The Fifth Sunday of Easter, May 3 & 6, 2026

ZION EVANGELICAL LUTHERAN CHURCH – LCMS

700 Main St.  P.O. Box 220   Clyman, WI  53016  

Rev. Daniel L. Bohn & Church 1(920) 341-2025 – shepherdatzion@gmail.com

Worship Times: Sundays – 8:30am & Wednesdays – 7:00pm

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Music – Dee Dee Wille       Elder – Greg Schwartz

Bulletin Announcements: Email: zionclyman@gmail.com

Congregation Information: Neal Kohlhoff Email: neal.kohlhoff50@gmail.com

Altar Guild for May: Connie Kreitzman                           Thank you.

Guests.  Welcome to Zion.  We are happy to have you worship with us.  Please sign our guestbook located in the Narthex.  About Holy Communion:  We welcome to the Lord’s Table all who have repented of their sins and seek to amend their sinful life; all who believe that Jesus is truly present in, with, and under the bread and the wine; and all who believe that through the words “given and shed for you” forgiveness of sins, life, and salvation are given.  If this is your confession and you are a member of the Lutheran Church Missouri Synod, then come with a thankful heart and join us.   If you are a visitor and would like to commune, please talk with Pastor Dan before the service.  To help in preparing to receive Holy Communion open the front cover of the Burgundy hymnal or turn to pages 329 & 330.  Gluten free wafers are available, please talk with an Elder or Pastor before the service if you would appreciate them.

As We Gather  Having an assured place to be going and stay is encouraging and comforting, especially after a long hard journey.  Today we hear Jesus promise and assure His disciples and us that He will be preparing a place in His Father’s house, which has many rooms, for all who believe in and follow Him.  Stephen knew the peace and comfort of heaven which awaited his arrival.  We and all who believe in Jesus Christ as Lord, can have that same peace and comfort as we know where we are going to live for eternity after our journey through this barren waste land called earth.

Ringing of the Bell and Welcome

Invocation – In the name of the Father and of the X Son and of the Holy Spirit.    Amen

Opening Sentences – Psalm 146:1&2,5 – Praise the Lord!  Praise the Lord, O my soul!  I will praise the Lord as long as I live; I will sing praises to my God while I have my being.  Blessed is he whose help is the God of Jacob, whose hope is in the Lord his God!

Confession and Absolution – Humble yourselves then before God, confess your sins to Him, and implore His forgiveness.     All:  O almighty God, most merciful Father, I, a repentant sinner, confess to You all my sins and iniquities with which I have offended You.  By nature, I am a sinful creature.  In thought, word, and deed I have continually transgressed Your law.  For this I justly deserve Your present and eternal punishment.  For the sake of the sufferings and death of Your Son, Jesus Christ, be gracious and merciful to me, a penitent and contrite being.  Forgive me all my sins and grant me the power of Your Holy Spirit that I may amend my sinful life and bear fruit in keeping with true repentance.  As you believe, so let it be.  As a called and ordained servant of Christ and by His authority, I therefore forgive you all your sins, in the name of the Father, and of the X  Son and of the Holy Spirit.   Amen.

Hymn  “Christ the Eternal Lord”               LSB 829

Kyrie LSB 152 – In peace let us pray to the Lord.    Lord, have mercy.   For the peace from above and for our salvation let us pray to the Lord.    Lord, have mercy.    For the peace of the whole world, for the well-being of the Church of God, and for the unity of all let us pray to the Lord.  Lord, have mercy.   For this holy house and for all who offer here their worship and praise let us pray to the Lord.  Lord, have mercy.  Help, save, comfort, and defend us, gracious Lord.       Amen.

Hymn of Praise – This Is the Feast        LSB 155

Prayer of the Day – O God, You make the minds of Your faithful to be of one will.  Grant that we may love what You have commanded and desire what You promise, that among the many challenges of this world our hearts may be fixed where true joys are found; for You live and reign with the Father and the Holy Spirit, one God, now and forever.    Amen.

Psalm 146 –  Praise the Lord!  Praise the Lord, O my soul!  I will praise the Lord as long as I live; I will sing praises to my God while I have my being.     Put not your trust in princes, in a son of man, in whom there is no salvation.  Blessed is he whose help is the God of Jacob, whose hope is in the Lord his God, who made heaven and earth, the sea, and all that is in them, who keeps faith forever; who executes justice for the oppressed, who gives food to the hungry.  The Lord sets the prisoners free; the Lord opens the eyes of the blind.  The Lord lifts up those who are bowed down; the Lord loves the righteous.  The Lord will reign forever, your God, O Zion, to all generations. Praise the Lord!

