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
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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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
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

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. 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:
1) Go to this link to see our Signup on SignUp.com:
http://signup.com/go/yXUWCaF
2) Review the options listed and choose the spot(s) you like.
3) Sign up! It’s Easy – you will NOT need to register an account or keep a password on SignUp.com. Note: SignUp.com does not share your email address with anyone.
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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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
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!!
Here’s how it works in 3 easy steps:
1) Go to this link to see our SignUp on SignUp.com:
http://signup.com/go/yXUWCaF
2) Review the options listed and choose the spot(s) you like.
3) Sign up! It’s Easy – you will NOT need to register an account or keep a password on SignUp.com. Note: SignUp.com does not share your email address with anyone.

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.

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
Kimberly Dibbern Organist
McLain Adams Acolyte
Keith Harders/Lee Echtenkamp Ushers
Kylie/Cole Usher Helpers
Kimberly Dibbern Altar
Paul Wilhelm Moses
Elders
ABC Day Care Coffee Fellowship

Our Attendance:
Members Visitors
Sunday 6/10 79 15
Sunday 6/17 90 2
Sunday 6/24 76 5
Sunday 7/1 74 2

Our Offerings Sunday 7/1
Building Fund $.00
General Fund $2,736.00
Mission Fund $.00
Special Mission $60.00
Misc. Gifts $.00

PRAYERS THIS WEEK
Prayers for Catherine Garrett recovering at home from knee replacement surgery.
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)

ANNIVERSARIES THIS WEEK

BIRTHDAYS THIS WEEK
Kassidy Gascho – July 9, Holly Plejdrup – July 9, Dana Lemburg – July 11
Shari Rathman – July 12, Carl Sokol – July 13, Atley Strode – July 14

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 8 – 7th Sun after Pentecost
Ezek. 2:1–5; Ps. 123
2 Cor. 12:1–10; Mark 6:1–13

Sunday School & Adult Bible Study 9 am
ABC – Coffee Fellowship 10 am
Quarterly Voter’s Mtg. 11:30 am (Following Worship)
Mr. Habitat 2018 Pancake Feed 9am – 1:30 pm

Monday July 9
HLHS Blood Drive at Conestoga Mall 1 – 7 pm

Tuesday July 10

Wednesday July 11 Men’s Breakfast Bible Study 6:45 am
NO Women’s Bible Study through the Summer!
Moses to VA/Boys Town 1 pm

Thursday July 12
Moses to GI (Wedgewood, Country Home, Tiffany Square)
Church Camp Out at Davis Creek

Friday July 13
Church Camp Out at Davis Creek

Saturday July 14
Baby Shower Noon-5pm Rasmussen
Church Camp Out at Davis Creek

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

SAVE the DATE
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.

All Church Campout
Thurs. July 12 – Sun. July 15
at Davis Creek Campground located 6 miles south of North Loup. Please see Scott Reynolds or Matt Neppl for more details.

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.

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.
Mr Habitat 2018 Pancake Feed
Sunday, July 8th 9 am – 1:30 pm; $5 at the door.
Burlington Station, 603 N Plum Street GI
To kick off this year’s competition, each Mr. Habitat contestant will put forth a different specialty pancake. Who has the best pancake offering? You be the judge!

On Monday, July 9th from 1 pm to 7:00 pm the Heartland Lutheran National Honor Society Students will be hosting a Blood Drive for the Red Cross. This drive will take place at the Conestoga Mall (NOT HLHS). Please Contact the HLHS office at 308-385-3900 for a donation time.

Old Testament Reading Ezekiel 2:1–5

1 He said to me, “Son of man, stand on your feet, and I will speak with you.” 2And as he spoke to me, the Spirit entered into me and set me on my feet, and I heard him speaking to me. 3And he said to me, “Son of man, I send you to the people of Israel, to nations of rebels, who have rebelled against me. They and their fathers have transgressed against me to this very day. 4The descendants also are impudent and stubborn: I send you to them, and you shall say to them, ‘Thus says the Lord GOD.’ 5And whether they hear or refuse to hear (for they are a rebellious house) they will know that a prophet has been among them.

