March 2019
Forgive as We Have Been Forgiven
Brothers and sisters in Christ: Ash
Wednesday is a little later than usual this year: March 6th. If at
all possible, please join us for Lenten Vespers every Wednesday at 7:00 PM. The
time of Lent is usually brings reflection on sin and repentance—the point being
our sin and our need for repentance. It’s very true that we
should look to the log in our own eye before we point out the speck in our
brother’s eye. Nevertheless, there are times when we are the ones who have been
sinned
against. You may remember the explanation of the fifth petition
from the Small Catechism: “Forgive us our trespasses as we forgive those who
trespass against us. What does this mean? We pray in this petition that our
Father in heaven would not look at our sins, or deny our prayer because of
them. We are neither worthy of the things for which we pray, nor have we
deserved them, but we ask that He would give them all to us by grace, for we
daily sin much and surely deserve nothing but punishment. So we too will
sincerely forgive and gladly do good to those who sin against us.” Well, that’s
easier said than done, isn’t it? Here are some thoughts from Rev. Ken Klaus
from the Lutheran Hour:A few Decembers ago, Portals of Prayer had a devotion which asked, "What would you do?"
That devotion told of a Jewish man who had lost his family in the Nazi death camps. When a mortally wounded German soldier asked him for forgiveness, he was unable to offer it. For a long time he wondered if he had done the right thing.
The devotion asked, "What would you do if you had been in that man's shoes?"
Since I knew none of us would ever be in that Jewish man's shoes, I didn't expect anyone to answer. I didn't expect an answer, but one came anyway. It came from Nancy Haas of Yankton, South Dakota. With her permission, I am sharing part of what she wrote. She began,
"My daughter was murdered at the age of 19 years old in the fall of 1992."
As a father, it is difficult for me to imagine a more terrible sentence for any parent to write. The facts are these: it was the night before homecoming and Nancy's daughter, Tammy, went to a party at a Nebraska farm. She never came home. Nancy continued,
"... the person(s) who ... did it tossed her body down a hill at a golf course. She was missing for six days until a golfer found her body. (Those who murdered her) do not want forgiveness, but I do forgive them. I, in my heart as a human, would give anything if they would just come to me and say, 'We are sorry and accept your forgiveness.'"
I have not met, nor have I talked to Nancy personally. Even so, I cannot help but believe she has a deep understanding of what happened the day Jesus died to save us.
We who have been brought to faith know that Jesus had spent His entire life fulfilling the promises His Father made to sinful humankind. That life which had been lived without flaw or fail, culminated on Calvary's cross where Jesus, carrying our sins, died the death we deserved.
Amazingly, the first words out of His mouth were, "Father, forgive them" (see Luke 23:34).
Have you ever noticed that Jesus spoke those words even though no confession had been made and no repentance had been shown? Jesus didn't withhold His forgiveness until the Roman soldiers were mobbed by a convicted, repentant crowd, demanding His release.
No, while people were still mocking and maligning Him, while they were still motivated by malice and meanness, Jesus forgave. Nancy, without any confession or heartfelt apology from her daughter's killer(s) has followed the Savior's example. The same should be said of all of us.
Why? Because when believers cherish and treasure sins that have been done to them, it blinds them to the total forgiveness Jesus has won for them on the cross. Because when believers have a special spot in their hearts for anger and vengeance, that spot has no room for the Lord. Lastly, because when we demand the justice scale be balanced, we are not loving as Jesus loved us.
It would have been a wonderful thing if Calvary's crowd, having heard the Savior, would have confessed their sins, but it didn't happen. Similarly, Nancy may never hear words of repentance. And ... you may never get the apology you want.
Even so, we do what is right; we forgive as we have been forgiven.
Rev. Klaus is right: we forgive
as we have been forgiven. However, we want to say “Yeah, but you don’t know
what he did to me—it’s outrageous!” “If you’d only heard what she’s said about
me, you’d feel the same way!” I suppose we all have that inclination; that is,
we want to be forgiven since our sins really aren’t all that bad really (or so
we fool ourselves into thinking), but sins committed against us are the worst
that have ever been seen by man. The Babylon Bee (a Christian satirical news
website) ran an article a few months back with the headline “Study: Everyone
Else’s Sin is Much Worse Than Yours.” It went on to say, “A new report released
in a joint study by several evangelical denominations confirmed Friday that the
habitual sin that everybody else struggles with is much worse than your own.
