Whitsunday
The Feast of Pentecost
St. John Evangelical Lutheran Church † Bingen
Missouri Synod
The Reverend John Dreyer, Pastor Worship 8:00 am & 9:30 am / Wed. 6:30 pm
Mrs. Leanne Busick, Director of Music Summer Bible Class Wed. 7:30 pm
Mr. Keith Dicke, Youth Director Parish Hall 639-6244
Wyneken Memorial Lutheran School Pastor 701-0001/Church 639-6178
Mr. Lowell Timm, Principal School 639-6177
Whitsunday, The Feast of Holy Pentecost
31 May 2009
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8:00 & 9:30 am catechism The Third Article - page 323 Opening Hymn #601 The Order of Confession - page 184 The service of the Word - page 186 Salutation and collect - page 189 The Holy Scriptures the nicene creed - page 191 The Hymn of the Day #497 |
The Sermon The offertory - page 192 The Offering THE PRAYERS
service of the
Sacrament - page 194 Closing Liturgy - page 199 Seminarians Jon
Huehn, Lance Klamer, |
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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.
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Welcome visitors! Please sign the guestbook in the narthex to acknowledge your presence.
In our prayers Fred Berning (Harborside), Bob Peters, Richard Bultemeier, Herb Mailand (Woodcrest), Gert Deister (Woodview) and Mary Scheumann (Townhouse Retirement Center), Xavior Palacios, Marie Hobrock, Sherrill Peters (sister-in-law of Bob and Jeanette Peters) and Betty Schroeder (sister-in-law of Jean Uffelman and Jeanette Peters. We celebrate with Richard and Jean. Our soldiers: in Afghanistan - Erich Roberts (brother of seminarian’s wife Emily Ottmers); in Iraq – Jason Sauer; Katie Tedeschi in Japan; Casey Holt in San Diego, CA; Garry Murdock, Jr. at Harrogate, England; 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; Nathan Shelton (grandson of Bob and Ann Thorn) at Camp Pendleton, CA and Chaplain Daniel Gard, in Louisiana. Shut-ins: Evelyn Aumann, Tom Aumann (Woodcrest), Velma Zelt (Regency), Deanie Holle (Concord Village), Donna Conrad (Huntington), Margaret Scherer (Village of Heritage) and Geraldine Buuck.
THANK YOU to Pastor Dreyer for all your prayers and visits and everyone else for their cards and prayers during my hospital stay. God’s blessings to all of you. Richard Bultemeier
Today 8:00 am Pentecost Mission Festival I – Divine Service
9:30 am Pentecost Mission Festival I – Divine Service
9:00 am-12:30 pm Thrivent Chicken BBQ Drive Through on Bingen Parking Lot
7:00 pm Count and Council
MONDAY 4:30 pm Church Webpage Meeting
7:00 pm Wyneken 8th Grade Graduation at Preble
TUESDAY 10:00 am Chapel
6:00-8:00 pm Adult Catechesis Classes
WEDNESDAY 9:00 am Ladies Aid Quilting
6:30 pm Midweek Divine Service
7:30 pm Summer Bible Class
FRIDAY 10:00 am-4:30 pm Bloodmobile at Adams Memorial Hospital
Sunday
8:00 am Matins - 9:30 am Divine
Service with Baccalaureate for Bingen
High School Graduates
11:00 am – 1:30 pm 1st Sunday Brunch at the Seminary
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Attendance last week: 8:00 am (143) 9:30 am (99) Wed. (25)
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hospitalization/ outpatient If you or someone in your family is scheduled to go into the hospital or outpatient for any reason or is being released from the hospital, please call Pastor Dreyer at church or 701-0001 (Decatur). Due to HIPPA Laws hospitals will not contact us-so you must.
SUMMER BIBLE CLASS has begun and follows services each Wednesday evening at 7:30 pm and will continue until sometime in August (no class on Wednesday, June 10, see note regarding Circuit Meeting). Bring your family and friends. All ages are welcome and encouraged to attend. Watch the newsletter and bulletins for further information.
adult catechesis classes are being held on Tuesday evenings from 6:00-8:00 pm. All members wanting a refresher course are also welcome to attend.
CONFIRMATION/NEW MEMBER RECOGNITION DINNER Sunday, June 14, at 11:00 am honoring new members, this year’s confirmation class along with the classes of 1919 (90 years), 1924 (85 years), 1934 (75 years), 1939 (70 years), 1944 (65 years), 1949 (60 Years), 1959 (50 years), 1969 (40 years), and 1984 (25 years). Everyone is invited to attend. Please RSVP by Sunday, June 7, to Alicia Kneuss (724-8529), Kathy Krey (724-9554) or Glena Rhymer (547-4712). Sponsored by Thrivent Financial.
