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St. John Lutheran Church & Preschool 122 Cheyenne Mesa

Hamilton, TX 76531

Phone: (254) 386-3158

Preschool (254) 386-3332

Fax: (254) 386-3159

Pastor—

pastorreich@gmail.com

Secretary—

stjohnlutheranoffice@gmail.com

Preschool—

stjohnlutheranpreschool@gmail.com

Website: www.stjohnhamilton.org

May we continue to be used by God and share the Gospel with A Heart for Hamilton County

and the World!!

We Go With Jesus!

When we think about doing mission work, most people think about spending a lot of money and going over seas in order to do this mission work. What is a little bit ironic is the fact that the United States is becoming more of a mission field than other countries. Our small group Bible study on Sunday evenings is going through a study on the book “Joining Jesus on His Mission”. This book addresses the fact that we need to be everyday mis-sionaries where God has placed us in life. With this said, we need a change in our mindset in order to under-stand what an everyday missionary looks like.

Over the next three months we are going to look at three mission mindset changes. The first mission mind-set change is, “We don’t go for Jesus, we go with Je-sus”. I have been guilty of this and you probably have been as well. We talk a lot about the Christian life in terms of us going out and doing the work for Jesus that He has called us to do. To be honest, this can be over-whelming. We are not asked to go out for Jesus. We are simply called to go with Him. He is already at work in people’s lives. He is at work in your neighbors’ lives. He is at work in the lives of coworkers, family members, the parents you sit in the stands with at your children’s sporting events, the people you are in civic organizations with. Whoever you are around on a daily basis, Jesus is already at work.

Jesus simply invites us to open our eyes. Be ob-servant of the people that are placed in our path each day. Jesus is doing the hard work of softening the heart through the power of the Holy Spirit. We have the easy task: being a neighbor. People notice when we take the time to be a good neighbor or friend. People notice when we stop for a few minutes to talk with them about something that they are dealing with in their life. People notice acts of kindness and concern. When you are observant and being a good neighbor, you never know when you might have the person who will be receptive to hearing the Gospel saving message of Jesus Christ.

May we continue to go with Jesus and to share the message of our risen Savior with A Heart for Hamilton County and the World!

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Birthdays 1st Rick Payne 3rd Mickey Koser 4th Barbara Jahns Gerry Harrow 5th Allen Dodson Monica Reed 8th Auden Martinez 9

th Bob Jarvis

Brandi Surely Sara Harrow 10th Ethan Cathey Sara Cathey Shirley Meissner 11th Ethan Chorendziak 12th Chloe Lowrey Darman Wagner 13th George LeGrande 14th Melinda Lange 15th Sydney English Sawyer Hanson Trint Jeschke Patsy Krueger Cynthia McElroy

Keaton Muxworthy 16th Nancy Horton Riley Reich 17th Phiona Clark 19th Pat Bottlinger Susi Bottlinger 20th Wilma Gaydos 22nd Will Beber 23rd Sarah Bauman Buckie Pate Ruth Reneau 26th Zachery Voges 29th Brenda Arnett Jaxon Lange 30th Edward Looney 31st Valerie Massingill Shelby Smith Casey Yates

Baptisms 1st Rhonda Geter 7th Emma Cantara Sarah Zschiesche 9th Kathy Kensing 11th Bill Olsen 12th Philip Abdou Barbara Jahns Justin Squires 14

th Kay Zschiesche

16th Cara Finstad Piper Hanson Chloe Lowery 19th Rachel Bottlinger 20th Kain Kunkel 22nd David Gromatzky 25th Riley Reich 26th Ruth Reneau James Tischler 27th Shirley Gerald 30th Ernie Moyers 31st Suzanne Jarvis

August 1st

Rick & Kathy Payne-30yrs

Darman & Jane Wagner-58yrs

August 6th

Derrell & Lois Hungerford-41yrs

Ryan & Misti Polster-23yrs

Stanley & Delores Stanford-36yrs

August 7th

Lee Roy & Karen Tyson-41yrs

August 15th

Pastor & Stacy Reich-30yrs

August 16th

Billy & Sharolyn Lawson-42yrs

August 18th

Doyle & Barbara Cook-61yrs

August 19th

Raymond &Patsy Krueger-28yrs

August 23rd

Tom & Connie White-43-yrs

August 25th

Jerry & Kay Zschiesche-44yrs

August 26th

Neil & Lynn Muxworthy-39yrs

August 30th

August & Wilma Gaydos-48yrs

August 31st

John & Irene Zaruba-60yrs

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Opening/Breakfast

Sundays 8:30am

Sunday School

Sundays 9:00am

Church Worship

Sundays 10:00am

Small Group

Sundays 5:00pm

Beginning June 18th

Quilting

Tuesdays 9:00am

Men’s Bible Study

Thursday 6:30am

$ 9,644 Current

$ 50,000

$ 100,000

$ 150,000

$ 200,000

$ 230,000

Please lift up the

following in prayer

Our Military & Families:

Travis Beach, Austin Beckner, Nick Cantara, Josh Chorenziak, Anthony French, Charles Gonce, Matthew Medina, Ernie Mendez, Payden Nolen, John Park, Jordan Ratliff, Logan Selman, Richard

Sepolio, John Slough, Warren Stanley, Micah Stork, Keith Voges, Garrett White, Scott Williams

Our Homebound & Nursing Facilities:

Dove Hill: Kendra Code, Jean Ranney, Louise Roper, Lillye Sanders, Larry Stamberger, Raymond & Maxine Wenzel Hamilton Health Care: Nelda Hlavati, Cecil & Mildred Kauitzsch, Melinda Rogers,

Leamon & Lydia Wagner, Wyvonne Wenzel Sr. Care Center,

Stephenville: Ruth Young The Meadows, Gatesville: Faye Senger

Homebound: Frances Donahoo, Norma Marwitz, Bill Olsen, Albert Peters, Mae Pietzsch, Ruth

Reneau, Frances Schrank

Ricky Brown - dealing with neck, breathing & other health issues

Frances Donahoo - dealing with heart & other health issues

Louis Donahoo - dealing with heart & other health issues

Gary Gromatzky - dealing with nerve damage in back causing numbness & balance issues

Bobby Moore– prayers for his LPC license to go smoothly

Margie Seider - awaiting stress test results and other health issues

Maxine Wenzel - recovering from a fall and broken arm

Raymond Wenzel - dealing with dementia & other health issues

Theresa Williams - dealing with seizures and various health issues

Molly Beach - niece of Darryl & Michelle Beach suffering from an auto-immune disease & other health

issues

Eric Blanks - brother-in-law of Pastor Reich suffering with esophageal cancer; all treatments have

been stopped and given about a month to live

Raymond Blansit - diagnosed with cirrhosis of the liver awaiting more test results

Jim Crouch - undergoing immunotherapy for cancer

Dennis Ensor - dealing with cancer

Jo Lawson - aunt of Billy Lawson recovering from back surgery; still having some issues with one leg

Jack Miller – father of Molly Beach who was cancer free for 5yrs recently found growth on his bladder and is waiting to see a urologist ….praying for non-issue, asking for the Dr to have wisdom, accu-

rate diagnosis and treatment plan

Lydia Craig McGhee - surgery to remove brain tumor successful; going through treatments

Jim Shafer - dealing with eye pressure issues

Prayers of Praise and Thanksgiving:

-Jonathon Reich - received acceptance and scholarship to Parker University Chiropractic school…… Answered prayer.

-RAIN….for the showers we received and prayer for more.

Please contact the church office with updates on prayer requests for friends and loved ones.

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Summer

Small Group

Study

Sunday

Nights

@ 5pm

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Music Notes by:

Gary Gromatzky

Glorious Things of Thee Are Spoken

By John Newton

1779

Glorious things of Thee are spo-ken, Zion , city of our God;

He whose word cannot be broken Formed thee for His own abode.

On the Rock of Ages founded, What can shake thy sure repose?

With salvation’s walls surround-ed, Thou may’st smile

at all thy foes.

See, the streams of living waters, Springing from eternal Love,

Well supply thy sons and daugh-ters, And all fear of want remove.

Who can faint while such a river Ever flows their thirst assuage?

Grace which, like the Lord, the Giver, Never fails from age to age!

Round each habitation hovering, See the cloud and fire appear

For a glory and a covering, Showing that the Lord is near!

Thus deriving from our banner Light by night and shade by day;

Safe they feed upon the manna Which He gives them

when they pray.