The study found that your sin is regrettable but not that bad, while everybody
else's sin is horrible, disgusting, and should be repented of immediately.”
This is, of course, poking fun at the way we so often want to justify our sin
while condemning everyone else’s sin. Knowing that we are truly forgiven in
Christ Jesus, we are free to forgive. Lord, forgive me all my sins where I have
done wrong, including the sin of being stringy with my forgiveness. In the Name
of Jesus, Amen.
Christ’s blessings to you and
yours—
Pastor Ken Humphrey
The Cross Alone is Our Theology
by Rev. Matthew Zickler
CRUX
sola est nostra Theologia “The CROSS alone is our theology.” As Luther spoke
those words during his lectures on the Psalms which took place between
1519-1521, he spoke words which utterly summed up the battle he was
experiencing. This was about the cross of Christ. It was about the total
inability of man to earn any of his own merit before God. It was about Jesus
earning the salvation of all mankind as He was hanged, cursed on the bloody
instrument of the tree of death.
Merely months earlier in
1518, Luther had introduced this general idea in his thesis discussed at
Heidelberg. In these Heidelberg Theses, he began to hash out the “Theology of
the Cross,” and with it what it means to be a “Theologian of the Cross.” He
began to explicate just what it means that the cross alone is our theology. As
he did this, the two theses that perhaps capture his understanding the best are
the 19th and 20th theses:
19. That person does not
deserve to be called a theologian who looks upon the invisible things of God as
though they were clearly perceptible in those things which have actually
happened [Rom. 1:20].
20. He deserves to be
called a theologian, however, who comprehends the visible and manifest things
of God seen through suffering and the cross
To our modern ears, we
might hear this and think two things: 1) The Lutheran question, “What does this
mean?” and 2) “What does this have to do with me?” To answer the first, Luther
is making the point that as we look at the world, we often think we can understand who God is. In fact, we think
that we can know Him and even perhaps connect with Him in some way. Being the
sinners that we are, of course, we focus on the things we estimate to be good.
We can “feel” so close to God when we go hiking in the beauty of the Rocky
Mountains, or when we experience the love of our children as we nuzzle them in
their beds before kissing them good night. This is to “look upon the invisible
things of God as though they were clearly perceptible in those things that have
actually happened.” We look at these things we like and assume that must mean
that we have earned God’s pleasure and so deserve to be in heaven with Him. To
be sure, these are good things, but why do we assume God’s pleasure with us in
these things? Why do we make these assumptions, all the while ignoring what
would have to be said of the hikers who die in avalanches or the nights where
our children cry themselves to sleep in the midst of selfish tantrums?
Why? Because we are by
nature no theologians. We by nature have no real desire to see God for who He
actually is. As Paul says, quoting the Psalms, “As it is written: ‘None is
righteous, no, not one; no one understands; no one seeks for God. All have
turned aside; together they have become worthless; no one does good, not even
one.’ No one understands. NO ONE. No one seeks God. NO ONE.
In light of this, we must
turn and become theologians. We must understand God not only the things we
like, but through the things we do not like. However, when confronted with
these, we turn tail from Him and run. Why? Because what we are confronted with
terrifies us. We do not like confronting the evils of this world because it
means that we have to consider the possibility that we ourselves are evil. When
we think about the hikers who die or our children’s tantrums, it forces us to
acknowledge that this world is no utopia.
In November 2017ago, we
were confronted with one of the worst possible challenges as Christians: A
mentally unstable man walked through the doors of 1st Baptist Church
in Sutherland Springs, Texas and took the lives of 26 people. How do we look at
this? What does this seem to tell us about God? How can we trust that God loves
us, that He is good, especially if He does not even keep His people safe in His
own house?
The reality is, we do not
know what this says about God explicitly. We do not know why God allowed the
deaths of those 26 poor souls. We do not know just what God’s purpose is in
this situation, nor do we know what His plan is for those who have been left in
mourning. To attempt to determine more would be to try to understand the
invisible things of God through visible things. Luther would call this being a
theologian of glory. This is wanting to see God’s glory like Moses did, while
God is telling us we cannot see His face and live.
