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The Eagle March 2018 St. John Lutheran Church & Preschool 122 Cheyenne Mesa Hamilton, TX 76531 Phone: (254) 386-3158 Preschool (254) 386-3332 Fax: (254) 386-3159 Pastor— [email protected] Secretary— [email protected] Preschool— [email protected] Youth Coordinator— [email protected] Website: www.stjohnhamilton.org May we continue to be used by God and share the Gospel with A Heart for Hamilton County and the World!! Lost Their First Love! In chapters 2 and 3 of Revelation, Jesus gives to John the words that he is to write to seven churches. These seven churches are representative of all churches both at that time and today. Over the next several months we are going to take a look at these letters to the seven churches and we will see that these words still ring loud and clear even today. Churches and Christians of all times have struggled and need to hear these words. The first letter was addressed to the church in Ephe- sus. Now what is interesting about these letters is the fact that Jesus initially points out something that they are doing fairly well. In the case of the church in Ephesus, Jesus commends them for how they are enduring patiently and bearing up for His name sake and they are not growing weary. However, He goes on to say that He has this against them: they have abandoned their first love. Their first love was the Gospel message of Jesus Christ. That was at one time their top priority, but not anymore. I think that we can fully relate to this. We know the extent that Jesus went to save us from our sins. We say with our words that Jesus is the number one priority in our lives. We love Him more than anything in the world. However, what do our actions show? It is so easy to lose the excitement of our faith. It is so easy to let everyday life take over and before we know it, our enthusiasm and love for Jesus has slowly slipped away and we have lost our first love. We are reminded of Jesus’ words when a teacher of the law asked Jesus in an attempt to test Him, “Teacher, which is the great commandment of the law?” Jesus’ re- sponse was, “You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind. This is the great and first commandment.” We know this, but how easy it is for us to forget. May God strengthen us daily to rely on Him and never forget our first love, Jesus. May we continue to go with Jesus and to share the message of our risen Savior with A Heart for Hamilton County and the World!
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The Eagle March 2018
St. John Lutheran Church & Preschool 122 Cheyenne Mesa
Hamilton, TX 76531
Phone: (254) 386-3158
Preschool (254) 386-3332
Fax: (254) 386-3159
Pastor—
Secretary—
Preschool—
Youth Coordinator—
Website: www.stjohnhamilton.org
May we continue to be used by God and share the Gospel with A Heart
for Hamilton County and the World!!
Lost Their First Love! In chapters 2 and 3 of Revelation, Jesus gives to
John the words that he is to write to seven churches. These seven churches are representative of all churches both at that time and today. Over the next several months we are going to take a look at these letters to the seven churches and we will see that these words still ring loud and clear even today. Churches and Christians of all times have struggled and need to hear these words.
The first letter was addressed to the church in Ephe-sus. Now what is interesting about these letters is the fact that Jesus initially points out something that they are doing fairly well. In the case of the church in Ephesus, Jesus commends them for how they are enduring patiently and bearing up for His name sake and they are not growing weary. However, He goes on to say that He has this against them: they have abandoned their first love. Their first love was the Gospel message of Jesus Christ. That was at one time their top priority, but not anymore.
I think that we can fully relate to this. We know the extent that Jesus went to save us from our sins. We say with our words that Jesus is the number one priority in our lives. We love Him more than anything in the world. However, what do our actions show? It is so easy to lose the excitement of our faith. It is so easy to let everyday life take over and before we know it, our enthusiasm and love for Jesus has slowly slipped away and we have lost our first love.
We are reminded of Jesus’ words when a teacher of the law asked Jesus in an attempt to test Him, “Teacher, which is the great commandment of the law?” Jesus’ re-sponse was, “You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind. This is the great and first commandment.” We know this, but how easy it is for us to forget. May God strengthen us daily to rely on Him and never forget our first love, Jesus.
May we continue to go with Jesus and to share the message of our risen Savior with A Heart for Hamilton County and the World!