Glorious things are spoken of you, O city of God! Psalm 87:3 (NKJV)

If you visit England in the future, Plan to stop in quaint little Olney, home of John Newton And William Cowper. An excellent mu-seum is dedicated to them, housed in Orchard Side, Cowper’s home on Olney’s triangular marketplace. Cowper had moved to Olney to be un-der the ministry of John Newton, who preached in the village church. The two became friends and would often meet in the garden between their houses for long talks. Out of their friendship came one of history’s most famous books-the Olney Hymns, first published in 1779.

Prior to his conversion, Newton had been a slave trader on the high seas, and a very wicked man. After his conversion, he became a power-ful preacher a leader in the fight against slavery, and a renowned hym-nist. His most famous hymn, “Amazing Grace,” is an expression of his testimony.

This song, “Glorious Things of Thee Are Spoken,” Number 60 in the Olney hymnal is a powerful hymn about the church, which is meta-phorically described here as “Zion.” It originally had five verses, built around seven biblical passages, which Newton footnoted in the original hymnal.

If you hear this hymn being played in Germany, you’d better stand to your feet for you’ll be hearing the German national anthem. Franz Joseph Haydn’s majestic composition, AUSTRIA, was played for the first time on February 12, 1797, to honor the Austrian Emperor Franz Josef on his birthday. It was an immediate Hit, and was almost instantly adopted as the Austrian national anthem. Thus it remained until Adolf Hitler rose to power. In 1938 when Austria was annexed into the Ger-man Third Reich during the Anschluss, Hitler not only seized Austria, but he seized AUSTRIA, adapting Haydn’s musical score as the Nazi national anthem.

After the War, the Austrian people, feeling they could no longer use Haydn’s tune as their national song because of its association with the Nazis, chose another melody. The Germans, however, kept Haydn’s tune, AUSTRIA as their own anthem.

As far back as 1802, however, Christians in America and Britain were using Haydn’s AUSTRIA as a hymn accompaniment, and this ma-jestic composition is best known today as the melody for John Newton’s famous hymn about the church of Jesus Christ, “Glorious Things of Thee Are Spoken.”

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Choir practice has started up again, we would love to have you come and join us and to help us worship our Savior in song.

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500th Anniversary of the Refor-mation Regional Service

Sunday, October 29, 2017 Grace Lutheran, Killeen at 3:00 pm Catered BBQ meal following service

($10 a person)

I, Pastor Reich, would like to encour-age everyone to attend this event. Mark your calendars now. We will be taking the church vans and an other transportation available.

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Gutenberg

Printing Press

The printing press was invented in the Holy Roman Empire by the German Johannes Gutenberg around 1440, based on exist-ing screw presses.

Gutenberg, gold-smith by profession, developed a printing system, by adapting existing technologies to printing purposes, as well as making inven-tions of his own.

His newly devised hand mould made pos-sible the precise and rapid creation of met-al movable type in large quantities.

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As members of St John we send

monthly support to Vicar Dagan

Siepert. He is a son of the con-

gregation from St. Paul’s Luther-

an Church, Aleman.

“Vicarage is going extremely

well, but the work is difficult. I

serve two congregations, one

that has about 30 in attendance

on a weekend and the other

with about 40. I truly am

blessed because I get to see the

joys and struggles of ministry

in a variety of settings. And I

preach almost every Sunday!”

“Thank you all for your con-tinued prayers and generous financial support. Vicarage has been going very well. I cannot believe that I only have four months left! I look forward to coming home to Texas sometime in Novem-ber or December……”

In His Love, Dagan W. Siepert Vicar

(See Bulletin board in the back of the church

to read the full letterer)

From the Board of Finance: Greetings to you in Jesus name,

As we begin the budget process of St. John for the year 2018, we are aware of the considerable discrepancy between contributions and the budget that was adopted for 2017. The committees of the congregation will soon be planning for the upcoming financial year and submitting their proposed budgets for 2018.

All members should prayerfully be reminded of the importance of giving to meet the church’s financial goals. God has opened many opportunities for ministry and outreach in our congregation and He will continue to bless our members with resources to share.

We are told that when we give to others, we give to God: “He who is kind to the poor lends to the Lord, and He will regard him for what he has done.” Proverbs 19:17

We should give not because God expects us to, but out of the generosity of our hearts by returning to God a portion of His bounty. We are told: “Each man should give what he has decided in his heart to give, not reluctantly, or under compulsion, for God loves a cheerful giver.” II Corinthians 9:7

The apostle Paul tells us that we receive according to the way we give: “Remember this: Whoever sows sparingly will also reap sparingly, and whoever sows generously will also reap generously.”

