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Church Bulletin Announcements
January 31, 2025
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In every thing by prayer and supplication with thanksgiving let your requests be made known unto God. Philippians 4:6
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Homebound
- Doris Appold
- Gwen Bakus
- Jon Ittner
- Mike & Karen Kusch
- Margaret Meyer
- RoseAnne Schmidt
- Shirley Ziegler
- Janet Hoerauf
- Sandy Hafer
- Lea Roma
- Julie Roark
Bereaved
(Friends & Family of)
- Geraldine Stieve
- Tim Wegener
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Special
- Dean Bass
- Larry Kramer
- Judy Coulter
- Lois Matthes
- Jeff Heckman
- Karen Berger
- Tim Weiman family
- Tiffany Switek
- Sue Clark (Howard Grantham's sister)
- Wayne Schmidt
- Dave Sherry
- Shirley Ziegler
- Deborah Berger
- Helen Wagner
- Larry Strawn
- Frank Lintzner (kidney cancer)
- Frank Wozniak
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This Week's Members
- Kasey Appold
- Jane & Scott Bradshaw
- Judy Dawson
- Randy & Karen Finney
- Courtney Goulet
- Leah Jezowski
- Russell Kuch
- Kara, Michael, Beau, & Sadie Marner
- Katherine Neumeyer
- John Rodgers
- Kerry Sharp
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Sunday, February 2
Worship with Communion 8:00 a.m.
Bible Class & Sunday School 9:30 a.m.
Celebration & Praise with Communion 10:30 a.m.
Sunday Night Youth Group 5:00 p.m.
Monday, February 3
Ladies Aid 7:00 p.m.
Tuesday, February 4
Choir 6:00 p.m.
Board of Elders Meeting 7:00 p.m.
Thursday, February 6
Board of Education Meeting 6:00 p.m.
Sunday, February 9
Worship with Communion 8:00 a.m.
Bible Class & Sunday School 9:30 a.m.
Worship with Communion 10:30 a.m.
Sunday Night Youth Group 5:00 p.m.
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Communion Statement
The Lord's Supper is celebrated here in the confession and glad confidence that our Lord, as He says, gives not only bread and wine, but His very body and blood to eat and drink for the forgiveness of sin. In joyful obedience to the clear teaching of our Lord Jesus those are invited to His table who trust His words, repent of all sin, and set aside any refusal to forgive and love as He forgives and loves us. They show forth His death until He comes. Because Holy Communion is a confession of the faith which is confessed at this altar, any who are not yet instructed, in doubt, or who hold a confession differing from that of The Lutheran Church—Missouri Synod and so are unable to receive the Sacrament are invited to meditate on God's Word in the distribution hymns and pray for the day when divisions will have ceased. If you wish to receive communion in your pew, please inform an usher.
Church Attendance
Last Sunday - 374 (274, 100)
Baptism
Clyde Michael Shclicker, child of Joshua & Samantha Schlicker, born November 21, 2024, will be baptized on Sunday, February 2, during the 8:00 a.m. service. Sponsors will be Kristen Kolberg, Lukas Schlicker, & Michael Jezowski.
Acolyte Schedule
Click here to see the January-March 2025 Acolyte Schedule.
Livestream
Facebook or YouTube
The Lutheran Hour
Sundays at 8:30 a.m. on WSAM 1400 AM
Donations mail to: Saginaw Valley Lutheran Hour; P.O. Box 133; Frankenmuth, MI 48734
Daily Bible Readings
February 2 - Genesis 28
February 3 - Genesis 29
February 4 - Genesis 30
February 5 - Genesis 31
February 6 - Psalm 139
February 7 - Genesis 32
February 8 - Psalm 133
This Sunday's Hymns
842, 740, 541, 749, 729, 845, 588
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Beware of Scam
"Neither pastor will ever text you asking for a gift card. It is always a scam. Please call or text us directly if you have any questions. And no, there's nothing we can do about it."
Get Ready for the 2025-2026 School Year!
