Friday, April 4, 5:30 to 8 p.m. Youth Hangout at St. John’s. Fourth graders through high school. Devotions, snacks, games, craft. Please bring friends!
Sunday, April 6. Holy Communion will be offered in the 10 a.m. service.
Wednesday, April 9. Confirmation class, 5:30 p.m., followed by Lenten worship at 7 p.m., with pot luck meal after the service.
Thursday, April 10, 2 p.m. Devotional service for residents of Golden Manor, Steele. And at 7 p.m., WELS Women’s Ministry will be streaming a webinar, “The Power of Connecting Women in Christ.” Please see further information on wels.net. This can be viewed from home, but if there is interest, Pastor will run the program on the large screen in the fellowship hall.
Saturday, April 12, 10 a.m. St. John’s Easter egg hunt for the children of the community. Volunteers are needed! We have plenty of plastic eggs, but we would still appreciate donations of candy and goodies of the right size to put inside them. We plan on getting everything ready on Wednesday evening, April 9, following the Lenten service. Please stay and help on Wednesday evening, if you can! We would also appreciate helpers on Saturday morning, during the Easter egg hunt. Please let Beth Leier, Kris Stroh, or Pastor know if you are willing to help. Thank you!
Sunday, April 13. Palm Sunday! Our Sunday School students will sing during the 10 a.m. service. During this service, we also plan to welcome Donna Berreth and Derek & Andrea Leier into communicant membership. Church council will meet during the Sunday school hour, so there will be no adult Bible study. Eastern Montana Ministry Program. Pastor will be leaving immediately after the church council meeting, to lead worship at our sister congregations in Circle, Montana in the afternoon, and at Terry, Montana in the evening.
Wednesday, April 16. Confirmation class, 5:30 p.m., followed by Christian Passover Seder at 7 p.m. Please invite friends and family to join you! Holy Communion will be offered to communicant members during the Christian Passover Seder observance.
Friday, April 18, 7 p.m. Good Friday worship.
Easter Sunday, April 20. Easter Dawn worship service at 7:30 a.m., followed by Easter Breakfast, and Easter Festival worship service at 10:00 a.m. We will not have Sunday School and adult Bible study on Easter morning.
Wednesday, April 23. Confirmation class, 5:30 p.m.
Saturday, April 26. LWMS (Lutheran Women’s Missionary Society) Spring Rally, St. Paul’s, Roscoe, SD.
Sunday, April 27. Holy Communion will be offered in the 10 a.m. service. Quarterly voters’ meeting will be held during the Sunday School hour.
Tuesday and Wednesday, April 29 & 30. Pastor will be attending the WELS Dakota-Montana District Spring Conference at Redeemer Lutheran in Mandan. There will be no confirmation class on Wednesday, April 30.
Sunday, May 4. Sunday School picnic during the Sunday School hour, with outdoor activities (weather permitting), and lunch to follow with hamburgers, hot dogs, chips, etc.
Wednesday, May 7. Confirmation class, 5:30 p.m. This class will be with the eighth graders only, a final review before Confirmation. Ladies’ Aid will meet at 7 p.m.
Sunday, May 11, 10 a.m. Youth Confirmation in the divine service, Holy Communion will be offered. This year’s confirmands: Paitynn Bodvig, Brayson Leier, Colter Muller, Elliana Nicholson, Dane Stroh.
Wednesday, May 14. Pastor DeMarce has been invited to preach and lead Bible study at St. Paul’s in Valley City on this evening, when their pastor will be out of town.