ST. PETER LUTHERAN CHURCH (AFLC)
Rural Armour
Pastor: Kevin Czymbor
Organist / Violinist: Janett Uttecht, Steve Bamberg,
Renee Engelland, Hannah Lau, Becky Fechner
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17th Sunday after Pentecost September 20, 2026
Mission Festival
Welcome & Announcements
*Call to Worship: Psalm 27:1-9 (pg. 543)
*Opening Prayer …………………………………………….. pg. 2
THE OPENING HYMN —————————————— # 154
“Jesus Shall Reign Where’er the Sun”
*Confession of Sins ……………….……………….…… pg. 48 #3
*Kyrie …………………………………………………….…. pg. 3
*Declaration of Grace …………………………………..…… pg. 3
HYMN ——————-“Beautiful Savior”——————— # 177
Scripture Lessons: 1st Reading: Isaiah 55:6-9 (pg. 731)
2nd Reading: Philippians 1:12-14, 19-30 (pg. 1164)
*The Gospel: Matthew 20:1-16 (pg. 980)
*Response to the Gospel …………………………………..… pg. 3
*Confession of Faith – The Apostles’ Creed .………………… pg. 4
*Gloria Patri …………………………………………………. pg. 4
Special Music
The Offering
*Response: “Create in Me A Clean Heart O God” ……..….. pg. 17
*Prayers of the Church
HYMN ————————————————————— # 535
“I’d Rather Have Jesus”
Sermon: Jon Nelson – AFLC Journey Missions – Matt. 28:16-20
THE CLOSING HYMN ——————————————- # 156
“One Day!”
*The Lord’s Prayer ………………………………………….. pg. 5
*The Benediction ………………………………..…………… pg. 5
*Three-fold Amen ……………………………………………. pg. 5
THE DOXOLOGY ………………………………………….. # 390
Organ Postlude
(* Indicates where congregation should stand if possible)
WE WELCOME EVERYONE to our Mission Festival this morning, especially those who are visiting our church. May we be a blessing to each other as we join together as God’s Family to worship our Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ. We invite everyone to stay for the meal and fellowship following the service, and we look forward to seeing you again at St. Peter in the near future.
Announcements
Monthly hymn #154: “Jesus Shall Reign Where’er the Sun”
Memory verse: Exodus 20:1-3 “And God spoke all these words, saying, I am the Lord your God, Who brought you out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of slavery. You shall have no other gods before Me.”
Our speaker today is Jon Nelson, director AFLC Journey Missions. Journey Missions is a Department of AFLC World Missions centered on connecting Christians across the globe in the ministry of Jesus Christ. Journey Missions exists to give people opportunities to visit our AFLC Mission Fields. aflcworldmissions.org/journey-missions/
Mission Festival Offering: All undesignated offering will go to Journey Missions which is a part of the AFLC World Missions. Please make checks out to St. Peter Lutheran Church.
Muffin Sunday for September is canceled. Next Muffin Sunday will be Oct. 18th, Ladies K – V.
This week’s activities:
26th – Sat. – WMF Fall Rally in Tripp
27th – Sun. – Worship service, 9:00 am, Acts 20
– Sunday School, 10:00 am
~ Anniversary Committee to meet following service
CHURCH CLEANING: Sept 21-27 Courtney Sorenson & Hannah Lau
Usher’s for Sunday, Sept. 27: Max Hartmann & Rance Rankin
*Call to Worship: Psalm 27:1-9
27 The Lord is my light and my salvation;
whom shall I fear?
The Lord is the strongholdof my life;
of whom shall I be afraid?
2 When evildoers assail me
to eat up my flesh,
my adversaries and foes,
it is they who stumble and fall.
3 Though an army encamp against me,
my heart shall not fear;
though war arise against me,
yet I will be confident.
4 One thing have I asked of the Lord,
that will I seek after:
that I may dwell in the house of the Lordall the days of my life,
to gaze upon the beauty of the Lordand to inquirein his temple.
