JOIN US FOR WORSHIP  –  You may worship with us in our sanctuary or watch on Facebook Live. Recorded services are also available to watch on our website links above.

SUMMER WORSHIP SCHEDULE – Church begins at 9:00 a.m. There is no Sunday School or Sunday adult Bible Study.

FALL WORSHIP SCHEDULE – Will begin Sunday, August 23rd. Worship will begin at 10:00 a.m.

ELEVENTH SUNDAY AFTER PENTECOST – The scripture readings are Job 38:4-18, Psalm 18:1-16, and Romans 10:5-17. The Gospel reading is Matthew 14:22-33.

PRAYER LIST – Connor Doeden, Rusty Welch, Angela Holthus, Phyllis Rippe, Monique Grotrian, Katie Eggers, Brooke McPherrin, Delton Panko, Mary Ferguson. and Lloyd Pfister.

PRAYERS FOR THE PEOPLE – Meets at 9:30 a.m. on Monday mornings to pray for our members, our community, our Nation and the world. Please join us if your time allows.

AUGUST MISSION PROJECT & ICE CREAM DINNER – We will be packing school kits at our annual Ice Cream Dinner after the worship service on Sunday, August 23. School supplies are on sale now! Pick up a shopping list of items needed on the entrance table. Donations of school items can be left in the tubs located in the narthex.

We will serve pork sandwiches, hot dogs, chips, desserts and ice cream at the dinner following worship on the 23rd. We need donations for the homemade ice cream. A sign up sheet is available on the narthex bulletin board. A free-will offering will be collected at the dinner for the Johnson-Brock Backpack Program. Reminder that worship will begin at 10:00 this Sunday.  

BIBLE PRESENTATIONS & TEACHER INSTALLATION – On Sunday, August 23rd, during our worship at 10:00 a.m. bibles will be presented to our beginning Sunday School students and first-year Confirmation students. We will also have teacher installation that morning. 

SUNDAY SCHOOL – Kick-Off Sunday will be August 30th at 9:00 a.m. with activities for all students. There will be no Sunday School on September 6th. The official start date for classes will be Sunday, September 13th.

MERCY MEALS – We raised $3,211 earlier this summer for this project. Twenty-nine volunteers packed 12,096 meals at the Mercy Meals warehouse in Lincoln on Monday evening, August 3rd. We left almost $800 with the organization to be used to supplement other upcoming packing events. Thank you for your giving spirit!

SEWING GROUP REQUEST – Keep the sewing group in mind this spring and summer as you clean house, attend garage / estate sales, etc. We take sheets, blankets, mattress pads, curtains, tablecloths, excess fabric, and sewing and crochet thread (in nearly any condition). Our sewing year wrapped up in April. We completed 162 blankets! Thank you for all your past donations that enabled us to reach that number!

ANNIVERSARY COMMITTEE – A sign-up sheet is available on the bulletin board in the narthex for committee volunteers to help plan our 125th Anniversary Celebration. We also need input for ideas. Contact Nancy Eggers or Roger & Pam Hector with your suggestions.

NOISY OFFERING DONATIONS – Every month we support two children through Compassion International, Lawrence and Mikah. The Sunday School children also pick out donations of chickens, honey bees, garden seeds, goats, clean water, fish, pigs, a heifer and a water buffalo for Heifer International. Thank you for your support though the noisy offerings each Sunday! 

CONTINUAL YEAR-LONG MISSION OPPORTUNITIES – The Mission Team has chosen Pre-Born! and Compassion International Water Projects as our continual giving opportunities for 2026. We will also collect new or used Bibles, prayer books, and devotionals as part of a project through our NALC Senate. They can have highlighted and underlined text in them. Our Portals of Prayer are accepted. Children’s and teen Bibles, as well as Bible story books, are also accepted. Please bring throughout the year and put on the shelves above the coats in the narthex.

VIDEO HELPERS – We are in need of more people to help with the video production for worship services. If this is something you could help with or you have questions about how to help, please contact a Council member.

OFFERINGS – Your tithing may be mailed to MLC, PO. Box 176, Johnson, NE 68378. 

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