Jesus "saw a great crowd; and he had compassion for them.....
Jesus said to them, '...you give them something to eat!'" (Matthew 14:14, 16)

Busy this Sunday morning? Try the Saturday evening service at 5:30pm!
This week....Service of the Word (Contemporary)


Saturday, July 30
8am Men's Bible Study
5:30 pm Service of the Word (ELW8)

Sunday, July 3
9:30 am Service of the Word (ELW10)
10:30 am Fellowship
11am Revelation Study
6pm Council Family Potluck

Monday, August 1
10am Staff meeting
4pm Outreach and Caring Committee
7pm Finance/Stewardship Committee

Tuesday, August 2
10:30 am [Area 3 Pastor's study]
7pm Social Ministries

Wednesday, August 3
12pm Women's Ministries Committee
7pm Fellowship Committee

Saturday, August 8
8am Men's Bible Study
5:30 pm Service of the Word (Contemporary)

Sunday, August 7
9:30 am Service of the Word (ELW 10)
10:30 am Fellowship
11 am Revelation Study
4:30pm "Heaven is for Real" at the Bill Carlsons'
6:15pm Genesis for GenXers

Messiah Evangelical Lutheran Church
Lindsborg, KS

"....every scribe who has been trained for the kingdom of heaven is like the master of a household who brings what is new and what is old." - Matthew 13:52

Discover some new and old things with us... this weekend.

Busy on Sunday morning? Join us for Holy Communion this Saturday at 5:30pm.

SATURDAY, July 23
8am Men's Bible Study
5:30pm Holy Communion (contemporary)

SUNDAY, July 24
9:30am Holy Communion (ELW10)
10:30am Fellowship
11am Revelation Study

MONDAY, July 25
3 pm Bethany Home Bible Study

TUESDAY, July 26
1:30pm Mending at Bethany Home

SATURDAY, July 30
8am Men's Bible Study
9am - 3pm Renew, Respond, Rejoice Women's One Day Retreat
5:30pm Service of the Word (contemporary)

NEXT SUNDAY, July 31
9:30am Service of the Word (ELW10)
10:30 am Fellowship
11am Revelation Study
7pm Council Potluck - South Park

Messiah Evangelical Lutheran Church
402 N. 1st St.
Lindsborg, KS 67456 USA

785-227-3977

"The one who sows the good seed is the Son of Man; the field is the world, and the good seed are the children of the kingdom; the weeds are the children of the evil one, and the enemy who sowed them is the devil; the harvest is the end of the age, and the reapers are angels. Just as the weeds are collected and burned up with fire, so will it be at the end of the age. The Son of Man will send his angels, and they will collect out of his kingdom all causes of sin and all evildoers, and they will throw them into the furnace of fire, where there will be weeping and gnashing of teeth. Then the righteous will shine like the sun in the kingdom of their Father." - Jesus, Matthew 13:37-43

Shine with us... this weekend!

Busy this Sunday morning? Join us for contemporary worship tomorrow (Saturday) evening at 5:30pm. This Saturday we will include a time for prayers of healing.

All are welcome to the Bethany-Messiah Swim Party this Sunday at 8pm. $2/swimmer.

Saturday, July 16
8am Men's Bible Study
5:30 pm Service of the Word with Healing (contemporary)

Sunday, July 17
9:30am Service of the Word (ELW 10)
10:30am Fellowship
11am Revelation Study
4:30pm Thessalonians Study at Kessingers'
6:15pm Genesis for GenXers
8pm Bethsiah Swim Party at City Pool

Monday, July 18
10am Staff meeting
7pm Council meeting

Tuesday, July 19
10:30am [Area 3 Pastor's study]

Wednesday, July 20
7pm Staff relations

Saturday, July 23
8am Men's Bible Study
5:30pm Holy Communion

Sunday, July 24
9:30am Holy Communion (ELW 10)
10:30am Fellowship
11am Revelation Study

Messiah Evangelical Lutheran Church
Lindsborg, KS


The Harvest is the End of the World as performed by Charlie Peacock
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N3d9VVc-StM&feature=related

Rachel, why do you weep?
Why do you bury your face in you hands?
Is there no one who would reach you?
Is there no one who understands?

There is no one to comfort her, (there is no one to comfort her)
For her children are no more, and there is no one to comfort her.

Rachel, why do you cry?
Why do you hide your trembling lips?
Are those tears stains on your brow?
Are those tears on your fingertips?

There is no one to comfort her, (there is no one to comfort her)
For her children are no more, and there is no one to comfort her.

Now and always, Now and evermore,
Now and always, Now and evermore.

I see angels in the distance,
In the distance, I see angels, and their shadows fall like crosses on the fields,
Some are swinging low the sickles, some are binding up the sheaves,
Some are sifting out the harvest yield,
Rachel, run to join the angels in the harvest in the distance, rising from your bed as from a dream,
In the faint and splintered line where the wheat field meets the sky, you might find your sorrow made complete,
You might find your sorrow made complete.

Now and always, Now and evermore,
Now and always, Now and evermore,
Redemption is the harvest of the tears that came before,
Now and always, Now and evermore.

All who sorrow with her, lift your heads,
You might hear the sound of Rachel gently weeping, for the gathering is done and her children have come home,
Whom she counted lost and dead, now to find were sweetly sleeping in the fields where angels have been reaping.

I see angels in the distance,
In the distance, I see angels, and their shadows fall like crosses on the fields,
Some are swinging low their sickles, some are binding up the sheaves,
Some are sifting out the harvest yield,
Rachel, run to join the angels in the harvest in the distance, rising from your bed as from a dream,
In the faint and splintered line where the wheat field meets the sky, you might find your sorrow made complete,
You might find your sorrow made complete.

