Christ Lutheran Church – LCMS

Sunday school for all Ages (2 yr. olds – Adult) 9:00 a.m.
Fellowship 10:00 a.m.
Worship (Communion on the 1st, 3rd & 5th Sundays) 10:30 a.m.

Pastor – Rev. Brian L. Wright
(303) 506-6481 iamwings@msn.com
Church Office
(308) 485-4863 christcairo@gmail.com

All Belong to Christ Preschool/Daycare
(308) 485-5832 allbelongtochristdaycare@gmail.com

Moses Comfort Dog
Primary Handlers Shawn & Nancy Harders
Shawn – 308-380-6168 Nancy – 308-380-0589
nancyharders@gmail.com
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Christ Lutheran Church LCMS Cairo NE
Moses Comfort Dog
All Belong to Christ Daycare and Preschool
Christ Lutheran LYF (Cairo, NE)

Church Website www.christlutheranchurchcairo.com

We WELCOME you to Christ Lutheran Church this Sunday morning. There are children’s quiet bags located under the mail boxes that may be borrowed during the worship service and returned to the pegs following the service.

Please check out our Media Center located in the Fellowship Hall. There you will find many publications; Happy Times, My Devotions, Portals of Prayer (large and small print), Church’s monthly calendar, past week’s bulletin, LWML Quarterly, extra church directories and constitutions.

Our Missions for 2018
All Belong to Christ Child Care & Preschool of Christ Cairo; Heartland Lutheran High School, Grand Island, NE; New Hope Christian School, Cairo, NE.; Mission Central and Orphan Grain Train. Tiffany Harders to Côte d’Ivoire (Tanda), Africa and Alyssa McAfee to Liberia (Gorblee), Africa.

New Member Classes
Please speak with Pastor Brian or contact the church office at 308-485-4863 if you are interested in becoming a member of Christ Cairo.

Serving in God’s House today…

Rev. Brian Wright Pastor
Kim Dibbern/Steve Hansen Piano/Guitar
Ryan Schweitzer Acolyte
Craig Harders/Ron Schultz Ushers
Lily / Katie Usher Helpers
LaNell Kohtz Altar
Lisa Wright Moses
Brent Gascho/Ted Dibbern Elders
LYF Coffee Fellowship

Our Attendance:
Members Visitors
Sunday 8/19 94 13
Sunday 8/26 92 8
Sunday 9/2 56 9
Sunday 9/9 86 7

Our Offerings Sunday 9/9
Building Fund $100.00
General Fund $3,595.00
Mission Fund $157.00
Debt Fund (1st Sun special offering) .00
Special Mission (3rd Sun special offering) $.00
Misc. Gifts (Sunday School) $6.00

PRAYERS THIS WEEK
Prayers for the family and friends of Edna Maixner (Peg Lemburg’s mom), After a long struggle Edna passed away on Sept 8, Edna’s funeral was held on Thursday Sept. 13.
Prayers for the family and friends of Jeanette Hansen (Steve Hansen’s mother), Jeanette passed away on Sept. 9.
Prayers for all who are in the path of Hurricane Florence hitting the East coast.

Suffering from Cancer
Kyle Arndt from Alda Ne. (6 yr. old Grandnephew of Rick Gilbert)
Barb Meyer
Danny Godfrey (friend of Ron & Dorothy Schultz)
Deb Bergman (Moses groomer from Island Pet Resort)
Mike Cornelius (Carly Callahan’s Uncle)
Marge Harris (Pastor Brian’s Aunt)

ANNIVERSARIES THIS WEEK
Darren & Charity Adams – Sept 16 (23), Loren & Julie Dibbern – Sept 16 (40), Craig & Lora Harders – Sept. 17 (35)
Russel & Charlene Lemburg – Sept 17 (68), Kayla & Adam Becker – Sept 20 (10), Adam & Tina Dibbern – Sept 22 (17)

BIRTHDAYS THIS WEEK
Elizabeth DeFreece – Sept 16, Kendal Knuth – Sept 16, Ben Serr – Sept 16,
Loren Dibbern – Sept 17, Shawn Harders – Sept. 17, Kinzlie Bloomquist – Sept. 20
Ashley Newmyer – Sept 20, Kody Hadenfeldt – Sept 21, Jennell Campbell – Sept 22, Emmitt DeFreece – Sept 22

Pastor Wright will be in the Church office most weeks M-Th; 9 a.m. – 1 p.m. You may call Pastor Wright at 303-506-6481 or email him at iamwings@msn.com

Bulletin announcements need to be submitted to the church office by
Wednesday evening to appear in the following Sunday’s Bulletin.

Don’t forget to check your Church mail box.

Sunday, Sept. 16 – 17th Sun after Pentecost
Is. 50:4–10; Ps. 116:1–9
James 3:1–12, Mark 9:14–29
Sunday School & Adult Bible Study – 9:00 am
LYF – Coffee Fellowship 10:00 am
Worship Service with Communion – 10:30 am

Monday Sept 17
Annual Budget / Vote on New Officers Mtg. 7 pm

Tuesday Sept 18 New Hope Chapel 8:10 am
Moses to Crisis Ctr. 5:30 pm

Wednesday Sept 19 HLHS Blood Drive 8:30 – 2:30
Men’s Bible Study 8:00 am
Women’s Bible Study 9:00 am
WR Good Sam Worship 10:00 am
ABC Chapel 11:30 am
Moses to VA/Boys Town 1 pm
7/8 Confirmation 5:30 pm
Choir Practice 6 pm
Ladies Aid Mtg. 6:30 pm

Thursday Sept 20 Moses to GI (Primrose, Good Sam)
Moses Comfort Dog Group Mtg. at Shawn Harders 7:00 pm

Friday Sept 21

Saturday Sept 22
Habitat For Humanity Build (2314 GI Ave Grand Island NE)
(Check with Lee E before going on conditions of ground)

Sunday, Sept. 23 – 18th Sun after Pentecost
Jer. 11:18–20; Ps. 54
James 3:13—4:10; Mark 9:30–37
Sunday School & Adult Bible Study – 9:00 am
6-8 Grade Youth – Coffee Fellowship 10:00 am
Worship Service – 10:30 am
Harders Baby Shower 2:30 pm

SAVE the DATE
Yoga mtg. at Methodist Church Sept. 25 & 27
NE Junk Jaunt Sept. 28-30
Worship Outside under the Tent for Junk Jaunt Sept 30
HLHS Golf Scramble Indianhead Sept. 30
Old Gospel Hour Hymn Sing in St Paul Sept. 30
GISH Fine Arts Presents MAMMA MIA! Oct 26-28
LCMS 6-8 gr. Middle School Convention Nov. 17-18

CPH – 2018 Bible Sale
Bibles for ALL ages see the Poster by the church office or visit the CPH website for more information. All orders must be placed by Tuesday, Sept. 25 to the church office. Sale ends Sept. 30th.

♫ Choir Begins ♫
Join the Choir – practices will be held every Weds. evening at 6:00 pm. Contact Lisa Wright or any choir member for more details.

HLHS NEWS – Mark your Calendars!
Blood Drive at HLHS – On Wednesday, September 19th from 8:30a-2:30p, the Heartland Lutheran National Honor Society Students will be hosting a Blood Drive for the Red Cross. Please consider coming in to make a donation and helping them reach their goal of over 30 usable units –reaching 30 usable units will make HLHS students eligible for a Scholarship through the Red Cross. So your donation will not only help the Community but HLHS students as well. Please Contact the HLHS office at 308-385-3900 for a donation time.
The 21st Annual Red Hornet Golf Scramble will be held at Indianhead Golf Course on Sunday, September 30th. Lunch served at 12:00 pm, Shotgun Start at 1:00 pm, and Dessert & Awards at 5:30. Hole prizes and cash prizes to top teams in two flights! $400 per team. Call the school office at 308-385-3900 to sign up. More information and registration sheets for the golf tournament are located on the HLHS Bulletin Board located in the fellowship hall.
Heartland Lutheran High School Craft Fair – HLHS will host a Craft Fair on October 7, 2018 from 11:00a-3:00p. We will be in need of crafts, quilts, and other homemade items. We will also be in need of cookies/goodies. All proceeds go toward tuition assistance. If you have things to donate, please contact the school office. 308-385-3900 or office@heartlandlutheran.org

Update: The Mercy Meals event on Sept 23 at HLHS has been rescheduled to take place on Nov 18.

Old Gospel Hour Sunday, September 30th at 7:00 p.m. at the Grace Baptist Church, 9th & Baxter Street; St Paul NE.
No need to dress up, COME as you are!!
To sing praises to our Lord!!
There will be refreshments and juice following the hymn sing.
Any questions contact Dennis Patrick at 702-469-0788.

The Centura PTO is selling The Medina Street Vault punch cards for $10. 100% of proceeds benefit Centura Elementary students. If you are interested in purchasing one contact Sara Bierhaus.

November 17-18, 2018
“SHOW” Middle school Youth Convention
Students 6-8 grade; Embassy Suites, Lavista NE.
Jenny & Scott Reynolds have offered to take the students to this event. If you are interested in attending, please speak with them or Pastor Brian. Middle school students and leaders are invited to come and learn from our theme which is centered on the word SHOW based on 2 Corinthians 3:3-6, you will spend the weekend learning that we SHOW that we are ‘a letter from Christ’ in what we sow, HOW we show love, and SO we are prepared to give a response in our daily lives. $90 per person plus lodging (Reg. by Sept. 30) Registration does include Sat. dinner and Sun. breakfast, snacks, speakers, talent show and games!
The middle school youth will be serving coffee fellowship on Sept. 23 and Oct. 28 to help defray the cost of the convention registration fees and hotel rooms.
Thank you to everyone who donated their money to help me and my friends go to the youth gathering in Omaha in November. The money will cover our rooms. We will serve again September 23 and October 28. God’s Blessings – Ethan Reynolds

Yoga Classes in Cairo
Informational meeting will be held Sept 25 at 11 a.m. and also on Sept 27 at 7:30 p.m. at the Cairo Methodist Church.
This meeting is to determine interst in the class, availability during the week, and the ability of the people who are interested. This class will be instructed by Bonnie Bellamy. If you are interested in the class but are unable to come to either of the information meetings or if you have any questions, please contact Bonnie at bonniebellamy@live.com

JUNK JAUNT UPDATE!
This will be the fifth year of Christ Lutheran being involved in Junk Jaunt. Every year we meet new people and God provides new opportunities to spread his word and his love. We also have been blessed with new friends that return every year, either to rent a spot or have a brisket sandwich. We are blessed that many of the vendors request a spot in our lots because of the way the members Christ Lutheran have taken care of them. We thank God for the opportunity to be involved in our community and serve the Lord.
In the last four years, and by the grace of God, we have raised around $28,000 dollars. You can see that this has been a wonderful blessing in physical operation of the church. Bills must be paid.
This year we are making some changes. ABC Daycare is taking over the junk portion of Junk Jaunt. The church will concentrate on the food portion. Also, this year some of our core members of the Junk Jaunt Committee will not be able to be help as much as they have in the past due to scheduling conflicts and an earlier harvest. We desperately need volunteers to step in and help. The number of volunteers has slowly dwindled over the past couple of years, so the workload has increased for the ones who are there.
So please let me or Lisa know today if you can help. This year could determine if we continue to be involved in Junk Jaunt in the future. We need to have enough people to keep it going.
God Bless, Gary Harders, Junk Jaunt Committee Chairman
Times we will need Volunteers at the Food Booth
• (Morning Set Up) 8 am – 12 pm
• (Busy Lunch rush) 10 am – 2 pm
• (Afternoon shift) 2-6 pm
• (Evening Clean Up) 5-8 pm.

With many hands the job is easier we would like 6-8 people per shift. If you can work all day or only a couple of shifts that would be wonderful. Please let the church office what day and what shifts you would like to help with.

ABC Preschool/Daycare needs Volunteers from the church to HELP with the JUNK
• People to help PRICE (the items already here) and any that come in unmarked.
• Help MOVE the Junk tables out on Friday.

If you have items that you wish to donate, please bring them to the church PRICED. Let Sara or Robin at ABC know if you can help or you can let the church office know and I will let ABC know.

** Donations may be brought to the conference room anytime.
Please no OLD electronics ex/tv’s, computers, old gaming systems do not sell and are hard to dispose of. Thank You.

Readings from Holy Scripture
Old Testament Isaiah 50:4–10

4The Lord GOD has given me the tongue of those who are taught, that I may know how to sustain with a word him who is weary. Morning by morning he awakens; he awakens my ear to hear as those who are taught. 5The Lord GOD has opened my ear, and I was not rebellious; I turned not backward. 6I gave my back to those who strike, and my cheeks to those who pull out the beard; I hid not my face from disgrace and spitting. 7But the Lord GOD helps me; therefore I have not been disgraced; therefore I have set my face like a flint, and I know that I shall not be put to shame. 8He who vindicates me is near. Who will contend with me? Let us stand up together. Who is my adversary? Let him come near to me. 9Behold, the Lord GOD helps me; who will declare me guilty? Behold, all of them will wear out like a garment; the moth will eat them up. 10Who among you fears the LORD and obeys the voice of his servant? Let him who walks in darkness and has no light trust in the name of the LORD and rely on his God.

