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“Blessed is the man who trusts in the Lord,
And whose hope is the Lord.” Jeremiah 17:7
SECOND SUNDAY after TRINITY SUNDAY JUNE 14, 2026
ZION LUTHERAN CHURCH HIDEWOOD TWP, SD
TRINITY LUTHERAN CHURCH WATERTOWN, SD
ORDER for WORSHIP
Opening Prayer
P: Let the words of my mouth and the meditation of my heart be acceptable in Your sight, O Lord, my strength and my Redeemer. Amen.
Hymn 567
Invocation
P: We begin in the name of the Triune God:
C: In the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit. Amen.
Confession and Absolution
P: Our help is in the name of the Lord.
C: Who made heaven and earth.
P: I said, I will confess my transgressions unto the Lord,
C: And You forgave the iniquity of my sin.
P: Let us then confess our sins to God our Father.
C: Most merciful God, we confess that we are by nature sinful and unclean. We have sinned against You in thought, word, and deed, by what we have done and by what we have left undone. We have not loved You with our whole heart; we have not loved our neighbors as ourselves. We justly deserve Your present and eternal punishment. For the sake of Your Son, Jesus Christ, have mercy on us. Forgive us, renew us, and lead us, so that we may delight in Your will and walk in Your ways to the glory of Your holy name. Amen.
P: In the mercy of almighty God, Jesus Christ was given to die for us, and for His sake God forgives all our sins. To those who believe in Jesus Christ He gives the power to become the children of God and bestows on them the Holy Spirit. May the Lord, who has begun this good work in us, bring it to completion in the day of our Lord Jesus Christ. In the peace of forgiveness, let us praise the Lord!
C: Glory be to the Father and to the Son and to the Holy Spirit; as it was in the beginning, is now, and will be forever. Amen.
CONFESSION OF FAITH – THE APOSTLES’ CREED
ALL: I believe in God the Father almighty, Maker of heaven and earth. I believe in Jesus Christ, His only Son, our Lord; Who was conceived by the Holy Spirit, Born of the Virgin Mary; Suffered under Pontius Pilate, Was crucified, died, and was buried; He descended into hell; the third day He rose again from the dead; He ascended into heaven And is seated at the right hand of God the Father almighty; From there He will come to judge the living and the dead. I believe in the Holy Spirit; The Holy Christian Church, the communion of saints; The forgiveness of sins; The resurrection of the body; And the life everlasting. Amen.
Hymn 543
Bible readings from the life / ministry of the Prophet Elisha
1 Kings 19
15 Then the Lord said to [Elijah]: “Go, return on your way ... 16 ...And Elisha the son of Shaphat of Abel Meholah you shall anoint as prophet in your place.”
19 So he departed from there, and found Elisha the son of Shaphat, who was plowing with twelve yoke of oxen before him, and he was with the twelfth. Then Elijah passed by him and threw his mantle on him. 20 And he left the oxen and ran after Elijah, and said, “Please let me kiss my father and my mother, and then I will follow you.”
And he said to him, “Go back again, for what have I done to you?”
21 So Elisha turned back from him, and took a yoke of oxen and slaughtered them and boiled their flesh, using the oxen’s equipment, and gave it to the people, and they ate. Then he arose and followed Elijah, and became his servant.
2 Kings 4
1 A certain woman of the wives of the sons of the prophets cried out to Elisha, saying, “Your servant my husband is dead, and you know that your servant feared the Lord. And the creditor is coming to take my two sons to be his slaves.”
2 So Elisha said to her, “What shall I do for you? Tell me, what do you have in the house?” And she said, “Your maidservant has nothing in the house but a jar of oil.”
3 Then he said, “Go, borrow vessels from everywhere, from all your neighbors—empty vessels; do not gather just a few. 4 And when you have come in, you shall shut the door behind you and your sons; then pour it into all those vessels, and set aside the full ones.”
5 So she went from him and shut the door behind her and her sons, who brought the vessels to her; and she poured it out. 6 Now it came to pass, when the vessels were full, that she said to her son, “Bring me another vessel.”
And he said to her, “There is not another vessel.” So the oil ceased. 7 Then she came and told the man of God. And he said, “Go, sell the oil and pay your debt; and you and your sons live on the rest.”