Epistle 2 Corinthians 12:1–10

1I must go on boasting. Though there is nothing to be gained by it, I will go on to visions and revelations of the Lord. 2I know a man in Christ who fourteen years ago was caught up to the third heaven—whether in the body or out of the body I do not know, God knows. 3And I know that this man was caught up into paradise—whether in the body or out of the body I do not know, God knows— 4and he heard things that cannot be told, which man may not utter. 5On behalf of this man I will boast, but on my own behalf I will not boast, except of my weaknesses. 6Though if I should wish to boast, I would not be a fool, for I would be speaking the truth. But I refrain from it, so that no one may think more of me than he sees in me or hears from me. 7So to keep me from being too elated by the surpassing greatness of the revelations, a thorn was given me in the flesh, a messenger of Satan to harass me, to keep me from being too elated. 8Three times I pleaded with the Lord about this, that it should leave me. 9But he said to me, “My grace is sufficient for you, for my power is made perfect in weakness.” Therefore I will boast all the more gladly of my weaknesses, so that the power of Christ may rest upon me. 10For the sake of Christ, then, I am content with weaknesses, insults, hardships, persecutions, and calamities. For when I am weak, then I am strong.

Holy Gospel Mark 6:1–13

1[Jesus] went away from there and came to his hometown, and his disciples followed him. 2And on the Sabbath he began to teach in the synagogue, and many who heard him were astonished, saying, “Where did this man get these things? What is the wisdom given to him? How are such mighty works done by his hands? 3Is not this the carpenter, the son of Mary and brother of James and Joses and Judas and Simon? And are not his sisters here with us?” And they took offense at him. 4And Jesus said to them, “A prophet is not without honor, except in his hometown and among his relatives and in his own household.” 5And he could do no mighty work there, except that he laid his hands on a few sick people and healed them. 6And he marveled because of their unbelief. And he went about among the villages teaching. 7And he called the twelve and began to send them out two by two, and gave them authority over the unclean spirits. 8He charged them to take nothing for their journey except a staff—no bread, no bag, no money in their belts— 9but to wear sandals and not put on two tunics. 10And he said to them, “Whenever you enter a house, stay there until you depart from there. 11And if any place will not receive you and they will not listen to you, when you leave, shake off the dust that is on your feet as a testimony against them.” 12So they went out and proclaimed that people should repent. 13And they cast out many demons and anointed with oil many who were sick and healed them.

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
Catherine Garrett – Organist
Cole Callahan – Acolyte
Rob Schultz/John Hadenfeldt – Ushers
Ethan/Ryan – Usher Helpers
Donna Schultz – Altar
Ted Dibbern – Moses

Our Attendance:
Members Visitors
Sunday 5/27 61 5
Sunday 6/3 75 14
Sunday 6/10 79 15
Sunday 6/17 90 2

Our Offerings Sunday 6/17
Building Fund $125.00
General Fund $1,910.00
Mission Fund $435.00
Special Mission $403.00
Misc. Gifts $.00

PRAYERS THIS WEEK
Prayers for Catherine Garrett, Cathy will have knee replacement surgery on Tues. June 26.
Prayers for Georgian Husen (Lindsey Harders grandmother), Georgian is at Good Sam GI with hospice.
Prayers for Alyssa McAfee, Alyssa will be traveling to Liberia on June 18, she will be joining a friend who just finished 2-yrs service in the Peace Corps. Alyssa will be hosting a week-long art camp for the students at the school, she will return 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)

ANNIVERSARIES THIS WEEK
Randy & Erika White – June 27 (3)

BIRTHDAYS THIS WEEK
Eric Bredthauer – June 24, Nick Serr – June 24
Carol Fredrick – June 25, Robyn Dibbern – June 26, Bobbie Nation – June 30

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, June 24 – 5th Sun after Pentecost
Job 38:1–11; Ps. 124
2 Cor. 6:1–13; Mark 4:35–41

Sunday School & Adult Bible Study 9 am
ABC – Coffee Fellowship 10 am
Lemburg Family Potluck Noon

Monday June 25

Tuesday June 26

Wednesday June 27
Men’s Bible Study 8 am
NO Women’s Bible Study through the Summer!
Moses to VA/Boys Town 1 pm