So, what do we do as
theologians of the cross? We comprehend “the visible and manifest things of God
seen through suffering and the cross.” What does that mean? We look at the
cross of Jesus to understand God. We look at the bloodied God who was hanged on
that tree of death and understand that He was hanged because God is angry about
death, angry about the 26 deaths in Texas. He is angry about those deaths,
about your death, about all death. He is angry about death because this is not
what He wanted for the world. Death not the end for which He created the world
when He first looked upon it and called it “very good.” He made it for life
because He is the God of life and of the living.
What then do we see on
the cross? We see that this God loves this world. We see that this God has
chosen to enter this world to suffer alongside those who suffer. Jesus, God in
human flesh, knows what it means to be executed at the hands of sinful men.
Jesus knows far more than any of us the trauma that those husbands and wives,
parents and children, brothers and sisters experienced. He is with us in our
suffering. However, what we see even more clearly is that Jesus has not only
suffered with us, He has suffered for us. He is the
God who died for us. He is the God of love who made Himself nothing so that He
could serve sinful men.
In other words, as we
look at the cross, we see the glory and majesty of God in His love for us.
Luther, in explaining the 20th thesis of the
Heidelberg Disputation says, “It does [a person] no good to recognize God in
his glory and majesty, unless he recognizes him in the humility and shame of
the cross.” In other words, when we look at the cross, there we can truly
understand who God is, and apply that understanding to the rest of the world.
We can look at the suffering of this world and see not only the sadness that
comes with it, but we can see the God who has become a man of sorrows so that
we would have the joy of eternity. To be sure, this does not mean that this
life will always be easy. It will not, but it makes it a whole lot more
bearable. Even still, this can only be comprehended in the cross of
Jesus. The cross alone is our theology.
The Lutheran Church—Missouri Synod
LCMS Stewardship Ministry Newsletter Article – March
2019
Everything we have and
everything we are is a gift of God’s providential care. We understand that
we’re not islands unto ourselves. We could not exist without those who have
gone before us and those who walk alongside us. God has given us forefathers in
family, country, and faith. We are recipients of what God worked through them.
We know God provides for our well-being through these means.
He gives us farmers and
ranchers so we can eat. But more than that, God created and gave us all the
things those farmers and ranchers cultivate. He gave us the corn, the beans,
the wheat, the cows for milking, the steers for grilling. He gave each of those
things for our nourishment and sustenance. Without God creating and instilling
in those things their taste, their nutritional value, etc., we would not exist.
God gives us doctors, surgeons,
nurses, and hospitals. He gives us medicine and medical instruments, and, of
course, He gave us everything to make those medicines and medical instruments.
He instilled in those things the properties to be utilized for those purposes.
Without God creating and instilling healing properties into those things – and
without God creating the ability within man to learn this and implement it to
serve our medical needs – we would not enjoy the health we do now.
But there’s more. He gives us
gainful employment through our employers and provides for the necessities of
life through the labor of our hands:
“Then Moses said to the people
of Israel, ‘See, the Lord has called by name Bezalel the son of Uri, son of
Hur, of the tribe of Judah; and he has filled him with the Spirit of God, with
skill, with intelligence, with knowledge, and with all craftsmanship, to devise
artistic designs, to work in gold and silver and bronze, in cutting stones for
setting, and in carving wood, for work in every skilled craft. And he has
inspired him to teach, both him and Oholiab the son of Ahisamach of the tribe
of Dan.’ ” (Exodus 35:30–34)
And one step back from that, He
has created and given us hands, and attached to hands are arms with strength.
He created us with minds to make those arms and hands move and accomplish the
work set before us. And with that mind, He has given us reason and senses.
That mind, because of the
reason God has instilled in it, is able to work through difficult problems
before we press those arms and hands into labor. It allows us to grapple with
concepts and run through scenarios instead of having to experience every
situation personally. It allows us to learn from the mistakes, as well as from
the accomplishments, of ourselves and others. This can be done for our entire
body, all our skills and talents, everything that makes us … us.
So, everything we have and
everything we are is a gift from Him. This is what we confess in the First
Article of the Creed when we say that we “believe in God, the Father Almighty,
maker of heaven and earth.”
