2024: The Year of Rest
Memory Verse: Hebrews 4:9
“So then, a sabbath rest still remains for the people of God.”
Welcome to 2024: The Year of Rest. Our focus in 2024, is to receive and to practice God’s sacred gift of rest.
Summer Worship Hours: Please note summer worship times will change beginning June 2nd thru September 1st. Sanctuary worship will switch to 9:30 a.m. Worship is live streamed each week on Facebook.
Live Stream Worship: St. John's live streams its worship each week. You DO NOT have to be a member of Facebook or join in order to watch the service. Thank you to those who keep working to improve our online worship.
Council asks the congregation to pray for Pastor Stacy and her family as they travel for sabbatical. We pray that Pastor feels renewed, refreshed, and refilled with the Holy Spirit and that our congregation does the same, that together we may rededicate ourselves to doing God’s work in the world.
Sabbatical Thanks: Thank you so much to everyone who is helping with things while I am on sabbatical. I hope this will be a time for us all to pause, reflect, and give thanks for the ministry that we get to do together. I will be holding each of you in my prayers as we journey and learn. Thank you so much. Pastor Stacy
Scholarship Fund Drive: During the month of May we will be raising funds for the St. John’s Scholarship Fund. The funds benefit members of the congregation who are continuing their education beyond high school. We need your financial support to ensure that scholarships will continue to be available. Donations can be mailed to the church at 106 Scheid Rd., Sandusky OH. 44870. Be sure to make the check out to St. John’s Lutheran Church and on the memo line put Scholarship Fund. Scholarships will be available in June.
Graduation is fast approaching! Please contact Sandy Thompson with names of our High School, Technical School, or College graduates.
The St. John’s 2024 Giving Garden: Planting will take place on May 18th at 9:00 a.m. Mark your calendars and plan to help with the planting, weeding and harvesting. Lettuce all work together to get our Giving Garden off to a great start as we continue our efforts to help provide food for those in our community again in 2024!
Upcoming Congregation Sabbatical Event: Bellwether Farm May 30th: Venture to Wakeman with Jeff Justi to see an Episcopalian camp. They have an enormous community garden and provide farm to table cooking opportunities and meals to people who attend their camp. See how they care for the earth and share their faith through nature. May 30th in the morning, Lunch is provided. If you are interested, please contact Jeff Justi or Sandy Thompson.
Spirituality Retreat May 31 & June 1: Rev. Dr. Lisa Dahill will join St John’s to talk about spirituality, meditation, and nature. No church experience is necessary even though those are churchy words! There will be time for prayer, journaling, and walking the labyrinth. This will be at Zion, Huron’s outbuilding, from May 31-June 1. Dinner, snacks, and lunch will be included. There are only 15 spots available and the cost is $20. Reserve your spot soon! Friday, May 31 – Dinner 6 pm, event 7-9, Saturday, June 1 – 9-12 (lunch at 12) and 1-3 Saturday.
Sabbatical Pastoral EMERGENCIES: Melinda Zorn volunteered to receive EMERGENCY calls from the members of St. John’s during Pastor Stacy’s sabbatical. Three pastors have agreed to be on-call to cover a visit/pray with or call back the person. Please contact Melinda Zorn who will then contact a pastor to help with your emergency.
A Bible Study, "Reading Through Genesis", meets in the Upper Room each Sunday at 9:15 am
We need your help! We still need readers, ushers, and communion assistants most weeks!