Spirit of Hope Weekly Newsletter

CONTACT INFORMATION

Phone: 480-396-8300

Email: admin@spiritofhopelutheran.com

Website: www.spiritofhopelutheran.com

Office Hours are Tuesday & Thursday 9:00 to 1:00 pm

Nite Lite

Wednesday, December 1st

at 6:00 pm

All school age kids welcome

Bring a friend or two

Help Beautify our

Sanctuary in Honor of

Our Lord’s Birth

To make a donation towards the purchase of

Poinsettias for this year's Christmas altar, please

fill out the form at church, put it along with your donation Into the Poinsettia donation envelope and put in The basket or offering tray. Deadline for making The order this year is Sunday, November 28^th. Thank you for helping!!

NEW Bible Study with Pastor Tony

Tuesdays, 10:30 am in person at Spirit of Hope or on ZOOM

To Join Zoom Meeting go to this link:

https://us02web.zoom.us/j/84853798330

This Bible study will be on the Epistle Letters and New Testament Books beginning with the book of Romans

November 24^th - Tonight

Thanksgiving Eve Worship Service – 6:30pm

We will be celebrating the day together by sharing pie immediately following service. We invite you to bring your favorite pie to share! Don’t forget the whip cream or ice cream!

No Women's Afternoon Bible Study this week. Happy Thanksgiving!!

WOODWORKERS

Here is the group of woodworkers that met last week. Join them again on Tuesday morning, December 14th at 10 am as they start making the wood crosses. Click on the button below for directions.

This includes men and women who enjoy working with wood and/or other materials. No experience is necessary to join this group. We want you to share your projects and ideas with each other too.

Coffee and a treat will be served!!

Dave Torgersen - 480-219-9343

Click for directions

It’s that time of year again where there is a need for gift cards to provide for the families in our community that are in need around the holidays. Please consider purchasing some gift cards in the amount of $25 to $50 to the local grocery and gas stations and bring them to the church office. Thank you.

Next Monthly meeting is December 21st

Come gather and share a beer or a beverage and discuss theology. We can try to solve the world’s problems too! We meet on the THIRD TUESDAY of every month at 6:30pm. Feel free to bring your own beverage! Come bring your questions, your curiosity, and pull up a chair.

Carol and Pastor Tony Scheer

11133 E. Segura Ave - Mesa, AZ 85212

Prayers –

We pray for those church members who are struggling with many health issues this week.

Prayers for Lloyd Stucke who had a heart attack last weekend and to make matters worse for he has been diagnosed with Covid. Because of Covid they have not been able to do much testing but he will be getting a CT-scan. He still is in a lot of pain but is resting comfortably. Dar is doing well and tested NEGATIVE for Covid. Please pray for Lloyd and Dar in the days ahead as they research the damage to his heart. Pray the doctors will be able to diagnose and create a plan to calm the pain and heal the heart.

Send your Spirit upon them all and give them the help they need. Send your healing power and bring joy and strength back into Lloyd. Give Dar the strength and patience she will need to endure the days ahead.

AMEN

We pray for the health of: Eleanora Crise-Tomes, Jerry Nelson, Lorayne and Dave Thompson, Mary Greimann, Ron Thomas, Ardis Johnson, Ethel Robbins, Linda Vandenberg, Tom Snodgrass, Marie Renda, Frieda Pyles, Vicky Kuehl, Kevin Hicks Stephanie Skansi, Darlene and Darren Holzipel, and Kim Husebye.

We pray for Pastor’s close friends – Chris Tjon and James Tjon.

Thank You all for continual prayers and for being a part of such as meaningful and special ministry for so many people.

May the God of good health and happiness restore all who are struggling this week with the many situations people in our lives are struggling. Thank you for your presence and give us the joys of everyday life! AMEN.

November Worship Volunteers

SATURDAY 5:00 PM

Date Reader Greeters

11/6 Bobbi Edwardson Duane & Tina

11/13 Tina Gilson

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SUNDAY 9:30 AM

11/7 Linda Wilcox MaryBeth & Brian

11/14 Amy Baker Barb Kearns

11/21 Margaret A. Art & Crystal

11/28 Mike Stark Phil Troiano

Greeters please be at church by 9:00 am.

Now is the time!

The ELCA National Youth Gathering is right ahead of us! This next year it is being held in Minneapolis, Minnesota.

The event takes place on July 23-28, 2022

Every three years, 30,000 high school youth and their adult leaders from across the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America gather for a week of faith formation known as the ELCA Youth Gathering. Through days spent in interactive learning, worship, Bible study, service and fellowship, young people grow in faith and are challenged and inspired to live their faith in their daily lives. We are currently registering our youth and will let you know how many will be participating! Cost per participant will be about $1400. In the next months we will be having a number of fund-raising events to help off set the cost for each family.

If you would like to sponsor a child or make a donation please see Pastor Tony or place the gift in the offering plate. Thank You for your support!

Each Sunday the youth are continuing to sell collectibles at a table in the narthex. The funds collected from this drive goes toward the cost of each youth attending the National Youth Gathering in July of 2022. Come and support the YOUTH of your church! Thank You!

LADIES ONLY

Second and Fourth TUESDAY of the month

(December 14th and 28th)

Church Narthex from 1:00pm -3:00pm

Please contact Diane Thompson at 480-354-7897 to register!

Military Service

Do you have a relative serving in any of our military branches? If so, please bring a picture of them to the office so that we can post it on our photo wall. We appreciate the service of all our men and women and we want to recognize their service.

Breakfast with your Friends and Pastor

Join us for breakfast on Wednesday mornings at 9 am at the IHOP Restaurant at (Southern and Signal Butte Rd)

See you again next Wednesday, December 1st at 9:00 am

Ask me about our Outpatient Memory Clinic

Lori Marsh, Marketing Director

The Summit at Sunland Springs Assisted Living & Memory Care

Memory Clinic at The Summit

2415 S. Signal Butte Rd. Mesa, AZ 85209

Cell 480.955-1633

Lori@TheSummitAz.com | www.thesummitaz.com

Lutheran Disaster Response – Give where needed

HUNGER JAR - Each week we collect money in this jar to make a difference in the world through our Outreach efforts. All the funds that we collect from this jar go to help in specific ways throughout the world. These funds will be collected through the end of 2021 and are designated to go directly to the ELCA Disaster Response Fund. All money donated goes 100 percent to the disaster.