ST. JOHN MESSENGER ~  June 2025

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Grace, mercy, and peace to you from God our Father and our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ,
With June upon us we will soon be entering the Trinity Season in the Church. The Trinity Season
begins with Holy Trinity Sunday which this year is on June 15 th . One of my favorite parts of Holy
Trinity Sunday is that we get to go looking for the Athanasian Creed in the front of the hymnal
(it’s on pages 319-320 in LSB and page 53 in TLH), and when we find it, we get to recite that
very ancient and very long Creed which confesses that we believe in the Triune God who is the
Father, Son and Holy Spirit, three distinct persons yet not three gods but one uncreated,
infinite, eternal and almighty God and Lord. Despite the length of the Creed, it still falls short in
explaining how the One True God exists in Three Persons, but it is a good start, and thankful we
don’t have to able to explain it. We need only believe, and believe we must if we are to be
saved.

The Christian faith is full of mysteries, those things that defy all reason and logic and human
understanding, and one of the great joys of our faith is that we get to embrace these mysteries
by simply confessing them. How did God create the world in six days? He spoke and it was so.
How is Christ both God and man at the same time now and forever? Because he chooses to be.
How is Christ’s body and blood present in, with, and under the bread and the wine of the Holy
Communion? Because he promises to be there and do this for us. In a sense it is all that simple.
As the writer of Hebrews says, “Now faith is the assurance of things hoped for, the conviction of
things not seen?” (Heb. 11:1) Sometimes the biggest and most complicated of things boil down
to “because it is the will of God, because he chooses to do this for us,” and by faith we find
contentment in that.

Unlike the seasons of Christmas, Epiphany, Lent, and Easter in the Church which focus almost
exclusively on the life of Christ, the Trinity Season turns its focus to our life in Christ. Now
obviously Jesus is still going to be at the center of everything that we hear and read and do
during the Trinity Season, we are Lutherans after all. Yet just as the plants of the earth grow
and increase, bearing flower and bringing forth good fruit in the upcoming months, so also in
the church the readings every week in the Trinity Season- while as always pointing us to Christ,
especially to his life, suffering, death, and resurrection for our salvation- also give us new
opportunities to grow in faith, wisdom and understanding. So don’t miss out on coming to
church to hear the word and grow in it! If one of the three service times on Sunday (7:30 a.m.,
9:00 a.m., and 10:30 a.m.) don’t always work for you, you might consider attending our weekly
Wednesday evening service at 6:30 p.m. at St. John Tigerton.

Yours in Christ,
Pastor Suehring

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HAPPY FATHER’S DAY

As far as the heavens are above the earth, so great is his steadfast love
toward those who fear him; as far as the east is from the west, so far
does he remove our transgression from us. Psalm 103:11-12
As a father shows compassion to his children so the Lord shows
compassion to those who fear him. For he knows our frame; he
remembers that we are dust. Psalm 103:13-14
As for man, his days are like grass; he flourishes like a flower of the
field; for the wind passes over it, and it is gone, and its place knows it
no more. But the steadfast love of the Lord is from everlasting to
everlasting to those who fear him, all his righteousness to children’s
children, to those who keep his covenant. Psalm 103;15-18a

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ST. JOHN CHRISTIAN WOMENS GUILD LWML. May 21, 2025 meeting

President Sharon Thiel called the meeting to order: this is the day the Lord has
made…let us rejoice and be glad in it! Rev Suehring prayed for the prayer request.
Rev Dean Suehring led devotion on C.F.W. Walther, Theologian; founder of the
Missouri Synod Lutheran Church. Born in 1811, in Saxony, Germany. Ordained in
1837, he immigrated to the US in 1839. He worked at planting churches, and
founded ta seminary (Concordia Seminary, St Louis, Mo).
Secretary Barb Huebner took roll call, and read the minutes, which were
approved. 6 members and Pastor present.
Carol Lehman gave the treasurers report. Received was the money for helping
with soup suppers.
Leah Lehman reported on Sunshine. Get well cards sent to Loah Horton and Rev.
Suehring. She deposited $42 in May.
Loah sent 3 cards to members 80 and over.
Leah reported on the LCFS Thrift Store. June workdays are June 2, 21 & 28.
Bibles of the month go to Mexico & Central America.
Correspondence: ABS; Camp Luther; Ashley Lehr News; Wycliffe, & Dakota Boys &
Girls Ranch. Action taken to donate $50.00 to Homme Home Strawberry Fest.
Report on the spring LWML rally at St Paul, Wittenberg, enjoyable.
Our group is asked to host the fall rally, Sharon will ask if St. John, Caroline would
join us and we would Co-host together.
Birthday is Sandy Vollmer on the 13 th .
Our next meeting is June 18, 2025, beginning at 10:30. Guests always welcome.
LWML Pledge was said and we closed with the Lord’s Prayer.

O, where is your sting, death? We fear you no more; Christ rose, and open is fair
Eden’s door. For all our transgressions His blood atone; Redeemed and forgiven,
we now are His own. LSB 480:4