Starting February 3, 2025, St. Paul congregation members will be able to enroll for the 2025-2026 school year. Enrollment will open to all current families on February 18, and to the community on March 3, 2025. You can click here for the enrollment information. Please contact the office for more information.
POSITION OPENING | Fourth Grade Teacher
St. Paul Lutheran School, Bay City (Frankenlust), is seeking names of candidates for a Fourth Grade teacher for the 2025-2026 school year. Highly qualified candidates should have a current Michigan Teaching Certificate, a Lutheran Teacher Diploma or be willing to obtain one. If you or someone you know is interested, please contact Principal Valerie Matyas at valerie.matyas@stpaulbaycity.org by Tuesday, February 25, 2025.
Year-End Giving Statements
Your 2024 Year-End contribution statements can be located in your mailbox. If you have not been assigned a mailbox, your contribution statement will be mailed. Please contact the office with any questions. Thank you!
2025 Offering Envelopes
The 2025 offering envelopes are ready to pick up at church. You can find them located on a table, in the hallway, leading into the Ministry Center. If you are unable to pick your envelopes up, please contact the church office. Thank you!
Online Giving Reminder
Did you know that you can give electronically to St. Paul? For more information on electronic giving please contact the Church Office at 989-684-4450 or visit St. Paul Online Giving. If you have been using electronic giving, the Board of Business Management would like to encourage you to update or reevaluate your giving so that it reflects what you desire to give.
FOOD OF FAITH
Food of Faith is a program involving various churches from the west side of Bay City. The program provides a FREE hot meal (take-out style) every Thursday at Messiah Lutheran Church, Bay City, to anyone in need. If you are interested in helping prepare, serve, clean-up, or want more information, please contact Julie Begick at 989-274-5030. Our remaining dates to volunteer are February 6, March 20, April 10, & October 30. Last month we gave out 300 meals!
Ladies Aid February Meeting
"The February meeting is on the 3rd at 7pm. Pastor Matyas will be our guest speaker. He will be speaking about scams, red flags, lodges ect."
JOY Meeting
JOY’s February meeting will be on Thursday, February 20 at 12 noon in the Ministry Center. We would like to serve different soups for this meeting. If you would like to made and bring your favorite soup, call Virginia Hutter or Bonnie List. Come and enjoy soup and fellowship with friends.
Baby Bottle Boomerang
Baby bottles are available to fill with donations for LifeClinic (formerly known as Beacon of Hope), our local pregnancy resource center. Please consider supporting this local ministry by picking up a bottle and returning it filled with your coins, bills, or checks. Please return your bottle by Sunday, February 9.
Embrace Grace
Our Embrace Grace mom, Faith, had a healthy baby boy on December 24. Baby Carter is doing well, however, please continue to keep Faith in your prayers, as she is having some serious health issues. Also, please continue to pray for our other Embrace Grace mom, Jess, as she is due any day now!
Thank You! - From the Youth Group
The St. Paul Youth Group would like to thank everyone for a successful Wild Game Potluck and Auction! Thank you to all the businesses and individuals that donated items and for everyone that brought delicious food to pass. You helped us raise almost $6,000! The proceeds are going to help cover expenses for the 2025 National Youth Gathering in New Orleans this summer.
Thank You
Thank you to our St. Paul family for your kind words, support and prayers for our Mother's/Grandmother's passing. Special thanks to Pastor Matyas for his visits and Pastor Schultz for his comforting funeral service. -The family of Dorine Auernhammer
Thank You
"Thank you for beautiful card signed by so many of you. We have felt so blessed by our church family since transferring here. it is so special to pray & sing with such a large body of congregants that share our beliefs and yet be called our own name at the communion rail. We are excited for many years at St. Paul and remember the place we got married at every week. We have been loving married life and thank God daily! Thank you, Gavin & Charlotte Zimmer"
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Stewardship - An Act of Faith
Luke 2:24 – “[They went] to offer a sacrifice according to what is said in the Law of the Lord, ‘a pair of turtledoves, or two young pigeons.’” Throughout the Old and New Testaments, God gives us the pattern of proportional giving. If you look at Leviticus 12, you’ll see that the sacrifice for purification was either a lamb or a pair of birds if the family had no means to buy a lamb. God calls us to give in proportion to how He has blessed us — and of course Jesus sets the pattern by giving not only a portion, but His all.