Epistle James 3:1–12

1Not many of you should become teachers, my brothers, for you know that we who teach will be judged with greater strictness. 2For we all stumble in many ways, and if anyone does not stumble in what he says, he is a perfect man, able also to bridle his whole body. 3If we put bits into the mouths of horses so that they obey us, we guide their whole bodies as well. 4Look at the ships also: though they are so large and are driven by strong winds, they are guided by a very small rudder wherever the will of the pilot directs. 5So also the tongue is a small member, yet it boasts of great things. How great a forest is set ablaze by such a small fire! 6And the tongue is a fire, a world of unrighteousness. The tongue is set among our members, staining the whole body, setting on fire the entire course of life, and set on fire by hell. 7For every kind of beast and bird, of reptile and sea creature, can be tamed and has been tamed by mankind, 8but no human being can tame the tongue. It is a restless evil, full of deadly poison. 9With it we bless our Lord and Father, and with it we curse people who are made in the likeness of God. 10From the same mouth come blessing and cursing. My brothers, these things ought not to be so. 11Does a spring pour forth from the same opening both fresh and salt water? 12Can a fig tree, my brothers, bear olives, or a grapevine produce figs? Neither can a salt pond yield fresh water.

Holy Gospel Mark 9:14–29

14When they came to the disciples, they saw a great crowd around them, and scribes arguing with them. 15And immediately all the crowd, when they saw him, were greatly amazed and ran up to [Jesus] and greeted him. 16And he asked them, “What are you arguing about with them?” 17And someone from the crowd answered him, “Teacher, I brought my son to you, for he has a spirit that makes him mute. 18And whenever it seizes him, it throws him down, and he foams and grinds his teeth and becomes rigid. So I asked your disciples to cast it out, and they were not able.” 19And he answered them, “O faithless generation, how long am I to be with you? How long am I to bear with you? Bring him to me.” 20And they brought the boy to him. And when the spirit saw him, immediately it convulsed the boy, and he fell on the ground and rolled about, foaming at the mouth. 21And Jesus asked his father, “How long has this been happening to him?” And he said, “From childhood. 22And it has often cast him into fire and into water, to destroy him. But if you can do anything, have compassion on us and help us.” 23And Jesus said to him, “If you can! All things are possible for one who believes.” 24Immediately the father of the child cried out and said, “I believe; help my unbelief!” 25And when Jesus saw that a crowd came running together, he rebuked the unclean spirit, saying to it, “You mute and deaf spirit, I command you, come out of him and never enter him again.” 26And after crying out and convulsing him terribly, it came out, and the boy was like a corpse, so that most of them said, “He is dead.” 27But Jesus took him by the hand and lifted him up, and he arose. 28And when he had entered the house, his disciples asked him privately, “Why could we not cast it out?” 29And he said to them, “This kind cannot be driven out by anything but prayer.”

Sunday school for all Ages
(2 yr. olds – Adult) 9:00 a.m.
Fellowship 10:00 a.m.
Worship (Communion on the 1st, 3rd & 5th Sundays) 10:30 a.m.

Pastor – Rev. Brian L. Wright (303) 506-6481 iamwings@msn.com

Church Office (308) 485-4863 christcairo@gmail.com

All Belong to Christ Preschool/Daycare
(308) 485-5832 allbelongtochristdaycare@gmail.com

Moses Comfort Dog
Primary Handlers Shawn & Nancy Harders
Shawn – 308-380-6168 Nancy – 308-380-0589
nancyharders@gmail.com

Join US on Facebook
Christ Lutheran Church LCMS Cairo NE
Moses Comfort Dog
All Belong to Christ Daycare and Preschool
Christ Lutheran LYF (Cairo, NE)

Church Website
www.christlutheranchurchcairo.com

We WELCOME you to Christ Lutheran Church this Sunday morning. There are children’s quiet bags located under the mail boxes that may be borrowed during the worship service and returned to the pegs following the service.

Please check out our Media Center located in the Fellowship Hall. There you will find many publications; Happy Times, My Devotions, Portals of Prayer (large and small print), Church’s monthly calendar, past week’s bulletin, LWML Quarterly, extra church directories and constitutions.

Our Missions for 2018
All Belong to Christ Child Care & Preschool of Christ Cairo; Heartland Lutheran High School, Grand Island, NE; New Hope Christian School, Cairo, NE.; Mission Central and Orphan Grain Train. Tiffany Harders to Côte d’Ivoire (Tanda), Africa and Alyssa McAfee to Liberia (Gorblee), Africa.

New Member Classes
Please speak with Pastor Brian or contact the church office at 308-485-4863 if you are interested in becoming a member of Christ Cairo.

Serving in God’s House today…

Rev. Brian Wright – Pastor
Beverly Gilbert – Organist
Ethan Reynolds – Acolyte
Craig Harders/Ron Schultz – Ushers
Ryan/Lily – Usher Helpers
LaNell Kohtz – Altar
Nathan Knuth – Moses
All Belong to Christ Coffee Fellowship

Our Attendance:
Members Visitors
Sunday 8/12 82 13
Sunday 8/19 94 13
Sunday 8/26 92 8
Sunday 9/2 56 9

Our Offerings Sunday 9/2
Building Fund $100.00
General Fund $2,290.00
Mission Fund $61.00
Debt Fund (1st Sun special offering) 2,050.00
Special Mission (3rd Sun special offering) $.00
Misc. Gifts $.00

PRAYERS THIS WEEK
Prayers for Edna Maixner (Peg Lemburg’s mom), Edna underwent triple bypass surgery Aug. 21 in Lincoln NE and has developed complications. Edna had surgery Mon Aug. 26 to remove part of her left colon and now with the buildup of several extra pounds of fluid, she has been put on dialysis.
Prayers for Becky Deines recovering from gall bladder surgery last week.
Prayers for Steve Hansen’s mother, Jeanette who is hospitalized in GI in ICU.

Suffering from Cancer
Kyle Arndt from Alda Ne. (6 yr. old Grandnephew of Rick Gilbert)
Donna Harders
Barb Meyer
Danny Godfrey (friend of Ron & Dorothy Schultz)
Deb Bergman (Moses groomer from Island Pet Resort)
Mike Cornelius (Carly Callahan’s Uncle)
Marge Harris (Pastor Brian’s Aunt)

ANNIVERSARIES THIS WEEK
Brian & Dana Tonniges – Sept. 10 (30)

BIRTHDAYS THIS WEEK
Donna Harders – Sept. 9, Peg Hadenfeldt – Sept. 13
Kalli Knuth – Sept. 13, Robert Gilbert – Sept. 15

Pastor Wright will be in the Church office most weeks M-Th; 9 a.m. – 1 p.m. You may call Pastor Wright at 303-506-6481 or email him at iamwings@msn.com

Bulletin announcements need to be submitted to the church office by
Wednesday evening to appear in the following Sunday’s Bulletin.

Don’t forget to check your Church mail box.

Sunday, Sept. 9 – 16th Sun after Pentecost
Is. 35:4–7a; Ps. 146
James 2:1–10, 14–18; Mark 7:(24–30) 31–37
Sunday School & Adult Bible Study – 9:00 am
All Belong to Christ – Coffee Fellowship 10:00 am
Worship Service– 10:30 am

Monday Sept 10 Pastor Winkel Mtg. at Grace GI 9:30-2:30
ABC Board Mtg. 6 pm

Tuesday Sept 11

Wednesday Sept 12 Men’s Breakfast Bible Study 6:45 am
Women’s Bible Study 9:00 am
ABC Chapel 11:30 am
Moses to VA/Boys Town 1 pm
7/8 Confirmation 5:30 pm
Choir Practice 6 pm

Thursday Sept 13
Moses to GI (Wedgewood, Country Home, Tiffany Square)
Cairo Senior Ctr Devotions Noon

Friday Sept 14 LWML Dist. Convention at Kearney

Saturday Sept 15 LWML Dist. Convention at Kearney

Sunday, Sept. 16 – 17th Sun after Pentecost
Is. 50:4–10; Ps. 116:1–9
James 3:1–12, Mark 9:14–29
Sunday School & Adult Bible Study – 9:00 am
LYF – Coffee Fellowship 10:00 am
Worship Service with Communion – 10:30 am

SAVE the DATE

Annual Budget Mtg. 7 pm Mon Sept. 17
HLHS Blood Drive Sept 19
HFH Build Day Sat. Sept. 22
NE Junk Jaunt Sept. 28-30
Worship Outside under the Tent for Junk Jaunt Sept 30
HLHS Golf Scramble Indianhead Sept. 30
LCMS 6-8 gr. Middle School Convention Nov. 17-18

CPH – 2018 Bible Sale
Bibles for ALL ages see the Poster by the church office or visit the CPH website for more information. All orders must be placed by Tuesday, Sept. 25 to the church office. Sale ends Sept. 30th.

♫ Choir Begins ♫
Greetings friends! It’s the most wonderful time of the year!
No! Not Christmas! It’s choir time again!! ♫
Next Wednesday, September 12, will be our first rehearsal at 6pm! Please invite anyone you know that may be interested in singing with the greatest bunch of people in the Tri County area!! I’m looking forward to another great year of music with you all!

HLHS NEWS – Mark your Calendars!
Blood Drive at HLHS – On Wednesday, September 19th from 8:30a-2:30p, the Heartland Lutheran National Honor Society Students will be hosting a Blood Drive for the Red Cross. Please consider coming in to make a donation and helping them reach their goal of over 30 usable units –reaching 30 usable units will make HLHS students eligible for a Scholarship through the Red Cross. So your donation will not only help the Community but HLHS students as well. Please Contact the HLHS office at 308-385-3900 for a donation time. The 21st Annual Red Hornet Golf Scramble will be held at Indianhead Golf Course on Sunday, September 30th. Lunch served at 12:00 pm, Shotgun Start at 1:00 pm, and Dessert & Awards at 5:30. Hole prizes and cash prizes to top teams in two flights! $400 per team. Call the school office at 308-385-3900 to sign up. More information and registration sheets for the golf tournament are located on the HLHS Bulletin Board located in the fellowship hall. Heartland Lutheran High School Craft Fair – HLHS will host a Craft Fair on October 7, 2018 from 11:00a-3:00p. We will be in need of crafts, quilts, and other homemade items. We will also be in need of cookies/goodies. All proceeds go toward tuition assistance. If you have things to donate, please contact the school office. 308-385-3900 or office@heartlandlutheran.org
Update: The Mercy Meals event on Sept 23 at HLHS has been rescheduled to take place on Nov 18.

The Centura PTO is selling The Medina Street Vault punch cards for $10. 100% of proceeds benefit Centura Elementary students. If you are interested in purchasing one contact Sara Bierhaus.

We know it Hurts and We want to Help
Grief Share at Trinity Lutheran GI; New Session Begins
in the Church Chapel, use the west entrance.
See the Poster on the bulletin board by the office for more info.

November 17-18, 2018
“SHOW” Middle school Youth Convention
Students 6-8 grade; Embassy Suites, Lavista NE.
Jenny & Scott Reynolds have offered to take the students to this event. If you are interested in attending, please speak with them or Pastor Brian. Middle school students and leaders are invited to come and learn from our theme which is centered on the word SHOW based on 2 Corinthians 3:3-6, you will spend the weekend learning that we SHOW that we are ‘a letter from Christ’ in what we sow, HOW we show love, and SO we are prepared to give a response in our daily lives. $90 per person plus lodging (Reg. by Sept. 30) Registration does include Sat. dinner and Sun. breakfast, snacks, speakers, talent show and games!
The middle school youth will be serving coffee fellowship on Sept. 23 and Oct. 28 to help defray the cost of the convention registration fees and hotel rooms.
Thank you to everyone who donated their money to help me and my friends go to the youth gathering in Omaha in November. The money will cover our rooms. We will serve again September 23 and October 28. God’s Blessings – Ethan Reynolds

MARK your CALENDARS NOW!
Plan to help with the Church’s Food Booth & ABC’s Junk Booth
September 28-30, 2018, NE Junk Jaunt dates.

Ways you can help with Junk Jaunt
PLEASE VOLUNTEER
*We need Pie Bakers once again this year!
Any flavor and however many you want to bake would be greatly appreciated (Last year we had 30+ pies donated)!
Please let the church office know how many and what flavors you are bringing.
Volunteers are needed for
Church Food Booth and ABC Junk Booth!!

Times we will need Volunteers at the Food Booth
• (Morning Set Up) 8 am – 12 pm
• (Busy Lunch rush) 10 am – 2 pm
• (Afternoon shift) 2-6 pm
• (Evening Clean Up) 5-8 pm.

Some of the FOOD Jobs needing to be filled
• Cash Register
• Sandwich makers
• Order Takers
• Pop/Brownie/Pie Runners
• Kitchen area – warm up Brisket / Pork
• Kitchen and Fellowship Hall Clean up
• Prepare and Pack in the Kitchen for Takeout Orders
• Runner for extra Meal Deal Bags
• Someone Wiping tables and keeping condiment table filled and clean.
• Trash Runners
• Meal Deal Sack Packers
• Brownie and Pie cutters and Packers

With many hands the job is easier we would like 6-8 people per shift. If you can work all day or only a couple of shifts that would be wonderful. Please let the church office what day and what shifts you would like to help with.

ABC Preschool/Daycare needs Volunteers from the church to HELP with the JUNK
• People to help PRICE (the items already here) and any that come in unmarked.
• Help MOVE the Junk tables out on Friday.

