125th

Here's one of the banners on the altar with the anniversary logo.

Here we are outside as Pastor announces the baloon launch.

More 125 pictures

Here's Pastor Merrill trying his hand at frisbee target practice durring the kids' Carnival between services.

Colin distributes the balloons.

Kids seemed to love the tiger bounce house

125th

Here is one of the many cakes made for the celebration.

The Kuhlmann Sisters helped lead worship at the 10 AM service on June 25, 2006

Getting ready for the 1:30 PM balloon release.

June 25 Celebration of God’s Enduring Love

June 25 Celebration of God’s Enduring Love

Saint John Lutheran Church will celebrate their 125th anniversary this Sunday. Two special worship services are planned with a lunch and activities between.

At 9 AM Pastor Paul Schroeder will be available in the sanctuary to reminisce.
Pastor Paul Schroeder will preach at the second church service at 2 PM, which will begin with a processional of former pastors and vicars.

Schroeder is the son of the late Reverend and Mrs. Walter P. Schroeder, who served as pastor of St. John from 1934 until his death in 1957.

After graduating from Charter Oak, Iowa High School in 1951, Paul Schroeder went on to St. John’s College at Winfield, Kansas and then Concordia Seminary, St. Louis, Missouri. His vicarage year was spent as chaplain of our country’s largest civilian hospital, Kings County, in Brooklyn, New York. He graduated from the seminary in 1958.
For the past 40 years, Pastor Schroeder has served as Pastor of Our Shepherd Lutheran Church in Greendale, Wisconsin (suburban Milwaukee).

He presently directs and serves as speaker for a weekly radio broadcast “The Word Today”. Now in its 28th year, the broadcast is heard all across America, Russia, China, Africa, Australia, the Caribbean and 7 language groups in India. God continues to abundantly bless these efforts. The Word Today now reaches several million people each week!

Rev. Douglas Schroeder, Paul’s son and Walter’s grandson, will be guest preacher at the first service, at 10 AM.
After graduating from St. Lousi Theological Seminary in 1988, he served Victory and Zion Lutheran churches near Edmonton, Alberta, Canada. During 1992 he also served the vacancy at The Living Word Lutheran Church. He became known for his popular style of preaching and writing. During his ministry there, God gave substantial growth.
Pastor Doug developed and taught a seventh and eighth grade Christian Ethics club for secular schools, and led seminars on the dangers of the New Age Movement. He also served on the Ministry Committee of the Lutheran Bible Translators—Canada.

He returned to Our Shepherd Lutheran in 1993 as associate Pastor, along with his father Paul. In 2000, Doug became administrative pastor of Our Shepherd

Pastor Doug has written for The Word Today newsletter, published tracts of the topics of gaming and missions and has spoken publicly in the topic of the Intelligent Design Movement and Evolution.
In 2004 he went to India as a liaison of The Word today and preached at Transworld Radio’s School of Evangelism. A result of the trip was expanded distribution of AM radios to villages to multiply the effectiveness of The Word Today’s broadcasts.

From 11:30 AM to 12:30, a luncheon served simultaneously in the church’s basement fellowship hall and at the Charter Oak Community Building. It is hopes that “able-bodied” guests will eat at the Community building, allowing elderly and handicapped guests to have easier access. The luncheon will include BBQ pork sandwiches, assorted salads, chips, ice cream and beverages. A free will offering will be collected.

From 12:30-1:30 PM games for the children will be organized and a bounce house will be blown up and supervised for kids to jump in.

At 1:30 PM balloon launch by the children, sending 125 balloons with messages attached.
Ice cream and cake will be served at a fellowship time following the second service.

St. John’s 125th
Events Schedule
• 9:00 AM- Remenisce w/ Rev. Paul Schroeder
• 10:00 AM- Worship
• 11:30 AM-12:30 PM- Luncheon
• 12:30-1:30 Fun & Games
• 1:30 PM balloon launch
• 2 PM- Worship
• Approx 3:30- Cake & Ice-Cream Fellowship

Quasquicentennial

Quasquicentennial- that's what a 125th anniversary is called. Just in case you ever wanted to know, or needed to know how to spell it.