Thursday June 28

Friday June 29

Saturday June 30

Sunday, July 1 – 6th Sun after Pentecost
Lam. 3:22–33; Ps. 30
2 Cor. 8:1–9, 13–15; Mark 5:21–43

Sunday School & Adult Bible Study 9 am
Welcome Guest Pastor Rev. Richard Kothe
Ladies Aid – Coffee Fellowship 10 am
LYF BBQ – FOOD FUN FIREWORKS – 6:30 pm

SAVE the DATE
Pastor Gone for Harvest June 25 – July 7
LYF Fourth of July BBQ July 1
ABC Board Mtg. July 2
Centura Preschool Round up July 2
Quarterly Voters Mtg. July 8
HLHS Blood Drive @ Conestoga Mall GI July 9
All Church Campout at Davis Creek July 12-15
3rd City Steak Feed at GICC High School Aug. 4
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.

All Church Campout
Thurs. July 12 – Sun. July 15
at Davis Creek Campground located 6 miles south of North Loup. Please see Scott Reynolds or Matt Neppl for more details.

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.

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.

Christ Lutheran Church LYF
4th of July BBQ Sunday July 1st 6:30  p.m.

Everyone is welcome for Food Fun and Fireworks

The youth will be serving Hamburgers, Hot Dogs, Beans, Chips and Dessert.

The 6th annual Show-N-Shine will be held in the North parking lot, everything is welcome. Please see Matt for a sign to display your pride and joy.

Games will be available in the yard and
the fellowship hall will have cards for those interested.

Fireworks will start at dark,
please bring your lawn chair to enjoy the show.

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 office has four tickets for sale for this event. 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.

On Monday, July 9th from 1 pm to 7:00 pm the Heartland Lutheran National Honor Society Students will be hosting a Blood Drive for the Red Cross. This drive will take place at the Conestoga Mall (NOT HLHS). Please consider coming to donate and helping them reach their goal of over 25 usable units (whole blood or double red cell donation appointments are available) — reaching 25 usable units will make HLHS students eligible for a Scholarship through the Red Cross. So, your donation will not only help the Community but our HLHS students as well. Please Contact the HLHS office at 308-385-3900 for a donation time.

Old Testament Reading Job 38:1–11 Acts 5:29–42

1Then the LORD answered Job out of the whirlwind and said: 2“Who is this that darkens counsel by words without knowledge? 3Dress for action like a man; I will question you, and you make it known to me. 4“Where were you when I laid the foundation of the earth? Tell me, if you have understanding. 5Who determined its measurements—surely you know! Or who stretched the line upon it? 6On what were its bases sunk, or who laid its cornerstone, 7when the morning stars sang together and all the sons of God shouted for joy? 8“Or who shut in the sea with doors when it burst out from the womb, 9when I made clouds its garment and thick darkness its swaddling band, 10and prescribed limits for it and set bars and doors, 11and said, ‘Thus far shall you come, and no farther, and here shall your proud waves be stayed’?

Epistle 2 Corinthians 6:1–13

1Working together with him, then, we appeal to you not to receive the grace of God in vain. 2For he says, “In a favorable time I listened to you, and in a day of salvation I have helped you.” Behold, now is the favorable time; behold, now is the day of salvation. 3We put no obstacle in anyone’s way, so that no fault may be found with our ministry, 4but as servants of God we commend ourselves in every way: by great endurance, in afflictions, hardships, calamities, 5beatings, imprisonments, riots, labors, sleepless nights, hunger; 6by purity, knowledge, patience, kindness, the Holy Spirit, genuine love; 7by truthful speech, and the power of God; with the weapons of righteousness for the right hand and for the left; 8through honor and dishonor, through slander and praise. We are treated as impostors, and yet are true; 9as unknown, and yet well known; as dying, and behold, we live; as punished, and yet not killed; 10as sorrowful, yet always rejoicing; as poor, yet making many rich; as having nothing, yet possessing everything. 11We have spoken freely to you, Corinthians; our heart is wide open. 12You are not restricted by us, but you are restricted in your own affections. 13In return (I speak as to children) widen your hearts also.

