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Free In-Person & LiveStream (Online) Concert
December 5 at 3PM
King of Glory Lutheran Church
3430 N Maple Grove Rd
Boise ID, 83704
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Thanks to a grant from the MPTF (Musicians Performance Trust Fund) of the AFM (American Federation of Musicians) this concert is FREE to the public!
In accordance with CDC recommendations and Venue policy, fully vaxxed and masked participants are welcome to attend in person:
King of Glory Lutheran Church, 3430 N Maple Grove Road, Boise ID, 83704
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Staff Christmas Remembrances
It’s traditional for King of Glory members to remember the church staff at Christmas in many special and meaningful ways, besides chocolate. We will set up a special fund for your donations through a Vanco designated fund or checks. Please designate Staff Christmas Gift on your check. Thank you!
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HELP!
Thank you all so much for filling out pledge cards for 2022. I now have a large and very colorful pile of cards to use to enter your pledges for next year. Among the many pledge cards we have received so far, one of them asked that we set them up to "Continue with present VanCo amount". Unfortunately a name was not included on the card, and I do not know whose it is. If you filled out a Blue Financial Commitment form where you included this request to continue with present giving, could you please let me know?
You can either use the Financial Secretary mail box at church, or send me an email at [email protected]. Thank you all for your continuing support of the mission of King of Glory Lutheran Church, through contributions of your time and your prayers, as well as through your financial commitment each year.
Kurt Borm
Financial Secretary
King of Glory Lutheran Church
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Nominations Open!
The 2022 Nominating Committee is beginning their work. Elected at the 2021 Annual Meeting were Dan Johnson, Mark Drew, Nicki Tompkins and Roxanne Jensen. They will be seeking candidates for Council terms (3 year terms) two full 3 year-terms on the Columbarium Board of Directors and nominations for the Nominating Committee Thank you for your interest if asked!
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Lewis’ Honorarium
Since March of 2020 Wes and Dawn Lewis have provided a faithful ministry among us producing weekly virtual worship services. They put in thousands of hours into this unique ministry, and used their technical expertise to produce worship services for the whole world to participate in while we were distanced from each other and our sanctuary. We would like to thank them for this ministry and have set up an honorarium in their honor. You may donate on-line in a Vanco designated fund, or by check or cash. Please designate your gift for the Lewis Honorarium. We will present this gift at our January Annual Meeting. And yes, they are continuing their ministry among us until we are able to “live stream” from our sanctuary.
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Usher & Greeter Schedule – December & January
We have put together a schedule for both of our 9AM & 10:30AM Services. If there is a scheduling conflict with a date & time you are scheduled to either usher or greet, please switch with someone on a different date, and contact the office with the change. If you need contact information for a member you would like to switch with, email the front office at: [email protected]
Thank you all for your help with our in-person services, it is GREATLY appreciated!
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KOG Candle Lighting Sign-Up
We still have a few dates available for you to volunteer!
Advent is a time of preparation, waiting, watching and expectation for the coming of the birth of Jesus. One of the traditions of Advent is to light candles for each week before Christmas Eve. This time of waiting allows us to carve out time to be silent in our wait to pray and listen for the voice of God. Many people have an advent calendar and advent candles where we mark off each day during the anticipation of the coming of the Christ child. Candles have traditionally marked our time of expectation and preparation as we note the passing of each week before the celebration of Jesus’ birth.
The Worship Committee would love to have volunteers videotape lighting their Advent candles and reading a prayer. This is easy to do with a phone and send it to Pastor Connie ([email protected]) and to Wes Lewis ([email protected]). Please contact Pastor Connie to be sent the prayer for the week that you are recording.
The worship Committee would love to have volunteers at each of our Sunday in-person services to read a prayer and then light the Advent candles. Please contact Pastor Connie at 970-222-8394 to receive the prayer beforehand and tell her which service you are available to light the Advent candles.
The advent wreath with candles will be placed to the left of the altar.
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Advent and Christmas at King of Glory
You are invited to take quiet time during this Advent season by attending Wednesday in-person worship services at 7 PM in the sanctuary or a virtual dulcimer evening prayer service led by Steve Eulberg and Erin May Lewis, also offered on Wednesdays at 7 PM. The link for the service and the link to down-load the bulletin will be available on King of Glory’s website.
Christmas Eve services, both in-person and virtual are being planned and the actual worship times to be announced. We are excited that a special gift at the services will be “singing”! With the ending of crisis standards of care at area hospitals, a lower community transmission rate, and the ability of children to be vaccinated it will be special to celebrate with song! We are thankful that our music staff and choir members shared the gift of music with us as we listened to the words. We will still require all to be masked while singing.
