Welcome to St. John Lutheran Church-LCMC
July
Important Events for July
Indoor Picnic & Games
Join us on Sunday evening July 26th at 5:00 p.m. for an indoor picnic.
Hamburgers and hotdogs will be provided. Please see the signup sheet
to sign up for your favorite summer picnic food! We will eat at 5:30 and
after the meal we will play games like BINGO, dominos, etc. Please join
in this evening of fun and escape the heat. We hope to see you there!
Vacation Bible School-Thank You
We were blessed with a very successful week of VBS with lots of great teachers and helpers and a wonderful group of 29 children. Our theme this year was “Rainforest Falls, Exploring the Nature of God”. We started each evening with a delicious meal followed by singing, lessons, crafts, and games. We were treated to a Kona Ice treat on Tuesday evening. We want to say a big “Thank You” to all the people for their time and talents this week and to our congregation for supplying
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food items and monetary donations for food this past week. Our
staff this year included: Cindy Beckermann & Kendra Beckermann
£ THAHK YOU for our Pre‘K and Kindergarten; Romadene Mohel, Lesha Whitlow, ~ Dakota Johnson, & Anistyn Aleman for crafts; Kim Luton, Riley
Luton, Claire Schernik, & Wilhem Roberts for games; Kay Bulgerin for Bible lessons; Jacob Geske for tech support; Linda Richter director, and Pastor Geske. A special thank you to Debbie Ging and Karen Rutter for organizing our meals every night and to Vicki Agee & Christy Pick for their help in the kitchen. And thank you to Sharon Moreno for her office help and to Celo Moreno for helping where needed and for having the yard looking so good for our outside games. Thanks again to everyone who helped make it a successful week of VBS!
THRALL ISD BACK-TO-SCHOOL LUNCHEON
On August 7th, we will be hosting the teachers and staff from Thrall ISD. We will be serving King Ranch Chicken and will need m Wo en we it lalraylsdoonbaeticoonlslefcotrintghe“TfoeoadchaenrdWvoislhunLteisetr”sitteombsr.inSgigdneuspselirststs. will be available in the Narthex, and we’d appreciate your help in buying items for our teachers. Watch the bulletin and emails for more details.
Sunday School Wants You!
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 Study of God’s Word a priority for you and your family. A HAKfSAtiimRTO church that is growing is a church that is in God’s Word.
Shepherd's Heart Work Day
We will be hosting a distribution for Shepherd’s Heart ministry on July 13th from 8-10 a.m. Please plan to help if you can. We get started about 7:15 a.m.
We continue to stock our Food Pantry to help with what is provided by Shepherd’s
Heart. In June, we’ll provide a hot dog meal with wieners, buns, chili, baked beans,
mac & cheese, and mustard. Suggested items for June distribution (6/8) are hot
dog buns and small mustard. Please place donated items on the bench by the
Food Pantry. Items can also be purchased through Amazon and shipped directly to
the church at 409 S Main St, Thrall. Contact Joy Moehnke with any questions.
Thank you for your generosity!
Sunday School Outing
Plans are being made for the Sunday School children to have a service
opportunity to help with the Food Pantry distribution on August 10th followed by f
an outing to Hooky's in Hutto for lunch, bowling, and arcade fun. The older
children will need to be at the church by 8 AM to help with the food pantry
distribution and the younger students will need to be at the church by 10 AM to
leave for our field trip to Hooky’s. We will leave Hooky's at 2 PM and return to the church at 3 PM. Parents are welcome to go with us to transport their children and can have lunch with us. We will have sponsors who will have room to take your child/children and we will need you to supply a car seat or booster seat if your child requires one. Each student is allowed to invite a friend to
join us. Everyone will need a permission slip. So put Monday, August 10th on your schedule! For more information or questions, please contact Linda Richter (254) 697-5099.
Sunday Morning Bible Class
Please come and join our study of the
Word of God!
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STUDY
. The Sunday Morning Bible Class is studying the
scripture lessons for the day. Come
join them to learn
■ more about the places that Jesus walked and carried out
His ministry
Ladies Bible Study
The Ladies Bible Study will meet on July 9th at 10:00 a.m. We are studying the Women of the Bible. Please plan to join them for time in God’s Word.
Shepherd's Heart
FROM THE DESK OF PASTOR GESKE
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Precious in God’s Sight
As we seek to share the hope and love of Jesus, do we share Jesus with those who may not look like us or act like us? Our world needs Jesus. As the
beautiful song says, “Red and yellow, black and white, they are precious in His sight. Jesus loves the little children of the world!” Jesus loves all people and He sends us to help this world know His love and forgiveness.
I came across this prayer that said, “Heavenly Father, Help me remember that the jerk who cut me off in traffic last night is a single mother who worked nine hours that day and was rushing home to cook dinner, help with homework, do the laundry and spend a few precious moments with her children. Bring to my mind often that the pierced, tattooed, disinterested young man who can't make change correctly at McDonalds is a worried 19-year-old college student, balancing his apprehension over final exams with his fear of not getting his student loans for next semester. Remind me, Lord, that the scary looking bum, begging for money in the same spot every day (who really ought to get a job!) is a slave to addictions that I can only imagine in my worst nightmare. Cause me to reflect that the old couple, walking annoyingly slow through
the store aisles and blocking our shopping progress are savoring this moment, knowing that based on the biopsy report she got back last week, this will be the last year that they go
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shopping together. Heavenly Father, remind me each day that, of all the gifts you give me, the greatest gift is love. It is not enough to share that love with those I hold dear. Open my heart not just to those who are close to me, but to all humanity. Let me be slow in judgment and quick
with forgiveness and patience and empathy and love. Amen.”
Can you relate to this prayer? Have you ever had those same thoughts? Sometimes we see people in our community and in our world who maybe are not like us, but our Savior wants us to reach them and teach the unconditional love and forgiveness of our Savior, Jesus Christ. Our world needs Jesus and God is using and blessing us to share Christ to this community and to our world. Yes, we can and we should share Jesus through our words and actions and also through prayer.
Remember those words of Jesus to Zacchaeus, “For the Son of Man came to seek and to save what was lost.” (Luke 19:10 NIV) We witness in thanksgiving to Jesus for what He has done for us and His love for us. May God bless us to witness and to share Jesus with our friends and those we are comfortable with, and also with others!
Yours in Christ,
Pastor Jeffrey Geske
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Sunday Morning Bible Class
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.