But that is just the First
Article of the Creed. We confess two more articles that deal with God’s
provision for our spiritual well-being. He sent his Son to die and be raised on
the third day for our justification. He delivers that justification through the
means of grace (baptism, preaching and the Word of God, and the Lord’s Supper).
And to give you those means of grace, He gives pastors and teachers, etc.
Literally everything we have and everything we are in this life – and the next
– is an inexpressible gift from God.
And it is for this, all of
this, that we give thanks. And that is what stewardship is all about — giving
thanks for God’s provision for us. To give thanks is more than having an
attitude of gratitude, more than just a feeling in our hearts.
It is an action. It begins in
the heart, but it doesn’t stay there. It works its way out through the mouth in
praise for God’s gifts and in love and charity through the hands to our
neighbors in family, country, and church.
“For all this it is my duty to
thank and praise, serve and obey him” (The
Small Catechism, 16).
So give thanks to God for His
inexpressible gifts — for everything we have and everything we are. Do this not
only in word but also in deed.
Wyoming District
Round-Up
March 2019
District Website: www.wylcms.org
“Here I
Stand” on the Word in the Church
“...REMEMBERING
YOU IN MY PRAYERS...” (Eph. 1:16)
For Rev.
Vernon Boehlke, who is receiving treatments for cancer.
For Rev.
Richard Boche, as he heals and regains strength after heart surgery.
For Rev.
Ralph Jaeger (emeritus, Laramie), who is recovering after a heart attack in
early December.
For Rev.
Jeff Grams (St. John’s, Scottsbluff), who has suffered a tear in the retina
of both eyes, the most recent at Christmas. The tears are healing after
reattachment, but will require time to heal. Rev. Richard Neugebauer (Faith,
Gering), assisted by Rev. Phil Found, will serve St. John’s during
Pastor Grams’ medical leave.
For Rev.
Robert Oberheu (emeritus, Riverton) as he deals with medical issues.
PASTORS AND
CONGREGATIONS
The parish
of Zion, Grover and Grace, Pine Bluffs is being served in a
vacancy arrangement by Rev. Lincoln Winters (Trinity, Wheatland).
Trinity,
Cheyenne called Rev. John Preus (Clinton, Iowa) on February 10. Trinity is
being served by Rev. Marcus Baikie (Our Savior’s, Cheyenne) during its
vacancy.
St. Paul’s,
Sidney is studying the doctrine of the Divine Call and the Holy Ministry
as part of its pre-call process. Rev. Allen Strawn (St. Paul’s, Bridgeport) is
serving St. Paul’s during the vacancy.
Rev. Travis
Sherman (Grace, Gordon, NE) is serving Grace, Merriman,
NE (Nebraska District) while it considers its future.
Mount Hope, Casper (Rev. Dr. Christian Preus) has a call meeting on February 24 to call another pastor to serve also as headmaster of the school.
Here I Stand
The Lutheran Church is a confessional church, and so all Lutherans are confessors of the doctrine of Holy Scripture. We give careful attention to ensuring that our confession is from the Bible alone, that it is truthful, and that it not introduce doubt or confusion about God’s Word (sola Scriptura). We heed the exhortation of God in 2 Timothy 1:13, “Hold fast the pattern of sound words that you heard from me, in the faith and love that are in Christ Jesus.” To that end, there are two important distinctions that we keep when we talk about our confession of sound doctrine.
The first distinction is about the Bible and our doctrine. We boldly state that our doctrine is true because (Latin quia) it is drawn only from Holy Scripture, like drawing pure water from a pure spring. We are certain of our doctrine because it comes only from the Bible. This makes us bold. We are teaching God’s Word. We have neither added to nor taken away from God’s own teaching in His Word. And so we reject an approach to our doctrine and confession that states that our doctrine is true only insofar as (Latin quatenus) it is Biblical. While this false position sounds humble, it actually quite arrogant, taking God’s honor in His Word and giving to proud men. It introduces doubt into our confession and puts man forward as the final source and judge of doctrine. This quatenus confession wrongly teaches that we cannot know or state the doctrine of the Bible with certainty, as though the words in the Bible were unclear or uncertain. Instead, we Lutherans confess our doctrine with confidence because it is God’s own doctrine, taught clearly and purely in His Word.