Hymn 540
2 Kings 4
38 And Elisha returned to Gilgal, and there was a famine in the land. Now the sons of the prophets were sitting before him; and he said to his servant, “Put on the large pot, and boil stew for the sons of the prophets.” 39 So one went out into the field to gather herbs, and found a wild vine, and gathered from it a lapful of wild gourds, and came and sliced them into the pot of stew, though they did not know what they were. 40 Then they served it to the men to eat. Now it happened, as they were eating the stew, that they cried out and said, “Man of God, there is death in the pot!” And they could not eat it.
41 So he said, “Then bring some flour.” And he put it into the pot, and said, “Serve it to the people, that they may eat.” And there was nothing harmful in the pot.
42 Then a man came from Baal Shalisha, and brought the man of God bread of the firstfruits, twenty loaves of barley bread, and newly ripened grain in his knapsack. And he said, “Give it to the people, that they may eat.”
43 But his servant said, “What? Shall I set this before one hundred men?”
He said again, “Give it to the people, that they may eat; for thus says the Lord: ‘They shall eat and have some left over.’ ” 44 So he set it before them; and they ate and had some left over, according to the word of the Lord.
2 Kings 6
1 And the sons of the prophets said to Elisha, “See now, the place where we dwell with you is too small for us. 2 Please, let us go to the Jordan, and let every man take a beam from there, and let us make there a place where we may dwell.”
So he answered, “Go.”
3 Then one said, “Please consent to go with your servants.”
And he answered, “I will go.” 4 So he went with them. And when they came to the Jordan, they cut down trees. 5 But as one was cutting down a tree, the iron ax head fell into the water; and he cried out and said, “Alas, master! For it was borrowed.”
6 So the man of God said, “Where did it fall?” And he showed him the place. So he cut off a stick, and threw it in there; and he made the iron float. 7 Therefore he said, “Pick it up for yourself.” So he reached out his hand and took it.
Hymn 547
Bible Sermon Study – on the Prophet Elisha – celebrated on June 14
The LORD is always able to SEAH us through!
2 Kings 6
24 And it happened after this that Ben-Hadad king of Syria gathered all his army, and went up and besieged Samaria. 25 And there was a great famine in Samaria; and indeed they besieged it until a donkey’s head was sold for eighty shekels of silver, and one-fourth of a kab of dove droppings for five shekels of silver.
26 Then, as the king of Israel was passing by on the wall, a woman cried out to him, saying, “Help, my lord, O king!”
27 And he said, “If the Lord does not help you, where can I find help for you? From the threshing floor or from the winepress?” 28 Then the king said to her, “What is troubling you?”
And she answered, “This woman said to me, ‘Give your son, that we may eat him today, and we will eat my son tomorrow.’ 29 So we boiled my son, and ate him. And I said to her on the next day, ‘Give your son, that we may eat him’; but she has hidden her son.”
30 Now it happened, when the king heard the words of the woman, that he tore his clothes; and as he passed by on the wall, the people looked, and there underneath he had sackcloth on his body. 31 Then he said, “God do so to me and more also, if the head of Elisha the son of Shaphat remains on him today!”
32 But Elisha was sitting in his house, and the elders were sitting with him. And the king sent a man ahead of him, but before the messenger came to him, he said to the elders, “Do you see how this son of a murderer has sent someone to take away my head? Look, when the messenger comes, shut the door, and hold him fast at the door. Is not the sound of his master’s feet behind him?” 33 And while he was still talking with them, there was the messenger, coming down to him; and then the king said, “Surely this calamity is from the Lord; why should I wait for the Lord any longer?”
2 Kings 7
1 Then Elisha said, “Hear the word of the Lord. Thus says the Lord: ‘Tomorrow about this time a seah of fine flour shall be sold for a shekel, and two seahs of barley for a shekel, at the gate of Samaria.’ ”
2 So an officer on whose hand the king leaned answered the man of God and said, “Look, if the Lord would make windows in heaven, could this thing be?”
And he said, “In fact, you shall see it with your eyes, but you shall not eat of it.”
3 Now there were four leprous men at the entrance of the gate; and they said to one another, “Why are we sitting here until we die? 4 If we say, ‘We will enter the city,’ the famine is in the city, and we shall die there. And if we sit here, we die also. Now therefore, come, let us surrender to the army of the Syrians. If they keep us alive, we shall live; and if they kill us, we shall only die.” 5 And they rose at twilight to go to the camp of the Syrians; and when they had come to the outskirts of the Syrian camp, to their surprise no one was there. 6 For the Lord had caused the army of the Syrians to hear the noise of chariots and the noise of horses—the noise of a great army; so they said to one another, “Look, the king of Israel has hired against us the kings of the Hittites and the kings of the Egyptians to attack us!” 7 Therefore they arose and fled at twilight, and left the camp intact—their tents, their horses, and their donkeys—and they fled for their lives. 8 And when these lepers came to the outskirts of the camp, they went into one tent and ate and drank, and carried from it silver and gold and clothing, and went and hid them; then they came back and entered another tent, and carried some from there also, and went and hid it.