If you have items that you wish to donate, please bring them to the church PRICED. Let Sara or Robin at ABC know if you can help or you can let the church office know and I will let ABC know.

** Donations may be brought to the conference room anytime.
Please no OLD electronics ex/tv’s, computers, old gaming systems do not sell and are hard to dispose of. Thank You.

Sunday school for all Ages
(2 yr. olds – Adult) 9:00 a.m.
Fellowship 10:00 a.m.
Worship (Communion on the 1st, 3rd & 5th Sundays) 10:30 a.m.

Pastor – Rev. Brian L. Wright (303) 506-6481 iamwings@msn.com

Church Office (308) 485-4863 christcairo@gmail.com

All Belong to Christ Preschool/Daycare
(308) 485-5832 allbelongtochristdaycare@gmail.com

Moses Comfort Dog
Primary Handlers Shawn & Nancy Harders
Shawn – 308-380-6168 Nancy – 308-380-0589
nancyharders@gmail.com

Join US on Facebook
Christ Lutheran Church LCMS Cairo NE
Moses Comfort Dog
All Belong to Christ Daycare and Preschool
Christ Lutheran LYF (Cairo, NE)

Church Website www.christlutheranchurchcairo.com

We WELCOME you to Christ Lutheran Church this Sunday morning. There are children’s quiet bags located under the mail boxes that may be borrowed during the worship service and returned to the pegs following the service.

Please check out our Media Center located in the Fellowship Hall. There you will find many publications; Happy Times, My Devotions, Portals of Prayer (large and small print), Church’s monthly calendar, past week’s bulletin, LWML Quarterly, extra church directories and constitutions.

Our Missions for 2018
All Belong to Christ Child Care & Preschool of Christ Cairo; Heartland Lutheran High School, Grand Island, NE; New Hope Christian School, Cairo, NE.; Mission Central and Orphan Grain Train. Tiffany Harders to Côte d’Ivoire (Tanda), Africa and Alyssa McAfee to Liberia (Gorblee), Africa.

New Member Classes
Please speak with Pastor Brian or contact the church office at 308-485-4863 if you are interested in becoming a member of Christ Cairo.

Serving in God’s House today…

Rev. Brian Wright Pastor
Lynda Sundberg Organist
Cole Callahan Acolyte
Craig Harders/Ron Schultz Ushers
Ethan/Ryan Usher Helpers
LaNell Kohtz Altar
Jackie Knuth Moses
Dick Hadenfeldt/Brent Gascho Elders
Ladies Aid Coffee Fellowship

Our Attendance:
Members Visitors
Sunday 8/5 75 4
Sunday 8/12 82 13
Sunday 8/19 94 13
Sunday 8/26 92 8

Our Offerings Sunday 8/26
Building Fund $100.00
General Fund $5,499.16
Mission Fund $187.00
Debt Fund (1st Sun special offering) .00
Special Mission (3rd Sun special offering) $.00
Misc. Gifts $.00

PRAYERS THIS WEEK
Prayers for Flora Meester (Catherine Garrett’s friend), Flora suffers from shingles in her eye.
Prayers for Edna Maixner (Peg Lemburg’s mom), Edna underwent triple bypass surgery Aug. 21 in Lincoln NE and has developed complications. Edna had surgery Mon Aug. 26 to remove part of her left colon and now with the buildup of several extra pounds of fluid, she has been put on dialysis.
Prayers for Becky Deines who was admitted into CHI St Francis this past week with possible surgery.

Suffering from Cancer
Kyle Arndt from Alda Ne. (6 yr. old Grandnephew of Rick Gilbert)
Donna Harders
Barb Meyer
Danny Godfrey (friend of Ron & Dorothy Schultz)
Deb Bergman (Moses groomer from Island Pet Resort)
Mike Cornelius (Carly Callahan’s Uncle)

ANNIVERSARIES THIS WEEK
Bill & Shari Hadenfeldt – Sept. 4 (42)

BIRTHDAYS THIS WEEK
Jackson Bierhaus – Sept. 3, Jeff Campbell – Sept. 5, McKensy Dibbern – Sept. 5
Tim Dibbern – Sept. 5, Mason Janda – Sept. 6, Matt Neppl – Sept. 8

Pastor Wright will be in the Church office most weeks M-Th; 9 a.m. – 1 p.m. You may call Pastor Wright at 303-506-6481 or email him at iamwings@msn.com

Bulletin announcements need to be submitted to the church office by
Wednesday evening to appear in the following Sunday’s Bulletin.
Don’t forget to check your Church mail box.

Sunday, Sept. 2 – 15th Sun after Pentecost
Deut. 4:1–2, 6–9; Ps. 119:129–136
Eph. 6:10–20; Mark 7:14–23

No Sunday School or Adult Bible Class Labor Day Holiday
Ladies Aid – Coffee Fellowship 10:00 am
Worship Service with Communion – 10:30 am
State Fair Worship at CHI Pavilion – 9:00 am

Monday Sept 3
Labor Day
ABC Closed

Tuesday Sept 4

Wednesday Sept 5
Men’s Bible Study 8:00 am
Women’s Bible Study 9:00 am
ABC Chapel 11:30 am
Moses to VA/Boys Town 1 pm
7/8 Confirmation 5:30 pm

Thursday Sept 6
Moses to Ravenna (Good Sam & Seneca)

Friday Sept 7

Saturday Sept 8
HFH Build Day
HLHS Salute to Vets Program Buddy Check

Sunday, Sept. 9 – 16th Sun after Pentecost
Is. 35:4–7a; Ps. 146
James 2:1–10, 14–18; Mark 7:(24–30) 31–37

Sunday School & Adult Bible Study – 9:00 am
All Belong to Christ – Coffee Fellowship 10:00 am
Worship Service– 10:30 am

SAVE the DATE
Annual Budget Mtg. 7 pm Mon Sept. 17
LWML Dist. Convention Younes Ctr. Kearney NE. Sept. 14-15
HLHS Blood Drive Sept 19
HFH Build Day Sat. Sept. 22
NE Junk Jaunt Sept. 28-30
Worship Outside under the Tent for Junk Jaunt Sept 30
HLHS Golf Scramble Indianhead Sept. 30
LCMS 6-8 gr. Middle School Convention Nov. 17-18

CPH – 2018 Bible Sale
Bibles for ALL ages see the Poster by the church office or visit the CPH website for more information. All orders must be placed by Tuesday, Sept. 25 to the church office. Sale ends Sept. 30th.

HLHS NEWS – Mark your Calendars!
Heartland Salute
Have a great time and support our veterans at the same time! Heartland Lutheran High School is hosting the Heartland Salute with proceeds going to Nebraska Buddy Check on Saturday, September 8, 2018 beginning at 10:00 AM.
Poker Run – Registration 10:00 AM, Clutches UP 11:00 AM
Car Show – Registration 12:00 PM, Show 2:00 – 6:00 PM
Cash Bar – Opens 6:00 PM
Concert – The Steven Adams Band and Luke Mills and the Highway Drifters
Food is available!
See posters on the HLHS Bulletin Board for more information!

Blood Drive at HLHS – On Wednesday, September 19th from 8:30a-2:30p, the Heartland Lutheran National Honor Society Students will be hosting a Blood Drive for the Red Cross. Please consider coming in to make a donation and helping them reach their goal of over 30 usable units –reaching 30 usable units will make HLHS students eligible for a Scholarship through the Red Cross. So your donation will not only help the Community but HLHS students as well. Please Contact the HLHS office at 308-385-3900 for a donation time.

The 21st Annual Red Hornet Golf Scramble will be held at Indianhead Golf Course on Sunday, September 30th. Lunch served at 12:00 pm, Shotgun Start at 1:00 pm, and Dessert & Awards at 5:30. Hole prizes and cash prizes to top teams in two flights! $400 per team. Call the school office at 308-385-3900 to sign up. More information and registration sheets for the golf tournament are located on the HLHS Bulletin Board located in the fellowship hall.

Heartland Lutheran High School Craft Fair – HLHS will host a Craft Fair on October 7, 2018 from 11:00a-3:00p. We will be in need of crafts, quilts, and other homemade items. We will also be in need of cookies/goodies. All proceeds go toward tuition assistance. If you have things to donate, please contact the school office. 308-385-3900 or office@heartlandlutheran.org

CHECK IT OUT!! Cairo’s Free Little Library In front of the
Village office; 402 S High Street
There are books for all ages.
Take a book; Leave a book
It is free

We know it Hurts and We want to Help Grief Share at Trinity Lutheran GI; New Session Begins Thurs. Sept. 6th in the Church Chapel, use the west entrance.
See the Poster on the bulletin board by the office for more info.

November 17-18, 2018
“SHOW” Middle school Youth Convention
Students 6-8 grade; Embassy Suites, Lavista NE.
Jenny & Scott Reynolds have offered to take the students to this event. If you are interested in attending, please speak with them or Pastor Brian. Middle school students and leaders are invited to come and learn from our theme which is centered on the word SHOW based on 2 Corinthians 3:3-6, you will spend the weekend learning that we SHOW that we are ‘a letter from Christ’ in what we sow, HOW we show love, and SO we are prepared to give a response in our daily lives. $90 per person plus lodging (Reg. by Sept. 30) Registration does include Sat. dinner and Sun. breakfast, snacks, speakers, talent show and games!
The middle school youth will be serving coffee fellowship on Sept. 23 and Oct. 28 to help defray the cost of the convention registration fees and hotel rooms.
Thank you to everyone who donated their money to help me and my friends go to the youth gathering in Omaha in November. The money will cover our rooms. We will serve again September 23 and October 28. God’s Blessings – Ethan Reynolds

MARK your CALENDARS NOW!
Plan to help with the Church’s Food Booth & ABC’s Junk Booth
September 28-30, 2018, NE Junk Jaunt dates.

Ways you can help with Junk Jaunt
PLEASE VOLUNTEER

*We need Pie Bakers once again this year!
Any flavor and however many you want to bake would be greatly appreciated (Last year we had 30+ pies donated)! Please let the church office know how many and what flavors you are bringing.

Volunteers are needed for Church Food Booth and ABC Junk Booth!!

Times we will need Volunteers at the Food Booth
• (Morning Set Up) 8 am – 12 pm
• (Busy Lunch rush) 10 am – 2 pm
• (Afternoon shift) 2-6 pm
• (Evening Clean Up) 5-8 pm.

Some of the FOOD Jobs needing to be filled
• Cash Register
• Sandwich makers
• Order Takers
• Pop/Brownie/Pie Runners
• Kitchen area – warm up Brisket / Pork
• Kitchen and Fellowship Hall Clean up
• Prepare and Pack in the Kitchen for Takeout Orders
• Runner for extra Meal Deal Bags
• Someone Wiping tables and keeping condiment table filled and clean.
• Trash Runners
• Meal Deal Sack Packers
• Brownie and Pie cutters and Packers

With many hands the job is easier we would like 6-8 people per shift. If you can work all day or only a couple of shifts that would be wonderful. Please let the church office what day and what shifts you would like to help with.

ABC Preschool/Daycare needs Volunteers from the church to HELP with the JUNK
• People to help PRICE (the items already here) and any that come in unmarked.
• Help MOVE the Junk tables out on Friday.

If you have items that you wish to donate, please bring them to the church PRICED. Let Sara or Robin at ABC know if you can help or you can let the church office know and I will let ABC know.

** Donations may be brought to the conference room anytime.
Please no OLD electronics ex/tv’s, computers, old gaming systems do not sell and are hard to dispose of. Thank You.

Old Testament Reading Deuteronomy 4:1–2, 6–9
Moses Commands Obedience
1“And now, O Israel, listen to the statutes and the just decrees that I am teaching you, and do them, that you may live, and go in and take possession of the land that the LORD, the God of your fathers, is giving you. 2You shall not add to the word that I command you, nor take from it, that you may keep the commandments of the LORD your God that I command you. 6Keep them and do them, for that will be your wisdom and your understanding in the sight of the peoples, who, when they hear all these statutes, will say, ‘Surely this great nation is a wise and understanding people.’ 7For what great nation is there that has a god so near to it as the LORD our God is to us, whenever we call upon him? 8And what great nation is there, that has statutes and just decrees so righteous as all this law that I set before you today? 9“Only take care, and keep your soul diligently, lest you forget the things that your eyes have seen, and lest they depart from your heart all the days of your life. Make them known to your children and your children’s children.”

Epistle Ephesians 6:10–20
The Whole Armor of God
10Finally, be strong in the Lord and in the strength of his might. 11Put on the whole armor of God, that you may be able to stand against the schemes of the devil. 12For we do not wrestle against flesh and blood, but against the rulers, against the authorities, against the cosmic powers over this present darkness, against the spiritual forces of evil in the heavenly places. 13Therefore take up the whole armor of God, that you may be able to withstand in the evil day, and having done all, to stand firm. 14Stand therefore, having fastened on the belt of truth, and having put on the breastplate of righteousness, 15and, as shoes for your feet, having put on the readiness given by the gospel of peace. 16In all circumstances take up the shield of faith, with which you can extinguish all the flaming darts of the evil one; 17and take the helmet of salvation, and the sword of the Spirit, which is the word of God, 18praying at all times in the Spirit, with all prayer and supplication. To that end keep alert with all perseverance, making supplication for all the saints, 19and also for me, that words may be given to me in opening my mouth boldly to proclaim the mystery of the gospel, 20for which I am an ambassador in chains, that I may declare it boldly, as I ought to speak.

