Welcome to St. John
St. John Lutheran church is an ELCA (Evangelical Lutheran Church in America) congregation located in the heart of Belle Plaine, Minnesota. St. John worship services have an average attendance of 300 people during two Sunday morning and one evening service. The congregation provides Sunday School for children from 3 years old up to 6th grade and Confirmation classes for 7 – 8 graders.
The Mission Statement of St. John is “A Growing Community in Christ – Loving God and Loving Others.” Today, with Senior Pastor Mark Johnson and Associate Pastor Mark Lepper, along with a fine staff and a host of many volunteers working in a variety of ways, the community of St. John is continuing to grow in its Mission Statement – not only growing in a quantity of new members, but also in the quality of being a warm and friendly congregation where individuals and families are encouraged to become involved and share their interests and talents in making new friends and in furthering the congregation’s mission and ministry.
Going on at St. John
For more about what is new at St. John see our News & Announcements section.
- March 14th Sunday Morning Forum
Sunday morning, March 14th, between worship services Dr. Darrell Jodock from Gustavus Adolphus College will be presenting a forum on "Understanding Judaism - Why is it important?" This event is sponsored by our Adult Education and Fellowship Ministgry Team. Please plan to join us between services for this interesting and informative presentation.
- Thank You For Supporting World Vision's 30 Hour Famine!
THANK YOU FOR SUPPORTING WORLD VISION’S 30 HOUR FAMINE! Last Friday and into Saturday, 21 youth from Belle Plaine went without eating for 30 hours and raised $980.15 to help fight world hunger! The money raised will be sent to World Vision to help feed and care for 2 children for over a year. Our Famine youth donated their time by traveling to Feed My Starving Children in Chanhassen and packed 5,184 meals which will feed 14 kids for an entire year. They also went door-to-door and collected over 500 food shelf items for the local CAP Agency in Shakopee. We are very proud of you! Thank you for your donations and prayers and for sampling the UNIMIX and Plumpy’nut that was served at coffee hour last Sunday. And one more big THANK YOU to Cheryl Johnson, Kim Neumann, Sara Bungarden, Lori Schmit, Kirk Franck, Noah Lee, Kelly Vechinski, Pastor Mark Lepper and all the youth that participated in this year’s event. It was a great experience! For more information on the 30HF visit www.30hourfamine.org
- Midweek Lenten Services begin Ash Wednesday
Midweek Lenten Services begin (5:15 and 7:15 p.m.) on Ash Wednesday, Feb. 17. Soup and Sandwich Suppers are each Wednesday from 6:00 – 7:00 p.m. Soups for Ash Wednesday are Chicken Wild Rice and Potato Cheese & Chives. Sandwiches are Egg Salad, Tuna Salad, and Hot Pot Sandwiches. Confirmation Students are expected to attend each Wednesday service with an adult Lenten Mentor and to fill out and turn in a Lenten service note each week.
- Sunday Morning Forums, February 21 & 28
On Sunday, February 21st and Sunday February 28th, between Worship Services, presentations will be made by Jerome Delgehausen entitled “The Roman Empire, Jesus and the Kingdom of God: Why Understanding Rome’s imperial world matters for reading the New Testament”. These interesting and informative forums are about the Roman Empire and the early days of Christianity with special emphasis being given to the birth stores of Jesus, the Lord’s Prayer, Holy Week and the Kingdom of God.