9 Then they said to one another, “We are not doing right. This day is a day of good news, and we remain silent. If we wait until morning light, some punishment will come upon us. Now therefore, come, let us go and tell the king’s household.” 10 So they went and called to the gatekeepers of the city, and told them, saying, “We went to the Syrian camp, and surprisingly no one was there, not a human sound—only horses and donkeys tied, and the tents intact.” 11 And the gatekeepers called out, and they told it to the king’s household inside.
12 So the king arose in the night and said to his servants, “Let me now tell you what the Syrians have done to us. They know that we are hungry; therefore they have gone out of the camp to hide themselves in the field, saying, ‘When they come out of the city, we shall catch them alive, and get into the city.’ ”
13 And one of his servants answered and said, “Please, let several men take five of the remaining horses which are left in the city. Look, they may either become like all the multitude of Israel that are left in it; or indeed, I say, they may become like all the multitude of Israel left from those who are consumed; so let us send them and see.” 14 Therefore they took two chariots with horses; and the king sent them in the direction of the Syrian army, saying, “Go and see.” 15 And they went after them to the Jordan; and indeed all the road was full of garments and weapons which the Syrians had thrown away in their haste. So the messengers returned and told the king. 16 Then the people went out and plundered the tents of the Syrians. So a seah of fine flour was sold for a shekel, and two seahs of barley for a shekel, according to the word of the Lord.
17 Now the king had appointed the officer on whose hand he leaned to have charge of the gate. But the people trampled him in the gate, and he died, just as the man of God had said, who spoke when the king came down to him. 18 So it happened just as the man of God had spoken to the king, saying, “Two seahs of barley for a shekel, and a seah of fine flour for a shekel, shall be sold tomorrow about this time in the gate of Samaria.”
19 Then that officer had answered the man of God, and said, “Now look, if the Lord would make windows in heaven, could such a thing be?”
And he had said, “In fact, you shall see it with your eyes, but you shall not eat of it.” 20 And so it happened to him, for the people trampled him in the gate, and he died.
Hymn 555, page 14
Offering is collected / brought forward
Prayer led by the pastor
P: Author of every good and perfect gift, You pour out blessings on our lives in great abundance and provide so lavishly for all our needs. You have prepared a feast to satisfy our needs and fill our souls. Yet so often we disdain Your goodness. We find excuses to be absent when Your gifts and grace are offered.
O gracious God, forgive us for our coldness and ingratitude. You have good reason to forsake us in favor of those who prize Your kindnesses. Forgive us for all our sins, for carelessness and misplaced priorities, for disregard and disuse of Your Word and Sacraments, and for our vain pride before You who are our host and Lord.
Into Your warm embrace we place the ones who need You most. In our fellowship especially are those overseas, who seek the reassurance of Your tenderness. Many have not yet heard Your invitation to come to You for lavish and loving gifts. Call them, also. Guide us all; sustain us and above all make us truly grateful. Hear us for Jesus’ sake. Amen.
(Any special requests there may be will be offered here.)
P: And we join to pray the words Jesus taught us:
ALL: 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.
P: The service is ended,
C: but our life in Jesus Christ goes on.
P: We go now, in His name, into all the world.
C: Let our light so shine and our joy be so obvious, that all who see us will come to praise God!
P: Amen!
C: Amen!
The Apostolic Benediction
P: The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ, the love of God, and the fellowship of the Holy Spirit, be with you all! Amen.
Hymn 577
Zion Lutheran Church Hidewood Township, SD – 8:30 a.m.
Trinity Lutheran Church Watertown, SD – 10:30 a.m.
trinitywatertownsd.com
Members: Church of the Lutheran Confession www.clclutheran.org
Pastor Paul Krause. . . parsonpaulkrause@gmail.com cell:920-238-5775
Teacher Mikkela Schmitt . . . . . . . .cell: 715-933-1502
Church and School: 605-886-2976
Organists: John Klatt, Rebecca Larson, Naomi Rehder
STATISTICS
6/7 – Zion: 18; Trinity: 46; Zion VBS: 12 students
CALENDAR and ANNOUNCEMENTS
THIS WEEK >> CLC Youth Camp
TODAY >> Zion – 8:30 a.m. service
>> Trinity outdoor service/picnic at Memorial Park – 10:30 a.m.
