Missouri Synod

The Reverend John Dreyer, Pastor Worship 8:00 am & 10:30 am / Wed. 6:30 pm

Mrs. Leanne Busick, Director of Music Sunday School & Bible Class: 9:15 am

Mr. Keith Dicke, Youth Director Church 639-6178

Wyneken Memorial Lutheran School Parish Hall 639-6244

Mr. Lowell Timm, Principal School 639-6177

15 February 2009

Regarding participation in the Blessed Sacrament of Christ’s True Body and Blood: Because oneness at the altar presupposes oneness in faith and doctrine, we expect that all who commune at the Lord’s altar are members in good standing of an LCMS congregation. We ask that all who commune register on a communion card. All visitors should state their home LCMS congregation. First time visitors please speak to Pastor Dreyer. Individual cups for those desiring them are available as you approach the altar.

Welcome visitors! Please sign the guestbook in the narthex to acknowledge your presence.

In our prayers Fred Berning (Parkview), Herb Mailand (Woodcrest), Gert Deister and Mary
Scheumann (Woodview), Bill Zwick and Florence Hoffman, Amanda Bultemeier, Xavior Palacios, Marie Hobrock, Tari Emenhiser, Deb Hardesty, Sherrill Peters (sister-in-law of Bob and Jeanette Peters) and Betty Schroeder (sister-in-law of Jean Uffelman and Jeanette Peters). Our soldiers: in Afghanistan - Erich Roberts (brother of seminarian’s wife Emily Ottmers); Katie Emenhiser in Japan; Casey Holt in San Diego, CA, Garry Murdock, Jr. at Fort Stuart, GA, Deb Chappel (daughter of Phil and Evie DeBolt) at Fort Sill, OK; Matthew Owen (nephew of Kevin Selking) at Camp Legune, NC; Daniel Ulman (grandson of Roger and Fay Koenemann) at Bremerton, WA and Chaplain Daniel Gard, in Louisiana. Shut-ins: Erna Scheiman, Evelyn Aumann, Tom Aumann (Woodcrest), Velma Zelt (Regency), Deanie Holle (Concord Village), Donna Conrad (Huntington), Margaret Scherer (Village of Heritage) and Geraldine Buuck.

macke benefit dinner St. John + Bingen and New Life Lutheran Church is hosting this
benefit dinner for Roger and Carrie Macke (parents of Keith Macke) who lost their home due to a fire on December 21, 2008. It is today from 10:30 am-2:00 pm at Wyneken. Pulled pork and sauerkraut sandwiches, hot dogs, chicken noodle and vegetable soups, applesauce, desserts and drinks. Free-will offering will be taken.

ladies guild will meet at 7:30 pm on Monday, February 16. Note the change in date.

all ladies are invited to come and help put together cancer pads in the parish hall at 1:00 pm
on Tuesday, February 17. Note the change in time only.

Lutheran Bible Institute concludes on February 17. We hope to see you Tuesday
evening from 7:00 – 9:00 pm at Zion, Decatur.

St. John Hymn Sing The Adult Choir was unable to go Christmas caroling to our shut-in
members in December due to the weather and power-outage. Next Sunday, February 22, the choir will sing hymns in the parish hall starting at 1:00 pm for any interested members and then proceed to our shut-in members. Interested members are invited to join the choir when caroling to our shut-ins.

2009 Confirmands We will meet in the sanctuary immediately following the 7:00 pm Ash
and their parents Wednesday service on February 25, to discuss plans for confirmation.

ASH WEDNESDAY Wednesday we will have services at 1:00 and 7:00 pm.

imposition As we begin our Lenten journey we begin with the service of Ash Wednesday. In
of ashes many Christian churches the imposition of ashes begins the service. Members
receive the mark of the cross with ashes as the words of Genesis 3:19 are spoken. "Remember you are dust and to dust you shall return." This practice is both devotional and optional. Pastor will be by the communion rail prior to the 1:00 and 7:00 pm services for those who desire ashes. If you do not desire ashes, you are asked to enter the church in silence as we meditate upon our need and our Savior’s solution. May the Savior so direct our Lenten pilgrimage.

Private Absolution is offered during Lent in the sanctuary from 5:00-5:30 pm.

Scrip Certificates are available in the parish hall between services today.

Wyneken Yard Signs are available in the school office, pick one up and help to promote
our school and open registration going on now.

no parking reminder-DO NOT PARK along the entire sidewalk area along the south side
from 7:55-8:20 am and 2:35-3:00 pm Monday-Friday, and along the lower grade hallway doors where the Pre-School/Pre-K children are picked up from 11:20-11:40 am.

this ‘n that Zion Lutheran Church-Schumm-All You Can Eat Fish, Saturday, February 21,
4:30-7:00 pm. Cost Adults/$7.00, Children under 12/$3.00 and carryout available. Lutheran Home-Memorial Chapel 35^th Anniversary Celebration, Tuesday, February 24, at 1:00 pm.