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Birthdays
2nd
Elaine Polster 3
rd Misti Polster
5th Branson Armstrong, Elissa Crouch 6
th Karah Niemann
7th Mark Deloach
8th Boofy Mishnick, Katherine Renken, Tootie Schoen
9th Liz Graves, Nolan Zschiesche
11th Ray Cassens, Dorothy Hoerrmann
12th Gene DeLoach, Robin Massingill
13th Michelle Cantara, Glenda Peace,
14th Quin Hanson
15th
August Gaydos, Aaron Hungerford 16
th Mildred Bottlinger
17th Anna Beber, Emery McElory
19th Mason Hall, Alanda Tyson
20th Mary Ellen Kiely
21st Jason Clark
23rd Neet Bushee, Caleb Niemann 24
th Kara Chorenziak, James Surely, Clayton Tyson
25th Emma Polster
26th Todd Mishnick
28th Evie Batla, Scott Williams
29th Britley Balzen
30th Mildred Kauitzsch, Gary Schoen
31st Joe Cathey, Billy Lawson
Baptisms
1st Jason Seider, Marshal Stork
3rd
Kerry Kensing 4
th Alice Pietzsch, Owen Tyson
8th Pat Bottlinger
10th Rebecca Horton, Brodi Mishnick, Carson Wolff 13
th Bea Coble, Sheldon Coble, Paige Stanford, Kim Tyson
14th Savannah Johnson, Raymond Krueger Jr., Mona Smith, Tammy Wagner
17th Morgan Eilers, Payden Nolen, Weston Nolen
18th Avery Hall
19th Marliessa Clark, Frances Donahoo, Betty Hardin, Alex Odom
21st Kyle Krueger, Brenna Payne, Addley Yates
22nd
Eugene Jeschke 24
th Jennifer Niemann, Elaine Polster
26th Needy Anders, Branson Armstrong
27th Jonathon Reich
28th Elissa Crouch, Kolten Kunkel
30th Robert Dellaughter, Laurel Friedrich, Mildred Kauitzsch, Dayle Squyres
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Anniversaries 6th Joe & Elsie Sommerfeld—37yrs 10th Martin & Bonnye Wenzel—28yrs 22nd Luther & Moona—49yrs
In Loving
Memory of
Wyvonne Wenzel
General Fund: Michel & Barbara Miller John & Dorothy Schoedel Juanita Anders
Doug Wagner Family Darrel & Kristi Wagner Glenn & Karen Krueger
Raymond & Patsy Krueger Victor & Glenda Krueger David Burgess Martin & Juanita Seider James & Barbara Arnold Travis Odom
Building Fund: John & Irene Zaruba
Preschool: Lloyd & Janice Melde
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BUILDING FUND
Opening/Breakfast Sundays 8:30am
Sunday School Sundays 9:00am
Church Worship Sundays 10:00am
Quilting Tuesdays 9:00am
Wednesdays
Pre Conf/Conf 3:45pm Lent Meal 5:30pm
Lent Services 6:30pm
Moms In Prayer Thursdays 8:15am
Men’s Bible Study Thursday 6:30am
$ 9,947 Current
$ 50,000
$ 100,000
$ 150,000
$ 200,000
$ 230,000
Please contact the church office with updates on prayer requests
for friends and loved ones.
Prayer of Praise: for rain, for successful surgeries for “Slim” Witsche & Alice Jeschke
Special prayers: for marriages, for financial struggles, for chronic illness, for mental health, and for strong families
Noland Arbaugh - family friend of Darryl & Mischelle Beach, has spinal injury
with other complications, prayers for comfort and healing and for his family
Molly Beach - niece of Darryl & Michelle Beach suffering from an auto-immune
disease & other health issues
Rodney Cosby - recovering from a head injury
John Hamilton - brother of Tommy Deutsch recovering from kidney transplant surgery; was discharged from hospital this past week Dennis Krueger - father of Deanna Melde, suffered stroke and will now
be doing his recovery in the Hamilton hospital as well.
