SERMON by Pastor Mews: “Your Pastor Determines Your Potential”

based on the text: 1 Peter 5:1,5; 1 Timothy 3:1-7

ALTAR FLOWERS

The altar flowers are given in memory of Bob and Marvelle Pracht by their grandchildren and great-grandchildren. Bob’s and Marvelle’s birthdays would have been May 3rd and May 11th.

COMPASSION SUNDAY

Find out how to give help in Jesus’ name to a child in need!  Check out the display on May 9-10 in the lunchroom. You can choose to sponsor a child for $43 a month, or if you cannot make that kind of commitment, you can help a child by choosing a “gift” from a catalog. Examples of gifts: clean water, mosquito netting, support for newborns and their mothers, hygiene packs, seeds, goats and chickens, water wells, and Bibles for children.  See Lorna Smith for more information.

RALPH BARINGER TO BE HONORED

Nancy Baldwin would like to extend an invitation to all who remember her father, Ralph Baringer for his induction into the Defiance City Hall of Fame. The induction will be held at the Stroede Center on Friday, May 8th at 7:00 p.m.  Miss Mabel Adams, a Defiance High School senior and a member of St. John, will present a biographical sketch of Ralph during the presentation. Please attend if you are able!

NEW MEWS WEDNESDAY BIBLE STUDY – THE COST OF DISCIPLESHIP

Pastor Mews began a new Bible/ book study, The Cost of Discipleship, on April 29th at 2:00 p.m. “WHEN CHRIST CALLS A MAN, HE BIDS HIM COME AND DIE” “Cheap grace is the grace we bestow on ourselves . . . the preaching of forgiveness without requiring repentance, Baptism without church discipline, Communion without confession. Cheap grace is grace without discipleship. “Costly grace is the Gospel which must be sought again and again, the gift which must be asked for, the door at which a man must knock. . .”

―Dietrich Bonhoeffer, The Cost of Discipleship

PULLED PORK DRIVE-THRU DINNER

This weekend, there will be a door offering collected for the Pulled-Pork Drive-Thru Dinner that is being held on Tuesday, May 5th.  If you have purchased tickets, don’t forget to pick up your dinners from 4:30-6:00 p.m. in the south parking lot. Thank you for your continued support. 
 

 
 
 
 
 

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ATTENDANCE                 CHURCH SERVICES                  

April 25           49              5:30 PM                                                             

April 26          106             9:00 AM 

                         49            11:00 AM                           

                                                                                                

TOTAL:          204                             

                                                   

 
– Worship Services –
Traditional Services
Saturday, 5:30 p.m., Sunday, 9:00 a.m.
Sunday, 11:00 a.m. Contemporary Service
 
THE 5:30 P.M. SATURDAY AND SUNDAY AT 11:00 A.M. ARE
LIVESTREAMED 
 
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