CONTACT INFORMATION
Phone: 480-396-8300
Email: admin@spiritofhopelutheran.com
Website: www.spiritofhopelutheran.com
Office Hours are Monday to Thursday 9:00 to 1:00 pm


Operation Christmas Cards

 
We have a new project going on. Everyone can help even if you didn't make your way back to Mesa, We are calling it Operation Christmas Cards

The Summit Assisted living and Memory Care can use some cheering up. So I would love for everyone to make one or two or as many as you like Christmas Cards to be handed out to all the residents. We do not know their names but please sign yours.

Pastor Tony will deliver them by the 17th of December. You can have your children or grandchildren help out. This would be an awesome way for them to give back.
Why Advent?
Saturday Advent Children’s Message

Saturday December 11th at 10:00am at the church AND live on FACEBOOK ( Spirit of Hope Lutheran)
Pastor’s message will be about 15 minutes long and include prayer, devotion and singing! Come join us !  We will meet weekly through December 19th!  

Christmas Eve
Services 2020 

This year’s services will both be candlelight.
 
The services will be at  4:30pm and 6:30pm 
Note From Wendy/Senior's Rock

Welcome Our Friends From The SUMMIT !!

My name is Wendy. I am from Spirit of Hope. I have a group that meets once a week called Senior's Rock. We have not been able to meet because of the Covid, but that does not stop us from helping others. Right now we are collecting household items for a place called the Justa Center. The Justa centers helps Seniors and Vets get into housing. These are folks that have been down on there luck. So this is where you can help out. You can write a letter of encouragement to them. The letter will be given to them when they are going to their new place to live. I think it would uplift their spirits on so many levels. They help so many people so you can write one letter each or as many as you like. Contact the church office for more information. 480-396-8300.


Welcome to our friends and family at the Summit

Our Spirit of Hope weekly newsletter will be distributed at the Summit each week and help share the love of Christ with all who read our articles. We have added a few messages from our small groups such as the Seniors Rock group and the Women’s Afternoon Bible Study. Special thanks to Wendy and Dar for your input each week!    We invite those of you to attend any event you might be interested in here at Spirit of Hope! We look forward to meeting more of you!  

Seniors Rock Fundraiser

Seniors Rock is having a Fundraiser for the Justa Center in Mesa by selling Professional 2021 Calendars being sold at $15.00 each. All proceeds go to the Justa Center.

These calendars picture the Lower Salt River Wild Horses. Our own SOH members, Wendy Sontag and Rich Biesterfeld, a professional photographer have made these calendars with many beautiful pictures of the horses. They are available for purchase following Sunday services or you can call the church office to order a calendar.


A note from the Justa Center loves how we keep on giving and want to thank all of you for helping with their seniors.

Tags are hung on the tree in the narthex. What we are looking for are:

Comforters Twin or Full
Pots and Pans
Toaster,
Crock Pot
Shower curtain with liner & hooks Twin sheet sets
Dishes,
Kitchen Utensils
Kitchen linens
Glassware
Silverware
Amazon Gift Cards.
 

 

Coffee with the Pastor – ONLINE    
Every Wednesday at 9:00 am
You are invited to join me on a ZOOM call… this is how you do this. Open your internet browser, Copy and paste the link below into the address line. We will go live starting at 9:00 am
https://zoom.us/j/6401061099?pwd=L1luVWlPcnRreDYzeTdMRks1ZEp1UT09

or call into the meeting, using your phone to one of the following numbers:
Please add – phone numbers =   1-346-248-7799
When prompted add the following information: Meeting ID: 640 106 1099


Grocery cards
Needed!!

It’s that time of year again where we find many people in our community that are without the basics to get through the holiday season. If you are able please pick up a few cash cards and bring them to Pastor Tony to distribute as needed.  
A Word from the Women's Bible Study

By Dar Stucke

This is how God showed his love among us; He sent his one and only Son into the world that we might live through him. This is love: not that we loved God, but that He loved us and sent his son as an atoning sacrifice for our sins. Dear friends, since God so loved us, we ought to love one another. 1 John 4: 9-11
This is the second week of Advent and we have lit the second candle, the candle of LOVE. It reminds us that Jesus was sent to us out of God’s great LOVE for us.
What good is a car that never sees the road? Is a fancy state-of-the-art jet plane that never flies any better than a paper airplane that has sliced through open air? Would the most priceless artifacts in a museum be on display if they had never been used to do something?
In the forward to the book LOVE DOES, Donald Miller wrote, “We don’t like to put hands and feet on love. When love is a theory, it’s safe, it’s free of risk. But love only in the brain changes nothing.” A car or airplane is safer parked, but what good is it? Each is created for motion and transport—for ACTION. Love is the same. For love in hands and feet changes everything.
God put hands and feet on His love. He took action. He poured out love in and through the gift of His Son to reach a broken and fallen creation: US.  And He calls us to do the same, as He did toward people. The Christmas season can threaten to choke out our love with its busyness and expectations. But it can also provide natural opportunities to reach out to others with love in action. Let’s look for and choose life-giving, love-expressing opportunities during these days. Let’s allow God’s love to move us to action.
Dear God: Let the reality that at Christmas your love came crashing into our world, permeate my life this week. Let me experience the depth of your love and let that love overflow to others. In Jesus name, Amen








Prayers –

We pray for the spouses and families of those church members who have passed into the church triumphant this past month.

Prayers for rhe family of Brigette Seman, the mother of Cathy Walters *Eddie walters)..

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

Please keep Larry Wilox, Butch Schleiher, Alice Lundquist, Barb Kearns, Frieda Pyles, Vicky Kuehl, Kevin Hicks and Marilyn Flood in your prayers

Prayers for Bonnie Gunderson's brother, Dwight MacMonagle,fighting the corona virus and Hodgkins.

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


A word from our Financial Secretary
How can members remain faithful in their giving responsibility and thus continue to invest in and fund the continued mission and ministry of our church?
1.  Continue giving weekly through your personal banking
online bill pay service.
2.  Use the Spirit of Hope online giving option at: https://soh.breezechms.com/give/online
3.  Use the Spirit of Hope texting option at (480) 725-1140.
4.  Send your donation through the U.S. Postal Service at:
  • 2605 S. Signal Butte Rd., Mesa, AZ 85209.
If you need help with setting up or amending your current offering, please reach
out to our Financial Secretary, Kianda Addo (Kianda@spiritofhopelutheran.com).

Fry's Community Rewards

Did you know you can support nonprofit organizations in your community just by shopping at Fry's? It's easy when you enroll in Fry's Community Rewards. To get started, sign up with your V.I.P. Card and select Spirit of Hope as the local organization you wish to support. Once you're enrolled, you'll earn rewards for your church every time you shop and use your V.I.P. card.
www.fryscommunityrewards.com
SOH Organization number is 80606

Home Communion

If you are an at risk member who would like to have the Pastor bring Holy Communion to your home, please call the church office (480-396-8300) and request / schedule a home communion visit. Pastor Tony will bring communion wearing a mask, medical gloves, and practicing social distancing. If it is a nice day, perhaps we can be outside.