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Saint Paul’s Evangelical Lutheran Church

February 2026

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Happy February! This month brings to mind Love. Valentine’s Day, February 14, 2026, is a day dedicated to love, valentines, candy and flowers.  A more important day of love, bringing to mind, God’s love, true love, is Ash Wednesday, the beginning of Lent on February 18, 2026. Ash Wednesday, in the heart of winter, forty days before Easter, is when one thinks of Jesus’ suffering and dying on the cross for us. On Ash Wednesday we are reminded that we are dust and to dust we will return. But we take heart, going through the cold, dreary days of February waiting for the wonderful awesome Resurrection on Easter Sunday, this year on Sunday, April 5, 2026.

Lent is a time for personal reflection and prayer. A beautiful hymn “My Song is Love Unknown” (LSB 430) brings to mind all that Jesus did for us out of pure love for you, for me. The words are very special:

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Dear Friends in Christ,

We will have an Ash Wednesday service at 4:00 P.M. on Wednesday, February 18, 2026 with Pastor Dennis Rockett. Hopefully, this earlier service will be more convenient for our members who do not like to drive at night.

On February 8, 2026, we will be recognizing St. Paul’s Boy Scout and Cub Scout troops with a special prayer and a reception in Koepchen Fellowship Hall after our worship service.

We would love to worship with you every Sunday at 9:30 A.M. with Pastor Rockett three Sundays a month with Holy Communion. The Elders conduct the other Sunday. We are so blessed and thankful to have Pastor Rockett with us with Holy Communion. What a blessing- please join us soon!

We are also blessed to have an enthusiastic Bible Study group that meets on Sundays at 8:30 A.M. in Koepchen Fellowship Hall before our worship service. The Bible Readings, the Old Testament reading, the Epistle and the Holy Gospel, for that particular Sunday, are read and discussed. We are able to better understand the readings for that day.  We are a Bible based Church. The Bible is the True Word of God and as it tells us in Timothy 3:16, “All Scripture is God breathed and is useful for teaching, rebuking, correcting and training in righteousness.” The Bible is our lifetime guide. We have discovered the answer is always Jesus! Please join us! It’s a great way to start your Sunday.

Let God’s Love be your Valentine to everyone. Let’s show and share the love God has for us in Jesus by offering that same love to others.

LOVE and Blessings

Your Elders

Donna Munsch, Head Elder

Jim Harbo

John Nicolai

Richard Huss

  1. My song is love unknown, My Savior’s love to me,
    Love to the loveless shown That they might lovely be.
    Oh, who am I That for my sake My Lord should take
    Frail flesh and die?

  2. He came from His blest throne Salvation to bestow;
    But men made strange, and none They longed-for
    Christ would know. But, oh, my friend, My friend indeed,
    Who at my need His life did spend!

  3. Sometimes they strew His way And his sweet praises sing;
    Resounding all the day Hosannas to their king.
    Then “Crucify!” Is all their breath, And for his death
    They thirst and cry.

  4. Why, what hath my Lord done? What make this rage and spite?
    He made lame to run, He gave the blind their sight.
    Sweet injuries! Yet they at these
    Themselves displease And ‘gainst him rise.

  5. They rise and needs will have My dear Lord made away;
    A murderer they save, The prince of life the slay.
    Yet cheerful he Tosuff’ring goes
    That he his foes From thence might free.

  6. In life no house, no home My Lord on earth might have;
    In death no friendly tomb But what a stranger gave.
    What may I say? Heav’n was his home
    But mine the tomb Wherein he lay.

  7. Here might I stay and sing, No story so divine!
    Never was love, dear King, Never was grief like thine.
    This is my friend, In whose sweet praise I all my day
    Could gladly spend!

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