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The Eagle August 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!!

Missed Opportunities! Here we are at the beginning of another school year.

I pray that everyone had an opportunity to get away for a few days or at least relax for a few days. We all need a little time to get away from our everyday sched-ule to rest and do some things that are not a part of our daily routine to refresh ourselves. With that said, we all know that we cannot stay there. Our lives con-tinue on wherever we are in life.

As we turn to the sixth letter to the churches in Revelation, once again we find the words of this letter very relevant to our lives. This letter, in a nutshell, deals with the mission of the church. I know that we talk a lot about the mission of the church and our re-sponsibility as Christians to be actively involved in that mission, but this is a task that is much easier to talk about than to put into practice for most of us. There are some encouraging words in this letter dealing with the faithfulness to Jesus’ word and not denying Je-sus’ name. This really points us to the fact that one is saved by simply knowing who Jesus is and what He has done for them and trusting in Him. However, Jesus has a plan for us to share that good news.

This is exactly what Jesus points out to the church in Philadelphia in this letter. There are open doors that Jesus has placed before them to share the good news of His saving work, but the people in the church at Philadelphia are not taking advantage of those opportu-nities. I am almost certain that every single one of us as Christians can testify to this. We have had opportu-nities to share the good news of Jesus to hurting, bro-ken people and we let the opportunity slip by us without saying a word. We are afraid that it might offend them. We are afraid that they might get angry at us. We are afraid that they might have a question for us that we cannot answer. Whatever the case may be, we freeze and say nothing when Jesus places an open door before us to share the life-changing, life-saving message of Jesus with them.

Each and everyday we join Jesus on His mission. We do not have to go out hunting opportunities to be a wit-ness of Jesus in our lives. He opens the doors and places those opportunities right before us. We respond to His incredible care and love for us by sharing His care and love with the people that we are around each and every day.

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

1st Rick Payne

4th Barbara Jahns

5th Allen Dodson, Monica Reed

8th Auden Martinez 9

th Bob Jarvis, Brandi Surley

10th Ethan Cathey, Sara Cathey, Shirley Meissner

11th Ethan Chorenziak

12th Chloe Lowrey, Darman Wagner

13th George LeGrande

14th Melinda Lange

15th Sydney English, Sawyer Hanson, Trint Jeschke, Patsy Krueger,

Cynthia McElroy, Keaton Muxworthy 16

th Nancy Horton, Riley Reich

17th Phiona Clark

19th Pat Bottlinger, Suzie Bottlinger

20th Wilma Gaydos

22nd

Will Beber 23

rd Sarah Bauman, Bucky Pate, Ruth Reneau

25th Lucas Geter, William Hall 29

th Brenda Arnett, Jaxon Lange, Clint Skocpol

30th Edward Looney

31st

Valerie Massingill, Casey Yates

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Anniversaries 1st Rick & Kathy Payne —31yrs Darman & Jane Wagner—59yrs 6th Derrel & Lois Hungerford—42yrs Ryan & Misti Polster —24yrs Stanley & Delores Stanford—37yrs 7th LeeRoy & Karen Tyson—42yrs 8th Sandy & Roseanne Hall—37yrs 15th Pastor Reich & Stacy—31yrs 16th Jimmie & Nancy Horton—32yrs Billy & Sharolyn Lawson—43yrs 18th Doyle & Barbara Cook—62yrs 19th Raymond & Patsy Krueger—29yrs 23rd Tom & Connie White—44yrs 25th Jerry & Kay Zschiesche—45yrs 26th Neil & Lynn Muxworthy—40yrs 30th August & Wilma Gaydos—49yrs 31st John & Irene Zaruba—61yrs

