Church Bulletin - January 26, 2024

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January 26, 2024

In every thing by prayer and supplication with thanksgiving let your requests be made known unto God. Philippians 4:6

Homebound

Doris Appold
Dorine Auernhammer
Gwen Bakus
Jon Ittner
Mike & Karen Kusch
Margaret Meyer
RoseAnne Schmidt
Tim Wegener
Shirley Ziegler
Janet Hoerauf
Sandy Hafer

Bereaved

Family and friends of Dakota Easton (nephew of Meagan Lowe and Lisa Easton)

Special

Dean Bass
Wyatt Crouse (Dan Bourdow’s grandson)
Dave Foster
Debbie Kahihikolo (Denise Daly's sister)
Connie Makl (Jeremy Warren's aunt)
Herb Appold
Larry Kramer
Fuzz Appold
Leslie Kelley
Judy Coulter
Lois Matthes
Tami Springer (Gail Gesinski’s sister)
Diane Rachwitz
Howard Grantham
Tom Appold
Jeff Heckman
Karen Berger
Tim Weiman family
Mason Gengler
Jim Ryddman
Julie Roark
Dianne Dickinson (Melissa Gerhauser's cousin)
Tiffany Switek
Jonathan Mueller
Bill & Louann Kramer
Ron Reuther
Del Lutz

This Week's Members

Micharl & Cindy Appold
Curtis & Janice Berger
Doug & Barb Dewald
Gregory Gibbon
Courtney, Ryan & Maverick Jones
Tiffany List
Morgan Pfau
Frederick & Dawn Schwab
Andy, Janelle, Owen & Ainsley Wiess

Sunday, January 28

Worship with Communion 8:00 a.m.

Bible Class & Sunday School 9:30 a.m.

Worship with Communion 10:30 p.m.

Wild Game Potluck & Silent Auction 12:00 p.m.

Tuesday, January 30

Choir 6:00 p.m.

Bell Choir 7:00 p.m.

Thursday, February 1

Board of Education Meeting 6:00 p.m.

Open enrollment for the 2024-2025 school year for St. Paul Church members begins

Sunday, February 4

Worship with Communion 8:00 a.m.

Bible Class & Sunday School 9:30 a.m.

Celebration & Praise with Communion 10:30 p.m.

Sunday Night Youth Group 5:00 p.m.

Communion Statement

The Lord's Supper is celebrated here in the confession and glad confidence that our Lord, as He says, gives not only bread and wine, but His very body and blood to eat and drink for the forgiveness of sin. In joyful obedience to the clear teaching of our Lord Jesus those are invited to His table who trust His words, repent of all sin, and set aside any refusal to forgive and love as He forgives and loves us. They show forth His death until He comes. Because Holy Communion is a confession of the faith which is confessed at this altar, any who are not yet instructed, in doubt, or who hold a confession differing from that of The Lutheran Church—Missouri Synod and so are unable to receive the Sacrament are invited to meditate on God's Word in the distribution hymns and pray for the day when divisions will have ceased. If you wish to receive communion in your pew, please inform an usher.

Church Attendance

Last Sunday - 428 (316, 112)

Livestream

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The Lutheran Hour

Sundays at 8:30 a.m. on WSAM 1400 AM

Donations mail to: Saginaw Valley Lutheran Hour; P.O. Box 133; Frankenmuth, MI 48734

Daily Bible Readings

January 28 - Luke 21

January 29 - Luke 22

January 30 - Luke 23

January 31 - Luke 24

February 1 - Psalms 13-15

February 2 - Proverbs 3

February 3 - Acts 1

This Sunday's Hymns

842, 528, 819, 620, 404, 394

Youth Wild Game Potluck & Silent Auction

Join the Youth in the Ministry Center this Sunday, January 28, at 12:00 p.m. for tasty eats and lots of great deals on a wide variety of outdoor and home goods. If you are interested in attending, please click here for more details and to sign up.

Sunday Night Youth Group

Due to the Wild Game dinner this Sunday, January 28, there will be no Sunday Night Youth Group.

Pancake Breakfast - Thank You!

The Staff and Teachers would like to thank the St. Paul School and Church Families for attending the Pancake Breakfast in celebration of National Lutheran Schools Week. It is a joy and honor sharing conversation and fellowship with you. Thank you for all that you do to support St. Paul Lutheran School. Principal Matyas would like to give a special thank you to our amazing Culinary Queens: Sheri Lusher & Karen Bass –thank you for feeding our hearts and stomachs!

Lamentations: How to be Sad

This year in our midweek services we will be examining the book of Lamentations. In five chapters, we will hear Jeremiah’s devastated-yet-hopeful cries to God. The hope is that we learn how best to channel our grief through the Man of Sorrows himself: Jesus Christ.