Now and always, Now and evermore,
Now and always, Now and evermore,
Redemption is the harvest of the tears that came before,
Now and always, Now and evermore,
Now and always, Now and evermore,
Redemption is the harvest of the tears that came before,
Now and always, Now and evermore,
Now and always, Now and evermore.

A farmer went out to sow.... Matthew 13:3

Let Jesus sow His Word in your heart... with us this weekend!

Busy on Sunday morning? Join us for Saturday worship at 5:30pm. Contemporary musical sounds with Holy Communion.

Below read a news report about the University where pastor Dean will teach in August.

TODAY, July 8
6pm Scrapbooking

Saturday, July 9
8am Men's Bible Study
5:30 pm Holy Communion (Contemporary)

Sunday, July 10
9:30 am Holy Communion
10:30 am Fellowship
11am Revelation Study

Monday, July 11
10am staff meeting
6pm Executive Board

Tuesday, July 12
10:30 am [Area 3 Pastor's study]
1:30 pm Mending at Bethany Home

Wednesday, July 13
11:30 am SALT lunch (Single Adults Living Today)

Friday, July 15 - Newsletter Deadline

Saturday, July 16
8am Men's Bible Study
5pm Healing Service

Sunday, July 17
9:30 am Service of the Word (ELW 10)
10:30 am Fellowship
11am Revelation Study
4:30 pm 2 Thessalonians Study
8pm Swim Party at City Pool

Messiah Evangelical Lutheran Church
Lindsborg, KS

Africa International University Granted Kenyan Charter as a “Mark of Quality”
Africa International University received its charter on March 4, 2011, in a festive celebration presided over by Mwai Kibaki, C.G.H., M.P., president and commander-in-chief of the defense forces of Kenya. It is only the thirteenth private university in Kenya to have attained full accreditation status. In his speech Kibaki congratulated “all those who have made this possible. I especially commend the sponsors for their immense efforts which have culminated in the actualization of their dream of a university.” He described the charter as “a mark of quality,” for AIU “already has a rich history.” The president praised AIU for being “at the forefront in providing post-graduate theological training to Christian leaders in Kenya and the African continent,” noting, “Many of the inspiring and effective Protestant leaders in Africa have been trained in this institution. You have played an important role in ensuring that the men and women who serve in our churches are equipped with necessary ministry skills. I am confident that the award of this charter will help towards making this institution a world-renowned university that serves humanity.”
During the same ceremony Watson Omulokoli, professor of church history in the Department of Philosophy and Religious Studies, Kenyatta University, was installed as the AIU chancellor. He also serves as an adjunct professor at the Akrofi-Christaller Institute of Theology, Mission, and Culture, Akropong-Akuapem, Ghana. In 2006–8 he was a member of
the Task Force for the Development of the National Strategy for University Education in Kenya.
Omulokoli also is patron of Bible Translation and Literacy East Africa, the national counterpart of Wycliffe Bible Translators and the Summer Institute of Linguistics, and is chairman of the trustee board of the African Institute for Contemporary Mission and Research. He was a 2010–11 resident at the Overseas Ministries Study Center (publisher of the IBMR), where he wrote profiles for the Dictionary of African Christian Biography. Negotiations to relocate the DACB’s research coordinating hub to AIU are underway. The database itself will be hosted at the Boston University School of Theology. Omulokoli pledged that AIU would be committed to “offer quality education with integrity” by maintaining “academic and intellectual excellence,” laying strong spiritual foundations, and pursuing its mandate of moral and ethical integrity in all its programs.
Later, AIU also announced the appointment of Andrew F. Walls as research professor in world Christianity in its Centre for World Christianity.
Walls is professor of the history of missions, Liverpool Hope University, Liverpool, England; honorary professor at the University of Edinburgh and founder and former director of the Centre for the Study of Christianity in the Non-Western World there; and an IBMR contributing editor. The appointment will commence in September 2011.
The university comprises three schools: the Nairobi Evangelical Graduate School of Theology, an “evangelical post-graduate theological institution to promote excellence in African Christianity”; the Institute for the Study of African Realities; and the School of Professional Studies. For details, go online to www.negst.edu.
—Daniel J. Nicholas, International Bulletin of Missionary Research, July 2011

Busy this Sunday morning? Try the Saturday evening service at 5:30pm!
This week....Service of the Word (Contemporary)

Saturday, July 2
8 am Men's Bible Study
5:30 pm Service of the Word (ELW 8)

Sunday, July 3
9:30 am Service of the WOrd
10:30 am Fellowship
11: am Revelation Study

Monday, June 4
OFFICE CLOSED! Happy Independence Day!

Tuesday, July 5
10 am Wildfires Rehearsal
10:30 am [Area 3 Pastor's study]
7 pm Social Ministry

Wednesday, July 6
12 pm Women's Ministries
4 pm Swimming at Emerald Lake
6 pm Hot Dogs at Emerald Lake
6:30 pm Memorial Committee at Mattas'

Thursday, July 7
10 am Wildfires Rehearsal
7 pm KICK Task Force at Bethany LC
7 pm Worship & Music Committee

Friday, July 8
9:30 am Staff Brunch
6 pm Scrapbooking
7 pm Social Ministry

Saturday, July 9
8 am Men's Bible Study
5:30 pm Holy Communion (Contemporary)

Sunday, July 10
9:30 am Holy Communion (ELW 10)
10:30 am Fellowship
11 am Revelation Study
6:15pm Genesis for GenXers

Messiah Evangelical Lutheran Church
Lindsborg, KS