St John's Lutheran Church of Rock Township

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St. John's Christmas Eve program

Since we are not able to get together at St. John's for the SS children's program, here is the link to last year's Christmas Eve program for you to enjoy again.

St. John's Christmas Eve program St. John's Christmas Eve 12/24/21

Christmas Eve 2022

Christmas Eve 2022

Due to the cold and wind as well as road conditions, St. John’s has canceled our Christmas Eve program for this evening. There are several archived Christmas Eve programs on Cross Roads YouTube channel that you can watch instead tonight. We will try to get links posted for them.

Stay safe and Merry Christmas!

We extend our sympathies to Vicky and Darwin Kroneman on the passing of her mother, Darlene Fredrickson, on Monday, December 19th. Graveside services will be held this morning at 10:00 at Memorial Park Cemetery in Mason City. Please keep the family in your prayers.

A reminder this morning of the joint worship service at Rock Creek with Rachel Kurtz.

Reformation Sunday
Join us this morning at 8:30a.m. at Rock Creek for a joint worship service with online streaming.
This will be the only service today.
If unable to attend, you can watch it on Youtube.com: https://youtu.be/6ePZd-ddgCA

Junior High and High School Youth will be meeting with Rachel Kurtz after the service for a special time of conversation and snacks!

A week late with this post, here are our two seniors, Brenna Kruse and Addison Tabbert, getting their backpacks blessed at worship service last week. Our prayers are with both of you as you enjoy your last year of high school.

St. Luke Ice Cream Social will be held next Sunday, August 28th.

Richard Wilde Funeral

Here is the link for Richard Wilde's funeral service at 11:00 this morning.

https://youtu.be/WgWTYujceUs

Richard Wilde Funeral St. John's Lutheran Church

Schroeder Funeral Homes

We extend our sympathies to the family of Loreen Wilde who passed away August 13th. Her funeral will be held on August 19th at Osage Alliance Church and her burial will be at St. John's cemetery. Please keep her family in her prayers.

https://schroederfuneralhomes.com/Obituary298

Schroeder Funeral Homes Obituary of Loreen Wilde-Seely

Schroeder Funeral Homes

We extend our sympathy to the family of Richard Wilde who passed away Monday, August 15th. His funeral will be held at St. John's on Saturday, August 20th, at 11:00 am. Please keep Sandy and her family in your prayers.

https://schroederfuneralhomes.com/Obituary299

Schroeder Funeral Homes Obituary of Richard Wilde

Schroeder Funeral Homes

We extend our sympathies to the family of Denise Tabbert who passed away unexpectedly this past weekend. Her funeral will be held at St. John's on Friday, August 19th, at 10:30am. Please keep her brothers and sisters and extended family in your prayers.

https://schroederfuneralhomes.com/Obituary293

Schroeder Funeral Homes Obituary of Denise Tabbert

Our Campfire Worship Service will be held this Saturday, August 13th.

Dennis Grundel Funeral Service

The funeral for Dennis Grundel on Thursday, July 14th, will be live streamed starting at 10:20am using the following link

https://youtu.be/A6GUbztH7Mo

Dennis Grundel Funeral Service St. John's 7/14/22

Schroeder Funeral Homes

We extend our sympathies to the family of Dennis Grundel who passed away Saturday, July 9. Please keep Marge and Deb and the rest of the family in your prayers.

https://schroederfuneralhomes.com/Obituary285

Schroeder Funeral Homes Obituary of Dennis Grundel

Our Ice Cream Social is Sunday, July 10th, from 5:00-7:00pm.

For a second year St. John's has offered the use of our parsonage to be used by members of Cedar Summerstock. Marjean and Vicki had the opportunity to meet and greet the cast and crew and had their picture taken with three of the members, (l-r)Jack Bechard, Griffin Cole, and Rodney McKinner, staying at our parsonage. As a thank you, the cast members staying at our parsonage will provide special music at our June 19th worship service.

St. John’s service in the cemetery this morning will be held in the church due to weather.

Several of our resident lifts are in need of replacement. This piece of equipment plays an extremely important role in our ability to serve our residents.

We are beginning a fund raising effort to replace one lift. Eventually we will need to replace 3 in total.

The estimate pictured below shows how expensive these lifts are.

As always, any help with our fundraising efforts are greatly appreciated!

Thank you in advance!

Cross Roads Lutheran Parish, Holy Hilarity Sunday 04/24/22

Cross Roads Lutheran Parish, Holy Hilarity Sunday 04/24/22 Service at St. Luke Lutheran Church

A reminder that there will be a special congregational meeting for St. John's following worship this morning to consider moving the general fund and cemetery CD's to other investments.

