January 27

Welcome.

We are glad that you have come.  May you be blessed by your time with us. 

News:  The new calendar year is already almost 1/12 past and much continues to happen at Lamb of God and in our lives.   The church year is 1/6 past and as we measure time by what God is doing, we are immeasurably enriched.   The new people among us bring us to look again at how faith transforms lives and to see the Spirit move like the wind,  we know not whither it comes or whither it goes.   Having children in church every Sunday is truly a marvel and we give God thanks for sending them to us.  We are discussing the need for a Sunday School so that little ones and those who care for them can all learn who Jesus is and the whole story of salvation and what it means for us.   The highlights of the past few months include our caroling with members of other churches and the community on December 16,  a little Christmas Eve celebration on December 23 with music and dinner,  Epiphany and dinner on January 6, and all that the quilting days have brought us with new people joining us at different times and so many quilts completed now, the most we have ever done and we still have a lot of time before the Spring Ingathering.   There are 25 quilts gracing our sanctuary now.   The pictures above include Reformation Sunday and Chrismas and Epiphany.  The Creche on the altar was not completed until the wise men arrived from their travels around the church,  Epiphany being the day on which we observe their arrival.  The holy family and the shepherds were in place on the 23rd,  but the baby had to wait until Christmas had come.   We enjoyed moving the little wooden figures forward during Advent and 
not only the children but the adults joined in the journey to get them to the stable.  The creche is made of wood, especially designed to be safe for small hands to hold and to move and thus to have the story take life among us.    

We have new neighbors living in the trailer park next to us.  A family has moved in and we now have two sisters in high school catching the bus in front of the church.  We were happy to be able to give them boots to make it through the deep and sometimes wet snow in something more cold and water resistant than tennis shoes or house slippers which had been their previous footwear.    


 
Schedule 

January 29  10:00 Lutheran World Relief Quilting. Other quilting dates to be announced.  

February 3   10:30 Worship with Althea Sondahl 
                      Lunch following

February 10   10:30 Worship with Althea Sondahl 
                       Lunch following 

February 13  Ash Wednesday 
 

February 17  1st Sunday in Lent  10:30 Worship with Althea Sondahl   
                                                         Lunch following 

February 24  2nd Sunday in Lent  10:30 Worship with Althea Sondahl 
                                                          Lunch following 


Reflections:  Epiphany, January 6th, is a church observance that pre-dates Christmas.  Starting in the East, this day was chosen to celebrate both the birth and baptism of Christ.   Later on in Rome, after Christianity became the religion of the Empire,  Christmas was created to replace the pagan festival celebrated around the solstice relating to the sun god. Thus the birth of Christ came to observed on December 25th rather than with his baptism in January.   Then, in western Christianity,  the 6th of January came to be the date associated with the arrival of the magi to Bethlehem and the texts used for that day are now that story from Matthew.  The Baptism of Christ is now observed on the Sunday after the Epiphany, though the Eastern church still observes the baptism of Christ on Epiphany itself.  This year  the principal festival of Epiphany fell on a Sunday and so at Lamb of God we were able to rejoice in the tradition of the wisemen and the star.   In parts of the Lutheran church the Epiphany signals a time to focus on the mission of the church in evangelizing the world,  since Christ was revealed to the non-Jewish world as symbolized by the wise men from the east.   The Sundays after Epiphany have texts showing how Christ is made known.   At Lamb of God we are trying to revive that Lutheran tradition and make our mission of sharing the Gospel more clear as we reach out to those who are seeking Christ in their lives, not from foreign lands but from our neighborhood.      





    

November 30 St. Andrew's Day

  Welcome.

We are glad that you have come.  May you be blessed by your time with us. 