The second distinction in our doctrine is one that imitates the Bible by stating the divine truth in theses and antitheses. We confess what is true, and then we deny or reject what is false. In our confessional writings, contained in The Book of Concord, we introduce God’s doctrine with words like this, “The churches among us teach with complete unanimity” (AC I.1) or simply, “they teach.” In the Formula of Concord we repeatedly use a beautiful trio of words, “We believe, teach, and confess” (e.g. FC Ep. I.2). What follows these words are the pure doctrine taught in the Bible. After stating the Biblical doctrine in the affirmative, we then identify and condemn the “opposite” or “false” doctrine, using words like “reject” and “condemn.” Sometimes we simply state what is false, as for example in the doctrine of justification, “Likewise they teach that men cannot be justified before God by their own powers, merits, or works” (AC IV.1).
We clearly state what is rejected and false in order to make the positive teaching clear and to defend against the lies and deception of the devil.
REFORMATION 500: 1519 in Review
The Lutheran Reformation was a return to Biblical doctrine, but it was also a return to Biblical piety—the way Christians prayed, worshiped, lived, and thought about the Christian faith. In Lent, 1519, Pastor Martin Luther wrote a short tract teaching his congregation a godly piety concerning the cross and passion of our Lord Jesus Christ (“Meditation on Christ’s Passion,” AE 42.7–14). After briefly rejecting some of the false practices and piety of his day, Luther taught a simple but powerful way to meditate on Christ’s suffering and death.
First, the death of God the Son upon the cross is the most powerful and damning preaching of the law of God. “They contemplate Christ’s passion aright who view it with a terror-stricken heart and a despairing conscience.” Why? He explains it personally, “I was not aware of the eternal sentence that had been passed on me in heaven until I saw that God’s only Son had compassion upon me and offered to bear this sentence for me.” In other words, the utter horror and gravity of my sin is understood only by seeing what a price God Himself paid to atone for my sin. But only God can help us to this kind of piety and meditation. “You should pray God to soften your heart and let you now ponder Christ’s passion with profit to you. Unless God inspires our heart, it is impossible for us of ourselves to meditate thoroughly on Christ’s passion.”
Second, after this terrible realization of our sin, we should then find comfort in the cross and resurrection, like passing from Holy Week and Good Friday to the comfort and joy of Easter. “After man has thus become aware of his sin and is terrified in his heart, he must watch that sin does not remain in his conscience, for this would lead to sheer despair. Just as [our knowledge of] sin flowed from Christ and was acknowledged by us, so we must pour this sin back on him and free our conscience of it.” Luther directs us to the comfort of Holy Scriptures. “You cast your sins from yourself and onto Christ when you firmly believe that his wounds and sufferings are your sins, to be borne and paid for by him, as we read in Isaiah 53[:6], “The Lord has laid on him the iniquity of us all.” St. Peter says, “in his body he has borne our sins on the wood of the cross” [1 Pet. 2:24]. St Paul says, “God has made him a sinner for us, so that through him we would be made just” [2 Cor. 5:21].
Finally, Luther taught how the meditation upon Christ’s passion helps the Christian in his daily life. “After your heart has thus become firm in Christ, and love, not fear of pain, has made you a foe of sin, then Christ’s passion must from that day on become a pattern for your entire life.” He gave examples of how this meditation helps us in pain or sickness, unpleasant obligations or deprivations, the temptations to unchastity, lust, hatred, envy, vindictiveness, and in short, any distress or adversity of body or soul. “So then, this is how we can draw strength and encouragement from Christ against every vice and failing. That is a proper contemplation of Christ’s passion, and such are its fruits.”
MARK YOUR CALENDARS:
“Go and Be
Reconciled” Seminar
The Wyoming District is sponsoring the
seminar, “Go and Be Reconciled” in Sidney, Nebraska on Saturday, March 9 from
9:00 AM to 4:00 PM. The cost is $20 per participant. The seminar will be held
at the St. Paul’s Lutheran Church Education Building (1432 15th Ave, 2 blocks
south of the church). All our congregation members are invited to attend.
Online registration and more information are available on
www.wylcms.org/events.