Wednesday Evening Lenten Suppers

Wednesday Evening Lenten services begin on Ash Wednesday, Feb. 14, 2024 and that means Lenten Suppers are coming your way. If you have a group that would like to provide this service on March 20, to our St. Paul Family and make a few bucks while you're at it, let Vicar Schultz or the Church Office know (989-684-4450).

Here is the line up so far:

Feb. 14 - Alaska Mission

Feb. 21 - Poland Mission

Feb. 28 - VBS

Mar. 6 - Alaska Mission

Mar. 13- 7th & 8th Grade Class (at School during the Art Fair)

Mar. 20 - AVAILABLE!

Come enjoy the food and fellowship!

Ladies Aid

Ladies aid meeting will be February 5th at 7pm. Jane Adams the president of Brian’s house will be our guest speaker.

Year-End Giving Statements

Your 2023 Year-End contribution statements can be located in your mailbox. If you have not been assigned a mailbox, your contribution statement will be mailed. Please contact the office with any questions. Thank you!

**Revised contribution statements for some members, due to an unforeseen event, have been prepared. If you have already received your statement, please check your mailbox to see if you were affected by the revision.**

Get Ready for the 2024-2025 School Year!

Starting February 1, 2024, St. Paul congregation members will be able to enroll for the 2024-2025 school year. Enrollment will open to all current families on February 14, and to the community on March 1, 2024. You can click here for the enrollment information.

2024 Offering Envelopes

The 2024 offering envelopes are ready to pick up at church. If you are unable to pick yours up, please contact the church office. Thank you!

Baby Bottle Boomerang

Baby bottles are available to fill with donations for LifeClinic (formerly known as Beacon of Hope), our local pregnancy resource center. Please consider supporting this local ministry by picking up a bottle and returning it filled with your coins, bills, or checks. Please return your bottle by Sunday, February 11.

Stewardship - An Act of Faith

Mark 1:22 – “And they were astonished at his teaching, for he taught them as one who had authority, and not as the scribes.” Authority is a word we are sometimes afraid of and don’t like to hear. But that’s just our sinful flesh talking. Jesus’ authority is something we need. We need Him to show us what to believe and how to live, for Jesus’ authority is always connected to his love.

Valley Vision

Click here to see the December /January Valley Vision.

Old Testament Reading

Deuteronomy 18:15–20

“The LORD your God will raise up for you a prophet like me from among you, from your brothers—it is to him you shall listen— just as you desired of the LORD your God at Horeb on the day of the assembly, when you said, ‘Let me not hear again the voice of the LORD my God or see this great fire any more, lest I die.’ And the LORD said to me, ‘They are right in what they have spoken. I will raise up for them a prophet like you from among their brothers. And I will put my words in his mouth, and he shall speak to them all that I command him. And whoever will not listen to my words that he shall speak in my name, I myself will require it of him. But the prophet who presumes to speak a word in my name that I have not commanded him to speak, or who speaks in the name of other gods, that same prophet shall die.’”

Epistle

1 Corinthians 8:1–13

Concerning food offered to idols: we know that “all of us possess knowledge.” This “knowledge” puffs up, but love builds up. If anyone imagines that he knows something, he does not yet know as he ought to know. But if anyone loves God, he is known by God. Therefore, as to the eating of food offered to idols, we know that “an idol has no real existence,” and that “there is no God but one.” For although there may be so-called gods in heaven or on earth—as indeed there are many “gods” and many “lords”— yet for us there is one God, the Father, from whom are all things and for whom we exist, and one Lord, Jesus Christ, through whom are all things and through whom we exist. However, not all possess this knowledge. But some, through former association with idols, eat food as really offered to an idol, and their conscience, being weak, is defiled. Food will not commend us to God. We are no worse off if we do not eat, and no better off if we do. But take care that this right of yours does not somehow become a stumbling block to the weak. For if anyone sees you who have knowledge eating in an idol’s temple, will he not be encouraged, if his conscience is weak, to eat food offered to idols? And so by your knowledge this weak person is destroyed, the brother for whom Christ died. Thus, sinning against your brothers and wounding their conscience when it is weak, you sin against Christ. Therefore, if food makes my brother stumble, I will never eat meat, lest I make my brother stumble.

Holy Gospel

Mark 1:21–28

They went into Capernaum, and immediately on the Sabbath [Jesus] entered the synagogue and was teaching. And they were astonished at his teaching, for he taught them as one who had authority, and not as the scribes. And immediately there was in their synagogue a man with an unclean spirit. And he cried out, “What have you to do with us, Jesus of Nazareth? Have you come to destroy us? I know who you are—the Holy One of God.” But Jesus rebuked him, saying, “Be silent, and come out of him!” And the unclean spirit, convulsing him and crying out with a loud voice, came out of him. And they were all amazed, so that they questioned among themselves, saying, “What is this? A new teaching with authority! He commands even the unclean spirits, and they obey him.” And at once his fame spread everywhere throughout all the surrounding region of Galilee.

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