News: The Lutheran World Relief Quilting for November was highly productive and each time 
brought us  together in the faith we share.  The hymn "Blest be the Tie that Binds" comes to mind as we visit and sing and pray when we gather and where."we share our mutual woes,  our mutual burdens bear,  and often for each other flows, the sympathizing tear."  This month a phone call came during our quilting time that a sister was entering into emergency surgery for brain aneurysms and the outcome was very unsure.  So everything stopped, for tears and prayers.  Our dear Food Bank friends joined us in this to our great encouragement and blessing.  Also this month another one of our quilters who had not been with us due to surgery was able to visit and work with us for awhile, again to our great encouragement and blessing.   Our Canadian sister in Christ was with us for two Sundays and one Quilting Day,  and much good was accomplished in that time. The light bulbs in the kitchen got changed while she was here with the industry and the height to do it,  the best bran muffins along with other generous dishes were served, more quilts were speedily finished,  new material was given and much love and gratitude were squeezed into that visit.  The support from Canada is a wonder to behold.  Thank you, thank you, thank you.  Another special things that has happened is that during our prayer time with some of our new quilters we learned of musical talents and we were sung to, with much feeling, both then and on a Sunday morning, with a solo of Amazing Grace. There are 11 very beautiful quilts now done.  The process is helped along by those who bring tops and bottoms all ready to be tied, and also by those who donate batting. The materials we need continue to be provided so generously that it is hard to comprehend the giving that flows to and through us.  The quilting days have been moved around during November to accommodate various needs.  Hopefully in December we will be able to meet on Wednesdays and have our Advent Prayer Service midweek also.  It has been wonderful to watch our group grow, to see so many quilts come together and to also know that we come together for those who need help most.   Please visit the Lutheran World Relief website at lwr.org
to learn more about their work and in which we share. 

 Another thing that is happening on Wednesdays is that the piano at the church is serving in a new ministry,  as the instrument for making a little girl into a pianist.  She wrote a note on Sunday, "Playing piano is good.  I am good."  Highly motivated and inspired by  the sheer desire to learn to play,  this little girl has turned down a road of wonders and taken obliging adults with her. On Wednesday she had her second lesson,  this time with the newly purchased book "Teaching Little Fingers to Play"  which was recommended by the venerable instructor and classical pianist in our congregation.   The book taught the seven year old a song; "Stepping up, Stepping down, Now a Skip".   If you come to church I am sure she will be happy to play it for you and you can learn the delightful little tune and sing along.  

The little girls who are worshiping with us have created many memorable moments.  Last Sunday two of them shared in putting out the candles,  beautifully each taking one in turn and bowing before the altar as they have been taught.  So we become endeared to one another by seeing others learn and share our faith.  We do hope that their mother is not getting lonely during church as the girls sit with other adults of their choice.  "I want to sit with             !" was heard across the room last Sunday morning and "May I call you 'Grandma'? has reached other ears in a whisper.  

  
Reflections: Today being the feast of St Andrew, we remember this disciple as one of the first to follow Jesus.  The color of the day is red, recognizing St.  Andrew's death as a martyr, inspired by the Holy Spirit to give his life for his Lord.  The feast days of the saints are usually observed on the date associated with their death, as these days are, as the ancient church taught,  their true "birth days" into life everlasting.  The Prayer of the Day for festival is; "Almighty God, as the apostle Andrew readily obeyed the call of Christ and followed  him without delay, grant that we, called by your holy Word, may in glad obedience offer ourselves to your service; through your Son, Jesus Christ our Lord, who lives and reigns with you and the Holy Spirit, one God, now and forever. Amen."  The hymn in the Daily Office is "Jesus Calls Us" with its lines about Saint Andrew.  The texts are Ezekiel 3:16-21, Psalm 19:1-6, Romans 10:10-18 and John 1:35-42.   

Advent is set to begin on the closest  Sunday to St. Andrew's Day,  which is also always four Sundays before Christmas.  The color for Advent is blue.  This is a change in the tradition for many of us who lived through royal purple Advents most of our lives, but blue was chosen as the liturgical color of  hope and it has been assigned to the season for many years now.  Advent originated as a time of preparation for Baptism on January 6.   This  year at Lamb of God we are hoping to focus the preaching on beginning a new life in Christ during Advent and thus return in some ways to the more ancient tradition of the season.  Advent also begins the new church year. 
The word "advent" is a latin word and it connotes "coming". In Advent time the Sunday texts focus on God's coming, at the final judgement and also his coming into our world in our flesh and  his coming now,  into our hearts.  

 May it be so,  that God comes to you in this season even as you hear the Word;  " Watch!" 
   
