St John Lutheran Church
First Sunday in Advent
November 30 - December 6, 2025
Weekly Announcements
Welcome Visitors – We are blessed to have you join us for Divine Service today. We kindly request you sign our Guest Book at the back of the church and/or fill out a Welcome Card and place it in the offering plate. Thank You.
Today – Matins, LWML Mites
Wednesday: Dec. 3 – (1) Care Center Worship at 10:00; (2) Soup Supper at 6:00, church at 7:00. Sign-up Sheet in the back.
Next Sunday – (1) Voters Meeting – light lunch served. Bring sandwiches, chips, veggie tray, or dessert. Drinks provided. Not a voting member? Pray about becoming one. At the Voters Meeting on Dec. 7th we will have election of Church Officers. The following positions are open for Election: President, Vice President, Secretary, Financial Secretary, Evangelism, Education, and Trustee. Prayerfully consider serving in any of these positions. Contact Pastor or Dan Howard.
(2) Sunday School Staff/Evangelism meeting.
(3) No Elders meeting and No Coffee hour.
Faith Step – Every day throughout November, sing one “Thanksgiving” song, such as: “Now Thank We All Our God,” the Doxology, “Praise to the Lord, the Almighty,” and “Thank the Lord.” Thank God every day of your life for all the blessings He gives you.
November Books of the Month – Check out the card table in the back. If you don’t see anything that looks interesting, look in the library; you just might find a book or two. Happy Reading!
Birthday Box – If you have a November birthday, you are encouraged to thank God for your life by donating $.10 or more for each year of life you’ve been given. Box is in the back – look for the red bow. No checks please. Cash only. Thanks!
We will be assisting a needy family this Christmas. If you would like to help, please choose a person from the list (below and on the back bulletin board) and note that you will be buying a particular item so that we do not have duplicates. Return them to St. John so we can deliver them all at the same time to the Pregnancy Resource Center/Love’s Journey by December 16th. If you would like to wrap the gifts, that would be great, but please note on the tag who it is for: for example: “To: Family #6-Dad - From: St. John Lutheran Church.”
Mom: clothing size Large; shoes-size 9; interested in painting stuff
Dad: shirt size-3X; pant: size 40x42; shoes: size 10 mens; interested in tools, hunting, camping stuff
Girl #1-age 7: clothing size 7/8; shoe size: 2 Youth; interested in art stuff, baby dolls, Barbies
Boy#1-age 5: clothing size 5/6; shoe size: 1 Youth; interested in cars, dinosaurs, monster trucks, art stuff
Girl#2-age 13 months: clothing size: 18-24 months; shoe size: 5 Toddler; interested in sound & light up toys or musical toys, headbands
Life Thoughts from Lutherans for Life – Advent I – Being a Gospel-motivated voice for life means loving all our neighbors, regardless of their size, condition, or past. As servants in the Master’s house (Matthew 24:43), we not only need to be prepared for Christ’s coming (Matthew 24:44; Romans 13:11), we should be eager to make all others ready, preaching the Gospel to them, inviting them “Come, let us go up to the mountain of the Lord” (Isaiah 2:3) that they, too, might be brought into the safety of the ark of the holy Church.