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Book Club - December 4, 2021
For December, this months book is Finding Gobi by: Dion Leonard.
Meeting will be lead by: Jan Colburn
Interested in joining? Please contact Lisa Kraft below!
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Owls Meeting Info
Owls will meet on December 14 at 11:30 am at Pueblo Lindo Family Mexican Restaurant in the Kohls complex on Eagle Rd and Ustick. It is in the small strip of stores near the Verizon building. If you take the first entrance off Ustick near Eagle Rd, it will be straight ahead. Since they would like a fairly accurate count on the number attending, please let Carolyn Jean Smith know if you will be attending. Call her at 208-859-4542 and leave a message if she doesn’t answer. Thanks and see you there.
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Sandwich Sunday (Every Second Sunday of Every Month) *. We would appreciate any donations of tubs of soft margarine, deli meats, and sliced cheese and/or bread loaves for our assembly line of volunteers! The Boise Rescue Mission is always very thankful for our contributions monthly!
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Altar Guild is Recruiting…
We need volunteers from both services to join us in this rewarding ministry.
Please contact:
Shirley Dodson
(208)870-7429 or
Nancy Severson
(208)340-7042 for more information.
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Free Meal
Our monthly free meal will take place December 18, 2021. We hope to see you there!
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Christmas Lefse Pre-Buy Orders |
We will be taking pre-buy orders along with your check or cash starting Sunday, Nov.21st after each service. In order to get your order processed you must pay for your lefse! Our lefse team is only making enough lefse to cover pre-buy orders for Christmas. Last day to pre-buy your order is Dec. 5th. We will distribute your pre-buy orders Sunday, Dec. 12th and Sunday, Dec. 19th in time for your Christmas dinners.
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Prayer Requests
Prayers for God’s Healing:
Tim Pfankuch, Son of Paul & Bonia Pfankuch.
Louise Moore
Marge Holmquist
Tom & Sharyn Christensen
Nancy Serverson's niece Sabina Severson.
David Fredrich, nephew of Mark Drew
Prayers for Strength and Wholeness:
Hendershot Family
Helen Gregory & Family after the death of her Grandson , Andy.
Prayers for the Nominating Committee as they put together the Candidates for various elected offices in the Congregation.
Prayers for Unspoken Needs and requests, those whose hurts are too deep to be spoken.
Prayers for all Healthcare Workers, Military, and the family that
surrounds them.
*Marge Holmquist needs someone to take care of her dog for a few months. Yorkie/Poodle named Jewel. She loves people and is a great companion. Jewel is trained. If you can help, please contact Pastor Connie at: 970-222-8394.
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Christian Life Break
It’s Advent break time for the Christian Life Study group who will not meet again until Monday, January 24, 2022 beginning discussion of a new book for the New Year:
Who Will Be A Witness? Igniting Activisim For God’s Justice, Love, and Deliverance by Drew Hart offers a vision for the communities of faith to organize for deliverance and justice in their neighborhoods, states, and nation as an essential part of living out the call of Jesus. Hart, a public theologian and profession of theology at Messiah University calls the church to action, offering a way forward that is rooted in the life and witness of Jesus.
Interested in joining a group critiquing strategies the church can use to be a liberating and redemptive force in the world? Purchase the book from Amazon or Barnes and Noble.
The Christian Life Study group normally meets the first and third Mondays, beginning at 1 PM via Zoom. Questions?—contact Mary Rickerd.
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NOVEMBER COUNCIL CONNECTIONS
The King of Glory Church Council met for a regularly scheduled meeting via Zoom on Wednesday, November 10. Here are November meeting highlights:
Financial Report
Income received as of October 31, 2021: $390,078
Income budgeted: $362,568
Income Received without the two Paycheck Protection Program Loans: $309,850
The church received two Paycheck Protection Program loans in 2021 for $80,228 added to the total income received.
These loans were part of the Rescue Act passed by Congress to assist businesses and non-profit organizations with revenue shortfalls during the pandemic. These two loans have been forgiven and do not to be repaid.
Actual Expenditures as of October 31, 2021: $355,275
Budgeted Expenditures: $379,835
The expenditures do not include the capital improvement projects which are being funded by the loan from the Mission Investment Fund of the ELCA.
We appreciate the careful monitoring of expenses by all of our committees and staff.
We were notified recently that King of Glory is a recipient of a Walking Together grant from the Northwest Intermountain Synod. These funds will be used to assist in outreach ministries in our community.
The Stewardship Committee continues the focus on 2022 pledges. Thank you to all who have returned pledge commitments and new Time and Talent information. Your timely return of pledge commitments will assist the Council in preparing the budget for 2022. Pledge cards and Time and Talent forms are available in the church.
