St. Paul's Evanglical Lutheran Church and School 1201 Main Street, Onalaska, WI 54650 PHONE: 608-783-2552

Outreach Efforts

Hmong Ministry Update

Pastor Lor continues to teach class at the Schuh Homes Sunday school as well as host Saturday open gym at Immanuel Lutheran School for area teens (6-10 attend).

The Hmong Outreach Board is considering asking Hmong residents to give a cultural presentation in the middle of August. This is an attempt to build relationships with Asian people in our community.

Pastor Lor is a contact person for Hmong people who are hospitalized.

The radio contract will be extended for another six months. Pastor Lor gives a five minute devotion in the Hmong radio program aired Sunday mornings on WKTY. Anyone wishing to donate to radio outreach can call St. Paul’s church/school office.

CONTINUE TO SUPPORT THIS MINISTRY BY PRAYING FOR PASTOR LOR, HIS MINISTRY AND HIS FAMILY. PLEASE FORWARD ADDRESSES OF HMONG FAMILIES TO ST. PAUL'S CHURCH OFFICE. 

Arcadia Update

Bethel Ev. Lutheran Church, Arcadia began as an idea in the late 1990's with the desire to reach out with the good news of Jesus to more people in Trempealeau County. About a dozen members of Bethel in Galesville already lived in the ARcadia area and inquired about the possibility of starting a new congregation.

God's grace and blessing provided the needed resources. Several new people from the Arcadia area expressed interest in a WELS congregation in the area. A grant was secured for four students to canvass the area in the summer of 2001. A Bible study began in July 2001 and worship in December 2001. Pastor Nathan Strutz was called to serve exclusively at Bethel in 2002.

The Lord has continued to bless the congregation. Growth to 20, 40, 60 and now over 100
members has been realized. Many new members have come as the result of a friend sharing the good news of Jesus with another friend.

The congregation was also blessed to build a permanent facility to the glory of God. Planning began in earnest in 2005 and the facility was completed with the help of many volunteers, including Builders for Christ who assisted in the summer of 2007.  Numerous special gifts were also received, most notably from the Antioch foundation and an anonymous donor who  contributed a combined total of over $1 million. The facility was dedicated in April 2008.

The congregation has also been blessed with vicars for several years who have assisted Pastor Strutz in bringing the good news to more precious souls. God continues to bless the
congregation and the congregation continues to carry on its mission to go and make disciples
of all nations.

Bethel's Arcadia campus is located at N29280 Loesel Lane, just off of Highway 93, one mile north of Kwik Trip. Our worship services are held on Wednesdays at 7:30 p.m. and on Sunday mornings at 9:00 a.m. Bible Class and Sunday School are at 10:30 a.m.

Thanks again for your support of our ministry.

 In Christ, Pastor Nathan Strutz

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There is much in the news about same-sex marriage. Has God changed his mind about marriage? This message addresses homosexual and heterosexual sins with the cleansing power of the gospel. This is the second of a 3 part series: Lessons from the Well. Read John 4:15-26.

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Today's Bible Passages

Jn 16:12-15

I have much more to say to you, more than you can now bear. But when he, the Spirit of truth, comes, he will guide you into all truth. He will not speak on his own; he will speak only what he hears, and he will tell you what is yet to come. He will bring glory to me by taking from what is mine and making it known to you. All that belongs to the Father is mine. That is why I said the Spirit will take from what is mine and make it known to you.

Ezk 18:30-32

Therefore, O house of Israel, I will judge you, each one according to his ways, declares the Sovereign LORD. Repent! Turn away from all your offenses; then sin will not be your downfall. Rid yourselves of all the offenses you have committed, and get a new heart and a new spirit. Why will you die, O house of Israel? For I take no pleasure in the death of anyone, declares the Sovereign LORD. Repent and live!

Is 55:6-9

Seek the Lord while he may be found; call on him while he is near. Let the wicked forsake his way and the evil man his thoughts. Let him turn to the Lord, and he will have mercy on him, and to our God, for he will freely pardon. For my thoughts are not your thoughts, neither are your ways my ways, declares the Lord. As the heavens are higher than the earth, so are my ways higher than your ways and my thoughts than your thoughts.

Pr 22:6

Train a child in the way he should go, and when he is old he will not turn from it.

Lk 18:8b

However, when the Son of Man comes, will he find faith on the earth?

Mk 12:28-31

One of the teachers of the law came and heard them debating. Noticing that Jesus had given them a good answer, he asked him, "Of all the commandments, which is the most important?" "The most important one," answered Jesus, is this: "Hear, O Israel, the Lord our God, the Lord is one. Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind and with all your strength." The second is this: "Love your neighbor as yourself." There is no commandment greater than these.

Ps 119:28

My soul is weary with sorrow; strengthen me according to your word.

Mt 18:6-9

But if anyone causes one of these little ones who believe in me to sin, it would be better for him to have a large millstone hung around his neck and to be drowned in the depths of the sea. Woe to the world because of the things that cause people to sin! Such things must come, but woe to the man through whom they come! If your hand or your foot causes you to sin, cut it off and throw it away. It is better for you to enter life maimed or crippled than to have two hands or two feet and be thrown into eternal fire. And if your eye causes you to sin, gouge it out and throw it away. It is better for you to enter life with one eye than to have two eyes and be thrown into the fire of hell.

Pr 21:30

There is no wisdom, no insight, no plan that can succeed against the LORD.

Ja 3:6

The tongue also is a fire, a world of evil among the parts of the body. It corrupts the whole person, sets the whole course of his life on fire, and is itself set on fire by hell.

1 Jn 2:15-17

Do not love the world or anything in the world. If anyone loves the world, the love of the Father is not in him. For everything in the world—the cravings of sinful man, the lust of his eyes and the boasting of what he has and does—comes not from the Father but from the world. The world and its desires pass away, but the man who does the will of God lives forever.

Mk 10:41-45

When the ten heard about this (James & John’s request to sit at Jesus right and left in his glory), they became indignant with James and John. Jesus called them together and said, “You know that those who are regarded as rulers of the Gentiles lord it over them, and their high officials exercise authority over them. Not so with you. Instead, whoever wants to become great among you must be your servant, and whoever wants to be first must be slave of all. For even the Son of Man did not come to be served, but to serve, and to give his life as a ransom for many.”

Mk 12:24-27

Jesus replied (to the Sadducees who asked him to which husband would a woman who had seven husbands be married in the resurrection), Are you not in error because you do not know the Scriptures or the power of God? When the dead rise, they will neither marry nor be given in marriage; they will be like the angels in heaven. Now about the dead rising-have you not read in the book of Moses, in the account of the bush, how God said to him, "I am the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob?" He is not the God of the dead, but of the living. You are badly mistaken!

Read the eBook, "What the Bible and Lutherans Teach" for an excellent answer to this question.

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