PASTOR’S WEEKLY MESSAGE

This coming Sunday is the Fourth Sunday of Easter.  We are still smiling about an empty tomb.  What a great Holy Humor  Sunday.  The joy will go on and on through the rest of our lives.  Did you see the wondrous power of God in the recent full eclipse?  The gospel for April 21st is John 10:11-18 and Pastor Hout’s sermon theme is “The Good Good Shepherd.”  Join us for Sunday worship  services at 10:30 (led by the pipe organ) and noon (led by guitar).  We also have Sunday School at 9am each week.  Come join us.
 

Prayers of the church  We continue to pray for the family and friends of Elaine Astor.  Her visitation and funeral was this past week.  We have been praying for Jeff Spencer and are happy to report that he is back home again and recovering from his broken hip.  Others in our prayers include Hank Dodson, Jim Alspaugh, Pat Muller, Katie Schultz and family, Darleen Payne, Kim Izor, Wyatt Dahlinghaus, Lois Masters, Bill Jackle, Brenda Rarick, Leroy McCloud, Francesca Chaarlene Rost, Helen Teermuhlen, Jean Hicks and Norm Snyder.  Our prayers also include prayers for peace in the world.  We give thanks for our military men Steven Greenlee, Zac Boyd, Alex Eanes and Ben Sweeney along with the First of 37th Armored Regiment.  How great it was to see Alex Eanes in worship recently.  Also in worship was Pastor Christopher Boyd who was on vacation and visiting his family.  He is service a Lutheran Church in Marblehead near Lake Erie.
 

Prayer of the day.....Fourth Sunday of Easter  O Lord Christ, good shepherd of the sheep, you seek the lost and guide us into your fold.  Feed us, and we shall be satisfied; heal us, and we shall be whole.  Make  us one with you, for you live and reign with the Father and the Holy Spirit, one God, now and forever.  Amen.
 

Some scripture from the gospel for Sunday - John 10:14  I am the good shepherd. I know my own and my own know me.”

Love is perhaps the only glimpse we are permitted of eternity.

So.......love galore in 2024.