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Easter Triumph, Easter Joy

Christ is risen! Easter is the high point of our church year, in fact the early church considered every Sunday a mini-Easter. This year we celebrated Easter with a sunrise service featuring readings, songs, and a reading of Romans chapter 8, a powerful chapter. Afterwards we shared a meal, played some games, flew some paper airplanes, and enjoyed the joyful atmosphere. Then there was a festival service that included a special anthem by the Sunday School and the choir.

Thank you to everyone who made this Easter festival, and all of Holy Week, special! Thank you for those who helped prepare, serve, and clean up the breakfast. Thank to the singers. Thank you to those who faithfully maintain our building and keep it clean. Thank you to Todd, our sound guy, and Onan our livestreaming cinematographer. Thank you to the ushers for serving. Thank you for everyone for coming. Thank you Pastor for you extra week these past weeks and your partnership with our congregation!

Holy Week 2023

Holy Week is at the heart and core of our faith because here we see the pure, undeluded, agape love of God. This week we see Jesus rightly praised. This week we see Jesus willingly and resolutely go to the pain and punishment of the cross. This week we see the weight of our sins. This week we see Jesus, the perfect Lamb of God as the final sacrifice that makes us right with God. This week we see Jesus, who is God, forsaken by God. This week se see Jesus die and be buried. This week we celebrate the Jesus rose, proving His victory and His deity. This week we celebrate that our God has redeemed us, He has paid the price so that we are right with God! Join the emotional roller coaster as we celebrate the greatness of God.

Sunday, April 2nd

Palm Sunday Worship at 9am

Thursday, April 6th

Holy Thursday Service with Communion at 6:30pm

Friday, April 7th

Good Friday Service at the Cross at 1pm and Service of Darkness at 6:30pm

Sunday, April 9th

the High Festival of Easter, Hymn Sing Service at 6:30am, breakfast to follow, Festival Service at 9am

Ministry Milestone: 100th Sermon

On February 23, 2023, our church family celebrated a neat ministry milestone. Our pastor, Pastor Caleb Rothfuss, preached his 100th “career” sermon! Pastor Rothfuss has often says he enjoys preaching and well, we enjoy listening to it. Pastor Rothfuss does a great job preaching meaningful messages that are rooted in Scripture, applicable to our lives, and that beautifully balance the law and the Gospel. After the sermon and the service we enjoyed special snacks and decorations to remind us of this ministry milestone. Here is a poster that has most of his sermon titles/themes listed. We hope and pray that this is the first of many, many more ministry milestones like it.

Ash Wednesday Update 2023

Due to weather concerns, our 2/22/23 Ash Wednesday meal and service are being postponed until the next day. On Thursday, 2/23/23, we will have our shared meal at church starting at 5:30pm, our Ash Wednesday service with Communion will start at 6:30pm, and then we've rescheduled the summer planning meeting with Grace Sugar Bush to start that night at 7:20pm. Please be safe in this winter weather and remember that you can always livestream the worship services. Those videos are streamed and saved here on our Facebook page and on our YouTube page.

Lent 2023

Lent is a powerful time of the church year when we prepare our hearts for Christ’s sacrifice. Listen to Jesus' as He willing and resolutely walks to the cross for us.

Join us Wednesdays, in person or virtually, for a shared meal starting around 5:30pm. Following that will be a short service starting around 6:30pm. The focus of these services will be on “His Final Steps”. The series ponders the significance of the people and places on Jesus’ resolute final steps to the cross and three days later, his first steps from the tomb. Like in years past, the Pastors from our area will rotate so we will see some of the Pastors from nearby WELS and ELS congregations.

Church Council 2023

Here at St. Paul Clintonville we are blessed with those willing and wanting to serve the Lord and His Church. Whether their service is seen or unseen, thank you for all you do!

On January 22, 2023, the voters elected new candidates to serve on the Church Council.

President Tim Boughton

Vice President Tom Ganster

Secretary Glenn McMahon

Treasurer

Elder Aaron Warnke

Elder Martin McGlone

Elder Austin Retzlaff

Trustee Nick Boughton

Trustee Coulter Boughton

Trustee Kelly Zillmer

Christian Education Dave Schley

Evangelism Coordinator Chuck Schowalter

Lutheran Leadership Conference 2023

In January 2023, Pastor Rothfuss and Chuck attended the WELS National Conference on Lutheran Leadership in Chicago. Held at the historic Hilton hotel, this conference brought together leaders from the church to talk about and think about being wise leaders in the church for Christ. Over 1,300 members attended, including a third of all active WELS pastors, students from Lutheran high schools, and an amazing number of lay members.

Over the 3 day conference attendees were able to 5 keynote presentations (presentations for all attendees), another 5 breakout presentations (presentations for small groups, chosen by the attendees), and 3 worship opportunities. One of the worship services included Holy Communion which was given to the 1,300+ attendees and their guests! The conference was an encouragement to those who attended and provided lots of ideas about how we can better serve. A lot of the presentations gave practical changes and efforts different churches have done to improve their ministry. Even if we cannot do exactly the same here, it still shows us that other churches like us have had challenges that they turned into wonderful opportunities. Watch the Lutheran Leadership website (link below) for videos and presentations from the conference.

Find out more or check for resources and updates at their website… https://lutheranleadership.com/

View presentations from the 2020 conference here… https://lutheranleadership.com/2020-resources/

Look for pictures and videos from the conference by searching #lutheranleadership2023