09-23-2012 Announcement

IN YOUR DAILY PRAYERS this week please remember Myron Schaffer in the VA Hospital, our shut-in and inactive members, and all of your friends and relatives who do not yet know Christ.

JOLENE SCHULTZ BENEFIT – St. Peter Lutheran Church (Clayton) will sponsor a benefit for Jolene Schultz at noon on Sept. 30^th.  Please see the notice on the bulletin board in the Fellowship Hall for additional information.

MOVIE NIGHT – On Sunday, October 7^th at 7:00 p.m. we will be watching Courageous.  Popcorn will be provided; please bring your own drink.

SAMARITAN SUPPER MEETING:  Wednesday, Sept. 26^th at 6:30 in the Fellowship Hall.  The main course, dessert and drinks will be provided.  Please bring a salad or side dish to share.  Anyone who is interested in the Samaritan group is welcome to join us.

THE BAZAAR COMMITTEE has started making plans for the Nov. 1^st event, which will run from 10:30 a.m. to 7:00 p.m.  Food donations are needed for chicken noodle soup, vegetable soup, chili soup, chicken sandwich meat, tavern, salads, pies, cake, pickles, crackers & coffee.  We will also need workers for the day and evening shifts.  We will again have the Country Store, Stitchery/Craft Booth and the Lunch Counter.  Please see or call Garnet Stern (925-7298), Corrine Handel (925-7433), Mildred Siekmann (925-7050), or Sharon Pfeiffer (925-7604) if you are willing to donate food or work.

THANK YOU, JOHN and ALETA STARNER, for your willingness to lead our Youth Group this year!  May God grant you both the wisdom and the patience to guide and shape our youth in the servanthood of our Christian faith.  The next Youth Group meeting will be on Oct. 14^th at 7:00 p.m. in the Fellowship Hall.

THANK YOU, RUTH KOERNER, for accepting the telephone prayer chain responsibilities.  May God bless you as you do this work in and for His Kingdom.

POSITION OPEN – We are still looking for someone to take over the candle and vestment maintenance duties.  If you are interested, please contact the Pastor.

The Fall ADULT BIBLE STUDY CLASS begins today.  We will continue the topic of comparing belief systems and religions, more specifically today and the next couple of classes (because of Presidential Candidate Mitt Romney) comparing the Mormon religion with the Christian religion.  Bring your coffee and snacks to class and join us in our studies!  All materials are provided.  Everybody is welcome!

LUTHERAN DIGEST – The Fall copies of the Digest have arrived and are on revolving stand in the Library area.

MAIN STREET LIVING – Sept. 30 – Kid’s Crossing looks at the greatest commandment:  “Love God with all you heart and soul and mind.”  The speaker will be Rev. Seltz from the Lutheran Hour.  His sermon theme will be “I’d Stake My Life On It.”  The MSL Choir will provide the hymns.  MSL may be seen each Sunday morning at 10:00 on KDLT-NBC Sioux Falls and at 9:00 on KEVN-FOX Rapid City.

THE LUTHERAN HOUR – Sept. 30 – “Jesus, I Don’t Love You” will be the sermon theme of Rev. Dr. Ken Klaus.  Jesus said those who are not against Him are for Him but the opposite is also true: those who are not for Jesus are against Him.  The Lutheran Hour is broadcast on Sunday mornings at 8:30 on 105.9 FM and at 9:30 on 570 AM.

09-16-2012 Announcements

IN YOUR DAILY PRAYERS this week please remember Myron Schaffer in the Sioux Falls VA Hospital, Kermit Schrag in the Freeman hospital, our shut-in and inactive members, and all of your friends and relatives who do not yet know Christ.

MEN’S BIBLE STUDY GROUP will meet this week at 6:00 a.m. in our Fellowship Hall.

