February 24, 2025

Dear Sisters and Brothers in Christ, Wow, have you ever seen a bigger baptism?  That was special.  Don’t ever forget that you too are part of the baptismal ceremony.  You made some promises that are important to keep.  You know it is hard enough to raise a child with...

February 10, 2025

Dear Sisters and Brothers in Christ,  Thank you to all who were involved in the making of sausage last weekend.  It seemed to go very smoothly. I came in on Saturday around 11:30 thinking there would be more work to do, especially clean up, but everything was done....

February 3, 2025

Dear Sisters and Brothers in Christ,  I want to share something with you.  I was driving with the radio on.  I was hearing it but not really listening.  Have you ever done that?  It was just noise in the background.  Then something caught my attention.  I heard the...

January 20, 2025

Dear Sisters and Brothers in Christ,  Thank you Paul Baker for leading the worship service last weekend.  You are truly a gift to this pastor.  I am wondering if there is someone else like Paul who would want to preach?  It is where I started to hear my call.  That...

January 13, 2025

Dear Sisters and Brothers in Christ,  Our deepest sympathies go out to the Hammer family.  Janice Hammer passed away a week ago.  Services were held at St. Johns on Friday.  With her family, we will mourn her loss.  She was a fixture in our Sunday school program.  She...

January 6, 2025

Dear Sisters and Brothers in Christ,  I want to thank everyone for honoring my days off.  I wish I could say we went somewhere cool or warm, but we didn’t.  We sort of hung around a little bit, spending most of our time at our house in Lake Wildwood.  It was very nice...