5 For he will hide me in his shelter
in the day of trouble;
he will conceal me under the cover of his tent;
he will lift me high upon a rock.
6 And now my head shall be lifted up
above my enemies all around me,
and I will offer in his tent
sacrifices with shouts of joy;
I will sing and make melody to the Lord.
7 Hear, O Lord, when I cry aloud;
be gracious to me and answer me!
8 You have said, “Seek my face.”
My heart says to you,
“Your face, Lord, do I seek.”
9 Hide not your face from me.
Turn not your servant away in anger,
O you who have been my help.
Cast me not off; forsake me not,
O God of my salvation!
6 “Seek the Lord while he may be found;
call upon him while he is near;
7 let the wicked forsake his way,
and the unrighteous man his thoughts;
let him return to the Lord, that he may have compassion on him,
and to our God, for he will abundantly pardon.
8 For my thoughts are not your thoughts,
neither are your ways my ways, declares the Lord.
9 For as the heavens are higher than the earth,
so are my ways higher than your ways
and my thoughts than your thoughts.
2nd Reading: Philippians 1:12-14, 19-30
12 I want you to know, brothers, that what has happened to me has really served to advance the gospel, 13 so that it has become known throughout the whole imperial guard and to all the rest that my imprisonment is for Christ. 14 And most of the brothers, having become confident in the Lord by my imprisonment, are much more bold to speak the word without fear.
19 for I know that through your prayers and the help of the Spirit of Jesus Christ this will turn out for my deliverance, 20 as it is my eager expectation and hope that I will not be at all ashamed, but that with full courage now as always Christ will be honored in my body, whether by life or by death. 21 For to me to live is Christ, and to die is gain. 22 If I am to live in the flesh, that means fruitful labor for me. Yet which I shall choose I cannot tell. 23 I am hard pressed between the two. My desire is to depart and be with Christ, for that is far better. 24 But to remain in the flesh is more necessary on your account. 25 Convinced of this, I know that I will remain and continue with you all, for your progress and joy in the faith, 26 so that in me you may have ample cause to glory in Christ Jesus, because of my coming to you again.
27 Only let your manner of life be worthy of the gospel of Christ, so that whether I come and see you or am absent, I may hear of you that you are standing firm in one spirit, with one mind striving side by side for the faith of the gospel, 28 and not frightened in anything by your opponents. This is a clear sign to them of their destruction, but of your salvation, and that from God. 29 For it has been granted to you that for the sake of Christ you should not only believe in him but also suffer for his sake, 30 engaged in the same conflict that you saw I had and now hear that I still have.
*The Gospel: Matthew 20:1-16
20 “For the kingdom of heaven is like a master of a house who went out early in the morning to hire laborers for his vineyard. 2 After agreeing with the laborers for a denarius a day, he sent them into his vineyard. 3 And going out about the third hour he saw others standing idle in the marketplace, 4 and to them he said, ‘You go into the vineyard too, and whatever is right I will give you.’ 5 So they went. Going out again about the sixth hour and the ninth hour, he did the same. 6 And about the eleventh hour he went out and found others standing. And he said to them, ‘Why do you stand here idle all day?’ 7 They said to him, ‘Because no one has hired us.’ He said to them, ‘You go into the vineyard too.’ 8 And when evening came, the owner of the vineyard said to his foreman, ‘Call the laborers and pay them their wages, beginning with the last, up to the first.’ 9 And when those hired about the eleventh hour came, each of them received a denarius. 10 Now when those hired first came, they thought they would receive more, but each of them also received a denarius. 11 And on receiving it they grumbled at the master of the house, 12 saying, ‘These last worked only one hour, and you have made them equal to us who have borne the burden of the day and the scorching heat.’ 13 But he replied to one of them, ‘Friend, I am doing you no wrong. Did you not agree with me for a denarius? 14 Take what belongs to you and go. I choose to give to this last worker as I give to you. 15 Am I not allowed to do what I choose with what belongs to me? Or do you begrudge my generosity?’ 16 So the last will be first, and the first last.