Greg Ladesic - father of Melissa Medina recovering from an eye injury from a
fall and waiting for an appointment with an eye surgeon
Debbie Martin - (Shawna’s mother) was released from the hospital and recovering at Shawna’s home
Henrietta Medina - continued prayer for healing of her liver
Jean Schwartz – Chrissy Kensing’s grandmother - recovering heart bypass surgery
Eva Warden - sister-in-law of Norma Marwitz dealing with major health issues
Delores Kincheloe White - (Kim Tyson’s mom) recovering at home
Please lift up the following in prayer
Our Military & Families:
Travis Beach, Austin Beckner, Nick Cantara, Josh Chorenziak, Anthony French, Charles Gonce, Matthew Medi-na, Ernie Mendez, Payden Nolen, John Park, Jordan Ratliff, Logan Selman, Richard Sepolio, John Slough,
Warren Stanley, Micah Stork, Keith Voges, Garrett White, Scott Williams
Our Homebound & Nursing Facilities:
Dove Hill: Kendra Code, Jean Ranney, Lillye Sanders, Larry Stamberger, Raymond & Maxine Wenzel Hamil-ton Health Care: Nelda Hlavati, Mildred Kauitzsch, Melinda Rogers, Leamon & Lydia Wagner Sr. Care Center, Stephenville: Ruth Young The Meadows, Gatesville: Faye Senger Homebound: Frances Donahoo, Norma
Marwitz, Albert Peters, Mae Pietzsch, Ruth Reneau, Frances Schrank
Ricky Brown - dealing with neck, breathing & other health issues Frances Donahoo - dealing with heart & other health issues Louis Donahoo - dealing with heart & other health issues Tommy Deutsch - healing and recovery from surgery and a stroke; in rehab Larry Eilers - back in Providence with intestinal issues
Gary Gromatzky - dealing with nerve damage in back
Barbara Jahns - recovering at home from a hospital stay
Alice Jeschke - recovery from successful surgery on her arm John Schoedel - recovering at home H.C. Wenzel - seeing a specialist about his neck problems Theresa Williams - dealing with seizures and various health issues Robert “Slim” Witzsche - recovering from knee replacement surgery (both
knees)
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Upcoming
March Events
4th - 7:15a - Men’s Club
1:30p - Nursing Home
Devotions
5th - 6:30p –Preschool Board
6th - 8:30a –Pastor’s Circuit @
Grace, Killeen
10th - Set your Clocks Forward
11th - 11:15a - Bd of Trustees
- Bd of Ed & Youth
Family Funday to Lampasas
12th - 6:30p -Bd of Elders
13th - 1:00p - Glory Gamesters
5:30p - Bd of Finance
25th Palm Sunday &
Confirmations Sunday
with potluck to follow.
St John Ruth Guild-
We are asking that members please donate soap (hotel size and regular bar soap) for the upcoming Texas district LWML District Convention that will be in Waco TX in the summer of 2018. Ruth Guild Meeting- We are also inviting all ladies and teens to join us for our meeting on the Sunday, March 25th following the morning wor-
ship service.
We will be helping with the Con-
firmation meal.
Finance Update:
At the last Voters’ Meeting, we received the final approval from the Texas District for the amendments that were made to the Constitu-tion and Bylaws for St. John. The major change is going from the four regularly scheduled Voters’ Meetings to one annual Voters’ Meeting in October to elect officers and board members and to adopt the budget for the upcoming year. In an effort to keep every-
one updated on the financial condition of St. John, the Board of Fi-nance and Treasurer decided that it would be good to provide a summary in the form of the report included here. This report re-flects the income and expense for the month of January. Your gen-erosity has been incredible and we pray that hearts will continue to overflow in this way so we can continue to be about the mission of the Church.
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MEN’S CLUB
The Men’s Club meets on the 1
st Sunday of the month. Join us
Sunday, March 4 at 7:15 am for the Men’s Club meeting and to help make sausage and pancakes for breakfast.
Have you considered joining St. John choir lately? Now would be a great time to join the choir & worship the Lord with music. Sunday mornings at 8:30am in the choir loft.
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March 11.....Family Fun outing after church at Putters and Gutters. Please let Shawna know if you plan on attending, this way we can reserve some bowling lanes if we need to. The cost is 6.99 a person for 1 hr of bowling and 1 hr of putt putt.
March 29...Maundy Thursday. 6th graders will take their first communion.
March 25th Confirmation Sunday and Pot luck meal afterwards. Parents I need a framed picture of your child and a basket.
April 1st Easter Egg hunt during Sunday School time. You will need to bring your own basket.
April 7th-- Youth fundraiser plant sale at Lawsons Implement John Deere Day.
Meets every Thursday in the FLC @ 8:15am
(Senior Youth Room)
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Get You r Fun On Wi th Pu t te rs and Gu t te rs !
Lampasas , T x
March 11—Righ t a f te r chu rch
Indoor Arcade
Putters & Gutters is a family fun center with something for everyone!
Please let me know if you plan to attend so I can reserve bowling lanes.
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St. John Lutheran Church & Preschool
122 Cheyenne Mesa
Hamilton, Texas 76531
Wednesday evenings at 6:30 pmSunday mornings at 7:30 am
Sunday morning services can be heard on
See inside for a schedule of service days & times. Complete series will be
broadcasted on KCLW900AM
All services are also on our website
www.stjohnhamilton.org