Holy Gospel Mark 7:14–23
What Defiles a Person
14And he called the people to him again and said to them, “Hear me, all of you, and understand: 15There is nothing outside a person that by going into him can defile him, but the things that come out of a person are what defile him.” 17And when he had entered the house and left the people, his disciples asked him about the parable. 18And he said to them, “Then are you also without understanding? Do you not see that whatever goes into a person from outside cannot defile him, 19since it enters not his heart but his stomach, and is expelled?” (Thus he declared all foods clean.) 20And he said, “What comes out of a person is what defiles him. 21For from within, out of the heart of man, come evil thoughts, sexual immorality, theft, murder, adultery, 22coveting, wickedness, deceit, sensuality, envy, slander, pride, foolishness. 23All these evil things come from within, and they defile a person.”

Sunday school for all Ages
(2 yr. olds – Adult) 9:00 a.m.
Fellowship 10:00 a.m.
Worship (Communion on the 1st, 3rd & 5th Sundays) 10:30 a.m.

Pastor – Rev. Brian L. Wright
(303) 506-6481 iamwings@msn.com
Church Office
(308) 485-4863 christcairo@gmail.com

All Belong to Christ Preschool/Daycare
(308) 485-5832 allbelongtochristdaycare@gmail.com

Moses Comfort Dog
Primary Handlers Shawn & Nancy Harders
Shawn – 308-380-6168 Nancy – 308-380-0589
nancyharders@gmail.com

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Moses Comfort Dog
All Belong to Christ Daycare and Preschool
Christ Lutheran LYF (Cairo, NE)

Church Website
www.christlutheranchurchcairo.com

We WELCOME you to Christ Lutheran Church this Sunday morning. There are children’s quiet bags located under the mail boxes that may be borrowed during the worship service and returned to the pegs following the service.

Please check out our Media Center located in the Fellowship Hall. There you will find many publications; Happy Times, My Devotions, Portals of Prayer (large and small print), Church’s monthly calendar, past week’s bulletin, LWML Quarterly, extra church directories and constitutions.

Our Missions for 2018
All Belong to Christ Child Care & Preschool of Christ Cairo; Heartland Lutheran High School, Grand Island, NE; New Hope Christian School, Cairo, NE.; Mission Central and Orphan Grain Train. Tiffany Harders to Côte d’Ivoire (Tanda), Africa and Alyssa McAfee to Liberia (Gorblee), Africa.

New Member Classes
Please speak with Pastor Brian or contact the church office at 308-485-4863 if you are interested in becoming a member of Christ Cairo.

Serving in God’s House today…

Rev. Brian Wright Pastor
Beverly Gilbert Organist
Ethan Reynolds Acolyte
Dick Hadenfeldt / Jamie Hadenfeldt Ushers
Ryan/McLain Usher Helpers
Kimberly Dibbern Altar
Paul Wilhelm Moses
Elders
6-8 Gr. Youth Coffee Fellowship

Our Attendance:
Members Visitors
Sunday 7/29 76 2
Sunday 8/5 75 4
Sunday 8/12 82 13
Sunday 8/19 94 13

Our Offerings Sunday 8/19
Building Fund $.00
General Fund $1900.00
Mission Fund $.00
Debt Fund (1st Sun special offering) 2,978.00
Special Mission (3rd Sun special offering) $369.00
Misc. Gifts $.00

PRAYERS THIS WEEK
Prayers for Flora Meester (Catherine Garrett’s friend), Flora suffers from shingles in her eye.
Prayers for Edna Maixner (Peg Lemburg’s mom), Edna underwent triple bypass surgery Aug. 21 in Lincoln NE.
Prayers for Tyler & Chelsea Perez Family of Cairo (One of our ABC Families), on the death of their infant daughter. Adeline Elizabeth Perez, born sleeping on Aug. 18, a memorial service was held on Weds Aug. 22 in GI.

Suffering from Cancer
Kyle Arndt from Alda Ne. (6 yr. old Grandnephew of Rick Gilbert)
Donna Harders
Barb Meyer
Danny Godfrey (friend of Ron & Dorothy Schultz)
Deb Bergman (Moses groomer from Island Pet Resort)
Mike Cornelius (Carly Callahan’s Uncle)

ANNIVERSARIES THIS WEEK
Nathan & Jaci Knuth – Aug. 29 (20), Rob & Kristin Schultz – Aug. 29 (26)
Harold & Holly Plejdrup Jr – Aug. 30 (32), Jeff & Fusako Hadenfeldt – Sept. 1 (34)

BIRTHDAYS THIS WEEK
Colt Hadenfeldt – Aug. 27, Berkley Strode – Aug. 28, Lydia Bartley – Aug. 29
Aubrey Reynolds – Aug. 29, Seth Reynolds – Aug. 29, Jeff Hadenfeldt – Aug. 30, Carolyn Visser – Aug. 31

Pastor Wright will be in the Church office most weeks M-Th; 9 a.m. – 1 p.m. You may call Pastor Wright at 303-506-6481 or email him at iamwings@msn.com

Bulletin announcements need to be submitted to the church office by
Wednesday evening to appear in the following Sunday’s Bulletin.

Don’t forget to check your Church mail box.

Sunday, Aug 26 – 14th Sun after Pentecost
Is. 29:11–19; Ps. 14
Eph. 5:22–33, Mark 7:1–13

Sunday School & Adult Bible Study – 9:00 am
6-8 grade Youth Coffee Fellowship 10:00 am
Worship Service – 10:30 am
State Fair Worship at CHI Pavilion – 9:00 am
Sunday School Teacher Bible Study 6:30 pm

Monday Aug 27 Elder’s Mtg. 8 pm

Tuesday Aug 28

Wednesday Aug 29 Men’s Bible Study 8:00 am
Women’s Bible Study 9:00 am
Moses to VA/Boys Town 1 pm

Thursday Aug 30

Friday Aug 31

Saturday Sept 1

Sunday, Sept. 2 – 15th Sun after Pentecost
Deut. 4:1–2, 6–9; Ps. 119:129–136
Eph. 6:10–20; Mark 7:14–23
Sunday School & Adult Bible Study – 9:00 am
Ladies Aid – Coffee Fellowship 10:00 am
Worship Service with Communion – 10:30 am
State Fair Worship at CHI Pavilion – 9:00 am

SAVE the DATE

Labor Day (ABC Closed) Sept. 3
HFH Build Day Sat. Sept. 8
HLHS Salute for Lutheran Family Sevice Vets Program Sept. 8
Annual Budget Mtg. 7 pm Mon Sept. 17
LWML Dist. Convention Younes Ctr. Kearney NE. Sept. 14-15
HFH Build Day Sat. Sept. 22
NE Junk Jaunt Sept. 28-30
Worship Outside under the Tent for Junk Jaunt Sept 30
HLHS Golf Scramble Indianhead Sept. 30
LCMS 6-8 gr. Middle School Convention Nov. 17-18

MARK your CALENDARS NOW!
Plan to help with the Church’s Junk Jaunt Food Booth
September 28-30, 2018, NE Junk Jaunt dates.

If you would be interested in helping with the Food Booth this year contact Gary Harders.
ABC Day Care/Preschool will be doing the Junk sales this year. ABC is looking for your junk, please bring your items priced. ABC is also looking for volunteers to help price the items already here at the church. Watch the bulletin, more details to come later.

HLHS NEWS – Mark your Calendars!
State Fair Pie Booth Volunteers needed Aug. 24-Sept Heartland Lutheran High School and Trinity Lutheran School are teaming up for the Pie Booth at the State Fair and we need your help to fill the open shifts. You may sign up online: http://signup.com/login/entry/07035326794922012 or call the school office and Mrs. Leech can help you find a time slot. Once you have signed up for a shift, you may pick up your State Fair tickets at the HLHS office between 7:30am-4:10pm Monday-Friday. Reminders: The pie booth is in the 5 Points Bank Arena. You will need to wear a hat and hair must be tied up. The booth has a concrete floor, so wear a good pair of sneakers.
Heartland Lutheran High School will be holding its craft fair on October 7, 2018 from 11:00 – 3:00 pm. We will need crafts, quilts, and other homemade items. We will also need cookies and goodies if you would like to plan on providing some of those items. All proceeds go toward tuition assistance. If you have things to donate, please contact the school office or Jan Hadenfeldt.
Saturday, September 8 Heartland Salute, have a great time and support our veterans at the same time! Heartland Lutheran High School is hosting the Heartland Salute with proceeds heading to Nebraska Buddy Check on Saturday, September 8, 2018 beginning at 10:00 AM. Poker Run – Registration 10:00 AM, Clutches UP 11:00 AM Car Show – Registration 12:00 PM, Show 2:00 – 6:00 PM Cash Bar – Opens 6:00 PM Concert – The Steven Adams Band and Luke Mills and the Highway Drifters Food is available!
The 21st Annual Red Hornet Golf Scramble will be held at Indianhead Golf Course on Sunday, September 30th. Lunch served at 12:00 pm, Shotgun Start at 1:00 pm, and Dessert & Awards at 5:30. Hole prizes and cash prizes to top teams in two flights! $400 per team. Call the school office at 308-385-3900 to sign up.
More information and registration sheets for the golf tournament are located on the HLHS Bulletin Board located in the fellowship hall.

“Be a sinner and sin strongly,
but more strongly have faith
and rejoice in Christ.”
– Martin Luther

November 17-18, 2018
“SHOW” Middle school Youth Convention
Students 6-8 grade;
Embassy Suites, Lavista NE.
Jenny & Scott Reynolds have offered to take the students to this event. If you are interested in attending, please speak with them or Pastor Brian. Middle school students and leaders are invited to come and learn from our theme which is centered on the word SHOW based on 2 Corinthians 3:3-6, you will spend the weekend learning that we SHOW that we are ‘a letter from Christ’ in what we sow, HOW we show love, and SO we are prepared to give a response in our daily lives. $90 per person plus lodging (Reg. by Sept. 30) Registration does include Sat. dinner and Sun. breakfast, snacks, speakers, talent show and games!
The middle school youth will be serving coffee fellowship on Aug. 26, Sept. 23 and Oct. 28 to help defray the cost of the convention registration fees and hotel rooms.

Worship at the NE State Fair
Are you planning to attend the NE State Fair on either Sunday of the fair?
Join the NE District LLL at the CHI Pavilion Stage for your spiritual growth each Sunday of the Fair.
Sunday, August 26; Service at 9:00 a.m. Pastor Kevin McReynolds; St. Paul’s Lutheran, Central City; Choir from Grace Lutheran, in Grand Island Sunday, September 2; Service at 9:00 a.m.; Rev. Dr. Heath Trampe, Faith Lutheran, York; Assistant Pastoral Advisor NE Dist. LLL. Visit the LLL/LHM Fair Booth in the 4-H/FFA building every day of the NE State Fair.

Readings 

Old Testament Reading: Isaiah 29:11–19 
11And the vision of all this has become to you like the words of a book that is sealed. When men give it to one who can read, saying, “Read this,” he says, “I cannot, for it is sealed.” 12And when they give the book to one who cannot read, saying, “Read this,” he says, “I cannot read.” 13And the Lord said: “Because this people draw near with their mouth and honor me with their lips, while their hearts are far from me, and their fear of me is a commandment taught by men, 14therefore, behold, I will again do wonderful things with this people, with wonder upon wonder; and the wisdom of their wise men shall perish, and the discernment of their discerning men shall be hidden.” 15Ah, you who hide deep from the LORD your counsel, whose deeds are in the dark, and who say, “Who sees us? Who knows us?” 16You turn things upside down! Shall the potter be regarded as the clay, that the thing made should say of its maker, “He did not make me”; or the thing formed say of him who formed it, “He has no understanding”? 17Is it not yet a very little while until Lebanon shall be turned into a fruitful field, and the fruitful field shall be regarded as a forest? 18In that day the deaf shall hear the words of a book, and out of their gloom and darkness the eyes of the blind shall see. 19The meek shall obtain fresh joy in the LORD, and the poor among mankind shall exult in the Holy One of Israel.

Epistle: Ephesians 5:22–33 

22Wives, submit to your own husbands, as to the Lord. 23For the husband is the head of the wife even as Christ is the head of the church, his body, and is himself its Savior. 24Now as the church submits to Christ, so also wives should submit in everything to their husbands. 25Husbands, love your wives, as Christ loved the church and gave himself up for her, 26that he might sanctify her, having cleansed her by the washing of water with the word, 27so that he might present the church to himself in splendor, without spot or wrinkle or any such thing, that she might be holy and without blemish. 28In the same way husbands should love their wives as their own bodies. He who loves his wife loves himself. 29For no one ever hated his own flesh, but nourishes and cherishes it, just as Christ does the church, 30because we are members of his body. 31“Therefore a man shall leave his father and mother and hold fast to his wife, and the two shall become one flesh.” 32This mystery is profound, and I am saying that it refers to Christ and the church. 33However, let each one of you love his wife as himself, and let the wife see that she respects her husband.