Amazing Grace Donations
The St. Paul 1st and 2nd grade class is adopting Amazing Grace Animal Rescue for Valentine's Day. The class is collecting items from the wishlist to benefit the cats and dogs at the rescue. If you'd like to show some love to this great organization, contact Mrs. Dent or simply bring items to her classroom. Donations will be collected until Monday, February 10. Thank you!
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Old Testament Reading
Jeremiah 1:4–10
Now the word of the LORD came to me, saying, “Before I formed you in the womb I knew you, and before you were born I consecrated you; I appointed you a prophet to the nations.” Then I said, “Ah, Lord GOD! Behold, I do not know how to speak, for I am only a youth.” But the LORD said to me, “Do not say, ‘I am only a youth’; for to all to whom I send you, you shall go, and whatever I command you, you shall speak. Do not be afraid of them, for I am with you to deliver you,
declares the LORD.” Then the LORD put out his hand and touched my mouth. And the LORD said to me, “Behold, I have put my words in your mouth. See, I have set you this day over nations and over kingdoms, to pluck up and to break down,
to destroy and to overthrow, to build and to plant.”
Epistle
1 Corinthians 12:31b—13:13
I will show you a still more excellent way. If I speak in the tongues of men and of angels, but have not love, I am a noisy gong or a clanging cymbal. And if I have prophetic powers, and understand all mysteries and all knowledge, and if I have all faith, so as to remove mountains, but have not love, I am nothing. If I give away all I have, and if I deliver up my body to be burned, but have not love, I gain nothing. Love is patient and kind; love does not envy or boast; it is not arrogant 5or rude. It does not insist on its own way; it is not irritable or resentful; it does not rejoice at wrongdoing, but rejoices with the truth. Love bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things. Love never ends. As for prophecies, they will pass away; as for tongues, they will cease; as for knowledge, it will pass away. For we know in part and we prophesy in part, but when the perfect comes, the partial will pass away. When I was a child, I spoke like a child, I thought like a child, I reasoned like a child. When I became a man, I gave up childish ways. For now we see in a mirror dimly, but then face to face. Now I know in part; then I shall know fully, even as I have been fully known. So now faith, hope, and love abide, these three; but the greatest of these is love.
Holy Gospel
Luke 4:31–44
[Jesus] went down to Capernaum, a city of Galilee. And he was teaching them on the Sabbath, and they were astonished at his teaching, for his word possessed authority. And in the synagogue there was a man who had the spirit of an unclean demon, and he cried out with a loud voice, “Ha! What have you to do with us, Jesus of Nazareth? Have you come to destroy us? I know who you are—the Holy One of God.” But Jesus rebuked him, saying, “Be silent and come out of him!” And when the demon had thrown him down in their midst, he came out of him, having done him no harm. And they were all amazed and said to one another, “What is this word? For with authority and power he commands the unclean spirits, and they come out!” And reports about him went out into every place in the surrounding region. And he arose and left the synagogue and entered Simon’s house. Now Simon’s mother-in-law was ill with a high fever, and they appealed to him on her behalf. And he stood over her and rebuked the fever, and it left her, and immediately she rose and began to serve them.
Now when the sun was setting, all those who had any who were sick with various diseases brought them to him, and he laid his hands on every one of them and healed them. And demons also came out of many, crying, “You are the Son of God!” But he rebuked them and would not allow them to speak, because they knew that he was the Christ. And when it was day, he departed and went into a desolate place. And the people sought him and came to him, and would have kept him from leaving them, but he said to them, “I must preach the good news of the kingdom of God to the other towns as well; for I was sent for this purpose.” And he was preaching in the synagogues of Judea.
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