POSITIONS OPEN – We are still looking for 1) someone to take over the candle and vestment maintenance duties, 2) one or more adults to lead our Senior High Youth Group, 3) someone to help with the telephone prayer chain [if you are interested in any of these, please contact the Pastor], and 4) additional Sunday School teachers.  Please contact Amber Sayler, Cheri Knittel or Kari Neuharth if you can help with Sunday School.  Thank you for prayerfully considering your stewardship of time and talents by helping us with these important church functions.

BAPTISM OF HANNAH RIGO – We joyfully welcome Hannah Delaney Rigo into our Christian family today through the Sacrament of Holy Baptism!  We thank God for giving Hannah new birth, true faith, salvation and eternal life, and we pray that God’s holy angels will watch over her throughout her life.  Hannah is the daughter of Matthew and Sheila Rigo.  Please greet them in the receiving line following our worship service.

A SIGN UP SHEET is on the bulletin board if you would like to bring snacks for the midweek school and confirmation class on Wednesdays.  Please sign your name on the week you would like to bring a snack.  Thank you.

CHOIR is looking for people to join.  Come today at 11:30 a.m. to 12:00 p.m., and sing praises to the Lord!

THE BAZAAR COMMITTEE has started making plans for the Nov. 1^st event, which will run from 10:30 a.m. to 7:00 p.m.  Food donations are needed for chicken noodle soup, vegetable soup, chili soup, chicken sandwich meat, tavern, salads, pies, cake, pickles, crackers & coffee.  We will also need workers for the day and evening shifts.  We will again have the Country Store, Stitchery/Craft Booth and the Lunch Counter.  Please see or call Garnet Stern (925-7298), Corrine Handel (925-7433), Mildred Siekmann (925-7050), or Sharon Pfeiffer (925-7604) if you are willing to donate food or work.

SUNDAY SCHOOL starts today after church.  Please have your children join in the learning of God’s Word!

CHRISTIAN LIFE FALL WORKSHOP will be held in Sioux Falls next Saturday.  Rev. Sturzenbecher will present the “Blessings of Holy Communion.”  Please call Wyona Hofer if you have any questions.

THE LORD’S SUPPER at St. Paul Lutheran Church is administered in accordance with the Holy Scriptures and the Lutheran Confessions.  It is celebrated in the confidence that we receive – in, with and under the consecrated bread and wine – our Savior’s true Body and Blood for the forgiveness of our sins.  All who commune at this altar are making this public confession of the faith that we believe and teach as is written in the Holy Scriptures.  If you are not a member of St. Paul Lutheran Church and yet desire to receive the Sacrament, please speak with the Pastor before the worship service.

MAIN STREET LIVING – Sept. 23 – Kid’s Crossing finds Simon dealing with how to get to heaven through faith in Jesus.  The speaker will be Rev. Tom Christopher from St. Martins in Alexandria, Trinity in Spencer and St. John in Emery.  The MSL Choir will provide the hymns.  Main Street Living may be seen each Sunday morning at 10:00 on KDLT-NBC Sioux Falls and at 9:00 on KEVN-FOX Rapid City.

THE LUTHERAN HOUR – Sept. 23 – “With God, There is Great Grace” will be Rev. Gregory Seltz’ sermon theme.  The Lutheran Hour is broadcast on Sunday mornings at 8:30 on 105.9 FM and at 9:30 on 570 AM.

09/09/2012 Announcements

IN OUR DAILY PRAYERS this week please offer a prayer to God in thanksgiving that Brogen Broders (2-year-old son of Tom and Kelli Broders) has returned home from the hospital safely and is doing well in his recovery after having had 3 heart surgeries.  Please also remember Sharon Buechler as she continues to recover from her flare-up of shingles as well as our shut-in and inactive members, and at least two people in your life who do not yet know Christ.

THE BAZAAR COMMITTEE has started making plans for the November 1^st event which will run from 10:30 a.m. to 7:00 p.m.  Food donations are needed for chicken noodle soup, vegetable soup, chili soup, chicken sandwich meat, taverns, salads, pies, cakes, pickles, crackers and coffee.  We will also need workers for the day and evening shifts.  We will again have the Country Store, Stitchery/Craft Booth and the Lunch Counter.  Please see or call Garnet Stern (925-7298), Corrine Handel (925-7433), Mildred Siekmann (925-7050) or Sharon Pfeiffer (925-7604) if you are willing to donate food or work.

