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1 ZION EV. LUTHERAN CHURCH TH AVE. NORTH, HUMBOLDT, IOWA PHONE: (515) FAX: (515) WEBSITE: zioninhumboldt.org March 4, 2018 Rev. Aaron Flatau Rev. Kyle McBee Senior Pastor Associate Pastor Cell Phone: Cell Phone: Barb Zabel, Preschool Teacher Phone: AT THE END OF THE SERVICE be sure to greet those who are seated around you. YOU are His Voice, His Hand, to those who are worshipping with you. FLOWERS are given to the glory of God by Todd, Kristy and Zayne Smith in honor of Grandma Joan s birthday on March 6 and Aunt Mildred s birthday on March 8. LUTHERAN HOUR When God s Darkness Surrounds You with Guest Speaker Rev. Dr. Dale A. Meyer. When times are darkest, God wants you to know how close He really is. It s in those threatening times that you can especially learn and live in His love. (Exodus 20:1-17) Listen to The Lutheran Hour locally on Sunday at 12:01 p.m. on KHBT 97.7 FM and at 6:00 p.m. on KJYL FM or on the web at The Lutheran Hour is also on XM s Family Talk Radio every Sunday at 1:00 p.m. (EST). Today s broadcast is sponsored to the glory of God and in thanksgiving for His grace and the memory of Morgan Marie Raether. HOSPITALIZED THIS WEEK: Fisher), Des Moines. Michelle Dornath (daughter of Joyce Please remember in your PRAYERS THIS WEEK: Gary King Family (Kari Rubel s father passed away); Mary Grebe; Richard Abbas Family (Doris Gillespie s brother passed away); Joe Vanderhoff; Joe Holmberg; Jerry Diedrick; Cassie Markman, (daughter of Lonnie and Deb Ruberg and granddaughter of Linda Schade); Dawn Busse (sister of Terry Busse and niece of Judy Harklau); Scot Slaikeu; Sidney Paul. The Board of Elders will be hosting the Lenten Supper this Wednesday, March 7 from 5:30-6:30 p.m. in the Fellowship Hall. The menu will be Casseroles, lettuce salad and dressings, and bars/cookies. A freewill offering will be received. Come and enjoy a good meal and fellowship.

2 STEWARDSHIP OF TIME AND TALENTS: ATTENDANCE Saturday-38; Communed-32; Sunday-134; Communed-104; Lent 2-151; STEWARDSHIP OF TREASURE: OFFERINGS WEEK #8-2/25/2018 Weekly Budget Needs to Date: $8, DESIGNATED OFFERING: Weekly-$3,948; Preschool-$385; Lent-$20; Birthday-$216; Lutheran Witness Sub.-$47.67; KHBT Lutheran Hour-$35; Fellowship Hall Rent-$50; Trinity/Deer Creek-$1,785.88; Copies-$20; Lent-$860.61; Birthday-$54; ZION S SCHEDULE THIS WEEK: Tues. 9:00 a.m.-1:30 p.m. LWML Quilting 9:15 a.m. Women s Bible Study 6:30 p.m. Women s Bible Study Wed. 10:00 a.m. Ladies Bible Study Noon Community Lenten Service (Oak Hill) 5:30 p.m. Lenten Supper (Board of Elders) 6:30 p.m. Lenten Service 7:15 p.m. Confirmation 7:15 p.m. Adult Choir Thurs. 8:30 a.m. LWML Executive Board Meeting 9:30 a.m. LWML Circle Sat. 6:00 p.m. Worship Sun. 8:45 a.m. Sunday School 8:45 a.m. Youth & Adult Bible Studies 10:00 a.m. Worship 11:00 a.m. Movie God s Not Dead in Fellowship Hall LWML has CARDS for sale! Baby, Sympathy, Wedding, Anniversary, Birthday, Get Well, Etc. Individual Cards are $1.00 and the price for boxed cards is on back of the box. The cards are in the Narthex. WANTED Check your linen closet for unused sheets or old blankets the LWML could use as liners in our World Relief Quilts which are 60 x 80. We have plenty of tops. Leave them on the north cupboard in the Narthex Thank you. LWML MISSION NOTES: For MARCH we are collecting items for Camp Okoboji for their kitchen needs. See the March Newsletter for a list of needed items. Please place your donations in the totes in the wood cabinet located on the north wall in the Narthex. Ron and Mary Stolle will take the items to Camp on April 7, for the Annual Meeting. Thank you for your support of our missions! LWML Mission Committee: Joan A., Marian A., Jackie S.

