News & Notes
Blood Drive: On Tuesday, September 29th, from 8:30 am to 2:30 pm, the Grand Island Lutheran National Honor Society Students will be hosting a blood drive for the Red Cross. Please consider coming in to make a donation and helping them reach their goal of over 30 usable units -reaching 30 usable units will make GI Lutheran students eligible for a Scholarship through the Red Cross. Your donation will not only help the Community but also GI Lutheran students. Please sign up online, via the Blood Donor App, or contact the GI Lutheran office at 308-385-3900 for a donation time.
Mercy Works: For the month of Oct, the Evening LWML will be collecting items for Orphan Grain Train. These items can be left on the landing in the narthex. Items needed are clothing, all sizes, clean (no stains or tears) Infant/toddler clothes, cloth diapers, clean (no stains or tears), shoes, all sizes in good condition. No high heels. Quilts, comforters, blankets, bedding.😊 Thank you!
Equipping the Priesthood of Believers: Issues, Etc. is a podcast and radio talk show produced by Lutheran Public Radio in Collinsville, IL and hosted by LCMS Pastor Todd Wilken. Recent topics include: How to Read the Bible, Why Men Aren’t Marrying, The No Contact Movement, Debate Over the Location of the Town of Bethsaida and more. You can listen on-demand at issuesetc.org, the LPR mobile app or a podcast provider.
Acolyte Training: A training session intended to help servants of the Lord understand their responsibility before His altar will be held after church in the sanctuary on Sunday, October 4. Students in grades 5 through 8 are encouraged to serve in this special way. Those who have already received such instruction may stay for the review, while those serving for the first time should be encouraged to attend. Please spread the word and extend the invite! With questions, also let Pastor know. “Your Word is a lamp to my feet and a light to my path.” (Psalm 119:105)
Grand Island Lutheran High:
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Prayer Requests
Grief: Family and friends of Betty Wichmann
Rejoicing: Justin and Emily (Muench) Shoenrock at birth of son, Jackson Dean Schoenrock
Healing, Recovery, Strength: Jordan Roth, son of Alan and Jackie Roth (cancer treatments); Bonnie Holmstedt (hospice); Al Spiehs (back surgery); Scherry Hermansen (back); Bobby Larsen (leg ulcer-wound care); Brylee Grieb, grandniece of Sue and Bobby Larsen (6 year old dealing with cancer); Susan Willman (testing, treatment); Rev. Micah Wildauer’s wife, Robin (cancer); Dick Spiehs niece, Diane (cancer); Bobby Larsen’s sister, Jannie (cancer)
Divine Call: Members and ministry needs of Zion, Worms, NE and of First English, Spencer, IA as Pastor Niemeier deliberates Calls
Global Conflict: as tensions mount in Middle East (Iran), prayer for peace from Prince of Peace
Family: Praying for families desiring children, for children carried by mom in the womb, and for those families looking to adopt
Military: Kurt Morthole; Joseph Markvicka
Missions, Outreach, and Christian Education: Trinity Lutheran Schools and GI Lutheran High; Lutheran Church of Nigeria and Lutheran Bible Translator projects; Board for National Missions and Office of National Missions; Global missions—France; NE Dist.—Bethlehem Lutheran, Omaha, NE; Concordia, Seward and all our Concordias; Concordia Theological Sem., Ft. Wayne and Concordia Sem., St. Louis
This week’s memory verse:
For He will command His angels concerning you to guard you in all your ways. On their hands they will bear you up, lest you strike your foot against a stone.
(Psalm 91:11-12)
