St.

Johns Lutheran Church ELCA

1300 W. Benjamin Avenue
Norfolk, NE 68701
(402) 371-1985
stjohn@cableone.net
www.stjohnsnorfolk.com

Our Mission: Loving God . . . Loving People . . . Reaching Out!

Prayer Concerns & Joys:
Janet Jundt
Thad Murren
Nancy Jacobs
Glenda Hansen
Jana Kramer
Rosemary
Westerhold
Mary Leone
Harlan Westerhold
Boston DeWald
Dennis & Sara Fegley
Dale Tomka
Harlan Krebs
Ann Schroeder
Joann Spence
LaVon Dike
Dianne Horst
Keagan Sullivan
Carl Edwards
Alice Schultz
Norma Hunter
Carol Severa
Rollin Olesen
Bob Henning
Tom Hagstrom
Lt. Col. Darin Huss (awaiting deployment to Iraq)
Eunice Mohl
If you know someone who is in need of prayer but whose name is not
listed, it may be that they have asked not to be included in the printed
bulletin. Please remember them in your personal prayers.

Flowers on the altar this weekend are sponsored by Richard &

Leona Pfeifer in celebration of their 2nd wedding anniversary
(surprise, Leona!); and by Diane Sobotka in thanksgiving for all
the Sunday School and Youth volunteers.

Sermons are now available online through St. Johns

facebook @ www.facebook.com/stjohnsnorfolk
Join us for Fellowship (coffee, juice and rolls) following the
8:30 AM worship service in our Fellowship Hall. If youve never
had Delight Donuts, youll want to stop by. If you have had
them, youll want to join us for coffee each week!

Dr. David E. Cox Interim Senior Pastor

Justin Wiese Assistant Pastor, NeLCM-Norfolk Campus Pastor
Jacquie Samway PMA, Coordinator of Congregational Care
Jolene Ziebell Coordinator of Youth Ministries
Gail Ermels Office Manager
Jim Carter Custodian/Grounds Keeper
Midge Hedrick Office Assistant
SUNDAY, SEPT 25
9:45 am....................................Fellowship
8:30 am....................................... Worship
9:45 am.............................Sunday School

9:45 am..............Life of Christ Bible Study

11:00 am .....................................Worship
6:00 pm....Gods Ambassadors ChristCare
Kristy Booras, 402-371-6218
MONDAY, SEPT 26
10:00 am..............................Staff Meeting
5:30 pm..............Legacy Fund Committee
8:30 pm........................Solid Rock
TUESDAY, SEPT 27
7:00 am...............Mens Prayer Breakfast
WEDNESDAY, SEPT 28
1:30 pm...................Searchers ChristCare
Connie Hagstrom, 402-649-4862
2:30 pm........7th & 8th Grade Confirmation
3:30 pm...................................Youth Choir
4:20 pm.....................................Bell Choir
5:00 pm........7th & 8th Grade Confirmation
5:30 pm................Last Wednesday Lectio
7:00 pm..............Education Team Meeting
THURSDAY, SEPT 29
9:00 am............................Quilters Potluck
7:00 pm.................Majesty Choir Practice
SATURDAY, OCT 1
9:00 am..................................Walk n Talk
Skyview Lake
5:00 pm........................................Worship

SHOP FOR MINISTRY

SEPT 25

8:30 am
Linda Downs
11 am
Lisa
Echtenkamp
OCT 2
8:30 am
Margie Frank
11 am
Nancy
Jacobs

OFFERINGS

Mission Emphasis (SEPT) .....Norfolk Food

Pantry
AND Peanut Butter Pyramid
Greenfiber Funds for SEPT.....Mercy Meals
General offering for 9/18/16......$6,779.89
Dedicated Funds spent to cover
General Fund expenses....$20,586.67
End of AUG General Fund Deficit ...........
$6,874.73
Year-to-Date General Fund Deficit
$25,107.87
Attendance 9/18/16.........(28, 92, 99) 219

or 402-371-1985.
NEW MEMBERS CLASS
BEGINS OCTOBER 2
For those who are looking to join St.
Johns or simply have questions about
membership, this class will be for you!
There will be a series of 3 classes: Oct. 2,
9, and 16, in the Nazareth Room from
9:45-10:45 am each Sunday. Bring a roll
& coffee and your questions to the north
hallway upstairs, last room on the left.
See you Sunday, Oct. 2!

NORFOLK
FOOD PANTRY
Please
remember to
keep our
volunteers in
your prayers while they serve as
Gods hands in our community. As
September winds down, we
continue to collect non-perishable
items in the boxes located
throughout the church. Also
appreciated are monetary gifts for
the perishable items to be
purchased. Thank you for your
continued donations of egg
cartons and plastic grocery bags
which are used daily at the pantry.