Schedule 



December 2 1st Sunday in Advent  10:30 Worship  with Steve Egland.  Lunch Follows. 
                     We light the first candle for hope. 
December 5  10:00 Lutheran World Relief Quilting
                        3:00 Advent Prayer Service
December 9 2nd Sunday in Advent 10:30  Worship with Althea Sondahl.   Lunch Follows  
                       We light the second candle for peace.
December 12 10:00 Lutheran World Relief Quilting
                       3:00 Advent Prayer Service 
December 16 3rd  Sunday in Advent 10:30 Worship with Steve Egland 
                       We light the third candle for joy.  Pink is the liturgical color for joy.  
                        Possible Christmas Caroling Date 
December 19 10:00 Lutheran World Relief Quilting
December 23  4th Sunday in Advent 10:30 Worship with Althea Sondahl 
                        We light the 4th candle for love.  
                        Possible Guitar Concert with Kenyon and Brad 
                        4:00 Tentative Little Little Christmas Eve Service
                         Dinner Following?
December 30   1st Sunday after Christmas 10:30 Worship with Steve Egland


    

August 30

These glorious days of summer make thankfulness rise like cream in the old fashioned whole milk jars.  We have so much for which to be grateful.  Here is a brief overview:

Dorry Pierce has made hats to be sold to support the ministry of the Food Bank or Lutheran World Relief.  Look for Dorry's hats in the social area of the church and buy one for $5.00 and you will keep more than one person warm in body and soul more ways than one!  Thank you Dorry for giving these hats to help!

The Baskets for Lutheran World Relief overflowed!  The things have been sorted out for school and care kits and there is room for more.  We are very close to having enough of everything for 9 school kits but not so many care kits.  Please keep bringing items through September 23rd.  THERE IS ROOM IN THE BASKETS AGAIN!  Here are the lists again of the items needed:

NOTEBOOKS OF COLLEGE RULE PAPER WITH EXACTLY 70 PAGES

12 INCH RULERS

NEW #2 PENCILS WITH ERASERS

NEW BALLPOINT PENS

 2 and 1/2 inch ERASERS 

BLUNT SCISSORS  

CRAYONS (BOXES OF 16 OR 24)

Supplies for Personal Care Kits

LIGHT OR MEDIUM WEIGHT BATH TOWELS (dark colors)

BATH SIZE SOAP BARS (4 to 5 oz in original packing)

STURDY COMBS

METAL NAIL CLIPPERS WITH FILE ATTACHED

 

The Lutheran World Relief Quilting gathering on Wednesday the 29th got us going again for sure!  There were seven of us there, a good holy number,  and much was gained in our time together.   We will be quilting again weekly and will  meet this Wednesday, September 5.  We have one quilt almost completed and another ready to assemble, with two finished tops ready also.   Thank you to those who have been working at home as well as at church to provide quilt tops.  What gorgeous work we are seeing!  

 

While the quilters were at church we had visitors sent to us by the school.  We were able to provide some school supplies for three little girls who will be arriving this week and who need to be outfitted for school.  More supplies will be brought on Sunday.  The Food Bank is providing some clothing and we have the sizes of the children for clothes and shoes if anyone else would like to donate.  They are coming from the south by bus and have no warm clothing and will arrive with just two sets of clothes apiece.  We are excited to meet them and happy to be able to help.  

We also were able this past week to help some other members of our community who called us in need of help and the Food Bank was offered their generous assistance as always.  What a great asset we have in our Food Bank.  

 

We begin to have to bid "Godspeed" to our summer residents as Labor Day week end brings their summer stay near to the end.  God has blessed us through the presence of each person who has worshiped with us at the lake.  So many gifts of the Spirit flow richly in our time together.  May those of you who are preparing to leave know that our prayers go with you and that we are so grateful that you have been here! God bless! 

 

Last of all the garden is shining with reddening tomatoes,  surely the dahlias will bloom soon,  and I saw ripe raspberries on the bushes (why weren't they eaten?????)  Our first harvest continues!!     

 

As the liturgy puts it  "it is truly meet, right and salutary that we should at all times and in all places give thanks."  What a perfect time and place this is to do just that! 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

August 7 Update

The Annual meeting is set for August 19th after church.  We will have a potluck with turkey.  If you can bring a side dish that is great but if not please come anyway, there will be plenty of food.  

