Shepherd of Peace Lutheran Church

Announcements

• 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 a few other options available for your offerings: 1. Mail offerings to the church at the address below, 2. Prayerfully consider enrollment in ACH or Automated Clearing House for your offerings using 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 Your financial contribution is then automatically withdrawn from your checking or savings account and deposited directly to Shepherd of Peace under your envelope account.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

  

• COVID-19 Alert and Response

  PASTOR BEN PERKINS AND OUR WORSHIP TEAM WILL BE LIVE STREAMING WORSHIP SERVICES ON WEDNESDAY NIGHTS AT 7:00 PM AND SUNDAY MORNINGS AT 9:00 AM - CLICK HERE TO WATCH LIVE STREAMING

  In these surreal days of Coronavirus, social distancing, self-quarantine, and a plethora of social media posts asking for your cooperation and partnership as our community deals with the ever changing directives, it is easy to become confused. There is one story of a God fearing woman, who loved her church and attended worship twice a week while she was infected. She also visited other large gatherings during this time which began an exponential spread.

  We all have sacrifices to make individually for the greater good of our nation. We have been asked by our city and state officials to suspend all gatherings of 10 people or more as President Trump has requested of our nation. This should not be interpreted as an attempt to squelch our right to worship, but rather a call for us all to love others in a way that may mean reduced personal contact for a short period of time.

  • “You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind. 38 This is the great and first commandment. 39 And a second is like it: You shall love your neighbor as yourself. 40 On these two commandments depend all the Law and the Prophets.” - Matthew 22:37-40
     
  • “So then, as we have opportunity, let us do good to everyone, and especially to those who are of the household of faith.” - Galatians 6:10
     
  • “Let every person be subject to the governing authorities. For there is no authority except from God, and those that exist have been instituted by God. Therefore whoever resists the authorities resists what God has appointed, and those who resist will incur judgment.” - Romans 13:1-2
     

  We will find unique ways to hold gatherings via email, phone and social media platforms and we will band together as churches to call each of our members and especially the elderly in the community to check up on them, pray with them, and seek out their needs and how we might help. Thank you all for your understanding and cooperation and for your continued spread of the good news and spiritual leadership more than ever.

  SOME MEMBERS ASKED QUESTIONS ABOUT OFFERING OPTIONS:
  There are multiple options available (depending on length of time other options may be added): 1. Mail offerings to Shepherd of Peace, 203 Port Neal Rd., Sergeant Bluff, IA 51054, 2. Prayerfully considering enrollment in ACH or Automated Clearing House for your offerings using 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 link below. You would provide a specific designated offering amount that you wish to have electronically deducted from your checking account each week. Your financial contribution is then automatically withdrawn from your account and deposited directly to Shepherd of Peace. Shepherd of Peace will then receive automatic reporting that will be used to update your financial contributions statements. You will need to provide a voided check for use in validating account information as required by Pioneer Bank. 3) You can drop off your offerings to Lannie in the church office Mon-Thu 10a-3p, or 4) Online Offerings via PayPal recently added. Click the Give Online link via our website menu or Give link via the mobile version of our website. CLICK HERE FOR ACH FORM

  Please contact John Fleckenstein, Seth Wych, Michael Aguirre or Lannie in the church office (712-943-4502) with any questions or for more information. We are looking into possible online offerings as an additional option. 

• Website Server Updates

  Recently, our website hosting company applied some updates which applied changes that may be affecting how you are viewing our website, If the website appears to look unusual, please click on the link below and follow their recommended fixes to refresh your browser settings as a potential fix:  https://www.mychurchsamplesite.net/view_message/306

• Spring Craft Fair CANCELLED

  Shepherd of Peace Youth Group Craft Fair - CANCELLED - Saturday April 25, 2020 at the Bluffs Area Family Center. 903 Topaz Drive (Hwy75Big Blue Bldg next to DQ) in Sergeant Bluff, Iowa - 9:00am to 2:00pm.

• Welcome New Members

  On Sunday 1/12/2020, Shepherd of Peace welcomed new members during our 9:00 AM workship. Please join us in welcoming:

  • Aaron Barge
  • Justin & Kelli Blair
      - Grayson, Eli, Owen, Preston
  • Bruce Full
  • Derek Godfredson
  • Randy Plantenberg
  • Trenton & Amber Muth
       - Taylor, Ava
  • Michael & Angela Nicodemus
       - Noah, Sierra

  
  Welcome to our church family!

• SOP Youth Service Request

  Service Requests for our SOP Family – SOP youth and their families are available to help with tasks around the yard or house, please go to www.shepherdofpeacechurch.com

  Click on the Youth Groups link and click on the Service Request link this will provide a form to fill out which will be emailed to the youth board to coordinate with you a date and time that works best. There will also be paper forms available at the church for the non-computer users, please fill out the form and give to a youth board member. Ideas of service requests would be raking leaves, picking up sticks, etc…

• SOP Youth Service Projects

  The Annual Earl May fundraiser is just a couple weeks away on Sat 10/12. We can't wait for all the fun to be had, pumpkin painting, hayrack rides, face painting, games, food and our tremendous bake sale! 

  SOP Youth Leaders are requesting congregational donations of bake sale items and we are always looking for talented face painters! Please bring baked goods to church by 6pm on Friday 10/11 or drop off at Earl May on Saturday morning.

  The Siouxland Soup Kitchen is looking for "Blessing Bags" and have reached out to the SOP Youth Group to be a part of this need for our community. In response, the SOP youth group will be assembling them twice a year starting with October. Our confirmation classes have a service/incentive on Wednesday each month. Below is a list of donation items for members of the congregation to purchase and drop off at the church in support of this mission project. The Siouxland Soup Kitchen will pass these bags out in the winter months. Thank you in advance!

  • Travel Size Toothpaste
  • Toothbrushes
  • Travel Size Shampoo
  • Travel Size Conditioner
  • Bar Soap
  • Toilet Paper
  • Socks (Men's average size)
  • Bottle Water
  • Towels

   

• 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.