ZION EV. LUTHERAN CHURCH 1005 11TH AVE. NORTH, HUMBOLDT, IOWA 50548 PHONE: (515) 332-3279 FAX: (515) 332-3295 E-MAIL: zion@goldfieldaccess.net WEBSITE: zioninhumboldt.org March 18, 2018 Rev. Aaron Flatau Rev. Kyle McBee Senior Pastor Associate Pastor Cell Phone: 515-890-7558 Cell Phone: 515-269-7839 Barb Zabel, Preschool Teacher Phone: 332-3064 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 Lonnie Kirchhoff in memory of his wife, Doris. LUTHERAN HOUR Thrown into the Arms of God with Guest Speaker Rev. Dr. Dale A. Meyer. The desire to advance your own interests can alienate you from others and God. Serving others without thought of reward is God s way forward for followers of Jesus. (Mark 10:32-45) 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 100.7 FM or on the web at www.lutheranhour.org/afn/listen.htm. 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 by Nadine Hockel in memory of her husband, Duane. HOSPITALIZED THIS WEEK: Michelle (Binger) Dornath (daughter of Joyce Fisher), Des Moines. Please remember in your PRAYERS THIS WEEK: Bob Jacobson; Judy Gronbach; Lorna Stellhorn; John Meiwes (father of Pastor Kyle s brother-inlaw); Ellie (the 2 year old daughter of Michelle and Victor Domin, friends of Pastor Kyle); Matt & Liz Graaf s unborn baby (grandchild of Renee Graaf); Gary King Family (Kari Rubel s father passed away); Mary Grebe; Joe Vanderhoff; 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 CIA (Christians in Action) will be hosting a family event of pizza and bowling today, March 18 following church. We will do pizza in the Fellowship Hall and then head to the bowling alley at noon to bowl a game.
STEWARDSHIP OF TIME AND TALENTS: ATTENDANCE Saturday-55; Sunday-169; Lent 4-129; STEWARDSHIP OF TREASURE: OFFERINGS WEEK #11-3/11/2018 Weekly Budget Needs to Date: $8,091.00 DESIGNATED OFFERING: Weekly-$5,996; Preschool-$420; Lent-$25; Birthday-$112; Improvement Fund-$110; KHBT Lutheran Hour-$31.50; Evangelism Easter Lilies-$74; Fellowship Hall Rent-$100; Vacation Bible School Donation-$100; Carpet Fund-$1,250; Reimbursements: Copies-$10, Women s Bible Study Material-$15; Lent-$794.01; Weekly-$80; Carpet Fund-$300; Lenten Supper-JR. LYC-Carpet Fund-$222.50; ZION S SCHEDULE THIS WEEK: Today 11:00 a.m. CIA Pizza & Bowling Tues. 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 (Congregational UCC/Abundant Life) 5:30 p.m. Lenten Supper (Sunday School) 6:30 p.m. Lenten Service/Messiah in the Passover 7:15 p.m. Confirmation 7:15 p.m. Adult Choir Sat. 6:00 p.m. Worship with Communion Sun. 8:45 a.m. Sunday School 8:45 a.m. Youth & Adult Bible Studies 10:00 a.m. Palm Sunday Worship with Communion 10:30 a.m.-1:00 p.m. Kiwanis Roast Beef Dinner 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.
The Lord has blessed Jake and Kendra McCullough with the gift of a baby girl, KINSLEY RENAE, who was born Wednesday, March 14, 2018 at Iowa Specialty Hospital, Clarion, Iowa. Grandparents are Bart and Robyn Peterson. May our gracious Lord grant Kinsley a long life filled with His richest blessings. The Sunday School will be hosting the Lenten Supper this Wednesday, March 21 from 5:30-6:30 p.m. in the Fellowship Hall. The menu will be Baked Spaghetti, lettuce salad, garlic bread, and desserts. Proceeds will go toward Sunday School projects. Come and enjoy a good meal and fellowship. Midweek Lenten Services will continue this Wednesday, March 21 at 6:30 p.m. Zion will be having a special presentation. 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 scheduled to have Trevor Rubenstein as a speaker that evening. Please join us. Noon Kiwanis Roast Beef Dinner an annual Palm Sunday event: If anyone would want tickets to the Roast Beef dinner at Zion next Sunday, Palm Sunday (March 25) please see Pastor Aaron. The event is in Zion s Fellowship Hall and 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. Carryout meals are available. Proceeds go to help families and children in our local community and throughout the world. 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 2018. 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
CAMP OKOBOJI Executive Director Doug Kading Retiring: For three decades Camp Okoboji has been blessed with the leadership of Doug Kading as its executive Director. Doug announced his desire to retire from this position to the Camp Board of Directors several months ago. Doug s retirement will become official at the Camp s annual meeting on April 7. In addition to his leadership of Camp Okoboji s Ministry, Doug serves as a member of the IDW Board of Directors and has also served as a past director of the District s Student Financial Aid program. His leadership at Camp and beyond has impacted many children, youth, and families. The congregations and members of Iowa District West (the true owners of Camp Okoboji) are invited to show their appreciation for Doug s leadership by sending notes of appreciation and/or cards of thanks. They may be sent to Camp Okoboji, Attn: Recognition, 1531 Edgewood Drive, Milford, IA 51351. The Camp board of Directors will be hosting a reception for Doug and his wife Sharon after Camp s annual meeting from 4-6 p.m. on Saturday, April 7. The reception will be held in the new Discover Center at Camp. If you are able to attend this reception for Doug please RSVP by calling (712)337-3325. The Camp Board of Directors is also excited to announce that Kirk Warnke has assumed the position of Executive Director of Camp Okoboji. Kirk will formally be designated into the position at the April 7 annual meeting. Kirk s connections within the District, experience with Camp Okoboji, and vision for Camp Okoboji will be a blessing to the future of your Camp. With the significance of the meeting, the Board encourages each congregation to send a delegate (and bring many guests) to this historic annual meeting. Cards can be sent to Michelle (Binger) Dornath, Joyce Fisher s daughter, at: Mercy Center for Rehabilitative Medicine, 1111 6 th Ave. East Tower, Des Moines, IA 50314. 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. The 2018 LWML Yearbooks have been placed in the mail boxes. Please pick yours up. Also, the March Newsletters are on the table in the Narthex. If you would like to receive the newsletter by e-mail, notify the church office. 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.