VACATION BIBLE SCHOOL will be July 6–10; 6–7:30 pm. Volunteers are needed to help with classes, snacks and crafts. If you can share your talents that week, please contact Jim Butler (724-7025) or the church office. IMPORTANT We need an approximate number of children in order to have enough materials. Please sign up the names and ages of children on the form with the deacons, email or call the church office by June 8.
DECATUR CIRCUIT PASTOR AND DELAGATE MEETING on Wednesday, June 10, after the service there will be a meeting and presentation on proposed restructuring of the synodical structure in the parish hall. Everyone is encouraged to attend.
BINGEN MENS FASTPITCH SOFTBALL The Bingen softball team has begun playing. Please call Mark Scheumann (639-6067) or Ron Bultemeier (639-6438) if interested.
DOGS AND SUDS DONATIONS Ladies Guild is again having “Dogs & Suds” at Hoagland Days June 18-20. Donations needed are Eckrich hot dogs, cans of regular A&W root beer, monetary donations and volunteers to help at the booth are needed. If you can donate items or help at the booth please call Jean Lepper (639-3170), Evelyn Aumann (724-4431), Virginia McIntosh (639-3221) or Fay Koenemann (724-7207). Place donated items in the Ladies Guild Room.
LWML Indiana District LWML is going electronic. Information will be sent out via email. If you would like to receive information, please see Lea Ann Fifer (623-3166) for a form that needs to be completed and signed.
LWML CONVENTION is June 25-28 in Portland, OR. Registration was in the winter quarterly.
LWML TREATSHOP This year’s Treatshop will be held at Carmel Lutheran Church, Carmel, IN, on August 15, 2009. All ladies of the church are invited.
LUTHERAN STUDY BIBLE The new Lutheran Study Bible is available to preorder from CPH. A sample booklet with selections from the new bible and the pricing for all styles is available to preview in the church office. Stop by and check it out.
TREASURY OF DAILY PRAYER CPH has announced a ½ price sale, the regular edition $49.99 is now $24.99 and the deluxe edition $79.99 is now $39.99. Orders can be placed at 800-325-3040 or online at http://tiny.cc/K5x4n.
CONGREGATIONAL INVITATION The congregation is invited to the Ordination and Installation of Jonathan Huehn on Sunday, July 26, 2009. It will be at 4:00 pm at Immanuel Lutheran Church, 1045 Belvidere Road, Belvidere, IL 61008. Please RSVP by June 1, to jphuehn@gmail.com.
SCRIP Remember Scrip when planning for Graduation parties and gifts as well as any gatherings you may be planning. If you frequent Sam's Club, Walmart Scrip can be used there just like cash, along with your membership.
WYNEKEN GRADUATION for the class of 2009 will be Monday, June 1, at St. Paul Lutheran Church + Preble at 7:00 pm. Everyone is encouraged to attend.
CHICKEN BBQ on Father’s Day Sunday, June 21, from 10:30 am-12:30 pm. Cost $5/half a chicken. The Class of 2010 is selling pre-sale tickets through June 14.
VOLUTEERS NEEDED for the annual Wyneken cleaning day on Saturday, June 27, starting at 8:00 am. This once a year project is to clean light fixtures, classroom furniture (not student desks) and walls where finger prints accumulate. Bring an 8’ ladder, bucket and rags. The more volunteers we have will help make this a quick project. RSVP by Tuesday, June 16, to Alan Zimmerman at 724-6815 or alpazimmerman@adamswells.com.
BUILDING CLOSED Wyneken will be closed from July 1-August 1, for floor waxing.
8TH - 12TH GRADE STUDENTS CLHS will offer two summer school sessions. All area students currently in grades 8-12 are eligible to register and earn high school credit for classes. Cost is $260 per course. Session 1 will be June 11-July 1 with Session 2 from July 6-24. Each session will be held Monday-Friday from 7:30 am-12:30 pm. For more information contact Mrs. Diane Lewis, assistant principal at 483-1102 ext. 239.
THRIVENT Meetings are on the second Thursday of each month except Saturday, August 15 and Saturday, November 14. They are at 8:00 am at Adams Memorial Hospital.
RELAY FOR LIFE starting June 26 through noon June 27, at Adams Central football field. Thrivent will be serving hot sandwiches, potato salad, fruit and desserts on Friday from 4:00-9:00 pm. Please join us for walking, eating and fellowship.
FREE SUPPER Zion Lutheran Church is sponsoring “A Helping Hand and Free Supper” every Thursday from 5:30-6:30 pm now through June 4. The meal will be followed by bible study for all ages.
