St. John's Lutheran Church LCMS

Join us Thursday, June 19 at 9:00 a.m. for a lawn clean-up and work day.  Bring your weed eaters!

Decatur Community Daycare is having a  Potato Bar Fundraiser on May 1st at 5:30. Come join us at St. John’s Fellowship Hall. Tours of the daycare will be available. See you THERE!

PRISON MINISTRY

Sometimes unexpected things happen when we least expect them.
I was at the YMCA in McCook recently when I bumped into a young lady I had gotten to know when she used to work at the Work Ethic Camp. Among other titles she had was being the “religious coordinator”. Coordinate religious activities and having an occasional in-service is what contact I mostly had with her. But I would bump into her in the community as well. She and her husband have 3 children and work elsewhere now.
She started telling me that her husband had terminal cancer and that the whole family was having a tough time dealing with it. “My biggest problem is that I’m struggling with my faith”, she told me. She continued to tell me that it seemed so wrong to take the father of her children from them and asking God “why”.
Of course I don’t have any answers to those questions but I was surprised that she shared so much with me. And many of us have similar questions at some point in our lives. I could only listen and encourage her to seek God and to read his Word. There are no simple answers when someone is hurting and searching for truth and answers.
She knew that I lead a bible study at the WEC weekly and I suppose that puts me in a certain category in people’s minds.
What would you have said to her if she would have asked you? Gisela

Pastor Kevin Parviz, St. Louis, will be in Atwood the weekend of April 4-6. Redeemer Lutheran will host a Seder Supper Sunday, April 6th from 3:30 p.m. to 7:00 p.m. There will be communion offered during this event. Please reserve your spot by calling 785-626-3178.

Sometimes unexpected things happen when we least expect them.
I was at the YMCA in McCook recently when I bumped into a young lady I had gotten to know when she used to work at the Work Ethic Camp. Among other titles she had was being the “religious coordinator”. Coordinate religious activities and having an occasional in-service is what contact I mostly had with her. But I would bump into her in the community as well. She and her husband have 3 children and work elsewhere now.
She started telling me that her husband had terminal cancer and that the whole family was having a tough time dealing with it. “My biggest problem is that I’m struggling with my faith”, she told me. She continued to tell me that it seemed so wrong to take the father of her children from them and asking God “why”.
Of course I don’t have any answers to those questions but I was surprised that she shared so much with me. And many of us have similar questions at some point in our lives. I could only listen and encourage her to seek God and to read his Word. There are no simple answers when someone is hurting and searching for truth and answers.
She knew that I lead a bible study at the WEC weekly and I suppose that puts me in a certain category in people’s minds.
What would you have said to her if she would have asked you? Gisela

Tonight’s Lent Service has been cancelled due to weather.  Please spread the word to anyone who might not have internet.

THANKS

Jo