Shepherd of Peace Lutheran Church

Announcements

• Her Health Diaper Dash 2021

  Registration is FREE, and each participant receives a complimentary t-shirt with a donation of any amount while supplies last. Everyone has an opportunity to help raise funds toward our goal of $35,000. EVERY $125 that is given, provides a life-affirming ultrasound to a woman facing a pregnancy decision.  Create your team and let's Walk. Run. Dash. Save Lives.

  Click Here to register TODAY!

  
   

• Lutheran Bible Translators - Prayer Calendar

  

• SOP Youth Craft Fair - 11/13/21

  
  SOP YOUTH GROUP CRAFT FAIR
  Saturday November 13th, 2021
  Sergeant Bluff Community Center
  903 Topaz Drive (Hwy75) Behind Dairy Queen
  9:00am to 2:00pm

  SOP Youth Group will be selling the following:
  Breakfast: Coffee, Juice, Breakfast Pizza and Rolls
  Lunch: Taverns, Hot Dogs, Coney Dogs, Chips, Pop, and Baked Goods.

  CLICK HERE FOR VENDOR REGISTRATION FORM
  
  If you have any questions, please call Twyla at 712-253-7089 

   

• Haiti Earthquake Assistance

  You may have seen the pictures showing the devastation of the 7.2 earthquake that hit Haiti! Ellie Menz with IDW has received texts, phone calls and emails asking how we can best respond to the needs. First of all, through our IOWAY connection with the Lutheran Church in Jacmel, 89 children are currently sponsored by churches and/or members of IDW. To the best of our knowledge, the children that we have sponsored are all safe and the Lutheran facilities in Jacmel were not damaged. The area with the heaviest destruction is in the Les Cayes area. There are many organizations where you can send a donation, but since I have had a close working relationship with Jackie Rychel with Ministry in Mission for many years, Pastor Keith Haney, Assistant to the President for Human Care for IDW and I decided to share this information with you. Ministry In Mission has quickly responded to the needs of those affected by the 7.2 magnitude earthquake in Haiti. Through Rev. Marky Kessa, Pastor of the First Evangelical Lutheran Church of Jacmel Haiti, Ministry In Mission sent funds for search and rescue teams and medical teams. The teams drove to Les Cayes, a city hit very hard by the earthquake. The medical team is comprised of Haitian doctors and nurses. In addition, funds were sent for an extended vacation bible school for the children of Jacmel. The children need the support of the church to help calm the fears that have been caused by the earthquake. People are more open to receiving the Good News of Jesus Christ during a disaster. The orphans and elders that we support are all physically fine.  Ministry in Mission is an RSO (Recognized Service Organization) of the LCMS. Donations will be wired to Pastor Marky Kessa in Jacmel. 100% of your donation will be given to help those in need with NO administrative fees.  If you wish to make a donation to help with disaster relief in Haiti, you may send a check to:

  Iowa District West-Haiti Relief
  409 Kenyon Road Suite B
  Fort Dodge, IA 50501

  Or to:

  Ministry in Mission
  Jackie Rychel
  13442 Shady Lane
  Chesterland OH 44026
   

• Visitors Welcome ~ Judy Fredinburg

  We received word from Judy Fredinburg's family that the facility where Judy lives has been allowing visitors for some time now and visitors only need to be checked in at the door.  She would love to spend time with any friends and members whenever you can find time. Even if you can drop her a letter or card, her address is below:
  
  Judy Fredinburg
  Heritage at Northern Hills
  4002 Teton Trace, Apt 216
  Sioux City, IA 51104

• Congratulations Confirmation Class 2021

  Congratulations to our 2021 Confirmation Class: Collin Verros & Addison Wheeler!
   
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  2021 Readings - ESV Bible in a Year!

