January 7 Weekly News

PLEASE REMOVE your poinsettia TODAY.  If you ordered through Karen, be sure to take a flower in a gold foil container.

YOUTH will meet this evening at 7:00 p.m.

2018 OFFERING ENVELOPES are available in the narthex.  If you have not yet picked yours up, please do so today.

THE ANNUAL VOTERS’ MEETING will be held next Sunday, January 14, at 1:00 p.m.  The election of 2018 officers will be among the business at hand.  All confirmed members of our congregation, 18 years and older, are encouraged to attend.

THE GUILD will meet this Tuesday, January 9, at 7:00 p.m.  Baptismal banners will be assembled, so please bring scissors and glue guns.

ON SUNDAY, JANUARY 21, our congregation will join others across the country to commemorate Sanctity of Human Life Sunday (SOHLS)-an annual day to celebrate the immeasurable value of all human life and help to defend the sanctity of human life.  We will have a coin collection that day - please give one coin, any amount, for each year of your life, in thanksgiving to God for His many blessings. This collection will be forwarded to Clarity (formerly the Pregnancy Care Center) to help support their ministry of sharing the truth of life with women and men in our community who are facing unplanned pregnancies and to offer compassion and grace to those in need.

POSITION AVAILABLE:  The school board at St John’s White Creek Lutheran School is accepting applications for the position of Principal.  The position is full-time and will involve working with students from grades K-8. The position requires the candidate to have a Master’s Degree and Administrative Licensing. The individual may have teaching duties in addition to administration responsibilities. We are seeking someone caring and diligent about the Christian education of our children, so a Lutheran background and Synodical training is preferred.  Please send your resume to the school office by January 11, 2018.

STEWARDSHIP THOUGHT FOR THE WEEK:   Mark 1:7              

“And John preached, saying, ‘After me comes he who is mightier than I, the strap of whose sandals I am not worthy to stoop down and untie.’”  John is right: Jesus is immensely greater than any of us, yet behold how He came to serve!  That is the upside down, outlandish grace of God: the innocent Jesus takes our sinner’s place.  This is the greatest act of giving the world has ever known or will know: The Father gives His Son to die in the place of sinners.

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