Stewardship Workshops
All pastors and congregations are invited
to attend the Stewardship Workshops being given by our Synod’s Stewardship
Coordinator, Rev. Heath Curtis, Monday, March 11, at Trinity Lutheran
Church, 1240 S Missouri, in Casper and Tuesday, March 12, at St. Paul’s
Lutheran Church, 288 Hwy 20 S, in Thermopolis.
Pastors arrive at 3pm; Lay Leaders arrive
at 5:30pm for dinner; you will be out the door no later than 8:30pm. Let your
pastor know if you plan to attend and call the district office at 307-265-9000 so we will have an accurate head
count.
The Next Roundup will be delivered to congregations around March 20 (April 2019 issue).
Rural and
Small Town Mission
STRONG FAITH,
FERVENT LOVE Everything is Under Control I don’t know about you, but since the
beginning of the new year, it seems as if things are getting more and more
hectic. The political and social climate is particularly stressful, serving in
the church has its constant demands and at times, it feels like we just can’t
seem to get control over much of anything. Then in this chaos, I read a
newsletter article written by my wife, Angela. It helped me gain perspective
and I just had to share… I am a planner. I love to schedule and plan out my
day, month and even my year. I love the smell of a fresh clean calendar or
planner that is just waiting for the days to be filled. I buy colored pens for
different activities and each person is assigned a different color. I have a
monthly calendar on my refrigerator at home, a calendar that is synced with my
husband’s on my phone, a calendar for monthly bills, as well as a work and
personal monthly calendar with daily/weekly planning pages. I could spend hours
in an office supply store or in the planning section of a Michael’s, Hobby
Lobby, or JoAnn’s (yes! They have planner stuff too!!). I am a member of
several planner groups on Facebook and I have been known to spend time on
YouTube watching videos on the best way to plan your day. I love to plan. My
planning is all about controlling my life. I view my planning as a responsible
manner to conduct the business of my life, but what happens when my plans are
interrupted by life? What happens when I am unable to plan for the unplannable?
Honestly, I struggle. I feel paralyzed and have a difficult time focusing …
until I re-group and realize I do not have to have it all figured out. Last
month I wrote about anxiety and fear. God tells us over and over again
throughout Scripture to have faith, trust and not to be anxious. My sinful self
falls into the trap of trying
to control
everything, when I know that God has it ALL under control. I may not be able to
write it on my planner, but I know that I can be grateful for all the times
that He cares for me by handling those unplannable moments. The following are
my ‘Go-to’ verses and I have started writing them at the top of my fresh clean
planner … before anything else!! Trust in the Lord with all your heart, and do
not lean on your own understanding. In all your ways acknowledge him, and he
will make straight your paths (Prov. 3:5–6). And we know that for those who
love God all things work together for good, for those who are called according
to his purpose (Rom. 8:28). Many are the plans in the mind of a man, but it is
the purpose of the Lord that will stand (Prov. 19:21). Jesus answered him,
“What I am doing you do not understand now, but afterward you will understand”
(John 13:7). (Angela Kollbaum serves as the Youth Director at St. Paul’s
Lutheran Church in Concordia, Mo., and as Congregational Life Facilitator at
Bethlehem Lutheran Church in Warrensburg, Mo.)
Pastor Todd Kollbaum
Trinity
Lutheran Women’s Society LWML January Meeting Minutes
Meeting was called to order by President Sandy Heine in the name of the Triune God. Roll Call was answered by Pastor, Roxanne, Nancy, Joanne, Karen, Melvina and Sandy. Treasurer’s Report by Karen reported a balance of $937.30 for Women’s Society and $3398.85 for the Backpack Program. There were no communications.
Old Business: Installation of Officers was led by Pastor Humphrey: Sandy Heine, President; Melvina Dillman, Vice President, Susan Williams, Secretary and Karen Ritz, Treasurer.
New Business: New year books were distributed noting committees, meetings, and LWML zone meetings throughout year. A big Thank You to Julie Alkire, our church Secretary for printing and preparing the new year books for 2019. Joanne made motion to give Julie a thank you note with gift card in amount of $25 to her, seconded by Nancy. It was noted that new format for meetings will be bi-monthly, meeting January, March, May, July, September and November. Jean and Nancy will write Valentine’s Cards to Trinity Lutheran college students with gift card in amount of $15 and mailed. Discussion of Harlan Kurtz’s serving our church for number of years as Treasurer with much appreciation for all he has done for our congregation. Motion was made by Sandy to send Harlan a Thank You card and gift in the amount of $50, seconded by Melvina.
