T 5/01 Hunter Sowell Kaylee Dickson 5/02 Lyn Rhein Will Snowden 5/03 Pauline Meins Peggy Bullock Hunter Prislovsky Mike Oltmann 5/05 Jeff Henson 5/08 Jessica Sowell Mollie Tiner 5/10 Bonnie Newkirk 5/11 Michael Maier Luke Longnecker Jaye Longnecker Hannah Cook Haley Jackson 5/12 Donna Meins 5/14 Callie Longnecker Lisa Carle 5/15 Joann Newton 5/17 Matthew Strohl 5/18 Cody Vester Paul Gunnell 5/20 Doug Stovesand 5/22 Brittlyn Heien 5/23 David Rabeneck Denny Gunnell 5/24 Donna Galloway Katherine Johnson Thomas Oltmann 5/25 Danny Pool 5/27 Michael Sowell 5/28 Carolyn Marek Stephanie Tiner Blakely Ellis Avery Boston 5/30 Wayne Heien 5/31 Brenda Longnecker Jim Worstell Will Dewberry

5/09 Jon & Kyla Longnecker 5/11 Jeramy & Lisa Cox

5/14 Jere & Dianne Geater 5/22 Charles & Sandra Sanders

5/27 Phil & Debby Smith 5/30 Larry & Tina Bull

Congratulations To Our 2018 Graduating

Seniors

Blake Sanders Blakely Ellis

Tristen vester

Blessings On Your Next Chapter In Life!

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There is going to be a wedding shower given

to Chance Jackson and Sarah Wren on

June 23. If anyone is

interested in helping with the

Shower please let Debby Smith know.

870-672-1703

Ladies Aid will be going to Dana’s House in DeWitt Thursday, May 3rd at 10:00a.m.

If you would like to donate treats for the kids, please bring them by the church

office by May 2nd. All Ladies are welcome to join us!

May 2, 2018 is the last night for

Kids Connect and Confirmation Classes

We have enjoyed our time together with

all of the children and teens.

Have a great summer!!

MEMORIALS GIVEN TO SAINT JOHN’S

LUTHERAN CHURCH & SCHOOL

MARCH & APRIL

TOMMY MITCHELL

M/M JIM WORSTELL

ELIZABETH RABENECK

ALLENE LAMMERS

ST. JOHN’S LADIES AID

FRANCES RITTMAN

WANDA VESTER

M/M TONY DAVIS

MARION KOCH

ST. JOHN’S LADIES AID

LOWELL MEINS

M/M JIM WORSTELL

Mark Your Calendars!

Vacation Bible School 2018

Theme: Splash Canyon

June 4th - June 7th

8:00 a.m. - 11:30 a.m.

Saint John’s Lutheran Church

Volunteers Are Needed

June 8th - Swimming Party at

John Cain Aquatic Center

5:30 p.m. - 7:30 p.m.

It is the last month of school! Thank you for another wonderful and successful school year! I would like to report that our enrollment is full on the ECE end with 80 students. Our enrollment for the elementary school is up! We currently have 20 students registered in Kindergarten, 1st grade and 2nd grade. We have 13 registered for 3rd grade, 15 registered for 4th grade, 17 registered for 5th grade and 13 registered for 6th grade. That is a total of 118 students! We are so blessed! The school is growing and we are excited about all of our new and returning students!

Thank you to everyone that participated in the St. John’s Classic Golf Tournament. A BIG thank you Caron Lindley for heading up this fundraiser. May is a very busy month. On May 3rd, we will host our first ever STEM challenges. They will be competing with race cars and catapults. On May 5th, PTL will host the 2nd annual “Rice Run” 5K. Our 6th graders will be recognized on May 9th during chapel and Kindergarten graduation is Friday, May 11th. Preschool 4 Promotion is May 15th, our awards ceremony will be held May 16th. Field day is May 17th, and we will finish our year out with our annual ECE Trike-A-Thon on May 22.

We are sad to see the year end, but look forward to another great school year!

Thank you for all that you do for our community and school!

Kristian K. Dabbs

DID YOU KNOW? Saint John’s Lutheran Church and School are involved in many

ministries. We have many opportunities for you to participate in, in

your faith life. Every month in the newsletter there will be a few

new ones listed. Also be on the look out in the bulletin for a new one

listed each week with a description of what they are all about.

JOB Center Bingo

The JOB Center in Stuttgart is a workplace for mentally handicapped adults. These workers provide a service to businesses in town and the community. Once a year, St. John’s Ladies Aid host a Bingo party for the workers in the fellowship hall of the educational building.

Prizes are “white elephant” donations. Gently used purses, jewelry, hats, caps, wallets, watches, vases, floral arrangements, decorative pillows, and stuffed animals are some of the prizes awarded to the winners. Because three games of Bin-go are played and each of the 25-30 players Bingo, 75-90 gifts are needed. Pizza and homemade cookies are served at noon.

ICCM (Inner Church and Community Ministry) Food Bank

The ICCM Food Bank is operated by churches in Stuttgart. Each church is re-

sponsible of one month’s operation of the facility; October is St. John’s month. Duties

of each church when manning the food bank consists of furnishing the workers, buy-

ing supplies, stocking shelves and dispatching the food on Monday, Wednesday and

Friday of each week from 12 Noon until 1p.m.

Worship Materials for Prison Ministry

Furnishing worship materials for the state prison system is an on-going project

of STJLC Ladies’ Aid. Portal of Prayers, devotional books and out reach Bibles are sent twice a year to the prisons. The Bibles are “marked” to guide a reader through a summary of the Gospel. One prison asked for NKJV Bibles in Giant print. At this time thirteen of these Bibles have been given. No tax moneys are allocated to prisons for

Christian material.

With Joy and Happiness

ARE PLEASED TO ANNOUNCE THEIR GETTING

MARRIED ON SATURDAY, THE NINETEENTH OF MAY, TWO THOUSAND AND EIGHTEEN

LOCATED AT THE SAINT JOHN’S LUTHERAN CHURCH

AT FIVE O’CLOCK IN THE EVENING.

Sullivan is the son of Steven and Pollyanna Ford. His grandparents are Sharon Derden, Hotsey & Earleen Lockhart, Elvan and Mary Ann Ford

Kaylie is the daughter of Shaun & Cynthia Timmerman, Nikki & Will

Reichenbach. She is the granddaughter of Brooks & Judy Carter, Howard & Judy Wrinkle, Eddie Krisell and Yoevonne Krisell, Elvan &

MaryAnn Ford

The Ladies Aid would like to invite you to take part in

the following events!

*May 3rd, We will be taking packaged treats and monetary gifts to Dana’s

House in Dewitt. Lunch at the Bull Pin. We will leave the church parking lot at 10:00am.

*May will also be collection month for Spaghetti O Meatballs. A box will be in the Narthex for cans and donations will be taken up on the second and third Sun-

day of May.

*June 7th, will be Ladies Birthday Party. No matter your date of birth, the Ladies Aid is throwing you a party at noon with sandwiches, cake and entertainment.

*July 5th, the Ladies Aid will again entertain the clients of the JOB Center, with a Bingo/Pizza Party. Workers and white elephant donations to be used as bingo

prizes are needed.

*August 2nd, The Annual Ladies Aid Picnic. Many years ago it was a potluck in the city park, but now it is a catered lunch in an air conditioned building.