New Worship Steward

schedules will be coming out
soon. If you would like to help out
on a monthly rotation (or less)
with greeting, ushering, reading,
communion assistant, or
sound/power point, please contact
the office as soon as possible by
email: midgehe@cableone.net.

FREE CONCERT
Tangled Blue, an indi-folk duo, will
be in concert sharing their music
and faith on Saturday, Oct. 8 @ 7
PM at Zion Lutheran Church, 319
S. 5th St., Albion. The concert is
free, open to the public, and will
receive a free-will offering to
benefit Lutheran World Relief
hunger programming. For more
information, see their poster in the
west hallway.

St. Johns Text

Notifications
by Remind.com
Text any of the following keywords
to 81010 to get signed up for text
notifications about the following
topics:
@stjohnnews
News/Announcements

@stjohnsss Sunday School

@stjohnconf Confirmation
@stjohnuth Youth Group
@chainpray Prayer Chain

We will be ordering
additional yellow
T-shirts with Gods
Work. Our Hands
logo and St. Johns
personalization on
the back. If you
would like to place
an order, please
contact the church office @ 402371-1985 or email Gail @
gailer@cableone.net. Deadline to
order is Friday, October 7.

Do you have
a favorite
hymn
or 3?
As part of an
effort to help
our Pastors
choose music
we all love for
worship
services, please note your 3
favorite hymns on the back side of
todays Registration Slip.

We will try to get to every request,

so look up and list your favorites
today!

We will be forming
a group to study
the layout (liturgy
and music) of the
Contemporary
Worship Service.
What would YOU
like to see the
Contemporary
Worship look like?
This small group
will be limited to 5 members, so if you
are interested in this short-term study,
please sign up on todays Registration
Slip. We will contact you when a date
and time is set for the first meeting.

BRIGHT
HORIZONS
DIAPER DRIVE
During the month
of September, we
will be collecting
disposable diapers
for Bright
Horizons. They are especially in
need of sizes 4, 5, and 6. Look for
the collection tote in the west
hallway near the peanut butter
pyramid. Thank you! Diapers cost
approx. $100/mo. and all daycare
providers REQUIRE disposable
diapers. Your donations are
greatly appreciated!

UPCOMING
CHANGES TO PRAYER LIST

We are changing the way we do our

prayer list at St. Johns. On Saturday
Oct. 1 and Sunday Oct. 2 we will

begin two prayer lists. If you have

someone on the prayer list now you
must submit their name again for
it to remain there.
1. To place anyone on the prayer list
you
can write them on the
registration slip or
2. e-mail St. Johns at
midgehe@cableone.net.
3. The first list is Prayer Concerns &
Joys. When you place a name on
this list, it will be listed for two
weeks unless you request up to 4
weeks.
4. The second list is Long Term
Prayer Concerns in which names
will be left on for 3 months.
5. If you want names on longer or
taken off the list, please contact
the office and ask for Midge.
6.Please get the permission of
any person before you place
their name on the prayer list.

BENEFACTION BOARD of St. Johns

Lutheran Church met Aug 9th, 2016.
A presentation from Lutheran Family
Services educated us about the LFS At
Ease program that helps veterans with
mental health issues. They are working
on a telepresence method from their
offices to the Northeast Nebraska area.
$4000 was given but we will request
that LFS report back to us in February to
show how our contributions are serving
the veterans in our area. Additional
funding will be considered in the future
pending the development.
A request from Mercy Meals for food
and supplies in the amount of $2500
was approved.
A bill in the amount of $4232.50 was
approved and paid for 15 youth from
our congregation who attended camp at
Camp Carol Joy Hollling this past
summer.
The Lutheran Magazine publication
quarterly bill in the amount of $529.23
was approved for payment. The
magazine is mailed to all registered
members of the congregation.

The next meeting will be on November

8, 2016 at 7:00 PM.

The Get Together team invites everyone to attend

our Fall Kick Off Event on Wednesday, Oct.
5 from
6-7:30 pm. Supper will be served at 6 PM, then
on to a pumpkin decorating contest! Each
household will receive one large pumpkin to
decorate and enter into the contest. Limited
supplies will be provided, and you're encouraged
to bring your own supplies to decorate your
pumpkin. Grand prize to be awarded to the
winning pumpkin. No carving allowed.
Back by popular demand, pumpkin bowling
will be available on the lawn, and we'll end the
evening with a campfire and music. We hope to
see you there!

St. Johns first

worship service
at our current
location was
held on
Sunday,
December 11,
1966. Fifty
years later, we
will celebrate
with a special
worship service at 10 AM and
showcase a Celebration of Wreaths
made by YOU, the individuals and
households of St. Johns. Start
thinking and assembling now how
would you be represented? Wreaths
will be displayed all of advent
throughout St. Johns. Contact Pr.
Justin or Carol Waggoner for more
information.

