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| Following the service Victoria and Brooke delight in the font. The Baptismal Font is central for the Service of Water |
Saturday, April 6, 2013
March 30 Easter Vigil
Wednesday, February 20, 2013
February 20-Princess Brooke
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| Princess Brooke |
Lord's Prayer. We talked about God being our Father, and God being a King, and therefore since we are the children of God we are royalty. Here is Princess Brooke. Brooke is 6 and she will turn 7 on March 7. She goes to Priest Lake Elementary School and likes to draw.
Thursday, February 14, 2013
February 14
Welcome. We hope you enjoy your visit.
News: There is no quilting this week as we decided that it was time to focus on worship together on Ash Wednesday. Our service was at 3:45, after school so the children were with us, and before dark so that driving was safer when we headed home. While we were waiting for church to start we decided to sing, and the request was made for "Joy to the World." Not the usual Lenten hymn, but wonderfully appropriate, with its "let every heart prepare" and "no more lets sins and sorrows grow, or thorns infest the ground." Sometimes it is truly wondrous how children can bring us to do and see things we would entirely miss without their innocence and openness. Our winter community being so small makes for an intimacy impossible otherwise, and we had open time during our confession for people to make individual confessions, aloud or silent. We turned and knelt at the pews and it seemed the everyone was sincere in that silence and in what was shared before God and one another. At the end of confession there is the imposition with ashes where the sign of the cross is made on the forehead with the words, "Remember that you are dust and to dust you shall return" and we were reminded of our frailty and dependence on each other. This beginning of Lent worship did help us so much to understand once again what this time of year can mean and how we can be touched by God and brought forward toward the Resurrection by sharing the life of Christ in renouncing ourselves. "More for God and less for me."
Schedule:
February 17 First Sunday in Lent. 10:00 Sunday School 10:30 Worship. Lunch Follows.
February 24 Second Sunday in Lent. !0:00 Sunday School 10:30 Worship. Lunch Follows.
News: There is no quilting this week as we decided that it was time to focus on worship together on Ash Wednesday. Our service was at 3:45, after school so the children were with us, and before dark so that driving was safer when we headed home. While we were waiting for church to start we decided to sing, and the request was made for "Joy to the World." Not the usual Lenten hymn, but wonderfully appropriate, with its "let every heart prepare" and "no more lets sins and sorrows grow, or thorns infest the ground." Sometimes it is truly wondrous how children can bring us to do and see things we would entirely miss without their innocence and openness. Our winter community being so small makes for an intimacy impossible otherwise, and we had open time during our confession for people to make individual confessions, aloud or silent. We turned and knelt at the pews and it seemed the everyone was sincere in that silence and in what was shared before God and one another. At the end of confession there is the imposition with ashes where the sign of the cross is made on the forehead with the words, "Remember that you are dust and to dust you shall return" and we were reminded of our frailty and dependence on each other. This beginning of Lent worship did help us so much to understand once again what this time of year can mean and how we can be touched by God and brought forward toward the Resurrection by sharing the life of Christ in renouncing ourselves. "More for God and less for me."
Schedule:
February 17 First Sunday in Lent. 10:00 Sunday School 10:30 Worship. Lunch Follows.
February 24 Second Sunday in Lent. !0:00 Sunday School 10:30 Worship. Lunch Follows.
Sunday, February 10, 2013
Sure sign of Spring
Tuesday, January 29, 2013
January 29
Just a note to update readers on our Mission Quilting and Kits efforts. We tied two more quilts today. It was mentioned that it would be good to put out the word that we need donations of sheets and blankets and that if those of you who are returning this spring have any extras it would be great it you could bring them home for us to use for Lutheran World Relief. We also received another generous donations of items for school kits. The flow of mercy and grace is abundant. Please remember our ministry here as you plan time at Priest Lake.
Just a note to update readers on our Mission Quilting and Kits efforts. We tied two more quilts today. It was mentioned that it would be good to put out the word that we need donations of sheets and blankets and that if those of you who are returning this spring have any extras it would be great it you could bring them home for us to use for Lutheran World Relief. We also received another generous donations of items for school kits. The flow of mercy and grace is abundant. Please remember our ministry here as you plan time at Priest Lake.
Friday, December 28, 2012
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.
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.
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