Holy Gospel: Mark 7:1–13 

1When the Pharisees gathered to [Jesus], with some of the scribes who had come from Jerusalem, 2they saw that some of his disciples ate with hands that were defiled, that is, unwashed. 3(For the Pharisees and all the Jews do not eat unless they wash their hands, holding to the tradition of the elders, 4and when they come from the marketplace, they do not eat unless they wash. And there are many other traditions that they observe, such as the washing of cups and pots and copper vessels and dining couches.) 5And the Pharisees and the scribes asked him, “Why do your disciples not walk according to the tradition of the elders, but eat with defiled hands?” 6And he said to them, “Well did Isaiah prophesy of you hypocrites, as it is written, “‘This people honors me with their lips, but their heart is far from me; 7in vain do they worship me, teaching as doctrines the commandments of men.’ 8You leave the commandment of God and hold to the tradition of men.” 9And he said to them, “You have a fine way of rejecting the commandment of God in order to establish your tradition! 10For Moses said, ‘Honor your father and your mother’; and, ‘Whoever reviles father or mother must surely die.’ 11But you say, ‘If a man tells his father or his mother, Whatever you would have gained from me is Corban’ (that is, given to God)— 12then you no longer permit him to do anything for his father or mother, 13thus making void the word of God by your tradition that you have handed down. And many such things you do.”

Sunday school for all Ages (2 yr. olds – Adult) 9:00 a.m.
Fellowship 10:00 a.m.
Worship (Communion on the 1st, 3rd & 5th Sundays) 10:30 a.m.

Pastor – Rev. Brian L. Wright
(303) 506-6481 iamwings@msn.com
Church Office
(308) 485-4863 christcairo@gmail.com

All Belong to Christ Preschool/Daycare
(308) 485-5832 allbelongtochristdaycare@gmail.com

Moses Comfort Dog
Primary Handlers Shawn & Nancy Harders
Shawn – 308-380-6168 Nancy – 308-380-0589
nancyharders@gmail.com

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Christ Lutheran Church LCMS Cairo NE
Moses Comfort Dog
All Belong to Christ Daycare and Preschool
Christ Lutheran LYF (Cairo, NE)

Church Website www.christlutheranchurchcairo.com

We WELCOME you to Christ Lutheran Church this Sunday morning. There are children’s quiet bags located under the mail boxes that may be borrowed during the worship service and returned to the pegs following the service.

Please check out our Media Center located in the Fellowship Hall. There you will find many publications; Happy Times, My Devotions, Portals of Prayer (large and small print), Church’s monthly calendar, past week’s bulletin, LWML Quarterly, extra church directories and constitutions.

Our Missions for 2018
All Belong to Christ Child Care & Preschool of Christ Cairo; Heartland Lutheran High School, Grand Island, NE; New Hope Christian School, Cairo, NE.; Mission Central and Orphan Grain Train. Tiffany Harders to Côte d’Ivoire (Tanda), Africa and Alyssa McAfee to Liberia (Gorblee), Africa.

New Member Classes
Please speak with Pastor Brian or contact the church office at 308-485-4863 if you are interested in becoming a member of Christ Cairo.

Serving in God’s House today…

Rev. Brian Wright Pastor
Kimberly Dibbern Organist
Kylie Neppl Acolyte
Dick Hadenfeldt / Jamie Hadenfeldt Ushers
Cole/Ethan Usher Helpers
Kimberly Dibbern Altar
Ted Dibbern Moses
Elders
ABC Coffee Fellowship

Our Attendance:
Members Visitors
Church Camp Out 29 0
Sunday 7/222 71 9
Sunday 7/29 76 2
Sunday 8/5 75 4

Our Offerings Sunday 8/5
Building Fund $.00
General Fund $1,870.00
Mission Fund $122.00
Debt Fund (1st Sun special offering) 2,978.00
Special Mission (3rd Sun special offering) $.00
Misc. Gifts $.00

PRAYERS THIS WEEK
Prayers for Flora Meester (Catherine Garrett’s friend), Flora suffers from shingles in her eye.
Prayers for Edna Maixner (Peg Lemburg’s mom), Edna will undergo bypass surgery on Tuesday Aug. 21 in Lincoln NE.
Prayers for Norm Krolikowski hospitalized in Omaha with complications from his long-term cancer.
Prayers for the family and friends of Scott Mauser (husband of Myra (Brown) Mauser), Scott died from a farm related accident this past week.

Suffering from Cancer
Kyle Arndt from Alda Ne. (6 yr. old Grandnephew of Rick Gilbert)
Donna Harders
Barb Meyer
Danny Godfrey (friend of Ron & Dorothy Schultz)
Deb Bergman (Moses groomer from Island Pet Resort)
Mike Cornelius (Carly Callahan’s Uncle)

ANNIVERSARIES THIS WEEK
Tiffany & Jarrod Jacobsen – Aug. 15 (3), Paul & Marilyn Wilhelm – Aug. 16 (48)

BIRTHDAYS THIS WEEK
Deb Hargens – Aug. 15, Courtney Dibbern – Aug. 17, Isaac Frankforter – Aug. 18
Aiden Grabowski – Aug. 18, Ryan Harders – Aug. 18, Paisley Weber – Aug. 18

Pastor Wright will be in the Church office most weeks M-Th; 9 a.m. – 1 p.m. You may call Pastor Wright at 303-506-6481 or email him at iamwings@msn.com

Bulletin announcements need to be submitted to the church office by
Wednesday evening to appear in the following Sunday’s Bulletin.

Don’t forget to check your Church mail box.

Sunday, Aug 12 – 12th Sun after Pentecost
1 Kings 19:1–8, Ps. 34:1–8
Eph. 4:17—5:2, John 6:35–51
No Sunday School & Adult Bible Study
Gary Wieck (OGT & Mercy Meals) 9:30 -10 am
Speaker during Adult Bible Class & Sunday School
ABC Coffee Fellowship 10 am
Worship 10:30 am
10yr. Ann. In Ministry for Pastor Kevin McReynolds
St Paul’s, Central City NE, 10:30 Worship Noon lunch.

Monday Aug 13

Tuesday Aug 14

Wednesday Aug 15 Men’s Bible Study 8:00 am
WR Good Sam Worship 10:00 am
Moses to VA/Boys Town 1 pm

Thursday Aug 16 Moses to GI (Primrose/Good Sam)

Friday Aug 17

Saturday Aug 18

Sunday, Aug 19 – 13th Sun after Pentecost
Prov. 9:1–10 or Josh. 24:1–2a, 14–18, Ps. 34:12–22
Eph. 5:6–21, John 6:51–69

No Sunday School or Adult Bible Study
Sunday School RALLY DAY – Church in the PARK 10:30 am
Installation of Sunday School Teachers and presentation of
bibles to the 1st and 5th grade students before worship.
Tiffany Harders thank you to the congregation and short presentation on her trip to Africa during worship.
LYF Trash pick up following Church
Cairo Senior Ctr. Ice cream Social 2-4 pm
Men’s Trap Shoot at Reynolds Pond 3:00 pm

SAVE the DATE Worship at the State Fair Aug. 26 & Sept. 2
Sunday School Teachers Bible Study 6:30 pm Aug. 26
HFH Build Days Sat. Sept. 8 and Sat. Sept. 22
LWML Dist. Convention Younes Ctr. Kearney NE. Sept. 14-15
NE Junk Jaunt Sept. 28-30
LCMS Middle School Convention Nov. 17-18

MARK your CALENDARS NOW!
Plan to help with the Church’s Junk Jaunt Food Booth
September 28-30, 2018, NE Junk Jaunt dates.
If you would be interested in helping with the Food Booth this year contact Gary Harders.

ABC Day Care/Preschool will be doing the Junk sales this year.
Watch the bulletin, more details to come later.

Rally Day – CHURCH in the PARK
Sunday, August 19, Cairo Pool Park, 10:30 a.m.
PLAN TO ATTEND!
Worship will begin at 10:30 a.m. with NO Sunday School.
There will be installation of Sunday school teachers and presentation of bibles to the 1st graders and presentation of bibles and catechisms to the 5th graders during the service.

Following worship Tiffany Harders will give a short presentation on her trip to Africa, to thank the congregation for their support.

At 11:45 a.m. we will have our Potluck Dinner.
The Sunday School staff will provide all the table service
and Water / Lemonade / Tea.

Everyone is asked to bring a dish to share!

There will be some seating at the picnic tables under the roof
but please feel free to bring your lawn chair for worship & meal.

Please mark your calendar the next Habitat for Humanity build days will be September 8 and September 22. Both days are concrete days like usual.

November 17-18, 2018
“SHOW” Middle school Youth Convention
Students 6-8 grade;
Embassy Suites, Lavista NE.
Jenny & Scott Reynolds have offered to take the students to this event. If you are interested in attending, please speak with them or Pastor Brian. Middle school students and leaders are invited to come and learn from our theme which is centered on the word SHOW based on 2 Corinthians 3:3-6, you will spend the weekend learning that we SHOW that we are ‘a letter from Christ’ in what we sow, HOW we show love, and SO we are prepared to give a response in our daily lives. $90 per person plus lodging (Reg. by Sept. 30) Registration does include Sat. dinner and Sun. breakfast, snacks, speakers, talent show and games!

HLHS NEWS – Mark you Calendars!
State Fair Pie Booth Volunteers needed Aug. 24-Sept 3 more than 270 shifts needed to fill. Contact HLHS if you are interested in helping. More info posted on the HLHS board. Heartland Lutheran High School will be holding its craft fair on October 7, 2018 from 11:00 – 3:00 pm. We will need crafts, quilts, and other homemade items. We will also need cookies and goodies if you would like to plan on providing some of those items. All proceeds go toward tuition assistance. If you have things to donate, please contact the school office or Jan Hadenfeldt. Saturday, September 8 will be the Heartland Salute for Lutheran Family Service’s Veterans Program Buddy Check. This event will include a Car Show, Motorcycle “Poker Run”, and Concert. More details coming soon. Heartland Lutheran’s Golf Scramble will be Sunday, September 30 at 1:00 PM at Indianhead Golf Course. Save the Date and more information coming soon.

Worship at the NE State Fair
Are you planning to attend the NE State Fair on either Sunday of the fair?
Join the NE District LLL at the CHI Pavilion Stage for your spiritual growth each Sunday of the Fair.
Sunday, August 26; Service at 9:00 a.m. Pastor Kevin McReynolds; St. Paul’s Lutheran, Central City; Choir from Grace Lutheran, in Grand Island Sunday, September 2; Service at 9:00 a.m.; Rev. Dr. Heath Trampe, Faith Lutheran, York; Assistant Pastoral Advisor NE Dist. LLL. Visit the LLL/LHM Fair Booth in the 4-H/FFA building every day of the NE State Fair.

Women’s Weds. Bible Study Set to Begin
You are invited to join us beginning Weds. August 22 at 9:00 am here at church for a Women’s Bible Study. We will be studying “SIP, SAVOR and DRINK DEEPLY” written by Deb Burma. Sip, Savor and Drink Deeply by Deb Burma Jesus invites us to rest in Him. Just imagine what He has in store for us as we meet Him with our “cup”—our self—a vessel created and chosen by God, redeemed in Christ, and ready to be filled for His purpose. Time spent in Bible study will fill you to the brim and beyond with God’s Good News. Sip, savor, and drink deeply from His Word. Receive the outpouring of His grace, His joy, and His peace! I will be placing an order next week for books, please let me know by Tuesday Aug. 14 if you would like me to order you one. The book is on sale right now for $8.99 from Concordia Publishing House, we can get a discount if ordering 10 or more. You can also order this book in ebook edition available from amazonkindle or apple iBooks For more information or if you would like to order on your own check out… https://www.cph.org

Old Testament Reading: 1 Kings 19:1–8 1 Kings 19:1–8

1Ahab told Jezebel all that Elijah had done, and how he had killed all the prophets with the sword. 2Then Jezebel sent a messenger to Elijah, saying, “So may the gods do to me and more also, if I do not make your life as the life of one of them by this time tomorrow.” 3Then he was afraid, and he arose and ran for his life and came to Beersheba, which belongs to Judah, and left his servant there. 4But he himself went a day’s journey into the wilderness and came and sat down under a broom tree. And he asked that he might die, saying, “It is enough; now, O LORD, take away my life, for I am no better than my fathers.” 5And he lay down and slept under a broom tree. And behold, an angel touched him and said to him, “Arise and eat.” 6And he looked, and behold, there was at his head a cake baked on hot stones and a jar of water. And he ate and drank and lay down again. 7And the angel of the LORD came again a second time and touched him and said, “Arise and eat, for the journey is too great for you.” 8And he arose and ate and drank, and went in the strength of that food forty days and forty nights to Horeb, the mount of God.