New Testament Reading – Acts 6:1-9, 7:2a, 51-60 – Now in these days when the disciples were increasing in number, a complaint by the Hellenists arose against the Hebrews because their widows were being neglected in the daily distribution.  And the twelve summoned the full number of the disciples and said, “It is not right that we should give up preaching the word of God to serve tables.  Therefore, brothers, pick out from among you seven men of good repute, full of the Spirit and of wisdom, whom we will appoint to this duty.  But we will devote ourselves to prayer and to the ministry of the word.”  And what they said pleased the whole gathering, and they chose Stephen, a man full of faith and of the Holy Spirit, and Philip, and Prochorus, and Nicanor, and Timon, and Parmenas, and Nicolaus, a proselyte of Antioch.  These they set before the apostles, and they prayed and laid their hands on them.  And the word of God continued to increase, and the number of the disciples multiplied greatly in Jerusalem, and a great many of the priests became obedient to the faith.  And Stephen, full of grace and power, was doing great wonders and signs among the people.  Then some of those who belonged to the synagogue of the Freedmen (as it was called), and of the Cyrenians, and of the Alexandrians, and of those from Cilicia and Asia, rose up and disputed with Stephen.  7:1, 51-60  And Stephen said: “Brothers and fathers, hear me. . . .You stiff-necked people, uncircumcised in heart and ears, you always resist the Holy Spirit.  As your fathers did, so do you.  Which of the prophets did not your fathers persecute?  And they killed those who announced beforehand the coming of the Righteous One, whom you have now betrayed and murdered, you who received the law as delivered by angels and did not keep it.”  Now when they heard these things they were enraged, and they ground their teeth at him.  But he, full of the Holy Spirit, gazed into heaven and saw the glory of God, and Jesus standing at the right hand of God.  And he said, “Behold, I see the heavens opened, and the Son of Man standing at the right hand of God.”  But they cried out with a loud voice and stopped their ears and rushed together at him.  Then they cast him out of the city and stoned him.  And the witnesses laid down their garments at the feet of a young man named Saul.  And as they were stoning Stephen, he called out, “Lord Jesus, receive my spirit.”  And falling to his knees he cried out with a loud voice, “Lord, do not hold this sin against them.”  And when he had said this, he fell asleep.

New Testament Reading – 1 Peter 2:2-10 –  Like newborn babies, crave pure spiritual milk, so that by it you may grow up in your salvation, now that you have tasted that the Lord is good.  The Living Stone and a Chosen People.  As you come to him, the living Stone—rejected by humans but chosen by God and precious to him— you also, like living stones, are being built into a spiritual house to be a holy priesthood, offering spiritual sacrifices acceptable to God through Jesus Christ.  For in Scripture it says: “See, I lay a stone in Zion, a chosen and precious cornerstone, and the one who trusts in him will never be put to shame.”  Now to you who believe, this stone is precious.  But to those who do not believe, “The stone the builders rejected has become the cornerstone,”  and, “A stone that causes people to stumble and a rock that makes them fall.”  They stumble because they disobey the message—which is also what they were destined for.  But you are a chosen people, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, God’s special possession, that you may declare the praises of him who called you out of darkness into his wonderful light.  Once you were not a people, but now you are the people of God; once you had not received mercy, but now you have received mercy.

Verse – Alleluia. We know that Christ being raised from the dead will never die again; death no longer has dominion over him. Alleluia. If anyone loves me, he will keep my word, and my Father will love him, and we will come to him and make our home with him. Alleluia.

Holy Gospel – John 14:1-14 – The Holy Gospel according St. John the fourteenth chapter.   Glory to You, O Lord.    Jesus said: “Let not your hearts be troubled.  Believe in God; believe also in me.  In my Father’s house are many rooms. If it were not so, would I have told you that I go to prepare a place for you?  And if I go and prepare a place for you, I will come again and will take you to myself, that where I am you may be also.  And you know the way to where I am going.”  Thomas said to him, “Lord, we do not know where you are going. How can we know the way?”  Jesus said to him, “I am the way, and the truth, and the life.  No one comes to the Father except through me.  If you had known me, you would have known my Father also.  From now on you do know him and have seen him.”  Philip said to him, “Lord, show us the Father, and it is enough for us.”  Jesus said to him, “Have I been with you so long, and you still do not know me, Philip?  Whoever has seen me has seen the Father.  How can you say, ‘Show us the Father’?  Do you not believe that I am in the Father and the Father is in me?  The words that I say to you I do not speak on my own authority, but the Father who dwells in me does his works. Believe me that I am in the Father and the Father is in me, or else believe on account of the works themselves.  “Truly, truly, I say to you, whoever believes in me will also do the works that I do; and greater works than these will he do, because I am going to the Father.  Whatever you ask in my name, this I will do, that the Father may be glorified in the Son.  If you ask me anything in my name, I will do it.”  This is the Gospel of the Lord.   Praise to You, O Christ.

