November, 17, 2021
Your Weekly KOG News & Updates
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Celebrating the last Sunday in the Liturgical Church Year
Sunday, November 21, 2021
 
Sunday, November 21, 2021 is the New Years Eve of the church year. We are celebrating the last Sunday before Advent by bringing our Bible’s and celebrating the WORD of God. 

I will be saying a “Blessing of the WORD” and lifting up our favorite Bible stories. Think of how you would answer the question, “What is your favorite story or verse in the Bible?”

In the Jewish tradition at the last Shabbat service of the year there is a ceremony to open the tabernacle where the Torah scrolls are kept. Lay people from the synagogue are handed each Torah scroll and then they parade them through the sanctuary for people to touch the scrolls and remember the great significance that each scroll holds for their faith. 

We Christians remember all that we have learned from the Word and how our faith relies on scriptures that give us hope, support and give our lives meaning. 

See you Sunday either at our on-line worship or in person. 

*If you are attending worship in person on November 21, please bring your Bible with you!

Pastor Connie
Advent is Coming!!!  
Volunteer Opportunity
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 (pastorconniewe@gmail.com) and to Wes Lewis (wrlewis0706@gmail.com). 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. 
 
 
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. 
 
  • 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. 
 
  • 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 (steve@owlmountainmusic.com) 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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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.
Christmas Lefse Pre-Buy Orders
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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.
Sunday, November 21, 2021 is the New Years Eve of the church year. We are celebrating the last Sunday before Advent by bringing our Bible’s and celebrating the WORD of God. 

I will be saying a “Blessing of the WORD” and lifting up our favorite Bible stories. Think of how you would answer the question, “What is your favorite story or verse in the Bible?”

In the Jewish tradition at the last Shabbat service of the year there is a ceremony to open the tabernacle where the Torah scrolls are kept. Lay people from the synagogue are handed each Torah scroll and then they parade them through the sanctuary for people to touch the scrolls and remember the great significance that each scroll holds for their faith. 
We Christians remember all that we have learned from the Word and how our faith relies on scriptures that give us hope, support and give our lives meaning. 

See you Sunday either at our on-line worship or in person. 
Pastor Connie
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Meeting Christ at Broadway and Bethlehem:
A Spiritual Advent Encounter
 
   Immanuel Lutheran in Boise, ID is offering an Advent opportunity for prayerful devotion and quiet time combined with a weekly reflection of the Advent devotional booklet, Meeting Christ at Broadway and Bethlehem: Day by Day Through Advent by Edward Hays.
 
   The devotional booklet is free and available by download from www.edwardhays.com (Once on the website, under Books – click on Advent and Christmas. Then click on “Meeting Christ at Broadway and Bethlehem”. Then click on ‘Download File). You may also contact the Immanuel office and request the PDF file by email. Printed copies will be available in the Immanuel office.
 
   You may use this booklet on your own or join the Reflection Group each week. Two weekly sessions will be held on Wednesdays via Zoom. Participants are welcome to attend either one. The first one will be from 1:30 pm – 2:30 pm with the second one running from 6:00 pm – 7:00 pm. We will begin on Wednesday, December 1 and end on Wednesday, December 22.
 
   Each week we will begin with a ten-minute devotional quiet time that will start with a piece of music. There will then be a reading from scripture, followed by time for silence and personal reflection. We will close with another piece of music. You will be encouraged to have a candle lit near you during this time or other items to create a meditative space. In the final fifty minutes everyone will have an opportunity to share an ‘aha’ moment or other thoughts on the daily readings we will have read the past week.
 
    Using the Zoom format gives people who do not live near Immanuel or even in the Boise area the opportunity to join us online. Please contact the Immanuel office at office@ilcboise.org or at 208-344-3011 to sign up and to give your email address to the office so that you are able to receive the Zoom link.
 
