Shepherd of Peace Lutheran Church

Announcements

• Funeral Arrangements for Pastor's Mom, Rita Perkins

  Rita Jo Perkins, 73, of rural Platte Center, Nebraska, died Tuesday, February 23, 2021, at her home. The funeral service will be held on Friday February 26, at 10:30 AM, at Immanuel Lutheran Church in Columbus, Nebraska, with Rev. Patrick Sparling and Rev. Chris Ramstad officiating. Visitation will be on Thursday, from 4:00 - 7:00 PM at Gass Haney Funeral Home and continue on Friday, from 9:30 AM until service time at the church. A family prayer service will be held on Friday at 10:15 AM at the church. The funeral service will be broadcast live on the Gass Haney Funeral Home Facebook page. Interment will be held at a later date. Memorials may be directed to those of the donor's choice.

  In Memory of Rita Perkins
  
  website link to obituary via Gass Haney Funeral Home

• Her Health Annual Rise Up Banquet

  Click here for information and additional details on how to register to attend

   

  Tuesday, April 13th
  6:30PM to 8:30PM
  Sioux City Convention Center
  with special guest Sheila Walsh, author, co-host of
  the Life Today television program and international
  recording artist of over 25 albums.  
  You won't want to miss her LIFE message

• LCMS Convention Voting Results

  LCMS National Convention Delayed for One Year to 2023

  Thank you to everyone who submitted your votes on this matter. Click Here to review letter from LCMS Secretary John Sias that includes breakdown of the voting by state as well as a percentage of congregations voting and how they voted. 
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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
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  Exhausted by the Pandemic

  Are you experiencing pandemic fatigue—that feeling of being mentally and emotionally exhausted by everything that’s going on right now? We’re all facing different kinds of life challenges during this time—

  • Isolation and loneliness;
  • Anxiety over health;
  • Grief;
  • Juggling work, childcare, and schooling responsibilities;
  • Financial strain or job loss;
  • Uncertainty about the future . . .

  
  The list goes on. It’s no wonder we might be hit by pandemic fatigue—I know I have.  But you don’t have to go through it alone. If you or someone you care about is experiencing difficulties like these, our Stephen Ministers are ready to listen, care, encourage, and be there to offer support.  A Stephen Minister will meet with you privately—by phone, by video chat, or possibly in person when it’s safe to do so—to focus on you and your needs. It’s free and completely confidential, and it offers real care, comfort, and hope.

  You can find out more by calling our Stephen Leader, Diane Zanter at 712.251.3009 or Pastor Ben at 712.943.4502.

• No Sunday School

  Parents, Due to recent status events associated with the COVID pandemic, we will not have Sunday School for the foreseeable future. Please check our Facebook page and/or website for updates on a Children’s Christmas Program or alternative at home material. Blessings to everyone!

• 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

  

• 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.