  For 2021, our reading plan this year will be a challenge to read the bible in a year with focused readings each weekday. This is a very flexible schedule. Each day will cover a portion of the Bible. May God bless you as we take on this task together again in 2021!  Pastor Ben Perkins

• Online Offering via PayPal

  Thank you ALL for continuing to worship with us ONLINE and for keeping each other in your thoughts and prayers as we ALL get through COVID-19 together. Many of you have requested a method to process online offerings until we are able to worship together again and as such we have added this method to submit offerings via PayPal here on our website. To process your offering, click on the ONLINE GIVING link at the bottom of our website menu.  If you chose to use this method, for proper accounting, please include your name or envelope number in the "Notes" section as you submit your offering. Clicking the link will redirect you to the PayPal website where if you have a PayPal account you can simply sign-on, or if you do not have a PayPal account, you can click on the button to donate using a credit card or debit card account.

  Here are ALL of the offering options available to you: 
  
  1. Drop Off or Mail envelopes to church
  2. Online Bill Pay via your banks website
         (set payee as SOP and account # as your envelope number)
  3. Give Online via SOP website
         (uses PayPal and supports credit or debit cards)
  4. Enrollment in ACH or Automated Clearing House
         (auto withdrawl from checking or savings account.)
  
  ACH is a secure and efficient way to submit your weekly offerings. Simply print and fill out the ACH form via the link below. You select a designated offering amount that you wish to have electronically deducted from your checking account each week or month. Your financial contribution is then automatically withdrawn from your checking or savings account and deposited directly to Shepherd of Peace under your envelope account. You will need to provide a voided check for use in validating account information as required by Pioneer Bank. or  you can simply drop off your offering envelopes to Lannie in the church office Mon-Thu 10a-3p.
  Click Here for ACH Enrollment Form

  Shepherd of Peace Lutheran Church
  203 Port Neal Rd.
  Sergeant Bluff, IA 51054

  

• Luther's Morning Prayer

  In the Name of the Father, Son, and Holy Ghost. Amen. I thank You, my Heavenly Father, through Jesus Christ, Your dear Son, that You have kept me this night from all harm and danger; and I pray that You would keep me this day also from sin and all evil, that all my doings and life may please You. For into Your hands I commend myself, my body and soul, and all things. Let Your holy angel be with me, that the Evil Foe may have no power over me. Amen.

• The Lord's Prayer

  Our Father who art in heaven. Hallowed be Thy name. Thy kingdom come. Thy will be done on earth as it is in heaven. Give us this day our daily bread. And forgive us our trespasses, as we forgive those who trespass against us. And lead us not into temptation. But deliver us from evil. For Thine is the kingdom and the power and the glory forever and ever. Amen.

• Prayer: Worship

  Father bring us to Your house. Change the way we think about time. Reorder our priorities until You are first and biggest and most important. Draw us into Your presence with loud songs of praise. In our prayers, our devotions, and our worship life make communion with You our first thought each day. Make our walk with Your Son the biggest part of our lives. With every step, bring us closer to the prize found only in Christ. You live and reign—one God, now and forever. Amen

   

• Prayer: Stewardship

  Master, Give me a steward's heart today. Help me be faithful with all You have entrusted to my care. Make me efficient with my time, sparing with my words, and thrifty with Your treasure. Grant that my spending be wise and my giving represent my gratitude. Amen.

   

• Prayer: Life

  Lord, You give us the breath of life and have given us new life—even eternal life; You love every precious life. God, we find ourselves in a land where life has been devalued. It has become a commodity to be bought and sold at no high price. Forgive us our inaction as so many lives are being neglected, taken, sold, and squandered. Show our culture the value of life. Guide our feet and our hands and our mouths—to go and to act and to speak. Wherever life is threatened or cheapened or disregarded make us defend and preserve life in the unborn, the untimely born, the infirm, the ill, the underprivileged, and the elderly. Watch over every precious life.Even so, come, Lord Jesus. Amen.

• Good Night Prayer

  Thank You for the day just passed, my Heavenly Father. I pray that I have represented the cross of Christ well and faithfully. Forgive my sins from this day and empower me to do better tomorrow. Fill my mind and my heart with Your Word. By Your grace may I increase in knowledge and grow in faithfulness. Above all, put me at ease this night and fill me with Your peace through the forgiveness of Jesus Christ Your Son, my Savior, in the fellowship of the Holy Spirit, the Comforter Divine. Amen.