Epistle: Ephesians 4:17—5:2 Ephesians 4:17—5:2

17Now this I say and testify in the Lord, that you must no longer walk as the Gentiles do, in the futility of their minds. 18They are darkened in their understanding, alienated from the life of God because of the ignorance that is in them, due to their hardness of heart. 19They have become callous and have given themselves up to sensuality, greedy to practice every kind of impurity. 20But that is not the way you learned Christ!— 21assuming that you have heard about him and were taught in him, as the truth is in Jesus, 22to put off your old self, which belongs to your former manner of life and is corrupt through deceitful desires, 23and to be renewed in the spirit of your minds, 24and to put on the new self, created after the likeness of God in true righteousness and holiness. 25Therefore, having put away falsehood, let each one of you speak the truth with his neighbor, for we are members one of another. 26Be angry ado not sin; do not let the sun go down on your anger, 27and give no opportunity to the devil. 28Let the thief no longer steal, but rather let him labor, doing honest work with his own hands, so that he may have something to share with anyone in need. 29Let no corrupting talk come out of your mouths, but only such as is good for building up, as fits the occasion, that it may give grace to those who hear. 30And do not grieve the Holy Spirit of God, by whom you were sealed for the day of redemption. 31Let all bitterness and wrath and anger and clamor and slander be put away from you, along with all malice. 32Be kind to one another, tenderhearted, forgiving one another, as God in Christ forgave you. 1Therefore be imitators of God, as beloved children. 2And walk in love, as Christ loved us and gave himself up for us, a fragrant offering and sacrifice to God.

Holy Gospel: John 6:35–51 John 6:35–51

35Jesus said to them, “I am the bread of life; whoever comes to me shall not hunger, and whoever believes in me shall never thirst. 36But I said to you that you have seen me and yet do not believe. 37All that the Father gives me will come to me, and whoever comes to me I will never cast out. 38For I have come down from heaven, not to do my own will but the will of him who sent me. 39And this is the will of him who sent me, that I should lose nothing of all that he has given me, but raise it up on the last day. 40For this is the will of my Father, that everyone who looks on the Son and believes in him should have eternal life, and I will raise him up on the last day.” 41So the Jews grumbled about him, because he said, “I am the bread that came down from heaven.” 42They said, “Is not this Jesus, the son of Joseph, whose father and mother we know? How does he now say, ‘I have come down from heaven’?” 43Jesus answered them, “Do not grumble among yourselves. 44No one can come to me unless the Father who sent me draws him. And I will raise him up on the last day. 45It is written in the Prophets, ‘And they will all be taught by God.’ Everyone who has heard and learned from the Father comes to me— 46not that anyone has seen the Father except he who is from God; he has seen the Father. 47Truly, truly, I say to you, whoever believes has eternal life. 48I am the bread of life. 49Your fathers ate the manna in the wilderness, and they died. 50This is the bread that comes down from heaven, so that one may eat of it and not die. 51I am the living bread that came down from heaven. If anyone eats of this bread, he will live forever. And the bread that I will give for the life of the world is my flesh.”

Sunday school for all Ages
(2 yr. olds – Adult) 9:00 a.m.

Fellowship 10:00 a.m.

Worship – (Communion on the 1st, 3rd & 5th Sundays) 10:30 a.m.

Pastor – Rev. Brian L. Wright
(303) 506-6481 iamwings@msn.com

Church Office
(308) 485-4863 christcairo@gmail.com

All Belong to Christ Preschool/Daycare
(308) 485-5832 allbelongtochristdaycare@gmail.com

Moses Comfort Dog
Primary Handlers Shawn & Nancy Harders
Shawn – 308-380-6168 Nancy – 308-380-0589
nancyharders@gmail.com

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Moses Comfort Dog
All Belong to Christ Daycare and Preschool
Christ Lutheran LYF (Cairo, NE)

Church Website – www.christlutheranchurchcairo.com

We WELCOME you to Christ Lutheran Church this Sunday morning. There are children’s quiet bags located under the mail boxes that may be borrowed during the worship service and returned to the pegs following the service.

Please check out our Media Center located in the Fellowship Hall. There you will find many publications; Happy Times, My Devotions, Portals of Prayer (large and small print), Church’s monthly calendar, past week’s bulletin, LWML Quarterly, extra church directories and constitutions.

Our Missions for 2018
All Belong to Christ Child Care & Preschool of Christ Cairo; Heartland Lutheran High School, Grand Island, NE; New Hope Christian School, Cairo, NE.; Mission Central and Orphan Grain Train. Tiffany Harders to Côte d’Ivoire (Tanda), Africa and Alyssa McAfee to Liberia (Gorblee), Africa.

New Member Classes
Please speak with Pastor Brian or contact the church office at 308-485-4863 if you are interested in becoming a member of Christ Cairo.

Serving in God’s House today…

Rev. Brian Wright Pastor
Kimberly Dibbern Organist
McLain Adams Acolyte
Dick Hadenfeldt / Jamie Hadenfeldt Ushers
Kylie / Cole Usher Helpers
Kimberly Dibbern Altar
Kimberly Dibbern Moses
Rob Schultz / Tim Lemburg Elders
Ladies Aid Coffee Fellowship

Our Attendance:
Members Visitors
Sunday 7/15 48 5
Church Camp Out 29 0
Sunday 7/222 71 9
Sunday 7/29 76 2

Our Offerings Sunday 7/29
Building Fund $100.00
General Fund $2,322.00
Mission Fund $103.00
Special Mission $.00
Misc. Gifts $.00

PRAYERS THIS WEEK
Prayers for Flora Meester (Catherine Garrett’s friend), Flora suffers from shingles in her eye and it has returned.
Prayers for Edna Maixner (Peg Lemburg’s mom) as she goes through continued medical tests for blockage in her heart and possible surgery.
Please keep Donna Harders in your prayers as she is home recovering from her time in the hospital last week.
Prayers for the LCC Comfort Dog ministry and our Moses and handler Lisa W. and GI Peace Eddie and Trinity Lincoln Pricisilla, who traveled to Chico CA this past the devasting CARR fires.

Suffering from Cancer
Kyle Arndt from Alda Ne. (6 yr. old Grandnephew of Rick Gilbert)
Donna Harders
Barb Meyer
Danny Godfrey (friend of Ron & Dorothy Schultz)
Deb Bergman (Moses groomer from Island Pet Resort)
Mike Cornelius (Carly Callahan’s Uncle)

ANNIVERSARIES THIS WEEK
Marcus & Bobbie Nation – Aug. 5 (7), Rick & Jan Leth – Aug. 10 (22), Garen & Laura Spatz – Aug. 11 (55)

BIRTHDAYS THIS WEEK
Angie Meyer – Aug. 5, Lola Clark – Aug. 7, Pete Dibbern – Aug. 7
Fusako Hadenfeldt – Aug. 10, Andy Hadenfeldt – Aug. 11, Gene Hadenfeldt – Aug. 11, Emily Neppl – Aug. 11

Pastor Wright will be in the Church office most weeks M-Th; 9 a.m. – 1 p.m. You may call Pastor Wright at 303-506-6481 or email him at iamwings@msn.com

Bulletin announcements need to be submitted to the church office by
Wednesday evening to appear in the following Sunday’s Bulletin.

Don’t forget to check your Church mail box.

Sunday, Aug 5 – 11th Sun after Pentecost
Ex. 16:2–15; Ps. 145:10–21
Eph. 4:1–16; John 6:22–35

Sunday School & Adult Bible Study 9 am
Ladies Aid Coffee Fellowship 10 am
Worship with Communion 10:30 am
Ordination/Installation at Shelton St Paul’s dual parish with
Grace Wood River 4 pm Rev. Richard Stephens Dinner will follow

Monday Aug 6 ABC Board Mtg. 6 pm

Tuesday Aug 7

Wednesday Aug 8 Men’s Breakfast Bible Study 6:45 am
Moses to VA/Boys Town 1 pm

Thursday Aug 9
Moses to GI (Wedgewood, Country Home, Tiffany Square)

Friday Aug 10

Saturday Aug 11

Sunday, Aug 12 – 12th Sun after Pentecost
Ex. 16:2–15; Ps. 145:10–21
Eph. 4:1–16; John 6:22–35

No SS or Adult Bible Study
9:30 am Guest Speaker Gary Wieck (OGT & Mercy Meals)
ABC Coffee Fellowship 10 am
Worship 10:30 am
10 Yr. Ann of Ministry of Rev. Kevin McReynolds St Paul’s
Central City, NE. 10:30 am worship and Noon Lunch.

SAVE the DATE
CHURCH In the Park RALLY DAY – Aug. 19 at 10:30 am
No Sunday School, Tiffany Harders Africa Trip, Potluck Dinner
Installation of SS Teachers, Presentation of Bibles to 1st graders and Bibles and Catechisms to the 5th graders.
Worship at the State Fair Aug. 26 & Sept. 2
NE Dist South LWML 39th Biennial Convention Sept. 14-15
HFH Build Days Sat. Sept. 8 and Sat. Sept. 22
LWML Dist. Convention Younes Ctr. Kearney NE. Sept. 14-15
NE Junk Jaunt Sept. 28-30

MARK your CALENDARS NOW!
Plan to help with the Church’s
Junk Jaunt Food Booth September 28-30, 2018, NE Junk Jaunt dates.
If you would be interested in helping with the Food Booth this year contact Gary Harders. ABC Day Care/Preschool will be doing the Junk sales this year.
Watch the bulletin, more details to come later.

Rally Day – CHURCH in the PARK
Sunday, August 19, Cairo Pool Park, 10:30 a.m.
PLAN TO ATTEND!

Worship will begin at 10:30 a.m. with NO Sunday School.
There will be installation of Sunday school teachers and presentation of bibles to the 1st graders and presentation of bibles and catechisms to the 5th graders during the service.

Following worship Tiffany Harders will give a short prestation on her trip to Africa, to thank the congregation for their support.

At 11:45 a.m. we will have our Potluck Dinner.
The Sunday School staff will provide all the table service
and Water / Lemonade / Tea.

Everyone is asked to bring a dish to share!

There will be some setting at the picnic tables under the roof
but please feel free to bring your lawn chair for worship & meal.

Please mark your calendar the next Habitat for Humanity build days will be September 8 and September 22. Both days are concrete days like usual.

“I know not the way God leads me,
but well do I know my Guide. ”Martin Luther

HLHS NEWS – Mark you Calendars!
State Fair Pie Booth Volunteers needed Aug. 24-Sept 3 more than 270 shifts needed to fill. Contact HLHS if you are interested in helping. More info posted on the HLHS board.
Heartland Lutheran High School will be holding its craft fair on October 7, 2018 from 11:00 – 3:00 pm. We will need crafts, quilts, and other homemade items. We will also need cookies and goodies if you would like to plan on providing some of those items. All proceeds go toward tuition assistance. If you have things to donate, please contact the school office or Jan Hadenfeldt.
Saturday, September 8 will be the Heartland Salute for Lutheran Family Service’s Veterans Program Buddy Check. This event will include a Car Show, Motorcycle “Poker Run”, and Concert. More details coming soon. Heartland Lutheran’s Golf Scramble will be Sunday, September 30 at 1:00 PM at Indianhead Golf Course. Save the Date and more information coming soon.

Worship at the NE State Fair
Are you planning to attend the NE State Fair on either Sunday of the fair?
Join the NE District LLL at the CHI Pavilion Stage for your spiritual growth each Sunday of the Fair.
Sunday, August 26; Service at 9:00 a.m. Pastor Kevin McReynolds; St. Paul’s Lutheran, Central City; Choir from Grace Lutheran, in Grand Island Sunday, September 2; Service at 9:00 a.m.; Rev. Dr. Heath Trampe, Faith Lutheran, York; Assistant Pastoral Advisor NE Dist. LLL. Visit the LLL/LHM Fair Booth in the 4-H/FFA building every day of the NE State Fair.

You are Invited to the Ordination / Installation TODAY!
of Richard Stephens, Sunday August 5th, 4:00 p.m.; Saint Pauls Lutheran Church, 705 A St, Shelton NE 68876. Dinner to Follow Pastor Stephens will serve a dual parish Shelton and Grace Wood River.

Old Testament Reading Exodus 16:2–15

2And the whole congregation of the people of Israel grumbled against Moses and Aaron in the wilderness, 3and the people of Israel said to them, “Would that we had died by the hand of the LORD in the land of Egypt, when we sat by the meat pots and ate bread to the full, for you have brought us out into this wilderness to kill this whole assembly with hunger.” 4Then the LORD said to Moses, “Behold, I am about to rain bread from heaven for you, and the people shall go out and gather a day’s portion every day, that I may test them, whether they will walk in my law or not. 5On the sixth day, when they prepare what they bring in, it will be twice as much as they gather daily.” 6So Moses and Aaron said to all the people of Israel, “At evening you shall know that it was the LORD who brought you out of the land of Egypt, 7and in the morning you shall see the glory of the LORD, because he has heard your grumbling against the LORD. For what are we, that you grumble against us?” 8And Moses said, “When the LORD gives you in the evening meat to eat and in the morning bread to the full, because the LORD has heard your grumbling that you grumble against him—what are we? Your grumbling is not against us but against the LORD.” 9Then Moses said to Aaron, “Say to the whole congregation of the people of Israel, ‘Come near before the LORD, for he has heard your grumbling.’” 10And as soon as Aaron spoke to the whole congregation of the people of Israel, they looked toward the wilderness, and behold, the glory of the LORD appeared in the cloud. 11And the LORD said to Moses, 12“I have heard the grumbling of the people of Israel. Say to them, ‘At twilight you shall eat meat, and in the morning you shall be filled with bread. Then you shall know that I am the LORD your God.’” 13In the evening quail came up and covered the camp, and in the morning dew lay around the camp. 14And when the dew had gone up, there was on the face of the wilderness a fine, flake-like thing, fine as frost on the ground. 15When the people of Israel saw it, they said to one another, “What is it?” For they did not know what it was. And Moses said to them, “It is the bread that the LORD has given you to eat.