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Advent Worship Services
Midweek Services
In-person worship services for Wednesdays: December 1, 8, 15 and 22 at 7:00 pm. All in-person worship has the requirement of people being vaccinated and wearing a mask over the nose and mouth while in the building.
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These Midweek in-person services will feature the liturgy called “Mountain Vespers” by Kent Gustavson. This is a beautiful service. Laurann Taylor and Seth McMullen will musically lead this worship. The congregation will listen to the liturgy and follow along with our bulletin. We will reuse the bulletins for each of the 4 Wednesdays in Advent. Our lessons for each Wednesday will be an insert in the bulletins.
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On-line Wednesday Advent worship (December 1, 8, 15, 22) will be sponsored and led by Steve Eulberg and Erin Mae Lewis. The liturgy is “Dulcimer Evening Prayer” written by Steve Eulberg. These contemplative, 30-40 minute services feature the music of Advent accompanied and led by mountain and hammered dulcimers.
The directions to receive the bulletin are:
DIRECTIONS:
Click on this Zoom Link
THEN: Register and then you will receive an email that provides you a bulletin on the day of the service.
Topic: Dulcimer-Friendly Advent Play-Along Service
Time: Dec 1, 2021 07:00 PM Mountain Time (US and Canada)
Every week on Wed, until Dec 22, 2021, 4 occurrence(s)
Dec 1, 2021 07:00 PM
Dec 8, 2021 07:00 PM
Dec 15, 2021 07:00 PM
Dec 22, 2021 07:00 PM
Join Zoom Meeting
Meeting ID: 839 2376 5598
Passcode: 565057
The meeting ID will remain the same each week.
Please contact Steve ( [email protected]) if you are interested in reading a lesson during one or more of the services.
Sunday In-Person Advent Services
– November 28, December 5, 12 and 19.
- All in-person worship has the requirement of people being vaccinated and wearing a mask over the nose and mouth while in the building.
- The Sunday Advent services will include the lighting of the Advent wreath, three lessons from scripture, and an invitation for the congregation to join in the singing of one Advent hymn plus kids message, sermon and liturgy as usual.
- Christmas Eve On-Line Worship
On-line worship will include the entire liturgy, and 10 songs sung by the choir. Viewers will be able to sing to their hearts content.
Songs include: Angels we Have Heard on High, Angels from the Realms of Glory, Hark the Herald Angels Sing, Jesus, What a Wonderful Child, Joy to the World, Laurann’s Holy, Love Has Come, O Come All Ye Faithful, Silent Night, Holy Night.
This service includes members of KOG lighting the Advent Wreath and the Christ candle as well as pictures and video of Christmas Eve scenes. We invite all on-line viewers to have communion bread and wine/juice and a lit candle nearby.
This service will be sometime between 4 pm – 7 pm on Christmas Eve. More information will come on this.
The advantage of this on-line worship is being able to worship with family and friends who are unvaccinated, the ability to worship without leaving your home and the ability to worship in your pajamas at midnight.
- Christmas Eve In-Person Worship
December 24 at 7:00 pm
All in-person worship has the requirement of people being vaccinated and wearing a mask over the nose and mouth while in the building.
The in-person worship will include congregational singing on three hymns during the service: Away in a Manger, O Little Town of Bethlehem and Silent Night, Holy Night with the candle lighting.
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Here is the schedule for Lutheran Churches for Christmas Eve and Christmas Day
Treasure Valley Lutheran Churches -
Christmas Eve Services and Christmas Day worship
Hope Lutheran, Eagle
3pm and 5 pm parking lot services
10 pm in person - masked
On-line worship
Trinity, Nampa
4 pm and 10 pm in person – masked
Shepherd of the Valley
5 pm, 7 pm, 9 pm and 11 pm. All in person and masked
On-Line worship also
Immanuel
4:30, 7:30 and 10 pm in person and masked
Christmas Day worship Recorded Lessons and Carols
King of Glory
5 pm and 7pm Vaccinated and Masked. In person
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KOG December Birthday's:
12/03 Kari Twiss
12/09 Brooke Cendejas
12/11 Jorgen Vaage
12/12 Mark Junkert
12/16 Sierra Wallace
12/19 Matthew Link
12/21 Steve Wiley
12/22 Carol Mickelson
12/23 Nick Tinker
12/24 Louise Moore
12/28 Justin Carlson
12/28 Mark Stephensen
KOG December Anniversaries:
12/01 JJ & Ashlee Wetherington
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King of Glory Lutheran Church
3430 N. Maple Grove Rd., Boise, ID 83704
208-377-0220
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