A possible date for a council meeting is August 13th. 

Please pray for Ev and Doug at the death of their grandson.  
Please pray for Lolly following her surgery.

July 29

A little bit of an update from Lamb of God:

The lawn was mowed on Saturday.  It looks great.  Thank you to the mower. 

The garden was watered and weeded and a little more manure (two buckets) made it over from the Bradbury's pasture.  One bucket for the green beans,  one bucket for the dahlias.  There are raspberries getting ripe. 

God is good.

  

July 26

July 26

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 News: We are gathering things again for Lutheran World Relief.  Here are the lists!  Please bring any of these items to church and put in the baskets.  We will ship them to LWR the end of September.  For more information on LWR use this link.  lwr.org

Supplies for School Kits

NOTEBOOKS OF COLLEGE RULE PAPER WITH 70 PAGES

12 INCH RULERS

NEW #2 PENCILS WITH ERASERS

NEW BALLPOINT PENS

ERASERS

CRAYONS (BOXES OF 16 OR 24)

Supplies for Personal Care Kits

LIGHT OR MEDIUM WEIGHT BATH TOWELS (dark colors)

BATH SIZE SOAP BARS (4 to 5 oz in original packing)

STURDY COMBS

METAL NAIL CLIPPERS WITH FILE ATTACHED

 

Schedule at Lamb of God

Friday/Saturday July 27 and 28th Worship Music Seminar  at  Priest Lake Community Church
                            Althea Sondahl and Joyce Baker attending.  

 Sunday July 29   Coffee and Bible Class at 9:30 
                             Worship at 10:30   Steve Egland

Sunday August 5  Coffee and Bible Class at 9:30 
                         Worship at 10:30  Althea Sondahl 
                         Bonnie Mohr plays harp.  Bonnie plays at Entre' Gallery later in the day.      

Sunday August 12   Coffee and Bible Class at 9:30
                                Worship at 10:30   Steve Egland 

Sunday  August 19  Coffee and Bible Class at 9:30 Lu and Gehrig Loree leading on topic of prayer.
                                 Worship at 10:30  Althea Sondahl 

Sunday August 26  Coffee and Bible Class at 9:30 
                                Worship at 10:30 Steve Egland   

July 15

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News:  Bonnie Mohr will provide music for worship on August 5.  Bonnie is a concert harpist and it is privilege to hear her and an honor that she plays at Lamb of God.   She will also be playing at the Entre' Gallery on Reeder Bay Road the afternoon of the 5th. 

Gail Schuster is recovering well at home in  Spokane from her surgery.   Hopefully Gary and Gail will be able to worship with us again later this summer.   

The Memorial Service for Mike Toutonghi was yesterday.  Thank you to everyone who made such special and wonderful efforts to bless this time together and Mike's memory.   Thank you to Mary and her family and her neighbors for warm hospitality and great food at the luau.   

The garden is growing even though it is hard to believe it can survive in the sand! The big green tomatoes look promising. Thank you Jim for bringing us the tomato plants from Second Harvest Thank you Marcia for watching over  and watering the garden.  If anyone wants to weed there is plenty of opportunity!  Beware the 'no see um flies' though and the mosquitoes.  Come prepared to protect yourself!   We are also welcome to all the manure we can haul from across Highway 57.  Any additions to our soil will HELP the garden HUGELY!   Talk to Althea if you have questions.   208-691-0533.   

The Annual Meeting is coming up in August!   

In September we will have our second annual croquet game after church.  

In September or October Tim Franey will preach for us again.   

We once again invite you to share in Lutheran World Relief ministries this summer.   The items listed below are needed for refugees and impoverished people and children around the world.  There will be baskets at church for your offerings.   The school kit supplies goes in small backpacks that we make.  If you would like to help sew please contact Joyce Baker at 509-294-0404.   We will also soon be scheduling days to put together comforter quilts which are  shipped out to places of need through Lutheran World Relief.   The Lutheran  World Relief Ingathering for all these items will be the end of September or early October in Spokane.   We are also in conversation about joining in Fair Trade for our coffee at Lamb of God.   We hope that you will  hear and join the conversation!     

