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Emmanuel’s E-news: Events and Elucidations

 NOTE: Weekly deadlines for the E-news & the Sunday morning Experience is generally 8AM, Thursdays.

This week and next, the deadline is Wednesday, 8AM. The Office will be closed Thursday & Friday, December 23 & 24, then 30 & 31 for the holidays.

 …reminders before you get here Sunday…

 ... “Dirty Dozen” THIS WEEK – Kim Campbell, Sarah Murn, Gwen Sullivan, Shirley Engerbretson (please talk with your team about when you are meeting)

 … Fellowship Hosts THIS SUNDAY – Kevin & Anne Peterson, Pr. Bob & Gloria Peterson, Nancy Ruth Peterson, Marge Remington

…this Sunday,

December 26

First Sunday of Christmas

Readings: Isaiah 63:7-9; Hebrews 2:10-18; Matthew 2:13-23

"Holy Groundz" (Fellowship Hall)

8:30 AM-Sunday School - Adult Classes will resume next week, January 2

9:30 AM-Worship Service

11:00 AM-Fellowship (Fellowship Hall)

11:15 AM-College Class (ELC Library) 

…in parish ed…

…Adult Study – No Adult Classes this week. Join us next week at 8:30AM for:

Hymnody – putting life and great story into our songs. With Rob Ely downstairs in Classroom #107.

Prayer Pieces - a time of knitting, quilting, devotion and prayer will meet in “The Gallery”.

…Youth Classes - 8:30AM

4 year olds through 6th Grade - We will be learning about our biblical ancestors in faith in all sorts of creative ways, with loving teachers and helpers. In the Fellowship Hall.

Confirmation Group (Grades 7-9) – Current Topic: Jesus – What does the gift of Jesus mean to us? In January: Holy Communion – Bread for life, Food for the world. In the Jr. High room upstairs with Kim Campbell.

High School Group (Grades 10-12) - Begin learning about your own faith alongside the faiths of our neighbors.  Some weeks we will make Sunday morning visits to those neighbors’ places of worship. In the high school room, upstairs with Cathy Knock

…College Class - 11AM

Dream-Think-Be-Do  - Begin with a weekly intro disc of current thinkers and theologians. Grab a snack at fellowship time after worship, schmooze a bit, and come on down. In the Emmanuel library, downstairs, with Prof. Kurt Queller

a look at the week’s calendar…

Sunday, December 26

First Sunday of Christmas

Readings: Isaiah 63:7-9; Hebrews 2:10-18; Matthew 2:13-23

"Holy Groundz" (Fellowship Hall)

8:30 AM-Sunday School - Adult Classes will resume next week, January 2

9:30 AM-Worship Service

11:00 AM-Fellowship (Fellowship Hall)

11:15 AM-College Class (ELC Library)

 

Monday,  December  27

7:00 PM-HOPE Circle (ELC Library)

 

Wednesday,  December  29

8:00 AM-Weekly Publication Deadline / Experience & E-News

7:00 PM-Paradise Ding Dongs (Sanctuary)

 

Thursday,  December 30

Church Office Closed

5:30 PM-Adult Choir (Sanctuary)

6:30 PM-Adult Handbells (Sanctuary)

 

Friday,  December 31

New Year's Eve

Church Office Closed

 

Saturday,  January 1

New Year’s Day

ELC ‘Dirty Dozen’ -  Kevin & Anne Peterson, Kim Campbell & Kiddo

 

Next Sunday, January 2

Second Sunday of Christmas

Readings: Jeremiah 31:7-14; Ephesians 1:3-14 John 1:1-18

8:30 AM-Sunday School (Various locations around church.)

9:30 AM-Worship Service

11:00 AM-Fellowship (Fellowship Hall)

11:15 AM-College Class (ELC Library)

 

brief highlights…                                                                                                                                                                                      

… Confirmation Class Schedule –Ski Trip on Jan 21. Watch for more information on this! Plugged In – Jr HI Lutherhaven Retreat, Feb 4-6. Meet at Church at 5pm Friday Feb. 4.  Return by noon, Sunday Feb 6.  Need one adult male to go as well. Call Kim Campbell (208-3109876) to help!                                                                                                                                                                                 

…REMINDER! – Starting in January, ELCW “Work Day’s” and Men’s Breakfast will resume their normal schedule of the 2nd & 4th Wednesdays of the month.