Epistle Ephesians 4:1–16

1I therefore, a prisoner for the Lord, urge you to walk in a manner worthy of the calling to which you have been called, 2with all humility and gentleness, with patience, bearing with one another in love, 3eager to maintain the unity of the Spirit in the bond of peace. 4There is one body and one Spirit—just as you were called to the one hope that belongs to your call— 5one Lord, one faith, one baptism, 6one God and Father of all, who is over all and through all and in all. 7But grace was given to each one of us according to the measure of Christ’s gift. 8Therefore it says, “When he ascended on high he led a host of captives, and he gave gifts to men.” 9(In saying, “He ascended,” what does it mean but that he had also descended into the lower parts of the earth? 10He who descended is the one who also ascended far above all the heavens, that he might fill all things.) 11And he gave the apostles, the prophets, the evangelists, the pastors and teachers, 12to equip the saints for the work of ministry, for building up the body of Christ, 13until we all attain to the unity of the faith and of the knowledge of the Son of God, to mature manhood, to the measure of the stature of the fullness of Christ, 14so that we may no longer be children, tossed to and fro by the waves and carried about by every wind of doctrine, by human cunning, by craftiness in deceitful schemes. 15Rather, speaking the truth in love, we are to grow up in every way into him who is the head, into Christ, 16from whom the whole body, joined and held together by every joint with which it is equipped, when each part is working properly, makes the body grow so that it builds itself up in love.

Holy Gospel John 6:22–35

22On the next day the crowd that remained on the other side of the sea saw that there had been only one boat there, and that Jesus had not entered the boat with his disciples, but that his disciples had gone away alone. 23Other boats from Tiberias came near the place where they had eaten the bread after the Lord had given thanks. 24So when the crowd saw that Jesus was not there, nor his disciples, they themselves got into the boats and went to Capernaum, seeking Jesus. 25When they found him on the other side of the sea, they said to him, “Rabbi, when did you come here?” 26Jesus answered them, “Truly, truly, I say to you, you are seeking me, not because you saw signs, but because you ate your fill of the loaves. 27Do not labor for the food that perishes, but for the food that endures to eternal life, which the Son of Man will give to you. For on him God the Father has set his seal.” 28Then they said to him, “What must we do, to be doing the works of God?” 29Jesus answered them, “This is the work of God, that you believe in him whom he has sent.” 30So they said to him, “Then what sign do you do, that we may see and believe you? What work do you perform? 31Our fathers ate the manna in the wilderness; as it is written, ‘He gave them bread from heaven to eat.’” 32Jesus then said to them, “Truly, truly, I say to you, it was not Moses who gave you the bread from heaven, but my Father gives you the true bread from heaven. 33For the bread of God is he who comes down from heaven and gives life to the world.” 34They said to him, “Sir, give us this bread always.” 35Jesus said to them, “I am the bread of life; whoever comes to me shall not hunger, and whoever believes in me shall never thirst.

Sunday school for all Ages
(2 yr. olds – Adult) 9:00 a.m.

Fellowship 10:00 a.m.

Worship – (Communion on the 1st, 3rd & 5th Sundays) 10:30 a.m.

Pastor – Rev. Brian L. Wright
(303) 506-6481 iamwings@msn.com

Church Office
(308) 485-4863 christcairo@gmail.com

All Belong to Christ Preschool/Daycare
(308) 485-5832 allbelongtochristdaycare@gmail.com

Moses Comfort Dog
Primary Handlers Shawn & Nancy Harders
Shawn – 308-380-6168 Nancy – 308-380-0589
nancyharders@gmail.com

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Christ Lutheran Church LCMS Cairo NE
Moses Comfort Dog
All Belong to Christ Daycare and Preschool
Christ Lutheran LYF (Cairo, NE)

Church Website
www.christlutheranchurchcairo.com

We WELCOME you to Christ Lutheran Church this Sunday morning. There are children’s quiet bags located under the mail boxes that may be borrowed during the worship service and returned to the pegs following the service.

Please check out our Media Center located in the Fellowship Hall. There you will find many publications; Happy Times, My Devotions, Portals of Prayer (large and small print), Church’s monthly calendar, past week’s bulletin, LWML Quarterly, extra church directories and constitutions.

Our Missions for 2018
All Belong to Christ Child Care & Preschool of Christ Cairo; Heartland Lutheran High School, Grand Island, NE; New Hope Christian School, Cairo, NE.; Mission Central and Orphan Grain Train. Tiffany Harders to Côte d’Ivoire (Tanda), Africa and Alyssa McAfee to Liberia (Gorblee), Africa.

New Member Classes
Please speak with Pastor Brian or contact the church office at 308-485-4863 if you are interested in becoming a member of Christ Cairo.

Serving in God’s House today…

Rev. Richard Kothe Guest Pastor
Kimberly Dibbern Organist
Cole Callahan Acolyte
Keith Harders/Lee Echtenkamp Ushers
Ethan/Ryan Usher Helpers
Jan Hadenfeldt Altar
Nathan Knuth Moses
Elders
Volunteers Needed Coffee Fellowship

Our Attendance:
Members Visitors
Sunday 7/1 74 2
Sunday 7/8 72 9
Sunday 7/15 48 5
Church Camp Out 29 0

Our Offerings Sunday 7/15 (No Count)
Building Fund $.00
General Fund $.00
Mission Fund $.00
Special Mission $.00
Misc. Gifts $.00

PRAYERS THIS WEEK
Prayers for Flora Meester (Catherine Garrett’s friend), Flora suffers from shingles in her eye and it has returned.

Suffering from Cancer
Kyle Arndt from Alda Ne. (6 yr. old Grandnephew of Rick Gilbert)
Donna Harders
Barb Meyer
Danny Godfrey (friend of Ron & Dorothy Schultz)
Deb Bergman (Moses groomer from Island Pet Resort)
Mike Cornelius (Carly Callahan’s Uncle)
Norman Doremus (Rick Leth’s Cousin)

ANNIVERSARIES THIS WEEK
Dennis & Karry Bloomquist – July 26 (32)

BIRTHDAYS THIS WEEK
Kylie Neppl – July 24, Abby Hadenfeldt – July 25, Spencer Meyer – July 25
Nate Dibbern – July 26, Shelby Budde – July 28, Tammy Serr – July 28

Pastor Wright will be in the Church office most weeks M-Th; 9 a.m. – 1 p.m. You may call Pastor Wright at 303-506-6481 or email him at iamwings@msn.com

Bulletin announcements need to be submitted to the church office by
Wednesday evening to appear in the following Sunday’s Bulletin.
Don’t forget to check your Church mail box.

Sunday, July 22 – 9th Sun after Pentecost
Amos 7:7–15; Ps. 85:(1–7) 8–13
Eph. 1:3–14; Mark 6:14–29

Sunday School & Adult Bible Study 9 am
Welcome Pastor Richard Kothe Guest Pastor
VOLUNTEER NEEDED! Coffee Fellowship 10 am

Monday July 23

Tuesday July 24

Wednesday July 25 Men’s Bible Study 8 am
NO Women’s Bible Study through the Summer!
Moses to VA/Boys Town 1 pm

Thursday July 26

Friday July 27

Saturday July 28

Sunday, July 29 – 10th Sun after Pentecost
Gen. 9:8–17; Ps. 136:1–9
Eph. 3:14–21; Mark 6:45–56

Sunday School & Adult Bible Study 9 am
LYF Coffee Fellowship 10 am
Worship with Communion 10:30 am

SAVE the DATE
Elder’s Mtg. July 30
3rd City Steak Feed at GICC High School Aug. 4
NE Dist South LWML 39th Biennial Convention Sept. 14-15
HFH Build Days Sat. Sept. 8 and Sat. Sept. 22
LWML Dist. Convention Younes Ctr. Kearney NE. Sept. 14-15
NE Junk Jaunt Sept. 28-30

Make note on your calendars there will be
NO Women’s Bible Study through the Summer.

MARK your CALENDARS NOW!
Plan to help with the Church’s Junk Jaunt Food Booth

September 28-30, 2018, NE Junk Jaunt dates.
If you would be interested in helping with the Food Booth this year contact Gary Harders.

ABC Day Care/Preschool will be doing the Junk sales this year.
Watch the bulletin, more details to come later.

2018 Third City Steak Feed
This event raises money for all four high schools in Grand Island. HLHS receives a percentage of the money made to help their athletic and extracurricular programs. Our church has several tickets for sale for this event. Pastor Brian and the HLHS delegates from our church each have 4 tickets to sell. If you are interested in purchasing a ticket, please see the church office or you can contact a delegate (Lisa W. Paul W. Jan H and Gene H) The Steak Feed will be held at Central Catholic HS South Gym Sat. Aug. 4th; Dinner served from 5:30 – 8:00 pm; Auction begins at 7:30 pm; Advanced tickets are $19 At the Door will be $22. Price includes Dinner and Non-Acholic Beverage, you must be 21 of age or older to attend this event. State Law states there will be a fee for beer, Photo ID required. All tickets must be returned to HLHS office by Aug. 1.
HLHS Volunteers are needed to help at the Steak Feed.
Saturday, August 4th. Please sign up under a time slot listed for HLHS. The support that we provide is important to the success of the event and it is a great way to show HLHS to the community.
Thanks for your help and support!!
Here’s how it works in 3 easy steps:
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Benefit Raffle for GICC-GISH-GINW-HLHS
Athletic Booster Clubs
Raffle tickets are available, the drawing will be August 4, 2018. 1/$10 – 3/$25 – 7/$50 – 15/$100 (cash or check only)
Prizes available; 2 State Fair Concert Tickers (your choice), $200 VISA Gift Card, Davy Crockett Green Mountain Grill, Half A Hog. If you would like to support the GI athletic and extracurricular programs, please see Lindsey Harders for Raffle Tickets.
All proceeds from the meal or raffle will be split evenly between the 4 schools.

Please mark your calendar the next Habitat for Humanity build days will be September 8 and September 22. Both days are concrete days like usual.

God writes the Gospel not in the Bible alone, but also on trees,
and in the flowers and clouds and stars. Martin Luther

HLHS NEWS – Mark you Calendars!
Heartland Lutheran High School will be holding its craft fair on October 7, 2018 from 11:00 – 3:00 pm. We will need crafts, quilts, and other homemade items. We will also need cookies and goodies if you would like to plan on providing some of those items. All proceeds go toward tuition assistance. If you have things to donate, please contact the school office or Jan Hadenfeldt.
Saturday, September 8 will be the Heartland Salute for Lutheran Family Service’s Veterans Program Buddy Check. This event will include a Car Show, Motorcycle “Poker Run”, and Concert. More details coming soon. Heartland Lutheran’s Golf Scramble will be Sunday, September 30 at 1:00 PM at Indianhead Golf Course. Save the Date and more information coming soon.

You are invited
To the Ordination / Installation of
Richard Stephens
Sunday August 5th, 4:00 p.m.
Saint Pauls Lutheran Church
705 A Street, Shelton NE 68876.
Dinner to Follow
Pastor Stephens will serve a dual parish
Shelton and Grace Wood River.

Old Testament Reading Jeremiah 23:1–6

1“Woe to the shepherds who destroy and scatter the sheep of my pasture!” declares the LORD. 2Therefore thus says the LORD, the God of Israel, concerning the shepherds who care for my people: “You have scattered my flock and have driven them away, and you have not attended to them. Behold, I will attend to you for your evil deeds, declares the LORD. 3Then I will gather the remnant of my flock out of all the countries where I have driven them, and I will bring them back to their fold, and they shall be fruitful and multiply. 4I will set shepherds over them who will care for them, and they shall fear no more, nor be dismayed, neither shall any be missing, declares the LORD. 5“Behold, the days are coming, declares the LORD, when I will raise up for David a righteous Branch, and he shall reign as king and deal wisely, and shall execute justice and righteousness in the land. 6In his days Judah will be saved, and Israel will dwell securely. And this is the name by which he will be called: ‘The LORD is our righteousness.’

Epistle Ephesians 2:11–22

11 Remember that at one time you Gentiles in the flesh, called “the uncircumcision” by what is called the circumcision, which is made in the flesh by hands— 12remember that you were at that time separated from Christ, alienated from the commonwealth of Israel and strangers to the covenants of promise, having no hope and without God in the world. 13But now in Christ Jesus you who once were far off have been brought near by the blood of Christ. 14For he himself is our peace, who has made us both one and has broken down in his flesh the dividing wall of hostility 15by abolishing the law of commandments and ordinances, that he might create in himself one new man in place of the two, so making peace, 16and might reconcile us both to God in one body through the cross, thereby killing the hostility. 17And he came and preached peace to you who were far off and peace to those who were near. 18For through him we both have access in one Spirit to the Father. 19So then you are no longer strangers and aliens, but you are fellow citizens with the saints and members of the household of God, 20built on the foundation of the apostles and prophets, Christ Jesus himself being the cornerstone, 21in whom the whole structure, being joined together, grows into a holy temple in the Lord. 22In him you also are being built together into a dwelling place for God by the Spirit.

