2022: The Year of Vision
Memory Verse:  Revelation 21:5a
“And the one who was seated on the throne said, 'See, I am making all things new.'”

Council asks the congregation to pray to follow Jesus' admonition not to worry during the dark times in life, but to know that God cares for us always and holds us in His hands. Find happiness in each day and comfort in God's abiding love. 

We need your help! We still need readers, ushers, and communion assistants most weeks!

Giving Garden Planting Time! Spring is here and it’s time to plant St. John’s Giving Garden. Planting date is Saturday, May 14th at 9:00 a.m. The Giving Garden supplies many vegetables to help feed the communities of Sandusky, Huron, and Norwalk. Your help will be needed over the next few months with planting, watering, weeding and harvesting.  Let us share the love of Christ with our neighbors from the bounties God supplies. The Giving Garden is one of St. John’s God’s Work, Our Hands ministries!

Book Club: Our discussion group for “Dear Church” will take place on Tuesday, May 17th in Fellowship Hall at 10:00 am. Please read chapters 7 & 8 for discussion. We hope many people will join this new study/discussion. Lenny Duncan is the unlikeliest of pastors. Formerly incarcerated, he is now a black preacher in the whitest denomination in the United States: the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America (ELCA).

Yoga Opportunites: Preschool, Elementary and Adult Yoga will be on hold for two months. Yoga takes place at Open Way Yoga Huron.

Day Camp: Volunteer forms and registration forms are available for Day Camp, which will be held August 1-5. If you will volunteer at all during that week, please fill out a form because LOMO (Lutheran Outdoor Ministries in Ohio) won't let us volunteer without them. If you want to sign your kids up, please do so quickly! Download registration form here. We can only take 30 kids! The cost is $50 for the first kid in a family, $40 for the second, and so on. If you need financial assistance, please let me know! This is for all kids K-6. 

Coffee and Conversation: Wednesday, May 18th at 1:00 pm. Speakers will present End of Life conversations: planning funerals, hospice, and elder care. Please let Pastor Stacy know if you will be there! 

Honoring our 2022 grads! During worship May 22nd, we will honor our graduates: High School – Jacob Thompson, Jacob graduates from Edison High School June 5th and will be attending BGSU Firelands Campus in the fall. College: Kyle Young, Kyle graduates from Ohio Northern Petit Law School on May 14th, and Ryan Scovanner graduated from University of Toledo on May 6th with a degree in Family Nurse Practitioner. Keep our young adults in your prayers as they enter higher education and as they begin their search for employment or begin in their place of employment.  

St. John’s Quilting Ministry: We would like to acknowledge and give thanks to Kathleen Rudiger for the many, many years of faithful service and dedication to leading the quilters at St. John’s. Kathleen sorted, organized, cut, and sewed scraps and bolts of material squares into quilt tops. The tops were then put together making hundreds of beautiful quilts. Each year Kathleen packed the completed quilts which she took to a central drop off church where hundreds of quilts were sent through Lutheran World Relief to third world countries, disaster areas or wherever they were needed most. These quilts were used as coats, tents, and blankets. Kathleen now resides at Providence Commons no longer able to lead this ministry that she loved. We give thanks for the decades of faithful service to this important outreach ministry of St. John’s. Well done good and faithful servant, Kathleen Rudiger!  

     The quilting materials, sewing machines now lay idle. COVID shut this ministry down, but the need is still there for more quilts. Will one of the quilters feel the call as Kathleen did so many years ago to feel the importance of this outreach ministry to work together with several ladies who worked with Kathleen to revive this ministry? If you are interested or know someone who might be interested, please talk with Pastor Stacy, Sue Lucht or Sandy Thompson.

     Within a few weeks, if no one is interested, the supplies in the quilting cupboards will be taken to either Zion, Sandusky or St. Peter’s, Norwalk which have active quilting groups.