Baptisms

1st Rhonda Geter

7th Emma Cantara, Sarah Zschiesche

9th Kathy Kensing

12th Philip Abdou, Barbara Jahns, Justin Squyres

14th Kay Zschiesche

16th Cara Finstad, Piper Hanson, Chloe Lowrey

19th Rachel Bottlinger

20th Kain Kunkel

22nd David Gromatzky 25

th Riley Reich

26th Ruth Reneau, James Tischler

27th Shirley Gerald

30th Ernie Moyers

31st Nance Jarvis

Upcoming

August Events

5th - 7:15a - Men’s Club

1:30p - Nursing Home

Devotions

6th - 6:30p - Preschool Board

12th - 11:15a - Bd of Trustees

Bd of Ed/Youth

14th - 1:00p - Glory Gamesters

6:30p - Bd of Elders

15th - 5:30p - Bd of Finance

28th –8:00a –Ministerial

Alliance Meeting


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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

Various Youth Activities to be

arranged

Moms In Prayer Resumes in September

Men’s Bible Study Resumes in September

$ 10,384 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.

Please lift up the following in prayer

Our Military & Families:

Travis Beach, Austin Beckner, Nick Cantara, Josh Chorenziak, Anthony French, Charles Gonce, Lauren Jeffers, Matthew Medina, Ernie Mendez, Payden Nolen, John Park, Jordan Ratliff, Logan Selman, Rich-ard 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, Maxine Wenzel Hamilton Health Care: Mildred Kauitzsch, Melinda Rogers, Leamon & Lydia Wagner Sr. Care Center, Stephen-ville: Ruth Young The Meadows, Gatesville: Faye Senger Homebound: Frances Donahoo, Albert Peters, Mae Pietzsch, Ruth Reneau, Frances Schrank Heartis, Waco: Raymond Wenzel

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 Gary Gromatzky - dealing with nerve damage in back Derrel Hungerford - hip replacement Monday morning Bobby Moore – at home recovering….. for strength for his body Travis Odom – recovering at home

Sandy Olsen - recovering from injured hip John Schoedel – rehab & recovery at home H.C. Wenzel - seeing a specialist about his neck problems Theresa Williams - dealing with seizures and various health issues

Noland Arbaugh - family friend of Darryl & Mischelle Beach, returned home due to finance issues. Pray for courage and provision to finish his degree and live independently.

Molly Beach - niece of Darryl & Michelle Beach suffering from an auto-immune disease & other health issues

Connie Courtney – (John Courtney’s Mother) recovering at Dove Hill

Layla Evetts - 6yr old diagnosed with an DIPG tumor. Tumor has shrunk by 50%. Continued prayer for complete healing

Paul & Edith Gates – (Clark Pumphries’ Grandparents) recovering from surgeries

Dennis Krueger– recovering at Dove Hill

Greg Ladesic - father of Melissa Medina is at home

Carolyn May – friend of Pat Crouch recovering from massive stroke

Henrietta Medina - liver count went up. Changing medication.

Renee Pietzsch – (Jerome & Alice’s daughter-in-law) started chemotherapy this past week

Theresa Schoen - (Gary & Dennis Schoen’s sister-in-law) diagnosed with stage 3 illness; is doing better Ossie Scott – (Doyle Robert’s sister) has very aggressive cancer Pat Thompson – having health issues Wilma Tubbs – (Laverne Brown’s Mother) rehab and recovery at home

Special Prayers: rain; bountiful harvest; for our church family, for teachers and students as they return to school, for marriages, for physical and mental health


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Finance

Update

Memorials Given in Memory of Mark Bottlinger:

Building Fund: Luther & Mona Smith

Memorials Given in Memory of Margie Seider:

General Fund: John & Dorothy Schoedel, Raymond & Patsy Krueger, Martin & Juanita Seider, Barbara Feldman, Janet McAdams, Robert & Dorothy Hoerman, Judy Roach, Dalton Curb, Charlie & Mischelle Bottlinger

Building Fund: Bert Schrank

St. John Youth: David & Becky Melde, Jerome & Alice Pietzsch, Rick & Debra McFalls, Glynn & Karen Krueger, Rick & Karen Wenzel, Ethel Pflueger, Gail Ashby, H.C. Wenzel, Darman & Jane Wagner, Rachel Moravee, Joyce Sommerfeld, Dennis & Billie Looney, Wendy Mohr, Luther & Mona Smith, Gary & Julie Wood


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MEN’S CLUB

The Men’s Club meets on the 1

st Sunday of the month. Join us

Sunday, August 5 at 7:15 am for the Men’s Club meeting and to help make sausage and pancakes for breakfast.