Holy Gospel Mark 4:35–41

35On that day, when evening had come, [Jesus] said to them, “Let us go across to the other side.” 36And leaving the crowd, they took him with them in the boat, just as he was. And other boats were with him. 37And a great windstorm arose, and the waves were breaking into the boat, so that the boat was already filling. 38But he was in the stern, asleep on the cushion. And they woke him and said to him, “Teacher, do you not care that we are perishing?” 39And he awoke and rebuked the wind and said to the sea, “Peace! Be still!” And the wind ceased, and there was a great calm. 40He said to them, “Why are you so afraid? Have you still no faith?” 41And they were filled with great fear and said to one another, “Who then is this, that even wind and sea obey him?”

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.

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/Steve Hansen Piano/Guitar
Kylie Neppl Acolyte
Rob Schultz/John Hadenfeldt Ushers
Cole/Ethan Usher Helpers
Donna Schultz Altar
Kim Dibbern Moses
Dick Handenfeldt/Brent Gascho Elders

Our Attendance:
Members Visitors
Sunday 5/20 91 2
Sunday 5/27 61 5
Sunday 6/3 75 14
Sunday 6/10 79 15

Our Offerings Sunday 6/10
Building Fund $100.00
General Fund $2,695.00
Mission Fund $72.00
Special Mission $.00
Misc. Gifts $.00

PRAYERS THIS WEEK
Prayers for Don Schnase.
Prayers for Georgian Husen (Lindsey Harders grandmother), Georgian is at Good Sam GI with hospice.
Prayers for Tiffany Harders, Tiffany left Weds. June 6 for her mission trip to Tanda, Africa. Tiffany will travel with 1040i and EPLegacy to the Ivory Coast to make prosthetic limbs for amputees in this part of the world of extreme poverty. She will return to the US on June 23. Thank you to everyone who donated and helped make this trip possible for Tiffany to share the gifts the Lord has blessed her with.
Prayers for Alyssa McAfee, Alyssa will be traveling to Liberia on June 18, she will be joining a friend who just finished 2-yrs service in the Peace Corps. Alyssa will be hosting a week-long art camp for the students at the school. Alyssa will return 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)

ANNIVERSARIES THIS WEEK Dan & Kathy Reimers – June 21 (38)

BIRTHDAYS THIS WEEK Whitney Dibbern – June 17, Karry Jensen – June 17, Donna Schultz – June 19, Lisa Harders – June 20, Ryan Schweitzer – June 21, Russel Lemburg – June 22, Ted Dibbern – June 23

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, June 17 – 4th Sun after Pentecost
Ezek. 17:22–24: Ps. 1
2 Cor. 5:1–10 (11–17); Mark 4:26–34

Happy Father’s Day!
Sunday School & Adult Bible Study 9 am
LYF – Coffee Fellowship 10 am
Senior Center Fried Chicken Dinner 11-1 pm

Monday June 18
M & M Mtg. 7 pm

Tuesday June 19
Moses to Crisis Ctr. 5 pm

Wednesday June 20
Men’s Bible Study 8 am
NO Women’s Bible Study through the Summer!
WR Good Sam Worship 9:30 am
Moses to VA/Boys Town 1 pm

Thursday June 21
Moses to GI (Primrose, Good Sam GI)
Cairo Senior Ctr. Devotions Noon
Comfort Dog Mtg. at Harders w/Peace-Eddie & Handlers) 6:30 pm

Friday June 22

Saturday June 23
Moses to Lincoln Yellow Ribbon Deployment

Sunday, June 24 – 5th Sun after Pentecost
Job 38:1–11; Ps. 124
2 Cor. 6:1–13; Mark 4:35–41

Sunday School & Adult Bible Study 9 am
ABC – Coffee Fellowship 10 am

SAVE the DATE
Elder’s Mtg. June 25
Pastor Gone for Harvest June 25 – July 7
HLHS Red Cross Blood Drive at Conestoga Mall July 9
LYF Fourth of July BBQ July 1
ABC Board Mtg. July 2
Quarterly Voters Mtg. July 8
All Church Campout at Davis Creek July 12-15
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.