Ever faithful, ever sure

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St. John Lutheran Church to celebrate 125th Anniversary June 25th

10 AM Church service with processional. Pastor Merril will be litergist. Former Pastor L.C. Gebhardt Will be lector. Rev. Douglas Schroeder (grandson of the Rev. P. Schroeder that served St. John 1934-57) will be guest preacher.

11:30-12:30 Luncheon served in the Church’s basement fellowship hall & at the Charter Oak Community Building. Serving BBQ pork sandwitches, assorted salads, chips, ice cream and beverages- free will offering.

12:30-1:30 PM games for the children and a bounce house

1:30 PM "Ablaze" balloon launch by the children, sending 125 balloons with messages attatched.

2 PM Church service with processional of pastors and former vicars. Pastor Merrill will be litergist, Former Pastor Friedrich will be lector. Rev. Paul Schroeder (son of former Pastor W.P. Schroeder) will be guest preacher. A missionary offering will be taken in support of "God’s Word Today" radio program and Missionary Brent Friedrichs.

Ice Cream & Cake fellowship time to follow.

Anniversary Hymn; "Praise, Oh, Praise Our God and King"
(tune Hymn #142 in "Lutheran Worship")
(verses 1, 8 by John Milton, 1623, Alternative verses 2-7 by Rev. Richard Merrill, 2006)

1. Praise, oh, praise our God and King
Hymns of adoration sing:
For His mercies still endure,
Ever faithful, ever sure.

2. All these years of love and grace
Christ with blessings filled this place;
For His mercies still endure
Ever faithful, ever sure.

3. From the font our children came,
Washed from sin in Jesus’ name:
For His mercies still endure
Ever faithful, ever sure.

4. Luth’ran school taught God’s pure Word.
Children learned to know their Lord;
For His mercies still endure
Ever faithful, ever sure.

5. At this altar couples wed,
Joined in love, with Christ their Head;
For His mercies still endure
Ever faithful, ever sure.

6. Here we share the meal divine-
Christ Himself in bread and wine;
For His mercies still endure
Ever faithful, ever sure.

7. Here God’s saints, with sins forgiv’n
Passed from death to life in Heav’n
For His mercies still endure
Ever faithful, ever sure.

8. Glory to our faithful King,
Glory let His people sing;
Glory to the Father, Son,
And the Spirit, Three-in-One.

LYF Golf

LYF Golf
at the Dunlap course this Sunday!!!
Should we say 3-5 pm regardless of how many or few holes we get in?
Meet @ Church at 2:30pm.
Remember to bring like $10, I guess I don't know what greens fees are.
Care for Pizza D'Amore in Dunlap after? Or do any of you need to get back for anything?

Mission Central

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PH: 712-882-1029
Gary.Thies@lcms.org

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Lutheran Family Service of Iowa

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http://www.lfsiowa.org

For more than 100 years, the Lutheran church through LFS has brought the healing presence of Jesus Christ, His love and grace into the lives of families across Iowa. From our roots as a home-finding society for orphaned children, LFS now provides a variety of services to meet the ever-challenging needs in today's society.

So close and yet so far...

!Eye Carumba!

3:30 pm, been here since noon. I'm on about page 90- Marriages 1939.

There's at least 10 pages of death records left too. We're shooting for just 100 pages, so I'm trying to take out all the extra tabs that happened when I brought the marriages into Adobe InDesign from Microsoft Word. What a headache.

We have a comittee meeting This Tuesday night and everybody wants this thing done ASAP, and I don't blame them. I told them Mothers Day. I'm not thinking I'll make it by this Tuesday, but at least I know that it will be a lot sooner than Mother's Day.

Prom, Track Meets, and a heckuva lot of yearbook to go in basically 3 more weeks of school...yike.

Gotta get back to it. I told my wife I would try to not be gone all day.

Happy 68th wedding anniversary, Emil Ole Bolduan & Amelia Alvina Jensen!