Nicene Creed – I believe in one God, the Father Almighty, maker of heaven and earth and of all things visible and invisible.  And in one Lord Jesus Christ, the only-begotten Son of God, begotten of His Father before all worlds, God of God, Light of Light, very God of very God, begotten, not made, being of one substance with the Father, by whom all things were made; who for us men and for our salvation came down from heaven and was incarnate by the Holy Spirit of the virgin Mary and was made man; and was crucified also for us under Pontius Pilate. He suffered and was buried. And the third day He rose again according to the Scriptures and ascended into heaven and sits at the right hand of the Father. And He will come again with glory to judge both the living and the dead, whose kingdom will have no end.  And I believe in the Holy Spirit,   the Lord and giver of life, who proceeds from the Father and the Son, who with the Father and the Son together is worshiped and glorified, who spoke by the prophets. And I believe in one holy Christian and apostolic Church, I acknowledge one Baptism for the remission of sins, and I look for the resurrection of the dead and the life X of the world to come.    Amen.

Hymn  “Built on the Rock”     LSB 645

Sermon

Prayers of the Church

*** Service of the Sacrament ***

Preface   2 Timothy 4:22 – The Lord be with you.  And also with you.  Lift up your hearts.  We lift them to the Lord.  Let us give thanks to the Lord our God.  It is right to give Him thanks and praise.

Proper Preface – It is truly good, right, and salutary that we should at all times and all places give thanks to You, Lord our God, for You have graciously blessed us through the Word incarnate, Jesus Christ, our Lord, who has come in the flesh and for our sake died on the cross and rose from the dead to put an end to death.  Rejoicing in our Baptism, which creates faith in our hearts and daily renews us, we laud and magnify Your holy name. With joy we join in the unending praise of the angels and archangels and all who rejoice in life eternal, the place prepared for them and waiting for us…..

Sanctus     LSB 161

Prayer of Thanksgiving – Blessed are You, O Lord our God, King of all creation, for You have had mercy on us and have showed Your gracious power to us through Jesus Christ, Your Son, our Lord. We give You thanks that in His most Holy Supper, You nourish us that we may grow in grace.  Grant that we receive the blessings of forgiveness, life, and salvation that come to us in His body and blood as we gather at His command.   Amen.

The Words of Our Lord – Consecration of the Elements

The Lord’s Prayer – Our Father who art in heaven, hallowed be Thy name, Thy kingdom come, Thy will be done on earth as it is in heaven; give us this day our daily bread; and forgive us our trespasses as we forgive those who trespass against us; and lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from evil. For Thine is the kingdom and the power and the glory forever and ever.       Amen.

Pax Domini – The peace of the Lord be with you always.    Amen.

Agnus Dei LSB 163

Distribution Hymns:   “The Son of God Goes Forth to War”                LSB  661

“Christ Sits at God’s Right hand”                        LSB 564

“Thine Forever, God of Love”                             LSB 687

Nunc Dimittis     LSB 165 –

Post-Communion Thanksgiving    2 Peter 3:14 –  Holy Father, we ask You now, by this blessed food and drink, to deliver Your church from every evil, to teach it to love You perfectly, and make it truly one, even as this bread was made from many grains of wheat to become the carrier of the body of our Savior Jesus Christ and the wine was drawn from the fruitfulness of many grapes.  Grant us to ever abide in the living Word, Christ Jesus Himself, who lives and reigns with You and the Holy Spirit, one God, forever and ever.  Amen.

Benediction

Hymn  “Christ Be My Leader”         LSB 861

*Announcements*

Saying Yes In Christ With Our Treasures:   Weekly Budget Needed: $3365

Giving: 4/26/2026: Envelopes = $2300             Plate = $100

Memorials: General Fund:  $25 for Robert Schultz from Dick & Nancy Basol

$25 for Robert Schultz from Neal & Kris Kohlhoff       

   What’s Happening…

ELDERs will meet on Tuesday, May 5^th at 6pm.

QUILTERS generally meet on Thursdays from 11am – 2pm. Contact Caroline Jeffers as they do not meet every week. You do not have to know how to sew as there are many non-sewing tasks to be completed. All are welcome. They will meet next on Thursday May 14^th  from 11am – 2pm.

Wish these members a Blessed and Happy Birthday 

 Aiden Kleinhaus 5/3        Anna Sterwald 5/12          Erica Tyler 5/13

Dawn Lake 5/15               Lanny Borck 5/17            Mark Buboltz 5/22

Wendy Sampson 5/24      Ralph Kohlhoff 5/27        Jim Goehl Jr 5/31

HAPPY ANNIVERSARY

5/10  Daniel & Martha Chaveriat        Jason & Lisa Jeffers        Victor & Dianne Krueger

5/17  Warren & Caroline Jeffers

Please keep the following in your Special Prayers:

Marilyn Schultz and family as Bob was given his crown of life on April 18^th.

 Janet Ortega who is recovering from a procedure.

Ross Callies who is recovering from heart surgery.

Doyle Rettschlag, who continuing cancer treatments.

Stan Buska, Marti Chaveriat’s brother who is dealing with health issues.

Karen Fredrick, as she recovers from surgery.

We keep in our prayers all in our congregation who recently had surgery, waiting for test results, and are in need of healing and comfort.

The Altar flowers were given by Chris & Serene Seufzer in memory of Trisha Seufzer.