United Trinity Parish – LeRoy and Humeston, Iowa
"Through the Seasons"
Sunday Worship
4th Sunday in Lent
LeRoy
9:00AM
Sunday School for all follows worship.
Humeston CUM Church Worship
10:30AM
Children's Church is during worship.
Come to LeRoy.
Come to Humeston.
Come to both. 🤗
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March 15 Bulletins
Women at the Well Information
Dear Friends,
Above is a link to the bulletin and insert for this Sunday, March 15. Now that we are well into the season of Lent, the calendar is filling up with special services and events.
One of those events that is not directly affiliated with the parish is the Mormon Trail Pool Community Theater production of "WCKY" this Friday and Saturday, March 13 & 14. This play is set in 1939 at the grand opening of a new live radio station. Do things go wrong on the first broadcast? You better believe they do! Friday beginning at 6:30p.m., a sandwich supper will be served and snacks too. Saturday at 6:30 will be the beginning of the annual buffet supper. The play will begin both nights at 7:30, and there will be silent auction items both nights. Mark your calendars and come support the all local cast and our local swimming pool.
Thanks and God Bless!
Barbara Hewitt, Admin. Asst.
March 8, 2026
"Here's Mud in Your Eye"
by Pastor Diane Olson-Schroeder
John 9: 1-9, 15-17, 24-27, 34-38
(You might want to read John 9: 1-41.)
John 9: 1-4 (This event happened on the Sabbath.)
As he went along, he saw a man blind from birth. His disciples asked him, “Rabbi, who sinned, this man or his parents, that he was born blind?”
“Neither this man nor his parents sinned,” said Jesus, “but this happened so that the works of God might be displayed in him. As long as it is day, we must do the works of him who sent me. . . . “
John 9: 6-7
After saying this, he (Jesus) spit on the ground, made some mud with the saliva, and put it on the man’s eyes. “Go,” he told him, “wash in the Pool of Siloam.” So the man went and washed, and came home seeing.
John 9: 16
Some of the Pharisees said, "This man (Jesus) is not from God, for he does not keep the Sabbath."
TRAGEDY IS NOT PUNISHMENT.
SOMETIMES IT IS WHAT HEALS OUR BLINDNESS.
Open your eyes.
What do you see?
What motivates you to do good?
Like the Pharisees, is it self-interest?
Are you blinded by concern for rewards you might receive?
Or, are your good deeds lighting the world
out of respect, devotion, and love for God?
Psalm 139: 7-12 (Think about this.)
Where can I go from your Spirit?
Where can I flee from your presence?
If I go up to the heavens, you are there;
if I make my bed in the depths, you are there.
If I rise on the wings of the dawn,
if I settle on the far side of the sea,
even there your hand will guide me,
your right hand will hold me fast.
If I say, "Surely the darkness will hide me
and the light will become night around me,"
even the darkness will not be dark to you;
the night will shine like the day,
for darkness is as light to you.
The blind can see when Light enters the heart.
". . . .the night will shine like the day . . . ."
Accept His light. Be freed from darkness.
BELIEVE THAT HE IS THERE FOR YOU
IN THE HIGHS AND IN THE LOWS.
USE GOD'S LIGHT TO DO GOD'S WORK–
TO SEE THROUGH THE DARKNESS.
YOUR HEART WILL BE GLAD!
(See the lyrics to P. P. Bliss's 1875 hymn, "The Light of the World Is Jesus",
https://hymnary.org/text/the_whole_world_was_lost_in_the_darkness)
WE ARE NOT ALL THE SAME.
BUT, UNITED (FOLLOWING JESUS),
WE ARE THE POWER OF GOD.
Call to Worship:
Wake up, sleepy heads.
It's too early. The light is too bright!
Time to see Christ's light is shining! Open your eyes.
But a few more minutes would be great this morning. Why so bright!
Christ is the light of the world.
Does that make us children of the light?
You know it does. So, open your eyes! Worship Jesus, the Lord of light.
We worship the Light of the World!