Supplies for School Kits

NOTEBOOKS OF COLLEGE RULE PAPER WITH 70 PAGES

12 INCH RULERS

NEW #2 PENCILS WITH ERASERS

NEW BALLPOINT PENS

ERASERS

CRAYONS (BOXES OF 16 OR 24)

Supplies for Personal Care Kits

LIGHT OR MEDIUM WEIGHT BATH TOWELS (dark colors)

BATH SIZE SOAP BARS (4 to 5 oz in original packing)

STURDY COMBS

METAL NAIL CLIPPERS WITH FILE ATTACHED

 

Schedule at Lamb of God   

Sunday July 22  Coffee and Bible Class at 9:30  
                             Worship at 10:30  Althea Sondahl  
 Sunday July 29   Coffee and Bible Class at 9:30 
                             Worship at 10:30   Steve Egland


Sunday August 5  Coffee and Bible Class at 9:30 
                         Worship at 10:30  Althea Sondahl 
                         Bonnie Mohr plays harp.    

Sunday August 12   Coffee and Bible Class at 9:30
                                Worship at 10:30   Steve Egland 

Sunday  August 19  Coffee and Bible Class at 9:30 
                                 Worship at 10:30  Althea Sondahl 

Sunday August 26  Coffee and Bible Class at 9:30 
                                Worship at 10:30 Steve Egland   

Pastor Sondahl's July 7, 2012 sermon

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Pastor Sondahl's June 24 sermon

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June 26

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Sunday July 1   Coffee and Bible Class at 9:30 Worship at 10:30   Steve Egland

Sunday July 8  Coffee and Bible Class at 9:30 Worship at 10:30  Althea Sondahl 

Sunday July 15   Coffee and Bible Class at 9:30  Steve Egland
                            Worship at 10:30  
Sunday July 22  Coffee and Bible Class at 9:30  Althea Sondahl 
                             Worship at 10:30   
 Sunday July 29   Coffee and Bible Class at 9:30 Worship at 10:30   Steve Egland

News: 
The garden now has raspberry, strawberry and tomato plants growing in it.  Also the  bush green beans are up!  Bruce Hille has planted seeds that have sprouted too! Yay! 

Pastor Sondahl's April 29th sermon

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New Address for Keith and Dory Pierce

Keith has let us know that he and Dory have a new address.

Here is their contact information:

10901 176th Circle NE  #3703
Redmond, WA 98052

Home tel: 425-968-8861
Mobile tel: 425-359-6416 (same as before)

E-mail: kd-pierce@comcast.net

Keith reports that they expect to return to Priest Lake in mid-June.

April 22, 2012 Pastor Sondahl sermon

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(The rest of the story: He didn't jump...)

Holy Thursday Post, April 5

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HE IS RISEN!   INDEED, HE IS RISEN!  

April 8  The Resurrection of Our Lord  Worship 10:30

                 Steve Egland Present

                 Easter Dinner Following 

                 Texts: Acts 10:34-43 

                               Psalm 118:1-2, 14-24 

                               1 Corinthians 15:1-11 

                               Mark 16:1-8  

April 15  Second Sunday of Easter  Worship  10:30 

                  Steve Egland Present 

                  Dinner Following 

                

             Texts: Acts 4:32-35 

                           Psalm 133 

                           1 John 1:1-2:2

                           John 10:19-31   

April 22   Third Sunday of Easter  Worship 10:30 

                      Guest Preacher

                      Dinner Following 

        Texts: Acts 3:12-19 

                      Psalm 4 

                      1 John 3:1-7 

                      Luke 24:36b-48 

April 29  Fourth Sunday of Easter Worship 10:30 

                   Althea Sondahl Present

                   Dinner Following 

                   

      Texts: Acts 4:5-12 

                    Psalm 23 

                    1 John 3:16-24 

                    John 10:11-18 

Reflection:  The beauty of Holy Week is unfolding, the liturgies, solemn and terrifying, haunting and wonderful,  full of sorrow and hope, hold us in the power and victory of God's 
love.   We love to tell the story, because we know it is true.   

News: 

Our gardens seeds,  provided by "Plant a Row for the Hungry" are here at the church waiting for the snow to melt,  like the rest of us!

