Our Worship Team
Pastors Leading the Services at both Churches in January. Make plans to attend the services each week.
Pastor Exeter Greeters Geneva Greeters Geneva Acolytes
Mar. 1: Galen Rasmussen Jackie & Greg Yound Vanessa Behmerwohld & Molly Peters
Mar. 8: Galen Rasmussen Joe & Lydia Tucker Vanessa Behmerwohld
Mar. 15: Galen Rasmussen Judith Husle & Phil Gallup Weston Rayburn & Reagan Williams
Mar. 22: Galen Rasmussen Barb Jensen Max & Emily Turner
Mar. 29: Galen Rasmussen JoDeen & Phil Swartz Vanessa Behmerwohld & Molly Peters
**If you would like to be added to the list, please contact Cris in the Church office . Thank you.
Volunteer Liturgists are needed during the month of March. If you would like to read the scriptures during the Worship Service one or more Sundays during the month, please sign your name beside the date(s) on the sign-up sheet on the table in the Fellowship Hall, or call Cris at the church office (402-759- 3239) and let her know what week you would like to volunteer.
You wouldn’t know it as you look outside this weekend, but for the past three weeks or more we have had above normal temperatures. It has been amazing to experience a couple of days in the 70's. Watching people walk around in shorts and no jacket. Watching kids playing football without even shirts on…it was amazing. However, we all probably knew that it was too good to be true. But, there is always hope because it is the end of February and spring is coming up fast.
We are just starting our Lent Journey for 2026. It does not seem very long ago we were wishing for “just a little bit” of snow for Christmas. That did not happen and now we have snow and we are hoping for a snowless Easter. This Lenten Journey that we are on is one that starts with who we are and ends with us on our way to what God wants us to be. It starts with winter and ends with spring.
Isaiah 43:19 says, "See, I am doing a new thing! Now it springs up; do you not perceive it? I am making a way in the wilderness and streams in the wasteland." As we head into March are we perceiving what God is doing? Are we allowing him to renew us? Are we preparing for all that God has for us as we go through this journey and beyond.
Our theme for 2026 is Renewal. Renewal is completely different from restoration. When you restore something your goal is to take it back to look exactly like it did in the past. When we allow God to renew us, when we allow God to renew his church he isn’t taking us back to a past version. He is creating something brand new, something that is different. He is moving us forward into a new creation. God uses those things in the past to become the fertile soil that can be used to grow incredible and beautiful lives. Lives that make a difference. Lives that impact those around us. Lives that are patterned after God’s son. Stop looking back at what has happened in your life and look forward to what is going to happen because of it.
As we walk through the Lenten season, it is a shared journey. We go through this together as we prpare for Easter and to celebrate the resurrection of our Lord and Savior. There are two things that I want to challenge you with. The first is our Lent Congregational Bible reading using the YouVersion Bible App. If you have not downloaded that, scan the QR code with your cell phone and you will be able to get the app and the 40 day Bible Reading plan that corresponds to the lent season. The other is for all of us to help in our goal of increasing our average attendance by 20% this year. With all of us working together on this we will see this goal accomplished and maybe even shattered.
God has a plan in place to renew us. He is doing a new thing. He is making it spring up. The question is do you perceive it? Are you looking for it? I am very much looking forward to spring and everything that it holds. Even more so I am looking forward to what God is going to do as he continues to RENEW our church throughout this year.
Have a great March.
Pastor Galen
402-759-2413 (cell) or pastorgalen@gmail.com