Holy Gospel Mark 6:30–44

30The apostles returned to Jesus and told him all that they had done and taught. 31And he said to them, “Come away by yourselves to a desolate place and rest a while.” For many were coming and going, and they had no leisure even to eat. 32And they went away in the boat to a desolate place by themselves. 33Now many saw them going and recognized them, and they ran there on foot from all the towns and got there ahead of them. 34When he went ashore he saw a great crowd, and he had compassion on them, because they were like sheep without a shepherd. And he began to teach them many things. 35And when it grew late, his disciples came to him and said, “This is a desolate place, and the hour is now late. 36Send them away to go into the surrounding countryside and villages and buy themselves something to eat.” 37But he answered them, “You give them something to eat.” And they said to him, “Shall we go and buy two hundred denarii worth of bread and give it to them to eat?” 38And he said to them, “How many loaves do you have? Go and see.” And when they had found out, they said, “Five, and two fish.” 39Then he commanded them all to sit down in groups on the green grass. 40So they sat down in groups, by hundreds and by fifties. 41And taking the five loaves and the two fish he looked up to heaven and said a blessing and broke the loaves and gave them to the disciples to set before the people. And he divided the two fish among them all. 42And they all ate and were satisfied. 43And they took up twelve baskets full of broken pieces and of the fish. 44And those who ate the loaves were five thousand men.

Sunday school for all Ages
(2 yr. olds – Adult) 9:00 a.m.
Fellowship 10:00 a.m.
Worship
(Communion on the 1st, 3rd & 5th Sundays) 10:30 a.m.

Pastor – Rev. Brian L. Wright
(303) 506-6481 iamwings@msn.com

Church Office
(308) 485-4863 christcairo@gmail.com

All Belong to Christ Preschool/Daycare
(308) 485-5832 allbelongtochristdaycare@gmail.com

Moses Comfort Dog
Primary Handlers Shawn & Nancy Harders
Shawn – 308-380-6168 Nancy – 308-380-0589
nancyharders@gmail.com

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Church Website
www.christlutheranchurchcairo.com

We WELCOME you to Christ Lutheran Church this Sunday morning. There are children’s quiet bags located under the mail boxes that may be borrowed during the worship service and returned to the pegs following the service.

Please check out our Media Center located in the Fellowship Hall. There you will find many publications; Happy Times, My Devotions, Portals of Prayer (large and small print), Church’s monthly calendar, past week’s bulletin, LWML Quarterly, extra church directories and constitutions.

Our Missions for 2018
All Belong to Christ Child Care & Preschool of Christ Cairo; Heartland Lutheran High School, Grand Island, NE; New Hope Christian School, Cairo, NE.; Mission Central and Orphan Grain Train. Tiffany Harders to Côte d’Ivoire (Tanda), Africa and Alyssa McAfee to Liberia (Gorblee), Africa.

New Member Classes
Please speak with Pastor Brian or contact the church office at 308-485-4863 if you are interested in becoming a member of Christ Cairo.

Serving in God’s House today…

Rev. Brian Wright Pastor
Kim Dibbern/Steve Hansen Piano/Guitar
Kylie Neppl Acolyte
Keith Harders/Lee Echtenkamp Ushers
Cole/Ethan Usher Helpers
Jan Hadenfeldt Altar
Jaci Knuth Moses
Ted Dibbern/Scott Reynolds Elders
LYF Coffee Fellowship

Our Attendance:
Members Visitors
Sunday 6/17 90 2
Sunday 6/24 76 5
Sunday 7/1 74 2
Sunday 7/8 72 9

Our Offerings Sunday 7/8
Building Fund $200.00
General Fund $6,726.74
Mission Fund $673.00
Special Mission $.00
Misc. Gifts $.00

PRAYERS THIS WEEK
Prayers for Georgian Husen (Lindsey Harders grandmother), Georgian is at Good Sam GI with hospice.
Prayers for Alyssa McAfee, Alyssa is traveling in Liberia. Working with a friend who just finished 2-yrs service in the Peace Corps, Alyssa will be hosting an art camp for the students at the school. Alyssa returns home July 16.

Suffering from Cancer
Kyle Arndt from Alda Ne. (6 yr. old Grandnephew of Rick Gilbert)
Donna Harders
Barb Meyer
Danny Godfrey (friend of Ron & Dorothy Schultz)
Deb Bergman (Moses groomer from Island Pet Resort)
Mike Cornelius (Carly Callahan’s Uncle)

ANNIVERSARIES THIS WEEK
Jeff & Nellie Campbell – July 15(12), Josh & Andrea Floth – July 15(1)
Pastor & Lisa Wright – July 17(25), Jacob & Allison Bartley – July 18(3), Jerry & Barb Teichmeier – July 19(43)

BIRTHDAYS THIS WEEK
Mickhalla Critel – July 17, Doug Meyer – July 17, Dan Reimers – July 18
Sara Mayes – July 20, Greyson Rasmussen – July 21, Barb Meyer – July 22

Pastor Wright will be in the Church office most weeks M-Th; 9 a.m. – 1 p.m. You may call Pastor Wright at 303-506-6481 or email him at iamwings@msn.com
Bulletin announcements need to be submitted to the church office by
Wednesday evening to appear in the following Sunday’s Bulletin.
Don’t forget to check your Church mail box.

Sunday, July 15 – 8th Sun after Pentecost
Amos 7:7–15; Ps. 85:(1–7) 8–13
Eph. 1:3–14; Mark 6:14–29

NO Sunday School & Adult Bible Study
Members Return home from Church Camp Out at Davis Creek
LYF – Coffee Fellowship 10 am
Cairo Senior Center Dinner 11 am – 1 pm
Following worship Pastor and Family leave for Family vacation

Monday July 16

Tuesday July 17
Moses to Crisis Ctr. 5 pm

Wednesday July 18
Men’s Bible Study 8 am
NO Women’s Bible Study through the Summer!
Moses to VA/Boys Town 1 pm

Thursday July 19
Moses to GI (Primrose/Good Sam)

Friday July 20

Saturday July 21

Sunday, July 22 – 9th Sun after Pentecost
Amos 7:7–15; Ps. 85:(1–7) 8–13
Eph. 1:3–14; Mark 6:14–29
Sunday School & Adult Bible Study 9 am
Welcome Pastor Richard Kothe Guest Pastor
VOLUNTEER NEEDED! Coffee Fellowship 10 am

SAVE the DATE
Elder’s Mtg. July 30
3rd City Steak Feed at GICC High School Aug. 4
NE Dist South LWML 39th Biennial Convention Sept. 14-15
HFH Build Days Sat. Sept. 8 and Sat. Sept. 22
LWML Dist. Convention Younes Ctr. Kearney NE. Sept. 14-15
NE Junk Jaunt Sept. 28-30

Make note on your calendars there will be
NO Women’s Bible Study through the Summer.

MARK your CALENDARS NOW!
Plan to help with the Church’s
Junk Jaunt Food Booth September 28-30, 2018, NE Junk Jaunt dates.
If you would be interested in helping with the Food Booth this year contact Gary Harders.

ABC Day Care/Preschool will be doing the Junk sales this year.
Watch the bulletin, more details to come later.

2018 Third City Steak Feed

This event raises money for all four high schools in Grand Island. HLHS receives a percentage of the money made to help their athletic and extracurricular programs. Our church has several tickets for sale for this event. Pastor Brian and the HLHS delegates from our church each have 4 tickets to sell. If you are interested in purchasing a ticket, please see the church office or you can contact a delegate (Lisa W. Paul W. Jan H and Gene H) The Steak Feed will be held at Central Catholic HS South Gym Sat. Aug. 4th; Dinner served from 5:30 – 8:00 pm; Auction begins at 7:30 pm; Advanced tickets are $19 At the Door will be $22. Price includes Dinner and Non-Acholic Beverage, you must be 21 of age or older to attend this event. State Law states there will be a fee for beer, Photo ID required. All tickets must be returned to HLHS office by Aug. 1.
HLHS Volunteers are needed to help at the Steak Feed.
Saturday, August 4th. Please sign up under a time slot listed for HLHS. The support that we provide is important to the success of the event and it is a great way to show HLHS to the community.
Thanks for your help and support!!
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Benefit Raffle for GICC-GISH-GINW-HLHS Athletic Booster Clubs
Raffle tickets are available, the drawing will be August 4, 2018. 1/$10 – 3/$25 – 7/$50 – 15/$100 (cash or check only)
Prizes available; 2 State Fair Concert Tickers (your choice), $200 VISA Gift Card, Davy Crockett Green Mountain Grill, Half A Hog. If you would like to support the GI athletic and extracurricular programs, please see Lindsey Harders for Raffle Tickets.
All proceeds from the meal or raffle will be split evenly between the 4 schools.

Please mark your calendar the next Habitat for Humanity build days will be September 8 and September 22. Both days are concrete days like usual.

To be a Christian without prayer is no more possible
than to be alive without breathing. Martin Luther

HLHS NEWS – Mark you Calendars!
Heartland Lutheran High School will be holding its craft fair on October 7, 2018 from 11:00 – 3:00 pm. We will need crafts, quilts, and other homemade items. We will also need cookies and goodies if you would like to plan on providing some of those items. All proceeds go toward tuition assistance. If you have things to donate, please contact the school office or Jan Hadenfeldt. Saturday, September 8 will be the Heartland Salute for Lutheran Family Service’s Veterans Program Buddy Check. This event will include a Car Show, Motorcycle “Poker Run”, and Concert. More details coming soon. Heartland Lutheran’s Golf Scramble will be Sunday, September 30 at 1:00 PM at Indianhead Golf Course. Save the Date and more information coming soon.

Readings from Holy Scripture / Old Testament Reading Amos 7:7–15

7This is what [the Lord God] showed me: behold, the Lord was standing beside a wall built with a plumb line, with a plumb line in his hand. 8And the LORD said to me, “Amos, what do you see?” And I said, “A plumb line.” Then the Lord said, “Behold, I am setting a plumb line in the midst of my people Israel; I will never again pass by them; 9the high places of Isaac shall be made desolate, and the sanctuaries of Israel shall be laid waste, and I will rise against the house of Jeroboam with the sword.” 10Then Amaziah the priest of Bethel sent to Jeroboam king of Israel, saying, “Amos has conspired against you in the midst of the house of Israel. The land is not able to bear all his words. 11For thus Amos has said, “‘Jeroboam shall die by the sword, and Israel must go into exile away from his land.’” 12And Amaziah said to Amos, “O seer, go, flee away to the land of Judah, and eat bread there, and prophesy there, 13but never again prophesy at Bethel, for it is the king’s sanctuary, and it is a temple of the kingdom.” 14Then Amos answered and said to Amaziah, “I was no prophet, nor a prophet’s son, but I was a herdsman and a dresser of sycamore figs. 15But the LORD took me from following the flock, and the LORD said to me, ‘Go, prophesy to my people Israel.’

Epistle Ephesians 1:3–14

3Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who has blessed us in Christ with every spiritual blessing in the heavenly places, 4even as he chose us in him before the foundation of the world, that we should be holy and blameless before him. In love 5he predestined us for adoption through Jesus Christ, according to the purpose of his will, 6to the praise of his glorious grace, with which he has blessed us in the Beloved. 7In him we have redemption through his blood, the forgiveness of our trespasses, according to the riches of his grace, 8which he lavished upon us, in all wisdom and insight 9making known to us the mystery of his will, according to his purpose, which he set forth in Christ 10as a plan for the fullness of time, to unite all things in him, things in heaven and things on earth. 11In him we have obtained an inheritance, having been predestined according to the purpose of him who works all things according to the counsel of his will, 12so that we who were the first to hope in Christ might be to the praise of his glory. 13In him you also, when you heard the word of truth, the gospel of your salvation, and believed in him, were sealed with the promised Holy Spirit, 14who is the guarantee of our inheritance until we acquire possession of it, to the praise of his glory.

Holy Gospel Mark 6:14–29
14King Herod heard of it, for Jesus’ name had become known. Some said, “John the Baptist has been raised from the dead. That is why these miraculous powers are at work in him.” 15But others said, “He is Elijah.” And others said, “He is a prophet, like one of the prophets of old.” 16But when Herod heard of it, he said, “John, whom I beheaded, has been raised.” 17For it was Herod who had sent and seized John and bound him in prison for the sake of Herodias, his brother Philip’s wife, because he had married her. 18For John had been saying to Herod, “It is not lawful for you to have your brother’s wife.” 19And Herodias had a grudge against him and wanted to put him to death. But she could not, 20for Herod feared John, knowing that he was a righteous and holy man, and he kept him safe. When he heard him, he was greatly perplexed, and yet he heard him gladly. 21But an opportunity came when Herod on his birthday gave a banquet for his nobles and military commanders and the leading men of Galilee. 22For when Herodias’s daughter came in and danced, she pleased Herod and his guests. And the king said to the girl, “Ask me for whatever you wish, and I will give it to you.” 23And he vowed to her, “Whatever you ask me, I will give you, up to half of my kingdom.” 24And she went out and said to her mother, “For what should I ask?” And she said, “The head of John the Baptist.” 25And she came in immediately with haste to the king and asked, saying, “I want you to give me at once the head of John the Baptist on a platter.” 26And the king was exceedingly sorry, but because of his oaths and his guests he did not want to break his word to her. 27And immediately the king sent an executioner with orders to bring John’s head. He went and beheaded him in the prison 28and brought his head on a platter and gave it to the girl, and the girl gave it to her mother. 29When his disciples heard of it, they came and took his body and laid it in a tomb.