A BIBLE will be presented today to our 3^rd grade student:  Sarah Harris.  May she learn and cherish the Word of God and keep it in her heart forever.

MEN’S BIBLE STUDY GROUP will meet this week at the Third Street Grill at 6:00 a.m.

INSTALLATION OF TEACHERS – Our Sunday School and Midweek School teachers being installed today are Kristi Dannenbring and Joni Knittel (Pre-Kindergarten and Kindergarten), Amber Sayler and Stefanie Ruml (1^st and 2^nd grades), Penny Smidt (3^rd thru 5^th grades), Bob Pidde, Cheri Knittel and Leann Schulz-Thomas (6^th thru 8^th grades) and Rev. Richard Weeman (Midweek School).  We thank God for providing these teachers who are willing to spend time with our youth to teach them the truths of the Gospel.

CHOIR will be starting on Sept. 16^th from 11:30 a.m. to 12:00 p.m.

CONFIRMATION CLASSES will begin on Wed., Sept. 12^th at 4:00.

CONFIRMATION YOUTH & PARENT MEETING – There will be a meeting for our confirmands and their parents in the Fellowship Hall today after the Rally Day luncheon.

MIDWEEK SCHOOL YOUTH & PARENT MEETING – There will be a beginning-of-school-year meeting for our midweek school youth and their parents in the sanctuary today after the Rally Day luncheon.  Please plan to attend if at all possible!

MIDWEEK SCHOOL for our 5^th and 6^th graders will begin on Wed.,

Sept. 12^th at 4:00.  Students:  Please bring your booklets from last year.  Parents:  If you have any questions throughout the school year, please contact Rev. Weeman at (605) 925-4004.

RALLY DAY PICNIC – The congregation is invited to a potluck today after church to celebrate the opening of Sunday School.  Hot dogs, brats and drinks will be provided.  Please bring a salad, side dish or dessert.  Please join us!  Sunday School classes begin next Sunday.

TRISHA LANGLE and the other SDSU pre-med students arrived safely back home from Mombasa, Kenya.  Thank you, Lord!  They truly had an eye-opening experience on how the hospitals and orphanages are operated on a day-to-day basis.  Thank you for your prayers for their safety while they were gone.  Trisha asks that you continue to pray for the people of Mombasa.

LWML – The LWML ladies will meet on Sept. 13^th at 7:00 p.m.  Alice has topic and Julie has lunch.

SIGN UP SHEET on the bulletin board if you would like to bring snacks for the midweek school and confirmation class on Wednesdays.

LIBRARY – Two new books about our German ancestors have been donated by Glenn Gering:  “The Black Sea Germans in the Dakotas” by George Roth and “In Search of Home” by Magdalena Brost Hins.  Please check them out and enjoy them!

CHRISTIAN LIFE FALL WORKSHOP will be held in Sioux Falls on Saturday, Sept. 22^nd.  Rev. Randy Sturzenbecher will present the “Blessings of Holy Communion.”  More information on bulletin board.

MAIN STREET LIVING – Sept. 16 – Kid’s Crossing looks at standing firm in the faith as Danny learns about Jesus from his grandmother.  The speaker will be Rev. Steven Weispfenig of St. John Lutheran Church in Yankton.  The Main Street Living Choir will provide the hymns.  MSL may be seen each Sunday morning at 10:00 on KDLT-NBC Sioux Falls and at 9:00 on KEVN-FOX Rapid City.

THE LUTHERAN HOUR – Sept. 16 – “Relationships” will be the theme of Rev. Gregory Seltz’ sermon.  The Lutheran Hour is broadcast on Sunday mornings at 8:30 on 105.9 FM and at 9:30 on 570 AM.