Monthly Archives: May 2021

May 23 – Pentecost Sunday

The Divine Service for the Feast of Pentecost (May 23, 2021). Today we celebrate the third person of the Holy Trinity as the Lord and giver of life. The life the Holy Spirit gives is not our own, but the life of Jesus that covers our sins and failures and helps us receive eternal life. It is also Baccalaureate Sunday where we recognize and bless our graduating high school seniors. We pray the Holy Spirit would not be rejected in their lives as they head out into the world of dead, dry bones. Rather that through their faithfulness to God, that others might come to know Jesus and have the life of the Spirit in them!

May 23 bulletin
May 23 announcements

“The Lord and Giver of Life” – Ezekiel 37:1-14

If you have been blessed and would like to support this ministry, you can mail your contribution to:

Immanuel Lutheran Church
45 West Broadway
Plainview, MN 55964

Please do not mail cash.
Members: If you have offering envelopes, they are addressed and just need a stamp. If you do not have your 2021 offering envelopes, contact the church office to get them.

You can give online here through our online service or check out other ways to give a financial gift to Immanuel. Thank you for your prayers and support!

May 16 – Seventh Sunday of Easter

The Divine Service for the Seventh Sunday of Easter (May 16, 2021). The Easter season concludes today with a section of Jesus’ High Priestly prayer. He prays that we be in the world, but not of the world; that we be sanctified (made holy) by the Word, not doing the unholy things of the world, the devil, and our own sinful desires that lead us to self-righteousness or despair. Thanks be to God, Jesus never stops praying for us and forgiving us!

May 16 bulletin
May 16 announcements

Note: a service file with liturgy, readings, and hymns was omitted this week. If this is something you regularly use for following the video service, please contact the church office so we are aware of the need to continue to produce them for your personal use.

“IN – not OF – the World” – John 17:11b-19

If you have been blessed and would like to support this ministry, you can mail your contribution to:

Immanuel Lutheran Church
45 West Broadway
Plainview, MN 55964

Please do not mail cash.
Members: If you have offering envelopes, they are addressed and just need a stamp. If you do not have your 2021 offering envelopes, contact the church office to get them.

You can give online here through our online service or check out other ways to give a financial gift to Immanuel. Thank you for your prayers and support!

May 9 – Sixth Sunday of Easter

The Divine Service for the Sixth Sunday of Easter (May 9, 2021). What does the fruit of faith look like? The account of Peter’s God-given vision and change of heart shows us that faith looks and sees like God does. It sets aside our sinful partiality to embrace God’s perfect impartiality that sees our sins no more because Jesus has covered them in His blood. What a gift to share to all peoples, languages, ages, and nations!

May 9 video service liturgy
May 9 bulletin
May 9 announcements

We continue to test our live-stream feed via the YouTube channel. Check it out at 10:00!

“Seeing and Loving Like God” – Acts 10:34-48

If you have been blessed and would like to support this ministry, you can mail your contribution to:

Immanuel Lutheran Church
45 West Broadway
Plainview, MN 55964

Please do not mail cash.
Members: If you have offering envelopes, they are addressed and just need a stamp. If you do not have your 2021 offering envelopes, contact the church office to get them.

You can give online here through our online service or check out other ways to give a financial gift to Immanuel. Thank you for your prayers and support!

May 2 – Fifth Sunday of Easter

The Divine Service for the Fifth Sunday of Easter (May 2, 2021). We celebrated the confirmation of five youth confirmands in the service today. They were connected to the Vine in their baptism and now confessed that saving faith before God and the congregation. Jesus says, “I am the vine; you are the branches. Whoever abides in me and I in him, he it is that bears much fruit, for apart from me you can do nothing” (John 15:5). Confessing Jesus is proof that you are connected to the vine. As a branch, the more you take in Jesus, the more fruit you bear!

May 2 – 10am service PDF
May 2 bulletin
May 2 announcements

“Life in the Vine” – John 15:1-8

If you have been blessed and would like to support this ministry, you can mail your contribution to:

Immanuel Lutheran Church
45 West Broadway
Plainview, MN 55964

Please do not mail cash.
Members: If you have offering envelopes, they are addressed and just need a stamp. If you do not have your 2021 offering envelopes, contact the church office to get them.

You can give online here through our online service or check out other ways to give a financial gift to Immanuel. Thank you for your prayers and support!