... ELCA World Hunger Matches Funds! - Between now and Dec. 31, ELCA World Hunger will match dollar for dollar, your gift to help fight world hunger, up to $250,000.

Here is what you do: prayerfully decide on an amount you wish to contribute to help fight world hunger, place it in the offering, write checks payable to Emmanuel but write World Hunger in the memo line. All offerings to World Hunger will be combined and mailed in by the Dec. 31 deadline for matching funds.

… Needed: Bread makers. Volunteers are needed to make bread for communion. The recipe will be provided; a batch can be made and put into the freezer in the basement. One batch will usually last 4-6 weeks. Please contact Gwen Mitchell at gwenm@uidaho.edu if you are willing to be asked to make communion bread. 

…Please help with renovations to our Preschool Rooms! - We need a total of 133 donations of $22 to pay for the 133 sq yards of carpet. Donate and we will write your name on the back of the carpet! Donations have been coming in and we still need some more. Work has begun and will continue over Christmas break. Contact Kim Campbell with questions.

... Best Selling 'Stones to Schools' Author to Speak January 26 - Greg Mortenson, author of  "Stones to Schools: Promoting Peace with Books, not Bombs, in Afghanistan and Pakistan," will speak at WSU on Wednesday, Jan. 26, 7:30 PM, in Beasley Coliseum. WSU students may attend the lecture at no charge by showing their student IDs at the door. Tickets for the event can be purchased at the Beasley Coliseum ticket office, or through TicketsWest outlets online or by phone , 10AM-2PM, M-F. Tickets purchased in advance at the Beasley ticket office will cost $5 each for non-WSU students and children, and $10 each for all others. Tickets purchased at the door on the evening of the lecture will have a $3 surcharge.

… Become a “Link”- The ELC Outreach Mission Group is forming a Prayer Chain. There is information and a sign-up sheet in this issue of the Experience. You can also find extra sign-up sheets in the Narthex. Please consider being a “link” in this important chain! Contact the Church Office (882-3915) with questions on how to participate.

…Join an ELC Music Ministry! – Vocal and Handbell choirs are just waiting for you to jump right in! To get involved, or for more information, call Janet McIntosh (882-2343)

…If you would like to hear past ELC sermons – you can! Visit our website at www.emmanuelmoscow.org. On the homepage, find the box on the left titled “Sunday’s Schedule” and at the bottom of the box click on “Listen Here to Past Sermons”, then click on the date you would like to hear. Check it out!

…reminder and thanks to those

LEADING, HOSTING, HELPING THIS SUNDAY 

 

Ministers: The Congregation

Preaching: Pastor Bob Chenault

Director of Music: Janet McIntosh

Organist: Dr. Harry Wells

Assisting Minister: Robbie Giles

Communion Assistant: Gwen Sullivan

Reader: Marge Remington

Acolytes: Erin Kwaitkowski, Tyler Wendt

Greeters & Thankers: The Congregation

Fellowship: Kevin & Anne Peterson, Pr. Bob & Gloria Peterson, Nancy Ruth Peterson, Marge Remington

Altar Guild: Kas & Deb Dumroese

Communion Bread: Gwen Sullivan

Ushers: Neil Martin, The Kimberling Family

Counters: Shirley Gunther, Lis Shepherd, Vern Kinnison

 

Emmanuel Lutheran Church Regular Office Hours are 8:30AM – 2:30PM, Monday – Friday

Contact us by phone: 208-882-3915, fax: 208-882-3917, email: elc@moscow.com

visit our website at www.emmanuelmoscow.org

 

CindyMarie Polley

Emmanuel Lutheran Church

Office Manager ~ Administrative Assistant ~ Volunteer Coordinator

1036 West A Street

Moscow, ID 83843

Phone: 208-882-3915

Fax: 208-882-3917

Email: elc@moscow.com