Today 8:00 am Morning Worship - 9:15 am SS/BC - 10:30 am Divine Service

10:30 am-2:00 pm Roger and Carrie Macke Benefit Dinner at Wyneken

5:00 pm Couples Club Meet at Church for Dinner

MONDAY 7:30 pm Ladies Guild Meeting

TUESDAY 6:00 am Early Bird Bible Class

1:00 pm Sewing Cancer Pads

7:00 pm LBI @ Zion

WEDNESDAY 8:20 am Chapel

9:00 am Ladies Aid Quilting

4:00-5:30 pm Public School Confirmation

6:30 pm Midweek Divine Service

7:15 pm Choir

8:30 pm Men’s Basketball

THURSDAY 7:20 pm Bell Choir

Sunday 8:00 am Divine Service - 9:15 am SS/BC - 10:30 am Morning Worship

10:30 am-12:00 pm Science Fair in Wyneken Cafetorium

1:00 pm Choir Hymn Sing in Parish Hall

7:00 pm Youth Meeting

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COMMUNION In order to keep accurate church and synod records, everyone is reminded to
fill out a communion card. Also please write NEW if listing a new address.

thank you to everyone for all of their cards, notes and kindness shown to me during my
recent illness. Amanda Bultemeier

rural king fundraiser Please plan your purchases for February 16-22, 2009. Once
again Rural King will give our church a rebate on all purchases made during this one week period. Original receipts must be turned into the church office by the following Monday to be submitted in time.

LSB HYMNal Last month St. John + Bingen adopted the new LSB hymnal. Anyone wishing
to purchase some in memory of someone or in honor of a special occasion or for your own personal use should complete a form available in the back of church or contact Keith Macke (417-4650) by February 15. Also anyone wishing to take an old TLH hymnal they or their family gave in memory/honor should also contact Keith.

couples club will meet today at 5:00 pm at church to go to dinner.

youth will meet at 2:00 pm today to help with the tear down from the Macke Benefit Dinner
at Wyneken.

For you gladly bear with fools, being wise yourselves! For you bear it if someone makes slaves of you, or devours you, or takes advantage of you, or puts on airs, or strikes you in the face. To my shame, I must say, we were too weak for that! But whatever anyone else dares to boast of-I am speaking as a fool-I also dare to boast of that. Are they Hebrews? So am I. Are they Israelites? So am I. Are they offspring of Abraham? So am I. Are they servants of Christ? I am a better one-I am talking like a madman-with far greater labors, far more imprisonments, with countless beatings, and often near death. Five times I received at the hands of the Jews the forty lashes less one. Three times I was beaten with rods. Once I was stoned. Three times I was shipwrecked; a night and a day I was adrift at sea; on frequent journeys, in danger from rivers, danger from robbers, danger from my own people, danger from Gentiles, danger in the city, danger in the wilderness, danger at sea, danger from false brothers; in toil and hardship, through many a sleepless night, in hunger and thirst, often without food, in cold and exposure. And, apart from other things, there is the daily pressure on me of my anxiety for all the churches. Who is made to fall, and I am not indignant? If I must boast, I will boast of the things that show my weakness. The God and Father of the Lord Jesus, he who is blessed forever, knows that I am not lying. At Damascus, the governor under King Aretas was guarding the city of Damascus in order to seize me, but I was let down in a basket through a window in the wall and escaped his hands. I must go on boasting. Though there is nothing to be gained by it, I will go on to visions and revelations of the Lord. I know a man in Christ who fourteen years ago was caught up to the third heaven-whether in the body or out of the body I do not know, God knows. And I know that this man was caught up into paradise-whether in the body or out of the body I do not know, God knows-and he heard things that cannot be told, which man may not utter. On behalf of this man I will boast, but on my own behalf I will not boast, except of my weaknesses. Though if I should wish to boast, I would not be a fool, for I would be speaking the truth. But I refrain from it, so that no one may think more of me than he sees in me or hears from me. So to keep me from being too elated by the surpassing greatness of the revelations, a thorn was given me in the flesh, a messenger of Satan to harass me, to keep me from being too elated. Three times I pleaded with the Lord about this, that it should leave me. But he said to me, "My grace is sufficient for you, for my power is made perfect in weakness." Therefore I will boast all the more gladly of my weaknesses, so that the power of Christ may rest upon me.

And when a great crowd was gathering and people from town after town came to him, he said in a parable: "A sower went out to sow his seed. And as he sowed, some fell along the path and was trampled underfoot, and the birds of the air devoured it. And some fell on the rock; and as it grew up, it withered away, because it had no moisture. And some fell among thorns, and the thorns grew up with it and choked it. And some fell into good soil and grew and yielded a hundredfold." As he said these things, he called out, "He who has ears to hear, let him hear!" And when his disciples asked him what this parable meant, he said, "To you it has been given to know the secrets of the kingdom of God, but for others they are in parables, so that ‘seeing they may not see, and hearing they may not understand.’ Now the parable is this: The seed is the word of God. The ones along the path are those who have heard. Then the devil comes and takes away the word from their hearts, so that they may not believe and be saved. And the ones on the rock are those who, when they hear the word, receive it with joy. But these have no root; they believe for a while, and in time of testing fall away. And as for what fell among the thorns, they are those who hear, but as they go on their way they are choked by the cares and riches and pleasures of life, and their fruit does not mature. As for that in the good soil, they are those who, hearing the word, hold it fast in an honest and good heart, and bear fruit with patience."