Friday, November 30, 2012
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
Thursday, August 30, 2012
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:
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!
Tuesday, August 7, 2012
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.
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.
Sunday, July 29, 2012
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.
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.
Thursday, July 26, 2012
July 26
July 26
Please enjoy browsing the Lamb of God Lutheran Web Log. To contact us; leave a comment, call 208-443-1403 or 208-691-9533, or e-mail asondahl@gmail.com. For our schedule scroll down past the news!
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
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
Monday, July 16, 2012
July 15
Please enjoy browsing the Lamb of God Lutheran Web Log. To contact us; leave a comment, call 208-443-1403 or 208-691-9533, or e-mail asondahl@gmail.com. For our schedule scroll down past the news!
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
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
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
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