CONGRATULATIONS TO THE 2025 DEBORAH S. MAXEY SCHOLARSHIP RECIPIENTS: (11:00 service)
Defiance High School Graduates:
Evan Becher, Northwest State Community College,
majoring in Fire Science
Parents: Kurt and Jodi Becher
Levi Goff, Northwest State Community College,
majoring in Accounting
CUSTODIAN NEEDED
CHURCH OFFICE
The church office will be closed next Wednesday at 2:00 p.m. (our normal business hours are 8a.m. -2 p.m.), Mrs. Wagner is on vacation and Mrs. Clark will be gone.
We are featured at Meijer for the Simply Give Program. Information is in the church bulletin and the Epistle. Take a scan card, located on the south lobby receptionist desk, and the cashier will add $10.00 to your order.
At the end of the campaign, Meijer will give us Meijer gift cards for the value of the contributions.
On Saturday, June 14th, Flag Day, your $10.00 will return $30.00 back in Meijer gift cards for food only for our pantry. Information will continue to be published and promoted.
ITEMS NEEDED: egg noodles, cream of chicken, beef or chicken broth.
CHIEF RECIEPTS
We will still be collecting Chief receipts, however, the money will now be earmarked for the St. John Lutheran Church Social Welfare account.
MAY IS MENTAL HEALTH MONTH!
NEW CARE NOTES:
There are new Care Notes available in the Bergman Resource Room:
Take One – Take Heart; Give One – Give Hope
Working Your Way Through Stressful Circumstances
Additional titles have been placed in the Caring Ministry Resource
Room just off of the Work Room. Please take one for you or give to a friend.
Notes now available:
“What Grieving Does to the Body”
“Overcoming the Stigma of Mental Illness”
“Loving Someone with Mental Illness”
“When God Feels Far Away”
“Finding God in Pain or Illness”
“Finding Grace in the Everyday”
“Dealing With the Anger That Comes with Grief”
“Angry? Lonely? Anxious? Dealing With Difficult Emotions”
“Easing the Burden of Stress”
ATTENDANCE CHURCH SERVICES
May 10 61 5:30 PM
May 11 130 9:00 AM
TOTAL: 252