Althea and Brad will be gone for two weeks, until April 20th.  On April 22 she will supply at Trinity Lutheran in Lewiston in order to give Scott Jurgens an opportunity to be away.    Either Tim or Brad will preach at Lamb of God.

Gigi is in California visiting her son Bryce who was able to go home from the hospital Tuesday and begin to take his chemotherapy treatments for Leukemia as an out patient.    

                      
In our prayers:
Barbara Magleby and her family at the death of her husband Kay
Brenda for healing

Bryce for healing

Gail Schuster and her health.  
Jim Horning  for successful surgery. 
 Lee's sister Marcia for healing. 
Anthony, home from the hospital after his amputations. 
Gigi, as she travels.   

 Lutheran World Relief    lwr.org/getinvolved    or call 800.597.5972
Mark and Rachel Miller who are missionaries and their children Abraham and Samuel. 

Pastor Sondahl's Palm Sunday sermon

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Pastor Sondahls March 25 sermon

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New Old Hymn for this Sunday

Fanny Crosby's "Draw me nearer..."

Holy Thursday Post, April 5

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HE IS RISEN!   INDEED, HE IS RISEN!  

April 8  The Resurrection of Our Lord  Worship 10:30

                 Steve Egland Present

                 Easter Dinner Following 

                 Texts: Acts 10:34-43 

                               Psalm 118:1-2, 14-24 

                               1 Corinthians 15:1-11 

                               Mark 16:1-8  

April 15  Second Sunday of Easter  Worship  10:30 

                  Steve Egland Present 

                  Dinner Following 

                

             Texts: Acts 4:32-35 

                           Psalm 133 

                           1 John 1:1-2:2

                           John 10:19-31   

April 22   Third Sunday of Easter  Worship 10:30 

                      Guest Preacher

                      Dinner Following 

        Texts: Acts 3:12-19 

                      Psalm 4 

                      1 John 3:1-7 

                      Luke 24:36b-48 

April 29  Fourth Sunday of Easter Worship 10:30 

                   Althea Sondahl Present

                   Dinner Following 

                   

      Texts: Acts 4:5-12 

                    Psalm 23 

                    1 John 3:16-24 

                    John 10:11-18 

Reflection:  The beauty of Holy Week is unfolding, the liturgies, solemn and terrifying, haunting and wonderful,  full of sorrow and hope, hold us in the power and victory of God's 
love.   We love to tell the story, because we know it is true.   

News: 

Our gardens seeds,  provided by "Plant a Row for the Hungry" are here at the church waiting for the snow to melt,  like the rest of us!

Althea and Brad will be gone for two weeks, until April 20th.  On April 22 she will supply at Trinity Lutheran in Lewiston in order to give Scott Jurgens an opportunity to be away.    Either Tim or Brad will preach at Lamb of God.   

  








Reflections:

                            
In our prayers:

Brenda
Randy and Yvonne Phelps at the death of Randy's mother. 

Bryce, Gigi Horning's son in California as he begins treatment for Leukemia  


Gail Schuster and her health.  

Mary Toutonghi and family after the death of her husband Mike.

Jim Horning  for successful surgery. 
 
For Lee's sister Marcia for healing. 
        
     
 
 Lutheran World Relief    lwr.org/getinvolved    or call 800.597.5972

Mark and Rachel Miller who are missionaries and their children Abraham and Samuel. 

News:  The parking lot is a sheet of ice!  There is a small lake between the stairs into the church and the beginning of the great ice sheet which used to be a parking lot.  

The video for the sermon from March 4 disappeared when the camera battery ran out during the filming.   Our apologies that we cannot share the Word with you from that Sunday.  

Wednesday found the parking lot to be slipperier than Sunday!  Stand at the top and you have to work hard not to just slide down, down, down.....

We are talking about a garden at the church this summer.  Yippee! 


And it was so good to be with Yvonne Phelps who came to pray with us on Wednesday.   Her work with Priest River Ministries Advocates for Women is touching our lives.   We hope to move forward together to serve those in need around us.  