Schroeder Funeral Homes

We extend our sympathies to the family of Allen Wilde who passed away early this morning, April 1st. Please keep Mariedna in your prayers.

https://schroederfuneralhomes.com/Obituary246

Schroeder Funeral Homes Obituary of Allen Wilde

Our Lenten theme, Full to the Brim, is an invitation—into a radically different Lent, into a full life. It’s an invitation to be authentically who you are, to counter scarcity and injustice at every turn, to pour out even more grace wherever it is needed. And so, this Lent, let us trust—fully—that we belong to God. Let us increase our capacity to receive and give grace. Let us discover the expansive life God dreams for us.

See you tonight at 5:30 pm for our joint Ash Wednesday service held at St. John's Lutheran Church.

Lowell (Butch) Kroneman passed away on Tuesday, February 15. Please keep Judy and family in your prayers. A Celebration of Life has been set for March 26th.

We realize it’s late notice but for those attending worship service at St. John’s tomorrow morning you are invited to wear a jersey of your favorite team, or any team, on this super bowl Sunday.

A new fundraising project! We are looking to purchase 4 oxygen concentrators. They cost $520 each. We currently rent them and the cost is prohibitive.

Any donations can be sent to the business office at Faith Lutheran Home.

As always, all donations that help us meet our goals to care for our seniors are appreciated!

Thank you!

St. John's Christmas Eve program

Please join us for our Christmas Eve program on Friday evening, December 24, at 6:30pm. Masks are not required.

If you aren't able to join us in peson, you can watch on YouTube as it is live streamed or later at your convenience from the Cross Roads channel

https://youtu.be/33C-Rz5UmSI

St. John's Christmas Eve program St. John's Christmas Eve 12/24/21

𝐈𝐭'𝐬 𝐓𝐢𝐦𝐞 𝐓𝐨 𝐑𝐞𝐠𝐢𝐬𝐭𝐞𝐫 𝐟𝐨𝐫 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐄𝐋𝐂𝐀 𝐍𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧𝐚𝐥 𝐘𝐨𝐮𝐭𝐡 𝐆𝐚𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐫𝐢𝐧𝐠!

All youth who are now in grades 8-12 are invited to attend the national youth gathering which will take place in Minneapolis on July 24-28, 2022. That may seem like a long time away, but our group needs to register by November 20th! If you are interested in attending, please talk to Pastor Sarah or Pastor Joel as soon as possible!

An informational meeting about the National Youth Gathering will be held via Zoom on Monday, November 15th at 6:30pm for youth in grades 8-12 and their parents. Please contact Pastor Sarah or Pastor Joel at (361)244-1957 to receive a Zoom invite and find out more information
about this life-changing experience!
https://us02web.zoom.us/j/84896858567
Meeting ID: 848 9685 8567

A reminder that there is no Sunday School this morning at St. John’s. Have a safe evening as you trick or treat.

Coming in less than two weeks! Drive-Thru at South Square!

Save the Date!!!
St. Luke Ice Cream Social
Sunday, September 12
5:00 – 7:00 pm

Take out available as well as drive up/pick ups.

Menu: Maidrites, chips, water, pie and Ice Cream for $8

Thank you, thank you, thank you!!! What a wonderful day to celebrate 150 years of ministry for St. John's. It is hard to find enough words to describe the joy and excitement that surrounded everybody yesterday. We appreciate all of the support from our members, fellow parish members, and the community. Thank you to all who helped make this a special day in any way and to our guests and former ministry staff for their greetings. Even though we gather in "church", all of you are indeed what makes up our church.

The T-shirts made for our 150th have arrived. If you ordered some, they are available for pickup at church in the back pews. They are sorted and bagged with a label with your name on them. We do have a limited number of extra gray t-shirts that will be available for sale at the Ice Cream Social.

Only one day to go! Tomorrow, August 14th, is the day of our Ice Cream Social and Campfire worship service.

Our Ice Cream Social runs from 4:30 to 6:30pm. We will have plenty of outdoor tables to eat at as well as tables in the basement. We will also have covered containers for takeouts available.

The campfire worship service will be at 7:00pm. Please come with some memories to share during the service. We also want to remind everybody that if they are uncomfortable with the crowds that you can stay in your car to watch the service while listening on an fm radio station.

We can't wait to see you on Saturday!

Two more days!! Our Ice Cream Social and campfire worship service are this Saturday, August 14th, serving from 4:30 to 6:30pm and worshiping at 7:00pm, to mark our 150th.

We will have seating inside and outside for eating as well as takeouts available.

Our worship service will combine singing some older familiar hymns along with sharing memories. We will be encouraging everybody attending to share some memories during the service. A reminder that we will broadcast on a fm station if you want to remain seated in your vehicle.

Hope to see you all there on Saturday.