HISTORY OF ST. JOHN Part 5

Note: For those readers who are new to "blogs," the first thing posted is the lowest item on a page, so to read part 1 you'll need to "scroll down," or eventually click on the "Previous Posts," or even the "Archives" to read this history from the beginning.

HISTORY OF ST. JOHN
Part 6~ the 1960's
• January 1960, a scholarship fund was created by the congregation to assist young men and women of the congregation to prepare themselves for work in His Kingdom. Charity Sunday was instituted and a portion of the receipts was assigned to the scholarship fund. (On the 3rd Sunday of each month, the offering not included in envelopes, is used for benevolent purposes).
• October 1960, a motion passed that any voter 70 years and over was to become an honorary voting member and his absence was not counted toward quorum.
• In 1962, a portion of adjoining land was purchased from Louis Schultz and added to the cemetery
• July 1967, Pastor O.R. Schlegelmilch accepted a call to Peace Lutheran Church, Columbus, Nebraska. Pastor E.T. Lange, St. Paul, Ute served as vacancy pastor.
• December 15, 1968, Pastor A.I. Prouty of Detroit, Michigan, accepted a call from St. John and was installed.
• In 1968, a fact-finding committee was formed to consider plans for a new parsonage or church office. April 1969, plans were approved to build a new church office addition. Ground breaking was in October of 1969 and cornerstone-laying ceremonies were held in July 1970.
• In 1969, Carillon bells were installed as a memorial.
• In 1970, Paul Clausen designed and built the communion rail as a memorial. About this same time, a set of communion ware with individual cups was received as a memorial. The set consisted of a stack of wooden trays to hold the individual glass cups, a matching wafer tray and both have matching covers. For some time communion was offered from either the common cup or individual cups – personal choice.

Pastors at St. John, 4

Pastor Albert I. Prouty served his vicarage at St. Paul’s church in Chicago Heights, Illinois. Following his graduation from Concordia Seminary, Springfield, Illinois, he has held pastorates at Salem, St. Paul churches at Gurley and Potter, Nebraska, and at Redemption Lutheran Church in Detroit, Michigan*. He is presently semi-retired as a Visitation Pastor for Calvary Lutheran Church in Lincoln Park , Michigan**.

He served from 1968 to 1976 at St. John in Charter Oak. He came back and spoke this past March on the actual 125th anniversary of St. John.


*Redemption Lutheran Church
12411 E 7 Mile Rd
Detroit, MI 48205-2154
(313) 526-5631

**Calvary Lutheran Church
3320 Electric, Lincoln Park, MI 48146
Phone: (313)381-6715 Pamela Francis
Founded in 1924, offers quality education in a Christian environment for students preschool and year-round Christian Day Care 7am-6pm, Monday through Friday. We also house the Wayne County Adult Day Program for the Downriver Area. WORSHIP SERVICES: Saturd
francispm@paxway.com

Still at it

I came in to school today to work on the history book. As I take a break to write this I'm on page 69 out of 100. But basically pp. 46 on have been lists of names.

This is the kind of thing I'm doing righn now; I'm taking text that looks like this:

Dec 23 Debbie Sue Klinker
BAPTISMS CONTINUED...
Dec 25 Jill Marie Butler
1957....page 124
Jan 06 Dean Carl Hollrah

And trying to make it look like this:

Dec 23		Debbie Sue Klinker
Dec 25		Jill Marie Butler
1957 Baptisms
Jan 06		Dean Carl Hollrah

Only without the big line space (it didn't translate well to the web) Tedious, to say the least.

Be that as it may, it is amazing how many people are baptised every year! What a blessing

"4There is one body and one Spirit—just as you were called to one hope when you were called— 5one Lord, one faith, one baptism; 6one God and Father of all, who is over all and through all and in all." ~Ephesians 4:4-6

"21and this water symbolizes baptism that now saves you also—not the removal of dirt from the body but the pledge of a good conscience toward God. It saves you by the resurrection of Jesus Christ, 22who has gone into heaven and is at God's right hand—with angels, authorities and powers in submission to him."~1 Peter 3:20-22