3 Midweek Lenten Services will continue this Wednesday, March 7 at 6:30 p.m. The theme for Lent is Return from Exile. This week will be Exodus 14:13-31 and Mark 1:9-13 Out of Egypt: Through the Water. The Lord has blessed Tim and Alyssa Reekers with the gift of a baby boy, LINCOLN ROBERT, who was born Thursday, February 22, 2018 at UnityPoint Health Trinity Regional Medical Center, Fort Dodge, Iowa. Grandparents are Bruce and Sue Reimers. May our gracious Lord grant Lincoln a long life filled with His richest blessings. Thanks to everyone for the cards, phone calls and best wishes for our 60 th Wedding Anniversary. Special thanks to Pastor Aaron and Pastor Kyle for their prayers. God bless you. LeRoy & Joyce Kaspersen When an atheist Philosophy professor plans to forego dusty arguments in his class, he insists the new students declare that God is dead. Unable to do this, Josh is challenged to defend his faith and prove to the class that God s Not Dead. Against all odds, Josh stands up for his faith and takes on the challenge. Everyone is invited to attend our next Movie Day next Sunday, March 11 following the church service and we should be done by 1:45. Bring snacks to share if you d like and a lawn chair for comfort if you would like. Bring a friend or neighbor too! DON T FORGET Tuesday, March 13, 9:30 to 11:00 a.m. Stop by the Fellowship Hall to SIT N SIP and chat with fellow members of Zion, as you enjoy a cup of coffee, hot chocolate or tea, (with a goodie on the side). Bring a friend. Come as you are and stay as long as you wish! This is your time to get better acquainted. EASTER LILIES are the symbol of new life and bring beauty to the Sanctuary as we celebrate our Lord s resurrection. They proclaim and trumpet the news HE IS RISEN! HE IS RISEN INDEED! The Evangelism Board requests that you consider giving an Easter Lily in memory of or in honor of someone or an occasion. The cost is $7 for one plant. The order form is on the back page of the March Newsletter. Please put the form in the box in the church office by Sunday, March 18 if you would like to purchase any. Thank you. JR. LYC Scrip Program: Orders are taken for Scrip Cards the 1 st and 3 rd Sunday of the month. By buying groceries, gas or giving them as gifts you support the Jr. LYC. The following cards allow Jr. LYC to make a reasonable profit: 1- Fareway 3 percent back 2- Hy-Vee 5 percent back 3- Casey s 3 percent back

4 The March newsletter is available on the table in the Narthex. If you would like to receive the newsletter by , please notify the church office at The 2018 LWML Yearbooks have been placed in the mail boxes. Please pick yours up. Thanks. Zion leads the Community Lenten Service at 12:05 p.m. and the LWML will host the Luncheon following the service on Wednesday, March 14 at the Methodist Church in Humboldt. Pastor Aaron will give the message and Zion s Preschool will open the service. You are invited to join your fellow Christians from the Humboldt community for this worship opportunity and fellowship. The CIA (Christians in Action) will be hosting a family event of pizza and bowling on Sunday, March 18 following church. We will do pizza at the church and then head to the bowling alley at noon to bowl a game or two. There is a sign-up sheet on the bulletin board or let Pastor Aaron and Amy Nostrom know you plan to attend. Zion will be having a special presentation on Wednesday, March 21 at 6:30 p.m. That Wednesday we welcome a speaker from Chosen People Ministries who will lead us through the story of the Passover and show us how the Passover points forward to Jesus. In the time of Moses, when the 10 plagues were happening, the people of Israel ate the Passover meal while the angel of death visited all the firstborns of the Egyptians and passed over the people of Israel due to the blood of Passover lambs smeared on their doorframes. While this was going on, the people ate a special meal that pointed them forward into the Promised Land, and also pointed forward to Jesus, the ultimate Lamb of God. We are tentatively scheduled to have Trevor Rubenstein as a speaker that evening. Please join us. Kiwanis Roast Beef Dinner an annual Palm Sunday event: If anyone would want tickets to the Roast Beef dinner at Zion on Palm Sunday (March 25) please see Pastor Aaron. The event is in Zion s Fellowship Hall goes from 10:30 a.m. to 1 p.m. This means it is going on after our regular 10 a.m. worship service take your family or friends out to eat. Cost for the tickets is $10 for adults and $5 for children under 10. The 2018 Flower and KHBT Lutheran Hour Charts are posted to the south of the east bulletin board in the Narthex. If you would like to place flowers in the front of the Sanctuary on the side stones or sponsor a Lutheran Hour Broadcast you may do so by signing up on one of the charts. Please take time and consider one or both of these opportunities to give thanks and praise to our gracious Lord. Please finish filling in Thank you.