Alyssa McAfee Mission Trip to Libera
Gorblee Public School Library

On June 18, I will be going to Liberia to see my friend Rebecca Monnier she has just finished her 2-year service in the Peace Corps, but still has a passion to help the school, community and country that she has gotten to know so well. Becca has started a library project for her school. The part that I’m most excited about is the opportunity to work alongside her for a week to host an art camp for the students. After a few lessons on paint and color mixing, the students will be able to participate in adding a mural to their new library! The school’s community is providing all the labor for the project, but Becca and I have a goal to raise $2,000 for supplies. In the link, Becca has provided more information about her school and the library project. If you would like to donate, any amount would be much appreciated! Alyssa has started a GoFundMe page on Facebook check it out.

All Church Campout
Thurs. July 12 – Sun. July 15
at Davis Creek Campground located 6 miles south of North Loup. Please see Scott Reynolds or Matt Neppl for more details.

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.

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.

On Monday, July 9th from 1 pm to 7:00 pm the Heartland Lutheran National Honor Society Students will be hosting a Blood Drive for the Red Cross. This drive will take place at the Conestoga Mall (NOT HLHS). Please consider coming to donate and helping them reach their goal of over 25 usable units (whole blood or double red cell donation appointments are available) — reaching 25 usable units will make HLHS students eligible for a Scholarship through the Red Cross. So, your donation will not only help the Community but our HLHS students as well. Please Contact the HLHS office at 308-385-3900 for a donation time.

Readings from Holy Scripture / Old Testament Reading Ezekiel 17:22–24

22Thus says the Lord GOD: “I myself will take a sprig from the lofty top of the cedar and will set it out. I will break off from the topmost of its young twigs a tender one, and I myself will plant it on a high and lofty mountain. 23On the mountain height of Israel will I plant it, that it may bear branches and produce fruit and become a noble cedar. And under it will dwell every kind of bird; in the shade of its branches birds of every sort will nest. 24And all the trees of the field shall know that I am the LORD; I bring low the high tree, and make high the low tree, dry up the green tree, and make the dry tree flourish. I am the LORD; I have spoken, and I will do it.”

Epistle 2 Corinthians 5:1–17

1For we know that if the tent, which is our earthly home, is destroyed, we have a building from God, a house not made with hands, eternal in the heavens. 2For in this tent we groan, longing to put on our heavenly dwelling, 3if indeed by putting it on we may not be found naked. 4For while we are still in this tent, we groan, being burdened—not that we would be unclothed, but that we would be further clothed, so that what is mortal may be swallowed up by life. 5He who has prepared us for this very thing is God, who has given us the Spirit as a guarantee. 6So we are always of good courage. We know that while we are at home in the body we are away from the Lord, 7for we walk by faith, not by sight. 8Yes, we are of good courage, and we would rather be away from the body and at home with the Lord. 9So whether we are at home or away, we make it our aim to please him. 10For we must all appear before the judgment seat of Christ, so that each one may receive what is due for what he has done in the body, whether good or evil. 11Therefore, knowing the fear of the Lord, we persuade others. But what we are is known to God, and I hope it is known also to your conscience. 12We are not commending ourselves to you again but giving you cause to boast about us, so that you may be able to answer those who boast about outward appearance and not about what is in the heart. 13For if we are beside ourselves, it is for God; if we are in our right mind, it is for you. 14For the love of Christ controls us, because we have concluded this: that one has died for all, therefore all have died; 15and he died for all, that those who live might no longer live for themselves but for him who for their sake died and was raised. 16From now on, therefore, we regard no one according to the flesh. Even though we once regarded Christ according to the flesh, we regard him thus no longer. 17Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation. The old has passed away; behold, the new has come.

Holy Gospel Mark 4:26–34

26And he said, “The kingdom of God is as if a man should scatter seed on the ground. 27He sleeps and rises night and day, and the seed sprouts and grows; he knows not how. 28The earth produces by itself, first the blade, then the ear, then the full grain in the ear. 29But when the grain is ripe, at once he puts in the sickle, because the harvest has come.” 30And he said, “With what can we compare the kingdom of God, or what parable shall we use for it? 31It is like a grain of mustard seed, which, when sown on the ground, is the smallest of all the seeds on earth, 32yet when it is sown it grows up and becomes larger than all the garden plants and puts out large branches, so that the birds of the air can make nests in its shade.” 33With many such parables he spoke the word to them, as they were able to hear it. 34He did not speak to them without a parable, but privately to his own disciples he explained everything.