    If you have any questions please contact Heidi Gainan at hgainan@gmail.com, Kathryn Baerwald at baerwalk@georgetown.edu or Barbara Harrison Condon at barbarajhc@gmail.com
November is Brick Month in the Columbarium
This is a very special way to pay tribute and honor loved ones, especially during the last month of the church year! A $75 donation, payable to the King of Glory Columbarium Garden, will add a brick to the Columbarium Memorial Garden patio. Proceeds from the brick sales assist with the maintenance of the Columbarium Memorial Garden, which operates independently from church funding. The Columbarium Memorial Garden is a separate financial entity of the congregation, supported by the sale of contracts for niches and memorial bricks with no assistance from the General Fund.

Fill out an order form with a check, payable to the King of Glory Columbarium Garden and put in offering plate or send to Church Office. Order forms available at the Columbarium Garden display at the usher’s stand, in the hallway that leads to the Columbarium Memorial Garden or the Information Kiosk in the narthex. A beautiful lasting legacy!
KOG Projects Update!
Great things are happening at King of Glory!
Thanks to the vote of the congregation to approve funding, our much needed building projects have begun. The facelift on the cross is peeling away the old and freshening up the look. On the south side, the sidewalk has been leveled to prevent any trips or falls. And finally, the roof crew is hard at work removing the old roof and putting on new shingles. 

A deposit has been made on the audio/visual project with Neurilink. This will start the process of ordering components and the building a timeline.
We are blessed to be able to give the building the attention it is in need of.
Sandwich Sunday News & Updates

405 sandwiches were made on Sunday to take to the River of Life- Boise Rescue Mission.
Thank you for all your support!
See you next month!
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Thanksgiving - A Time to be Thankful
On Thanksgiving this year, pay your blessings forward. Thanksgiving is one of the big holidays for gathering family together, but sometimes it's just not possible.
Big-hearted gatherings of friends and even strangers fill a void and provide something else for which to be thankful. If you have space left at your dinner table this year, or would like to join in community with fellow KOG Members this Thanksgiving, please contact. We would love to connect you with someone to spend this wonderful holiday with!
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Good Gifts News
So far this year, we have donated enough funds to purchase 4 sanitation kits, 80 chicks, 6 hives of honeybees, and 11 school kits from the ELCA Good Gifts. Thank you to all who donated funds too this great cause. For October, November, and December, we will be collecting funds to go toward a fish farm. This costs $250 but I know we can achieve this. As we are grateful this year for all we have, lets think of what this fish farm would mean to someone or village that needs this.
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KOG Financials:
November

Income:   $390,078  -108% of budget
$309,850 (w/o PPP)  - 85% of budget
 
Expenses $355,275  -94% of budget

We continue to remain steady in our income. Thanks to all for remaining faithful in your giving!

KOG Member Needs A Ride

A member of King of Glory needs a ride to church either service for the next two months. I will be the contact since this member speaks French. Your help is greatly appreciated!

Call Sally Husted to arrange the ride.
208 841-5937.
Prayer Requests
  • Prayers for God’s Healing and Wholeness: Louise Moore, Marge Holmquist, Tom & Sharyn Christensen, Nancy Serverson's niece Sabina Severson.
  • Prayers for Strength and Wholeness: Hendershot Family, Gregory Family.
  • 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.
  • Prayers for Safe Thanksgiving Travel.
  • Prayers of Thanks for all Gods Blessings.
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Time & Talent Forms
Hello KOG Friends, A week or two ago, you received a Time & Talent form, as well as a 2022 Financial Commitment card. Once you have finished filling the form out, please return to the church.
Extra forms are available in the Narthex at the church.

Thank you!
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Wine Pull
October 31st - November 14th
$ 20 to support youth for
2022 & 2024 Youth Gatherings
You will get a bottle of wine
You will get a good feeling supporting the attendees
You might get a FREE drink from the Human Bean (courtesy Mountain West Bank)
OR 2 tickets to an Idaho Steelheads hockey game

Make your purchase between services (10/31 or 11/7) or contact Katie Vaage (katievaage@gmail.com or text 208-573-5630) 
Specify RED or WHITE
King of Glory Lutheran Church
3430 N. Maple Grove Rd., Boise, ID 83704
208-377-0220
Facebook: Ministries at King of Glory Lutheran – https://www.facebook.com/kogyouth/