of a new Sunday school year... Sunday school is not just for little kids, so if you are age 3 to 99, there is a class for you... We
will kick off the new year with Rally Sunday on September 8th at 9 AM. with breakfast, games, fun, fellowship, and singing. Bring a dish
and join in the fun!! Please join us in this important part of St. John's ministry and bring a friend or 2 or more! See you on Sunday,
September 8th at 9 AM.
A New Monthly Bible Study for Women
In September, we hope to start a new monthly Bible study for the women of our congregation and restart the Women’s organization. We will plan for Thursday, September 12th at 10:00 a.m.
for our first Bible study. For more information speak to Pastor, Romadene, or Sharon.
Trunk or Treat
Plans are being made to host the 3rd annual Trunk or Treat in our parking lot on October 31st. Sign-up sheets will start
coming around to sign up to decorate a vehicle, donate candy, and help with setting up. It was very successful last year with hundreds of children coming by so start making your plans to
participate in all the fun!!!
Shepherd's Heart Work Day
We will be hosting a distribution for Shepherd’s Heart ministry on September 9lh from 8-10 a.m. Please plan to help if you can.
We will get started about 7:30 a.m.
CAMP EAGLE
CaiUp Eagle Please note the registration form and deposit are due by
September 15th in the office if
you are planning for
your child or children to attend next summer. For more information, please speak to Tammi Richter.
Movie Night
We will have a Movie Night on
September 26, 2024. We will meet
at 6:30 for a light supper and then will
watch a movie. The movie
that we will watch is called, “Woodlawn”
If you have not seen this
movie, it will be one that you don’t want to miss.
Shepherd 's Heart
FROM THE DESK OF PASTOR GESKE
Why Go To Church?
Greetings in the name of Christ! September is once again here and I love all of the activities that go along with this time of the year. Often this is also the time of the year that we see more people back in the routine of worship and Sunday School and Bible class. I so look forward to seeing
each of you in worship and the study of God’s Word. In this day and age with so many things pulling on our time, it is good to reflect why we worship. One reason is God commands us to remember the Sabbath day by keeping in holy. But a better reason why we worship is in thanksgiving for what Christ did for us through His death and resurrection to give us forgiveness of our sin and eternal life. We gather to worship, to celebrate, and to praise our God for who He is and what He has done for us. We worship to grow and be strengthened as we live in this sinful world. I love how Paul reminds us that we are living in spiritual warfare. Consider his
words to the Ephesians where he wrote, “Finally, be strong in the Lord and in his mighty power. Put on the full armor of God so that you can take your stand against the devil's schemes. For our struggle is not against flesh and blood, but against the rulers, against the authorities, against the powers of this dark world and against the spiritual forces of evil in the heavenly realms. Therefore, put on the full armor of God, so that when the day of evil comes, you may be able to stand your ground, and after you have done everything, to stand.” (Ephesians 6:10-13 NIV)
I also am reminded of this illustration that said, “Subject: Why Go To Church? If you're spiritually alive, you're going to love this! If you're spiritually dead, you won't want to read it. If you're spiritually curious, there is still hope! Why Go To Church? A Church goer wrote a
letter to the editor of a newspaper and complained that it made no sense to go to church every Sunday. ‘I've gone for 30 years now,’ he wrote, ‘and in that time I have heard something like 3,000 sermons. But for the life of me, I can't remember a single one of them. So, I think I'm wasting my time and the pastors are wasting theirs by giving sermons at all.’ This started a real controversy in the ‘Letters to the Editor’ column, much to the delight of the editor. It went on for weeks until someone wrote this clincher: 'I've been married for 30 years now. In that time my wife has cooked some 32,000 meals. But, for the life of me, I cannot recall the entire menu for a single one of those meals. But I do know this.. They all nourished me and gave me the strength I needed to do my work. If my wife had not given me these meals, I would be physically dead today. Likewise, if I had not gone to church for nourishment, I would be spiritually dead today!’ When you are DOWN to nothing.... God is UP to something! Faith sees the invisible, believes the incredible and receives the impossible! Thank God for our physical AND our spiritual nourishment!” (-Unknown)
In Christ,
Rev. Jeffrey Geske
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Our Sunday school would love to have you
and your child or grandchild
to be a part of learning more about the
love and forgiveness of Jesus.
Please make the study of God’s Word
a priority for you and your
family. A church that is growing is a church that is in God’s Word.