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.

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
Rob Schultz/John Hadenfeldt – Ushers
Kylie/Cole – Usher Helpers
Donna Schultz – Altar
Lisa Wright – Moses
Elders

Our Attendance:
Members Visitors
Sunday 5/13 95 3
Sunday 5/20 91 2
Sunday 5/27 61 5
Sunday 6/3 75 14

Our Offerings Sunday 6/3
Building Fund $200.00
General Fund $2,515.00
Mission Fund $232.00
Special Mission $.00
Misc. Gifts $1.00

PRAYERS THIS WEEK

Prayers for Oscar Lee Marsh who was baptized into God’s family this morning. Parents are Ryan and Jessica Marsh; Sponsors are Kurt and Danielle Harders; Grandparents Craig and Lora Harders.

Prayers for Don Schnase who was hospitalized this past week.

Prayers for Georgian Husen (Lindsey Harders grandmother), Georgian was hospitalized this past week.

Please keep Tiffany Harders in your prayers, Tiffany left Weds. June 6 for her mission trip to Tanda, Africa. Tiffany will travel with 1040i and EPLegacy to the Ivory Coast to make prosthetic limbs for amputees in this part of the world of extreme poverty. She will return to the US on June 23. Thank you to everyone who donated and helped make this trip possible for Tiffany to share the gifts the Lord has blessed her with.

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)

ANNIVERSARIES THIS WEEK Bill & Catherine Garrett – June 11 (30), John & Rebecca Hadenfeldt – June16 (17)

BIRTHDAYS THIS WEEK Sara Bierhaus – June 10, Barb Rasmussen – June 10, Wayne Whitefoot – June 10, Kristin Schultz – June 13, Rod Schweitzer – June 13, Vanessa Harders – June 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, June 10 – 3rd Sun after Pentecost
Gen. 3:8–15; Ps. 130
2 Cor. 4:13—5:1; Mark 3:20–35

Sunday School & Adult Bible Study 9 am
Alyssa M. Mission Trip to Libera – Coffee Fellowship 10 am
Worship w/Marsh Baptism 10:30 am

Monday June 11

Tuesday June 12

Wednesday June 13
Men’s Breakfast Bible Study 6:45 am
NO Women’s Bible Study through the Summer!
Moses to VA/Boys Town 1 pm

Thursday June 14
Moses to GI (Wedgewood, Country Home, Tiffany Square)

Friday June 15
LCMS NE Dist. Convention Kearney NE

Saturday June 16
LCMS NE Dist. Convention Kearney NE

Sunday, June 17 – 4th Sun after Pentecost
Ezek. 17:22–24: Ps. 1
2 Cor. 5:1–10 (11–17); Mark 4:26–34

Happy Father’s Day!
Sunday School & Adult Bible Study 9 am
LYF – Coffee Fellowship 10 am
Worship w/Marsh Baptism 10:30 am
Senior Center Fried Chicken Dinner 11-1 pm

SAVE the DATE
M & M Mtg. June 18
Devotions at Cairo Senior Ctr June 21
Moses Mtg at Harders w/Peace-Eddie June 21
Moses to Lincoln June 23
Elder’s Mtg. June 25
Pastor Gone for Harvest June 25 – July 7
LYF Fourth of July BBQ July 1
ABC Board Mtg. July 2
Quarterly Voters Mtg. July 8
All Church Campout at Davis Creek July 12-15
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.

Alyssa McAfee Mission Trip to Libera
Gorblee Public School Library

On June 18, I will be going to Liberia to see my friend Rebecca Monnier she has just finished her 2-year service in the Peace Corps, but still has a passion to help the school, community and country that she has gotten to know so well. Becca has started a library project for her school. The part that I’m most excited about is the opportunity to work alongside her for a week to host an art camp for the students. After a few lessons on paint and color mixing, the students will be able to participate in adding a mural to their new library! The school’s community is providing all the labor for the project, but Becca and I have a goal to raise $2,000 for supplies. In the link, Becca has provided more information about her school and the library project. If you would like to donate, any amount would be much appreciated! Alyssa has started a GoFundMe page on Facebook check it out.