5 If you would like to use a Child s Activity pack, they are located in the nursery. If you have changed your phone number or are now using only a cell number, have a new address, or have moved and have a new physical address, please contact the church office at zion@goldfieldaccess.net or with your new phone number, address, and/or physical address. LWML STAMPS FOR MISSIONS: Please remember to save those stamps! Commemorative stamps, foreign stamps and high value stamps sell the best. Do not save Christmas or LOVE stamps. Stamps must be as perfect as possible as they are sold to collectors. Please cut 1/4 inch around the stamp and place them in the box on the table in the Narthex. To find the 2018 Commemorative stamps, go online and check them out. If you do not have access to a computer, there is a poster at the post office that shows the 2018 Commemorative stamps. LUTHERAN WITNESS, the official publication of the LC-MS, is available to members. The cost for an individual subscription is now $ Please consider reimbursing Zion. Place your offering in an envelope marked Lutheran Witness Sub. with your envelope number. We thank those who have reimbursed Zion. If you are not receiving the Lutheran Witness and would like to, please notify the church office. Carpet Capital Project: (Donations can be marked Carpet Project ) At the annual meeting in January the voters of Zion voted to install new carpet in the fellowship hall. If you would look at the current carpet you ll find it to be stained, with many of the stains, in spite of multiple carpet cleanings, impossible to be removed. The carpet was installed when the fellowship hall was built and has been around now around 17 years. Another part of the project will be installing flooring (not carpet) down the hallway into the fellowship hall, as well as a layer of flooring along the north wall (by the kitchen) to avoid some of the staining from the kitchen. The cost for the renovation will be about $15,000. At the Council meeting it was discussed that having part of the funds inhand before we commence with the renovation might be fiscally prudent. To facilitate this, if you are able, we are asking for donations for the project. If possible, we would like to have 1/3 to 1/2 in-hand before we have the carpet installed. The rest of the money for the renovation would then presumably be made up with a loan, which we will pay off over time. If possible, we d like to have the carpet installed this late spring/summer. Money for the project can be given in the regular offering marked Carpet Project,' or with the pink Growing in Christ envelopes found in the back of the church (for safety still mark it Carpet Project ). Blessings to you as you consider giving toward this project.

6 If you would like a copy of the Treasurer and/or the Financial Secretary s monthly reports please let the church office know. CANS FOR CAMP OKOBOJI Please take all empty pop cans and bottles and put them in the container located outside on the east side of the Sunday school wing of the church building. Thank you. Dawning a grief support group, meets the first and third Wednesday of the month at the Mason-Lindhart Funeral Home (612 2 nd Ave. S., Humboldt) at 1:30 p.m. Each session will last approximately one hour. Faith United Methodist hosts the Wednesday Lenten Services/Lunches for the Humboldt Community. The clergy of the County Ministerial Association provide a devotional service each Wednesday at 12:05 p.m., followed by a light lunch at 12:30 p.m. The schedule of services is as follows: March 7 Oak Hill Church March 14 Zion Lutheran March 21 Congregational UCC / Abundant Life The Iowa West LLL / LHM Spring Men s Breakfast and Bible Study is Saturday, April 7. Michael Wolfram will be our Bible Study leader. The topic will be Marital First Responders. Grace Lutheran Church, th Ave SE, Le Mars, IA 51031, phone , gracelutheranchurch@ymail.com. Registration and Breakfast are at 8:15 a.m. Help us spread the word AND join us for a Saturday morning of Christian fellowship at Le Mars--Grace Lutheran Church. For information contact Steven Segebart, home or cell , or John Tews, work or cell In a sense, that is where man is today dead in sin, awaiting the Exodus led by the Son of Man, the new Moses, into eternal life, undoing the separation of soul and body at death. Lent (and the weakness of our mortal flesh) reminds us of this separation, our sin. Easter reveals to us the Exodus, Christ s life that sets us free and brings us home. James M. Kushiner, The Fellowship of St. James. A Life Quote from Lutherans For Life BUILDING HEALTHY FAMILIES: As many as 1 in 3 Americans admit to frequent periods of loneliness. Not just occasional loneliness FREQUENT loneliness. Who do you know who might be feeling lonely? Jesus promises, I am with you always, to the end of the age. Find time this week to share these words of encouragement and your company with someone who is lonely. Carry each other s burdens, and in this way you will fulfill the law of Christ. (Galatians 6:2). Lutheran Family Service of Iowa (800) or (515) See website: LFSiowa.org.