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NEXT WEEK’S SERVANTS

Saturday 5/4 Sunday 5/5—9:00 a.m. Reader John Vandre Gary Schabacker

Acolyte Brianna Gonnerman Allison Dickey

For Next Weekend

For your preparation for next weekend,

please read and pray over the sermon text of

John 21:1-14, with the theme of "Now What

To Do?"

Confirmation On Sunday, May 12 we will conduct "The

Rite of Confirmation" during worship ser-

vice. We pray for and thank God for the

faith of our confirmands: Addison Friestad,

Dylan Gonnerman, Elijah Metzger and Jared

Warner.

Cards and Coffee will meet Friday, May 3 at 10am in the par-

ish nurse office. If you can assist with the

senior Christmas card outreach in any way,

please join in the fellowship. You do not

have to be especially talented—there are

many simple tasks that anyone could do.

Single Sunday will meet Sunday, May 5th at noon at the

Sunrise. This group is for widows, di-

vorced, never married, or just “single on

Sunday”. If interested in more information

contact the parish nurse office.

Needed We need someone or several volunteers

to mow the grass this year. They need to

be at least 18 years old to run the

mower. The mower is a zero turn type

mower. Please contact Bob Elliott if in-

terested at 815-751-2818 or the church

office at 815-562-2744.

Thank You Many thanks to all who served and par-

ticipated in our Lenten, Holy Week and

Resurrection services. As we journeyed to

the Cross and Tomb, we enjoyed and

benefited from the talents and love of oth-

ers. For the special banners, the Lenten

dinners, the talents of those who led wor-

ship, for the Easter lilies, the yard signs

and chancel changes. So much behind the

scenes work is done to provide all of us a

worshipful environment.

Building Relationships in Christ Now and Forever

St. Paul Ev. Lutheran Church 1415 Tenth Ave. Rochelle, Illinois 61068

phone: (815) 562-2744; email: stpaul2@rochelle.net

St. Paul School phone: (815) 562-6323; website: stpaulrochelle.org

SSTT. P. PAULAUL EEVV. L. LUTHERANUTHERAN CCHURCHHURCH April 27 & 28, 2019

C h r i s t ’ s C r u s a d e r s

Worship S c h e d u l e

Saturday

6:00 p.m.

Next Week: Liturgical

w/Communion

Sunday

9:00 a.m.

Next Week: Contemporary

Welcome The joy and peace of the Resurrection brings us

together on "the Lord's Day" to celebrate the new

life and hope we have in the Messiah. While we

struggle with the evil and hatred of the world, we

have an immovable faith and hope in the Risen

Savior. This is the reason followers of Christ

come together to fellowship, study and worship.

We join with the faithful around the world, unde-

terred by the threats of terror and hatred, for we

are a new creation in Christ and live in Resurrec-

tion power and promise. The peace of Christ and

the gifts of His grace be with you.

Baptism We welcome into the family of faith, another

baptized child of God. We are pleased to add

Dakota Faith Casey to our family to enjoy all

the gifts and joy of forgiveness, life and salva-

tion. We thank our Lord as the Holy Spirit had

worked the miracle of faith and delivered the

mystery of grace and peace to little Dakota.

Dakota was born on November 15th to Jeff &

Brandi Casey. Henry & Cheryl Bunger and

Grant & Cherise Meadows are her sponsors.

Please Attend The Special Congregation Meeting is TODAY

(Sunday) after the 9:00 am service for the sanctu-

ary lighting proposal.

RADIO SPONSOR RADIO SPONSOR The 10:00 WRHL (1060 am) radio broad-

cast this morning is sponsored by Mark and

Brenda Maliszewski in honor of Brenda’s

parents, Rudolf and Else Metzger and their

immigration to and arrival in the United

States 65 years ago on April 28, 1954.

Coffee Hour Thank you to the 5th-8th grade students for

beautifying our worship with their songs of

praise. We also thank their parents and teach-

ers for sponsoring Sundays fellowship time.

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The Week at St. Paul: 4/28—May 5 Sunday 28 9:00 a.m. Worship 10:00 a.m. Congregation Meeting

10:15 a.m. Bible Class

Monday 29 5:30 p.m. Public School Confirmation Class

Tuesday 30 6:45 a.m. Men’s Bible Breakfast @ Sunrise

Wednesday 1 8:45 a.m. Chapel

9:45 a.m. Women’s Bible Study

Thursday 2 5:30 p.m. Esther-Naomi Circle @ Arby’s

Friday 3 10:00 a.m. Cards and Coffee

Saturday 4 6:00 p.m. Contemporary Worship

Sunday 5 9:00 a.m. Worship w/Communion

10:15 a.m. Bible Class

12:00 p.m. Single on Sunday @ Sunrise

Parish Nurse Office Hours this week 8:30—11:30 am Monday—Friday

Friends are Blossoms in the Garden of Life

Friday, May 3 —6:00 p.m.

St. Paul Gymnasium

Our entertainment will be presented by Dawn Smith from Colonial Flower Shop.

Tickets are $7 for the delicious chicken dinner. (There will be a kid’s option and a kid’s

activity.) Girls under 5 eat for free. No tickets will be available at the door.

Last Weekend to Get Tickets

Ladies Night Out tickets are available at the back of church on Saturday and Sunday

and also outside the office before or after church on Sunday. The banquet is May 3rd.

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Go d ’ s P e o p l e R e s p o n d

In Our Worship:

4/21 6:30 80 9:00 155 Total 235

Maundy Thursday 89

Good Friday 138

In our Giving:

Last week’s Giving

Last week’s figures were not available at the

time of printing.

Normal income thru

April 7, 2019 $ 106.054

Total Projected & Actual Expenses

for Fiscal Mar 2019– Feb 2020 $ 864,495

Normal Income Needed to

Break-even for Fiscal Year $ 758,441

March – February 2019:

Total Normal Income $ 726,435

Total Expenses $ 783,012

Cash Flow - Negative $ -56,577

Borrowed/Loaned Funds $ 60,000

Net Cash Flow $ 3,423

St. Paul has donated $558.40 from the

Church offerings this calendar year to the

Northern Illinois District (NID) Missions.

If you would like to have a prayer request printed,

please call the church office before Thursday.

Sunday’s Bible Studies

Joint Bible Study meets at 10:15 in the over-

flow room.

Bible Study Opportunities

Women's Bible Class meets on Wednesday at 9:45 a.m. in the overflow room. Come and join us for coffee and a study of the upcom-ing week’s scripture readings.

The Men's Bible Breakfast meets at the Sunrise Restaurant on 251 at 6:45am. You’re invited for fellowship, breakfast and study of the coming week’s scripture readings.

WOW - Women’s’ Bible study meets the second and fourth Tuesdays at 6:30pm. Enter through the West door.

† P L E A S E P R A Y F O R†

† LaVera Prunty for health and strength

† Mary Stein for care and peace

† Lee Metzger for healing and strength

† DJ Svela and family at Tammy's death

† The Baptism of Dakota Casey

† For the Persecuted Church in Sri Lanka,

Nigeria and North Korea