All Church Campout Thurs. July 12 – Sun. July 15
at Davis Creek Campground located 6 miles south of North Loup. Please see Scott Reynolds or Matt Neppl for more details.

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.

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.

HLHS Benefit—Cemetery Tour:
On June 17th, Skip Meyer (Zion, Worms) will be giving a cemetery tour in the Grand Island Cemetery starting at 1:30 p.m. Having taken a class under Dr. Bob Manley, Skip has been giving cemetery tours for 29 years. On the tour you can expect to learn the symbolism on the markers, study the epitaphs, and learn local history. Those taking the tour are asked to wear walking shoes and bring water. The tour will last approximately 3 hours, depending on questions asked. The tour will begin on the south side of Stolley Park Rd, at the west end of the cemetery. Cost is $10 per person or $15 per couple. All proceeds will go to Heartland Lutheran High School. Please call Zion (308-687-6314) or share information with Mr. Leech to sign up. The group will be limited to 30 people, so sign up today! Another tour will be offered if demand is there.

Readings from Holy Scripture

Old Testament Reading Genesis 3:8–15

8And they heard the sound of the LORD God walking in the garden in the cool of the day, and the man and his wife hid themselves from the presence of the LORD God among the trees of the garden. 9But the LORD God called to the man and said to him, “Where are you?” 10And he said, “I heard the sound of you in the garden, and I was afraid, because I was naked, and I hid myself.” 11He said, “Who told you that you were naked? Have you eaten of the tree of which I commanded you not to eat?” 12The man said, “The woman whom you gave to be with me, she gave me fruit of the tree, and I ate.” 13Then the LORD God said to the woman, “What is this that you have done?” The woman said, “The serpent deceived me, and I ate.” 14The LORD God said to the serpent, “Because you have done this, cursed are you above all livestock and above all beasts of the field; on your belly you shall go, and dust you shall eat all the days of your life. 15I will put enmity between you and the woman, and between your offspring and her offspring; he shall bruise your head, and you shall bruise his heel.”

Epistle 2 Corinthians 4:13—5:1

13Since we have the same spirit of faith according to what has been written, “I believed, and so I spoke,” we also believe, and so we also speak, 14knowing that he who raised the Lord Jesus will raise us also with Jesus and bring us with you into his presence. 15For it is all for your sake, so that as grace extends to more and more people it may increase thanksgiving, to the glory of God. 16So we do not lose heart. Though our outer nature is wasting away, our inner nature is being renewed day by day. 17For this slight momentary affliction is preparing for us an eternal weight of glory beyond all comparison, 18as we look not to the things that are seen but to the things that are unseen. For the things that are seen are transient, but the things that are unseen are eternal. 1For we know that if the tent, which is our earthly home, is destroyed, we have a building from God, a house not made with hands, eternal in the heavens.

Holy Gospel Mark 3:20–35

20Then [Jesus] went home, and the crowd gathered again, so that they could not even eat. 21And when his family heard it, they went out to seize him, for they were saying, “He is out of his mind.” 22And the scribes who came down from Jerusalem were saying, “He is possessed by Beelzebul,” and “by the prince of demons he casts out the demons.” 23And he called them to him and said to them in parables, “How can Satan cast out Satan? 24If a kingdom is divided against itself, that kingdom cannot stand. 25And if a house is divided against itself, that house will not be able to stand. 26And if Satan has risen up against himself and is divided, he cannot stand, but is coming to an end. 27But no one can enter a strong man’s house and plunder his goods, unless he first binds the strong man. Then indeed he may plunder his house. 28“Truly, I say to you, all sins will be forgiven the children of man, and whatever blasphemies they utter, 29but whoever blasphemes against the Holy Spirit never has forgiveness, but is guilty of an eternal sin”— 30for they had said, “He has an unclean spirit.” 31And his mother and his brothers came, and standing outside they sent to him and called him. 32And a crowd was sitting around him, and they said to him, “Your mother and your brothers are outside, seeking you.” 33And he answered them, “Who are my mother and my brothers?” 34And looking about at those who sat around him, he said, “Here are my mother and my brothers! 35Whoever does the will of God, he is my brother and sister and mother.”