NEXT SUNDAY >> Zion – 8:30 a.m. service; Trinity – 10:30 a.m.
>> Retired Pastor/Missionary Dave Koenig – guest speaker
UPCOMING SCHEDULE
6/25-28 CLC Delegate Convention – ILC – Eau Claire, WI
7/5 Sun Special 250th United States’ anniversary service
7/11 Sat next Des Moines service planned – P. Krause speaks
7/14 Tue Trinity School Board meeting – 7 p.m.
7/17 Fri Trinity church council meeting – 7 p.m.
7/18 Sat Manny Mertz graduation celebration – see details below
7/19 Sun Trinity – quarterly voters’ & Ladies’ Aid meetings – 1 p.m.
– potluck meal after church
MANY THANKS!
>> Thanks to all those who participated in and helped with Zion’s VBS at Oakwood Lakes State Park this past week!
>> Do you have something you are thankful for at Zion/Trinity? Let Pastor Krause know, and he will be happy to include it in the bulletin!
CONTINUING TRINITY VBS Stay tuned for future VBS days this summer! Interested in helping out? Please see Pastor Krause!
KANZENBACH MOVING / ARRIVAL! As Pastor Richard Kanzenbach has retired, he and his wife are moving to Watertown! Their moving dates are set for June 22-24. Two (maybe three) of their three boys will be on hand to help unload. More help would be welcome, too. Their new address: 1812 3rd Avenue NE.
MANNY MERTZ GRADUATION CELEBRATION will be held on Saturday, July 18, 4-7 p.m. at the Chris/Stacey Mertz home in Sioux Falls.
CONVENTION TEA Ladies, Mark Your Calendars! You are cordially invited to: Convention Tea on Thursday - June 25, 2026 at 1:00-3:00 pm, at the Historic Ingram Hall on the campus of Immanuel Lutheran College. We hope that those who are in town for the CLC Convention or within driving distance will make time for this special opportunity to walk through the halls of the estate on Immanuel’s campus and gather in fellowship with other sisters in Christ. Your hostesses, led by Lynette Roehl, will provide tours and support to all who attend.
HARVEST FESTIVAL Pastor Tim Daub writes... Prince of Peace Lutheran Church of Hecla, SD, welcomes you to our annual Harvest Festival: 4 pm, Sunday, Aug. 9. Our outdoor service of first-fruits thanksgiving with smoked meat dinner returns to what most might remember as Marvin and Gwen's red barn and garden, now the home of Cody and Shelby (Schwab) Wolters: 40055 100th St., Hecla, SD 57446. Guests are welcome to bring a side dish or dessert. For more information, contact pastor_daub@hotmail.com or (605) 994-2145.
CLC UPDATES that can be found online –
>> to keep up on our CLC missionaries, and to learn more of our overseas brethren, go to lutheranmissions.org. Scroll down and click on the photos of the missionaries to access their blog, photos, video, etc.
CLC NEWS
Current pastoral vacancies:
Mapleton, ND/Ponsford, MN; Detroit, MI; Red Wing, MN; Appleton, WI; Eau Claire, WI; Spokane, WA; Phoenix, AZ; Lemmon, SD; Austin, MN
Undecided calls:
Pastor Nathan Pfeiffer, Inver Grove Heights, MN, to Detroit, MI
Marie Muehlenhaupt, one year call to teach at Markesan, WI
Rebecca Lillo, (teach and) serve as principal at Markesan, WI
Pastor Mike Roehl, Bismarck, ND, to Messiah, Eau Claire, WI
Steve Sydow, to pastor at Appleton, WI
Pastor Johnathan Schnose, Morris, MN, to Mapleton, ND/Ponsford, MN
Pastor Johnathan Schnose, Morris, MN, to Lemmon, SD
Lori Ruthenbeck, part-time one-year teacher to Okabena, MN
Lydia Buck, part-time one-year teacher to Okabena, MN
Returned call:
Pastor Paul Agenten, Iron River / Marquette, MI, to Phoenix, AZ
Retirement:
Pastor Richard Kanzenbach, Lemmon, SD, effective June 21.