Pastor
Wiese,
Please help me in thanking St. Johns
Lutheran Church, Norfolk, NE, for your
generous support of your YAGM
participant Aline Skogstoe during her
year of service. Your gifts make a
lasting impact and we greatly
appreciately your partnership in this
ministry.
Blessings, Venis Hamb
Senior Admin. Assistant
Global Church
Sponsorship

as music scholarships. The

Northeast Jazz Machine gave up their
Sunday afternoon for pie and frozen
custard! Kudos to you for helping
out Campus Ministry.
It takes many hands to create this
wonderful afternoon, not the least of
which are the dessert preparers at
First Choice Catering and donated
frozen custard from Culvers. There
were servers, scoopers, set-up and
clean-up folks, auction helpers,
runners, tear-down folks, and checkout helpers. Everyone earned their
sleep and campus ministry is
strongly supported for another year.
Pr. Justin Wiese and the
NeLCM Governance Council

I would like to thank everyone at St.

Johns for their kind gift bags. Your
thoughts and prayers for our brave men
and women is truly appreciated!
Captain Paul Hattan
State Patrol, Nebraska
THANKS SO MUCH to the crew who
repaired damage, caulked cracks,
primed and painted the north side of the
building: Denny Braesch, Mike Frank,
Del Fuelberth, Peg Strong, Ron Benson,
Duane Timperley, and Brian Brasch
and to Lon Timperley for the use of the
lift truck. All your hard work is GREATLY
appreciated!

THANK YOU to everyone who

attended and gave generously in
support of Nebraska Lutheran
Campus Ministry in Norfolk. In total,
over $12,000 was raised to do good
works for our NECC and UNMC
students.
The gift of giving continues through
the fee paid to the Northeast Area
Jazz Ensemble who uses this money

We will be updating our military

wall which is located off the
Narthex to the east. If you have
loved ones currently serving in

the military, please send a

photo to the church office so
that we may include them in
our thoughts and prayers.
Email your photos to
midgehe@cableone.net.

WORSHIP ASSISTANT
BRENDA CARHART
GREETERS/USHERS Gerald & Sheryl
Schweer
READER Brenda Carhart
SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 25
8:30 AM
COUNCIL PERSON OF THE WEEK
RON LOFGREN
WORSHIP ASSISTANT
BRENDA CARHART
GREETERS Richard & Leona Pfeifer,
Dan Melkus
USHERS Richard Uhlir, Roger
Gentzler, Linda Downs
READER Dan Melkus
FELLOWSHIP HOUR Richard & Mary
Ann Jenson
COMMUNION ASSISTANTS Jim &
Elenore Merritt, Carol Waggoner,
Sara Fegley
POWERPOINT Janet Erickson
SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 25
11 AM
COUNCIL PERSON OF THE WEEK
RON LOFGREN
WORSHIP ASSISTANT
BRENDA CARHART
GREETERSJana Kuhlman, Ron
Lofgren
USHERS Jeff & Cathy Erwin, Mark
Nelson
COMMUNION ASSISTANTS Lon &
Jeanne Timperley, Jeff & Cathy
Erwin
POWERPOINT Marcus / Adam
Echtenkamp
LECTIONARY READINGS:
Amos 6:1a, 4-7
Psalm 146
1 Timothy 6:6-19
Luke 16:19-31

SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 24
5 PM
COUNCIL PERSON OF THE WEEK
RON LOFGREN

SATURDAY, OCTOBER 1
5 PM
COUNCIL PERSON OF THE WEEK
MARLA MUEHLMEIER
WORSHIP ASSISTANT
CONNIE HAGSTROM
GREETERS/USHERS Brian & Shellie
Raabe
READER Shirley Hughes
SUNDAY, OCTOBER 2
8:30 AM
COUNCIL PERSON OF THE WEEK
MARLA MUEHLMEIER
WORSHIP ASSISTANT
CONNIE HAGSTROM
GREETERS Dick & Barb Adams,
Claribel Wulf
USHERS Dennis & Lois Braesch, Phil
Sykes
READER Tom Hedrick
FELLOWSHIP HOUR Roger & Lisa
Echtenkamp

COMMUNION ASSISTANTS Duane &

Barb Timperley, Sherri Kuk,
Diane Sobotka
POWERPOINT Midge Hedrick
SUNDAY, OCTOBER 2
11 AM
COUNCIL PERSON OF THE WEEK
MARLA MUEHLMEIER
WORSHIP ASSISTANT
CONNIE HAGSTROM
GREETERSMartha Thompson,
Michelle Dagerman
USHERS Kevin Bonderson, Don
Meister
COMMUNION ASSISTANTS Beth
Bonderson,
Janet Erickson, Tracy Meister,
Kristy Booras
POWERPOINT __________
LECTIONARY READINGS:
Habakkuk 1:1-4, 2:1-4
Psalm 37:1-9
1 Timothy 1:1-14
Luke 17:5-10