Winter storm Alice is bearing down on us, but we are still planning on having our regularly scheduled worship services this morning. If you are driving in, please drive safely. If you can't make it, don't worry. We'll have the sermon posted in the next few days.
Celebrating Our Savior's Birth!
Join us this Christmas Eve and Christmas Day as we celebrate the night that changed the world, the night when the Son of God was born to save us.
We will offer two distinct worship services for you.
December 24 at 7:00PM – Children's Christmas Eve Service
Our children's Christmas Eve service gives the children of St. Paul an opportunity to proclaim the message of their Savior being born in Bethlehem. Through spoken word and song, the message of the birth of our Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ will be proclaimed.
December 25 at 9:00AM – Lessons and Carols
Lessons and Carols is a historic service, a way of celebrating Christmas Eve that dates back to the early 1900s. For this service, we review the salvation story through a series of Scripture readings and Christmas carols.
Please join us at 31 North Park Street in Clintonville.
Seminary Chorus Christmas Concert
It's going to be cold this weekend. Warm up with our Seminary Chorus Christmas Concert. If you don't live nearby, our 3 p.m. (CST) service will be streamed at www.wels.net/streams.
Annual Christmas Potluck Scheduled
Our annual Christmas Potluck will take place next Sunday, December 8, starting around 11am. All are encouraged and welcome to attend. There is a sign-up sheet outside the office if you want to bring a dish to pass.
Special thanks to Bernice Fuhrman for organizing this fellowship opportunity for the congregation.
Mid-Week Advent Worship
Mid-Week Advent Services
Prepare your heart for the Savior’s second coming and for a proper celebration of his first coming by attending mid-week Advent services. “The Covenant of the Coming Lord” serves as the theme of the three-week series that begins this coming Wednesday, December 4. These shortened services will begin at 7pm and focus on the prophecies of Christ recorded in Jeremiah 31.
Soup suppers will precede each of the mid-week Advent services. These suppers will start around 6pm. If you have any questions regarding these meals, please speak with Karen Petermann.
Thanksgiving Worship
Give Thanks to the Lord!
This coming Wednesday, November 27, we will celebrate another year of grace and mercy that has been showered down upon us by God with a special Thanksgiving Worship service at 7pm. All are invited and encouraged to attend as we reflect on the many gifts the Lord has given to us.
Reformation Celebration
This coming Sunday, November 3, we will celebrate the Reformation in our regularly scheduled worship service at 9am. All are welcome to join us as we praise God for giving us men and women who were willing to faithfully stand on His Word while others faltered.
Later in the afternoon, there will also be a joint-Reformation service held at Fox Valley Lutheran High School in Appleton for all area congregations. Professor Mark Zarling from Martin Luther College will be preaching and a pastoral choir will begin the worship service. The service will start at 4pm. Everyone is invited and encouraged to attend.
Christian Book Club
Do you like to read? Do you like to read religious books, but many times find yourself finishing the book with more questions than answers? Do you want to read more religious books, but never know what’s worth the read and what isn’t?
If you answered yes to any of those questions, St. Paul is starting something that you’ll hopefully be interested in. In October we will be starting a book club. The group will meet at least once a month to discuss materials the group has chosen to read.
If you’re interested, there is a sign up sheet outside the cry room/office at the church. Keep your eyes open for more information in the coming weeks.
If you have any suggestions for reading material, please speak with Pastor Schlicht.
Papers written on the WELS Practice of Fellowship
In response to discussions that we have been having in Sunday morning Bible Class as of late, I thought it would be nice to get some outside perspectives from distinguished men in our Synod as to this doctrine of Fellowship and Close Communion. Below, you will find a number of articles found on Wisconsin Lutheran Seminary's Essay File (www.wlsessays.net). If you would like even more material, all you have to do is search on that page under "fellowship ."
http://www.wlsessays.net/files/HoffmannCommunion.pdf
This paper was presented to the South-Central Pastor-Delegate Conference of the South Atlantic District meeting in Decatur, Georgia, on October 4, 1983.
http://www.wlsessays.net/files/BarteltWith.pdf
Whenever we join in prayer with others it is a form of church fellowship. With this in mind, much of this paper is dedicated to examining the principles involved in church fellowship. We join in fellowship with others based on their confession and their practice. It is God’s will for his people to demonstrate their fellowship though worship and prayer, unless the one persists in error.
http://www.wlsessays.net/files/GehrkeFellowship.pdf
An essay delivered at the twenty-first biennial convention of the Western Wisconsin District, Northwestern College, Watertown, July 15, 1958.
http://www.wlsessays.net/files/BraunChurch.pdf
Church Fellowship--Our Term, God's Teaching
http://www.wlsessays.net/files/MuellerFellowship.pdf
History of Fellowship Practice in the Wisconsin Synod
http://www.wlsessays.net/files/SchulzFellowship.pdf
Fellowship – How May We Celebrate Our Unity with All True Believers on Earth?
Recognizing that even Christians may feel alone among those with whom they worship, Pastor Schulz encourages his readers to promote real fellowship among the members of our congregations.
Church Picnic
To celebrate another year of the Lord's continued grace and mercy, we will be having a church picnic on Sunday, June 2. All are invited to attend. The picnic will follow our worship service (9am) and Bible Class (10am). Burgers, brats, and hot dogs will be provided, but everyone is asked to bring a dish to pass. We hope to see you all there!