THIS 'N THAT Lutheran Home-Auxiliary BBQ Chicken Dinner, Friday, June 12, 3:00-7:00 pm. Tickets are $6.50/presale and $7/door, see June Krauss or Virginia McIntosh. Trinity Lutheran Church-(on Decatur Road) All You Can Eat Pancake Brunch on Sunday, June 14, from Noon-1:30 pm. Cost: Adults/$6, children (5-12)/$3 and 4 and under are free. Hoagland Days Festival-Thursday, June 18-Saturday, June20. CTS Grand Ol’e Lutheran Fellowship (GOLF) Outing-Saturday, June 20, begins at noon at Noble Hawk Golf Links, Kendallville. Requested donation is $85, which covers green fees, cart and a catered dinner. Call 452-2162. Contact Nancy Embler at 452-2162 or Nancy.Embler@ctsfw.edu.
Whitsunday
The Old Testament + Genesis 11:1-9
Now the whole earth had one language and the same words. And as people migrated from the east, they found a plain in the land of Shinar and settled there. And they said to one another, “Come, let us make bricks, and burn them thoroughly.” And they had brick for stone, and bitumen for mortar. Then they said, “Come, let us build ourselves a city and a tower with its top in the heavens, and let us make a name for ourselves, lest we be dispersed over the face of the whole earth.” And the LORD came down to see the city and the tower, which the children of man had built. And the LORD said, “Behold, they are one people, and they have all one language, and this is only the beginning of what they will do. And nothing that they propose to do will now be impossible for them. Come, let us go down and there confuse their language, so that they may not understand one another’s speech.” So the LORD dispersed them from there over the face of all the earth, and they left off building the city. Therefore its name was called Babel, because there the LORD confused the language of all the earth. And from there the LORD dispersed them over the face of all the earth.
The Epistle + Acts 2:1-21
When the day of Pentecost arrived, they were all together in one place. And suddenly there came from heaven a sound like a mighty rushing wind, and it filled the entire house where they were sitting. And divided tongues as of fire appeared to them and rested on each one of them. And they were all filled with the Holy Spirit and began to speak in other tongues as the Spirit gave them utterance. Now there were dwelling in Jerusalem Jews, devout men from every nation under heaven. And at this sound the multitude came together, and they were bewildered, because each one was hearing them speak in his own language. And they were amazed and astonished, saying, “Are not all these who are speaking Galileans? And how is it that we hear, each of us in his own native language? Parthians and Medes and Elamites and residents of Mesopotamia, Judea and Cappadocia, Pontus and Asia, Phrygia and Pamphylia, Egypt and the parts of Libya belonging to Cyrene, and visitors from Rome, both Jews and proselytes, Cretans and Arabians—we hear them telling in our own tongues the mighty works of God.” And all were amazed and perplexed, saying to one another, “What does this mean?” But others mocking said, “They are filled with new wine.” Peter’s Sermon at Pentecost But Peter, standing with the eleven, lifted up his voice and addressed them: “Men of Judea and all who dwell in Jerusalem, let this be known to you, and give ear to my words. For these people are not drunk, as you suppose, since it is only the third hour of the day. But this is what was uttered through the prophet Joel: ‘And in the last days it shall be, God declares, that I will pour out my Spirit on all flesh, and your sons and your daughters shall prophesy, and your young men shall see visions, and your old men shall dream dreams; even on my male servants and female servants in those days I will pour out my Spirit, and they shall prophesy. And I will show wonders in the heavens above and signs on the earth below, blood, and fire, and vapor of smoke; the sun shall be turned to darkness and the moon to blood, before the day of the Lord comes, the great and magnificent day. And it shall come to pass that everyone who calls upon the name of the Lord shall be saved.’”
The Holy Gospel + John 14:23-31
Jesus answered him, “If anyone loves me, he will keep my word, and my Father will love him, and we will come to him and make our home with him. Whoever does not love me does not keep my words. And the word that you hear is not mine but the Father’s who sent me. These things I have spoken to you while I am still with you. But the Helper, the Holy Spirit, whom the Father will send in my name, he will teach you all things and bring to your remembrance all that I have said to you. Peace I leave with you; my peace I give to you. Not as the world gives do I give to you. Let not your hearts be troubled, neither let them be afraid. You heard me say to you, ‘I am going away, and I will come to you.’ If you loved me, you would have rejoiced, because I am going to the Father, for the Father is greater than I. And now I have told you before it takes place, so that when it does take place you may believe. I will no longer talk much with you, for the ruler of this world is coming. He has no claim on me, but I do as the Father has commanded me, so that the world may know that I love the Father. Rise, let us go from here.”