Wednesday evenings at 6:30 pmSunday mornings at 7:30 am

Sunday morning services can be heard on

Resume September 6th

A new non-profit organization that has been formed with the goal of providing safe, comfortable and reliable transportation for Cancer patients and their caregivers

to and from Houston. Tentative schedule is 10:30 am Sunday, Tuesday and Thursday outbound to Houston from Hamilton and Monday, Wednesday and Friday inbound from Houston arriv-ing at 4:50 pm. Pick-up and drop-off location has not been de-termined at this point. If anyone in our congregation would like to volunteer on these days and times, we could possibly be the pick-up and drop-off location. If you are interested in St. John being a part of this and possibly overseeing this, please contact the church office and let us know. For further information you can go to www.drivinghopetexas.org.

Joyful Response Our congregation offers you a

way to respond joyfully in

meeting your stewardship

commitments

Use Joyful Response to:

* Give consistently.

* Help you prepare and fulfill

your stewardship plans.

* Share your generosity efficient-

ly and predictably. ****Forms can be found

in the church office****

Will Resumes September 6th


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St John

Ruth Guild

Ruth Guild Meeting– Sunday, August 26 @ 11:15am with Guest speaker, Kathy Meissner, Shirley Meissner’s daughter-in-law. Nancy Horton will give an update on

the LWML Convention.

Quilters– can still use any scraps of ma-

terial, old sheets etc.


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Music Notes by:

Gary Gromatzky

The Church’s One

Foundation

Samuel J. Stone

1866

The church’s one foundation, Is Jesus Christ her Lord, She is His new creation By water and the word;

From heaven he came and sought her

To be His holy bride; With His own blood He bought her,

And for her life He died.

She is from every nation, Yet one o’er all the earth, Her charter of salvation,

One Lord, one faith, one birth; One holy name she blesses,,

Partakes on holy food, And to one hope she presses,

With every grace endued.

Mid toil and tribulation, And tumult of her war,

She waits the consummation Of peace forever more;

Till with the vision glorious Her longing eyes are blest,

And the great Church victorious Shall be the Church at rest.

Yet she on earth hath union With God the Three in One,

And mystic sweet communion With those whose rest is won;

With all her sons and daughters, Who by the Master’s hand

Led through the deathly waters, Repose in Eden Land.

It is almost here. It’s time to get ready. Choir practice @ 8:30am on Sunday mornings. We are planning on singing on the 15thof August. Please plan on coming and joining the choir. It is an enjoyable way of serving the Lord.

(See last verse in the side column)


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This is a movie about a Lutheran Pastor Richard Wurmbrand, also known as Nicolai Ionescu, a Romanian Lutheran Christian minister of Jewish descent. In 1948, having become a Christian 10 years before, he publicly said Communism and Christianity were not compatible. As a result, he experienced imprisonment and tor-ture by the then Communist regime of Romania, for his beliefs. After serving a total of fourteen years, he was ransomed for $10,000. His colleagues in Romania urged him to leave the country and work for religious freedom from a location less personally dangerous. After spending time in Norway and England, he and his wife Sabina, who had also been imprisoned, emigrated to America and dedicated the rest of their lives to publicizing and helping Christians who are persecuted for their beliefs. He wrote more than 18 books, the most widely known being Tortured for Christ. Variations of his works have been translated into more than 60 languages. He founded the interna-tional organization Voice of the Martyrs, which continues to aid Christians around the world who are persecuted for their faith.

This movie will be shown on Monday, August 13, 2018 at the Cinemark Theater in Temple beginning at 7:00 p.m. The tickets will be presold at the following website:

https://onbuzz.tugg.com/events/tortured-for-christ-movie-py2t

Tickets are $11.00 each

Senior Youth Room

https://onbuzz.tugg.com/events/tortured-for-christ-movie-py2t


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St. John Lutheran Church & Preschool

122 Cheyenne Mesa

Hamilton, Texas 76531

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