The Seventh Sunday After Pentecost – Scripture Reading: 1 John 3:1-8 3 See what great love the Father has lavished on us, that we should be called children of God! And that is what we are! The reason the world does not know us is that it...
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The Sixth Sunday After Pentecost – Scripture Reading: 1 John 1:5-2:6 Light and Darkness, Sin and Forgiveness 5 This is the message we have heard from him and declare to you: God is light; in him there is no darkness at all. 6 If we claim to...
Read moreThe Fifth Sunday After Pentecost – Scripture Reading: Mark 4:35-41 Jesus Calms the Storm 35 That day when evening came, he said to his disciples, “Let us go over to the other side.” 36 Leaving the crowd behind, they took him along, just as...
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Mark your calendar now for our baseball-themed fundraiser at the Bull Pen and Okaw Valley Park. Hunt for a home run ball with your flashlight, enjoy a baseball-themed buffet, and watch a class baseball themed movie as well. Tickets for this event...
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Tarrah Vaupel, a member of O’Fallon UCC right here in Illinois South, will join us in the fall as our new student pastor. Tarrah is active in the O’Fallon congregation, serving as church secretary and youth director, as well as...
Read moreThe council is looking for volunteers to help plan a celebration of the 140th anniversary of the founding of our congregation. If you’d like to help plan what is anticipated to be a one-day event, please sign up in the church foyer...
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The Fourth Sunday After Pentecost – Scripture Reading: 1 Samuel 15:34-16:13 34 Then Samuel left for Ramah, but Saul went up to his home in Gibeah of Saul.35 Until the day Samuel died, he did not go to see Saul again, though Samuel mourned...
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The Second Sunday After Pentecost – Scripture Reading: 2 Corinthians 4:5-11, 16-18 5 For what we preach is not ourselves, but Jesus Christ as Lord, and ourselves as your servants for Jesus’ sake. 6 For God, who said, “Let light shine out...
Read moreThe Nurture Committee is sponsoring an outing to “Good Old Days” in New Baden after worship on June 24. A sign up sheet is in the foyer.
Read moreThose interested in learning more about St. John’s or the United Church of Christ are invited to attend a new member orientation session that will be held at 7 pm June 12. See Pastor Koch for more information.
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Sitting with Barsabbas – Scripture Reading: Acts 1:15-26 15 In those days Peter stood up among the believers (a group numbering about a hundred and twenty) 16 and said, “Brothers and sisters,[a] the Scripture had to be fulfilled in which...
Read moreWe’ll gather down at the Bullpen on Sunday, June 10, to congratulate our former student pastor Jason Eisele on his recent approval for ordination. A sign up sheet is in the foyer.
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