Hi Mary

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Guest speaker Tim Franey's March 18 sermon

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Pastor Sondahl's March 11 sermon

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The Lenten altar

March 10

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Worship and Ministry 

March 11  3rd Sunday in Lent  10:30 Worship  Dinner Following
                     Texts: Exodus 20:1-17  The Ten Commandments
                                   Psalm 19   "The heavens are telling the glory of God" 
                                   1 Corinthians 1:18-25 
                                   John 2:13-22  The Cleansing of the Temple 


March 14  Quilting at 10 AM 
                   Lenten Prayer Service at 4:00 PM using the Daily Office 
                  

March 18  Fourth Sunday in Lent 10:30 Worship  With Communion 
                    Dinner Following 
                     Tim Franey Preaching 
                     Children: Honor,  Daisy and Dahlia Sing: "What Wondrous Love"
                     Texts: Numbers 21:4-9  Bronze Serpent Raised up
                                   Psalm 107:1-3, 17-22 
                                   Ephesians 2:1-10 
                                   John 3:14-21   Jesus Lifted Up, God sent his Son!  

March 21  Quilting at 10:00 AM 
                     Lenten Prayer Service at 4:00pm using the Daily Office  

March 25  5th Sunday in Lent  10:30 Worship Dinner Following
                     Texts: Jeremiah 31:31-34 
                                   Psalm 51:1-12  
                                   Hebrews 5:5-10 
                                   John 12:20-33 A festival and a grain of wheat.      
      


Reflections: Lent has begun.  The church is dressed in purple and black.  The gold cross on the altar has been exchanged for a simple wooden one, the first one used at Lamb of God. The little cut glass jar of ashes, rests on the edge of the baptismal font.    We begin our Lenten disciplines with confession and prayer, bearing our foreheads the sign of the cross, reaching for deeper understandings of ourselves and our God.  "Remember that you are dust, and to dust you shall return."  "Return to the Lord your God,  for he is gracious and merciful,  slow to anger, and abounding in steadfast love."  May this season lead us to a cleansing of our spirits,  to the spring house-cleaning of our souls,  to begin afresh.  May Lent and this lengthening of days, which gives the season its name, lead us to garden in the dust we are,  to the growth of beauty, deeds of mercy, and love of God and neighbor.  The text for Ash Wednesday in Matthew ends,  "do not store up for yourselves treasures on earth where rust and moth consume and thieves break in and steal, but store up for yourselves treasures in heaven, for where your treasure is,  there will your heart be also."   

Lent continues.  Mud is moving.  Bulbs push up tips of green.  We are growing, deepening.  We are taking more time for prayer in our Sunday morning and Wednesday gatherings.   There is a sense that we are being stirred, the breath of the wind is warm, and life stretches for Life.   Baptism is a focus of this time.   The season started because of the intense time of preparation for Baptism at  the Easter Vigil in the early church.  Catechumens, those preparing for Baptism, studied at the church daily.  They fasted and they prayed.  Can we see that Lent  is about water, and cleansing, and new life?  March rains touch us with the Lent we need to see, the way we need to be.     

                            
In our prayers: 
Brenda,  Jim and Gigi's neighbor who has suffered many serious complications following foot surgery. 

Randy and Yvonne Phelps at the death of Randy's mother. 

Bryce, Gigi Horning's son in California as he begins treatment for Leukemia  


Gail Schuster and her health.  

Mary Toutonghi and family after the death of her husband Mike.

Jim Horning  for successful surgery. 
 
For Lee's sister Marcia for healing. 
        
For Shanna Ann as her birthday approaches on March 16.   
 
 Lutheran World Relief    lwr.org/getinvolved    or call 800.597.5972

Mark and Rachel Miller who are missionaries and their children Abraham and Samuel. 

News:  The parking lot is a sheet of ice!  There is a small lake between the stairs into the church and the beginning of the great ice sheet which used to be a parking lot.  

The video for the sermon from March 4 disappeared when the camera battery ran out during the filming.   Our apologies that we cannot share the Word with you from that Sunday.  

Wednesday found the parking lot to be slipperier than Sunday!  Stand at the top and you have to work hard not to just slide down, down, down.....

We are talking about a garden at the church this summer.  Yippee! 


And it was so good to be with Yvonne Phelps who came to pray with us on Wednesday.   Her work with Priest River Ministries Advocates for Women is touching our lives.   We hope to move forward together to serve those in need around us.  