Giving on a regular basis serves as a constant reminder that God is our pro-vider. You alone must decide how to account for your stewardship of the blessings God gives you and how to honor Him with your offerings.

“This service that you perform is not only supplying the needs of God’s people but is also over- flowing in many expressions of thanks to God.” II Corinthians 9:12

May you be richly blessed as your hearts overflow with thankfulness as good stewards of all that God has given you.

God’s Blessings,

The Board of Finance and Stewardship

Board of Finance:

The Board of finance will be holding a meeting with the chairperson

from each board to discus the 2018 budget. The meeting will be Tues-day, August 8th at 6:00pm in the FLC. If you cannot attend, please send

a member from you board.

In Christ,

The Board of Finance

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A FESTIVAL OF HYMNS CELEBRATING REFORMATION 500 YEARS OF CHURCH

As part of Reformation 500 we at Faith Lutheran in Stephenville are planning a hymn sing. And we would like for you and your congregation to join us for that event!

Probable date for the hymn sing would be in late January or early February 2018. The event would most likely be on a Sunday afternoon; but we would like to know your thoughts on that since you'd be traveling to get here.

Thank you very much. I look forward to working with you and other mem-bers of your congregation on this joint event.

Kendra Code: Dove Hill Lillye Sanders: Dove Hill

Bradley, Stephanie, Dane & Evie Batla P O Box 19 Energy, TX 76452

Heath, Chrissy, Caden & Haley Hopper 1010 Shady Oaks Hamilton, TX 76531

Jimmie, Nancy. Stephen & Rebecca Horton 401 FM 575 N Goldthwaite, TX 76844

George, Cathy, Ethan, Cooper, & Abby LeGrande 4800 FM 2486 Hamilton, TX 76531

John, Cat & Pierce Parks 444 CR 204 Hamilton, TX 76531

Marvin & Sandra Witte 734 E. Hill Hamilton, TX 76531

Derek Voges, Alexis , & Joseph Killeen, TX

Arnold Ramming Music Director Faith Lutheran Church, Stephenville, Texas

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A representative from Air-MedCare has been in contact with the church and has group discount rates available for church members. This is an insurance policy that would cover air ambulance services. Information packets are in the Narthex.

Pictures from Camp!!

Dear Pastor Reich and Congregation,

Thank you so very much for you kind & generous donation to the Immanuel Brillinger Mission Fund. Your support of the mission truly assists in the outreach of God’s Word to many in need in Ka-

zakhstan, Lithuania, & Spain.

We pray that all of you are well & safe as we experience these hot & wet Summer days! We apologize that this letter has been delayed, but we have recently returned from a successful mis-sion trip to Kazakhstan, & visit there with Pastor Sasha & Pastor Gennadiji, & our fellow Lutheran congregants at St. Peter & St. Paul Lutheran Church, & House of Prayer Lutheran Church. Funds & supplies were brought to them to assist in the spread-ing of The Gospel……….

It is because of generous people like you that we continue to help the people of Kazakhstan, Lithuania, & Spain. All are thankful for your financial & prayer support of these various missions. May God continue to bless you, your loved ones, & your congregation.

Sincerely in Jesus’ Name, Pastor Otto A. & Jean Brillinger 8621 N 300 E Decatur, IN 46733 E-mail: brillingerotto@yahoo.com

(The full letter is on the bulletin board at the back of the church)

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Upcoming August

Events

6th -1:30p - Nursing Home Devotion

7th-11th -P/S Dinosaur Camp

8th - 1:00p - Glory Gamesters

5:00p –3rd-5th grade

Swim Party @ Shawna’s

5:30p -Bd of Trustees

6:00p –Bd of Finance to meet

with Board Heads.

14th - 5:30p - Bd of Ed & Youth

Bd of Elders

16th - Jr & Sr High Swim Party @

Shawna’s

20th - Promotion Sunday/Backpack

blessing

21st - Newsletter Deadline

27th - 11:15a - Ruth Guild

29th –P/S Open House

5:30p-6:00p –Little Lambs

6:00p –6:30p –Mighty Lions

6:30-7:30p -Kinder/Bridge

30th –Pre-Confirmation &

Confirmation begins

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St. John Lutheran Church & Preschool

122 Cheyenne Mesa

Hamilton, Texas 76531