FOOD FOR THE FLOORS EVENT Raising money for the new flooring in the Fellowship Hall The April 21 st and 22 nd Weekend Bake Sale Saturday April 21 st. Before/after church Sunday April 22 nd. Before/after Church Come for a fun evening Decorated theme tables Sunday April 22 nd. Doors open at 4:00 p.m. Fellowship Hall here at Zion 5:00 p.m. Dinner by reservation only Entertainment Silent Auction
If you have changed your phone number or are now using only a cell number, have a new e-mail address, or have moved and have a new physical address, please contact the church office at zion@goldfieldaccess.net or 332-3279 with your new phone number, e-mail address, and/or physical address. LUTHERAN WITNESS, the official publication of the LC-MS, is available to members. The cost for an individual subscription is now $22.67. 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. Faith United Methodist hosts the Wednesday Lenten Services/Lunches for the Humboldt Community at 12:05 p.m., followed by lunch at 12:30 p.m. The final service will be March 21 by Congregational UCC/Abundant Life. The Humboldt China Painters Spring Egg Show Tickled Pink! will be held Saturday, March 24 from 9:00-11:30 a.m. at the Faith United Methodist Church, Humboldt. There will be hand painted porcelain eggs and many other china painted items for sale. A silent auction too! Free admission and everyone welcome!
Plan to donate blood on Monday, April 2 at the Humboldt Community BLOOD DRIVE held in Faith United Methodist Fellowship Hall from 1-6 p.m. Eligible blood donors must be at least 16 years old, weigh at least 120 pounds and be in general good health. Eat a regular meal before donating blood and bring your blood donor card or photo ID. For more information about blood donation or to schedule an appointment please contact LifeServe Blood Center at (800)287-4903 or online at www.lifeservebloodcenter.org. The Iowa West LLL / LHM Spring Men s Breakfast and Bible Study will be held Saturday, April 7. Michael Wolfram will be our Bible Study leader. The topic will be Marital First Responders. Grace Lutheran Church, 1430 7 th Ave SE, Le Mars, IA 51031, phone 712-546-5516, email 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 712-239-5847 or cell 712-560- 1805, or John Tews, work 641-332-2784 or cell 641-740-0126. Oak Hill s Women s Spring Brunch, Turning to the Light, will be held April 7 from 10:00-noon. Special guest speaker will be Jaimee Nutt. Jaimee lives with her husband in South Sioux City, Nebraska and is passionate about reaching people and draws from her own life experiences. She will motivate and inspire us with the wisdom she has gained along the way and with her unique sense of humor. She is a retired Licensed Mental Health Counselor with an incredible ability to love people where they are at. Jaimee and her late husband, Rev. Doug Haugen and their family lived in Gilmore City for 14 years where he pastored at First Lutheran Church. RSVP to Oak Hill office at 332-1058 or e-mail office@oakhillhumboldt.org. Join us! The Fort Dodge Harmony Brigade presents That s Life on Saturday, April 7 at 2:00 and 7:00 p.m. at the Fort Dodge Middle School, 800 N. 32 nd St. The concert will be filled with two hours of barbershop 4-part harmony and fun. Guest quartets include Mainstreet and Boomtown. Tickets: Adults $10/$12 door, and Students $4/$5 Door, under 8 get in free. For more information or tickets call Daryl Larson, 515-570-3414, any Barbershop member, or get them from Hy-Vee in Fort Dodge. Visit them at www.harmonybrigadefd.com and Facebook. See the poster on the bulletin board in the Narthex.