Hostesses were Sandy and Nancy. Hostesses for March will be Melvina and Karen. Joanne will have closing devotions.
Serving the Lord in
Gladness,
Melvina Dillman
Please join us for our March 12, 2019 meeting at 7:00 pm. We will be making fleece blankets to be given to Doves and would like to have you help in this mission and enjoy fellowship with those of our congregation.
$5.00 Mite Challenge
If every LWML Member donates just $5.00
between now and March 31, 2019 we can reach the Mission Goal.
DATES TO REMEMBER FOR MARCH
March 2 Kenneth Humphrey Birthday
March 2 Shelia Jayne Birthday
March 10 Joanne Kurtz Baptismal Date
March 10 Kylie Wilson Baptismal Date
March 21 Ashley Wagoner Birthday
March 22 Melvina Dillman Baptismal Date
March 23 Brayden Schneider Baptismal Date
March 23 Jonathan Humphrey Birthday
March 30 Beverly Ritz Birthday
March 31 Peggy Strauch Birthday
If
your name does not appear, it is because these were taken from Trinity’s
directory for which we have permission to use names and dates. Please notify the office to have a date
added.
2019 SCHEDULE OF LENTEN SERVICES
MARCH 6 7 PM ASH WEDNESDAY VESPERS
MARCH 10 9 AM DIVINE SERVICE 4
10:15 ADULT BIBLE CLASS/ CHILDREN’S SS
MARCH 13 7 PM MIDWEEK LENT VESPERS
MARCH 17 9 AM MATINS
10:15 ADULT BIBLE CLASS/ CHILDREN’S SS
MARCH 20 7 PM MIDWEEK LENT VESPERS
MARCH 24 9 AM DIVINE SERVICE 3
10:15 ADULT BIBLE CLASS/ CHILDREN’S SS
MARCH 27 7 PM MIDWEEK LENT VESPERS
MARCH 31 9 AM DIVINE SERVICE 4
10:15 ADULT BIBLE CLASS/ CHILDREN’S SS
April 2019
It’s a Matter of Death
and Life: His, for Us
April 2019
Rural and Small Town Mission
Council
Minutes
March 21, 2019
Trinity
Lutheran Women’s Society LWML Minutes
Tuesday,
March 12, 2019
DATES TO REMEMBER FOR APRIL
April 3 Gerald Ritz Birthday
April 4 George Ross Birthday
April 8 Nancy Wohl Baptismal
Date
April 9 Dorothy Holthus Baptismal Date
April 10 Kenneth Humphrey Baptismal Date
April 13 Jonathan Humphrey Baptismal Date
April 16 Rudy Landreth Birthday
April 17 Bill & Dee Allen Anniversary
April 17 Dave Hill Birthday
April 22 Jace Hendren Birthday
April 24 Armeda Freel Baptismal Date
April 26 Roxane Humphrey Birthday
April 26 Ella Rose Hendren Birthday
April 28 Melvina Dillman Birthday
April 30 Elmer & Nancy Wohl Anniversary
If
your name does not appear, it is because these were taken from Trinity’s directory
for which we have permission to use names and dates. Please notify the office to have a date
added.
2019 SCHEDULE OF LENTEN SERVICES
APRIL 3 7 PM
MIDWEEK LENT VESPERS
APRIL 7 9 AM
MATINS
10:15 ADULT BIBLE CLASS/ CHILDREN’S SS
APRIL 10 7 PM
MIDWEEK LENT VESPERS
APRIL 14 9 AM
PALM SUNDAY DS 4
10:15 ADULT BIBLE CLASS/ CHILDREN’S SS
Holy Week Services
APRIL 18 7
PM MAUNDY THURSDAY
APRIL 19 7
PM GOOD FRIDAY VESPERS
APRIL 21 6:30 AM EASTER SUNRISE SERVICE
APRIL 21 9
AM EASTER SERVICE