   

Pastor Egland's sermon from Febr. 26, 2012

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Pastor Sondahl's Feb. 19 sermon

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Pastor Sondahl's Feb. 5 sermon

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February 14 Anno Domini 2012

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Worship and Ministry
Sunday February 19  10:30 Worship  with  Althea Sondahl 
                                    Lunch Follows
                                    Texts: The Transfiguration of our Lord 
                                               2 Kings 2:1-12 
                                                Psalm 50:1-6 
                                                2 Corinthians 4:3-6 
                                               Mark 9:2-9  

Wednesday February 22  Ash Wednesday   
                                           Lutheran World Relief Quilting Day 10-3:00 
                                           Ash Wednesday Service  3:30   
 
Sunday February 26   10:30 Worship   with Steve Egland   
                                     Lunch Follows 
                                     Texts: First Sunday in Lent 
                                     Genesis 9:8-17 
                                     Psalm 25:1-10 
                                     1 Peter 3:18-22 
                                     Mark 1:9-15   


Reflections:As the Transfiguration of our Lord approaches it is time to reflect on the passing of this season after Epiphany and our turning toward the beginning of Lent.   Currently two white colored Sundays bracket the green Sundays after Epiphany.   The first Sunday after the Epiphany is white and it is the Baptism of Our Lord and the last Sunday after the Epiphany is white and it is the Transfiguration of our Lord.  But!  It has not always been that way, and in many places still isn't!   As The Christian Year says, "The use of the propers for the Feast of the Transfiguration of our Lord (August 6) as those for the Sixth Sunday after the Epiphany, is a Lutheran peculiarity." 
Okay,  so the Feast of the Transfiguration is August 6.  NOT NEXT SUNDAY.   But we observe it as the Transfiguration because in the 16th century we started using the texts of the Feast on this Sunday after Epiphany.   Hmmm.   Something to think about,  something to write more about later...  

                            
In our prayers: 
  Mary Toutonghi and family after the death of her husband Mike.
For Mary's dear friend Anna Lea for her health. 
Marcia Duke at the death of Aunt Marvela
Gigi  and Jim Horning  for health
Barbara and Marvin Nystrom and Barbara's daughters Laura and Kathy giving thanks for their progress.        
Pamela Robinson, her son Daryl and daughter-in-law Alicia and their children Isaiah, Shanna, Alexander, Nicholaus and Daelin for God's will.  
 Lutheran World Relief    lwr.org/getinvolved    or call 800.597.5972
Mark and Rachel Miller who are missionaries and their children Abraham and Samuel. 

News:
A Memorial for Mike Toutonghi will held at Mike and Mary's home in California on February 18. 

Pastor Sondahl's Jan. 22 sermon

Pastor Sondahl's Jan. 22, 2012 sermon

Pastor Sondahl's Jan. 8 sermon

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January 17

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Worship
  

In our prayers: 
  Mary Toutonghi and family after the death of her husband Mike.
Barbara and Marvin Nystrom and Barbara's daughter Laura, as they face Laura's life-threatening pneumonia and also Barbara's daughter Kathy who is recovering from a stroke.      
Pamela Robinson, her son Daryl and daughter-in-law Alicia and their children Isaiah, Shanna, Alexander, Nicholaus and Daelin as Alicia returns from the hospital and the rest of the family moves out of the Sondahl's home and back up to Quartz Creek Road.

The Priest Lake Food Bank.  For those who provide and those receive. 
Those of our community who are traveling this month.  

Reflections: The season of days after Epiphany has been, in times past, a particular focus on world missions.  Since the  Epiphany is celebrated as the day the Gentile wise men worshiped the Jewish Christ, it is appropriate in this season to celebrate the spread of the Gospel throughout the whole world.  So from now until Lent it would be good to pray for missionaries, for those seeking  God, and to do good works that share the Light of the World.   

Here are suggestions:                            

Lutheran World Relief    You can learn more at 
lwr.org/getinvolved    or by calling 800.597.5972
Mark and Rachel Miller who are missionaries and their children Abraham and Samuel. 
Our own Lutheran  World Relief Ministry-you could begin now to collect the things needed for health kits.  We will be gathering things for the Spring  Ingathering.  

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