Volume 35, Issue 1

Kayla’s New

Year’s Message

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Youth and Young Adult Ministries

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Adult Faith

Enrichment

5

Birthdays and Anniversaries

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Calendar 7

Inside this issue:

Hope Lutheran Church, Bozeman, Montana

2013 Christmas Shoppe Huge Success Again!! We served close to 350 children and over 1000 people attended.

Christmas Shoppe

Photos by Dan March

Epiphany Sunday—Jan. 5 Worship with us at 8:15 and 10:30 am

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Dear Sisters and Brothers in Christ, Happy New Year!

It is my hope that 2014 starts well for you. As many

know, the New Year is a time when people celebrate by

creating resolutions that they hope to live by during the

upcoming year.

Every year it seems that there are resolutions that come

up, whether it is making a resolution to spend more time

with family and friends, to work on eating healthier and

becoming more fit, to get more organized or to quit smoking. But with everyone making

resolutions, some struggle to understand why it takes a new year to do these things and

others are left quitting shortly after starting.

Strengthening or growing in faith is not one of the things that you see on the most popular

resolutions each year. That is why, as we enter into 2014, I wanted to share with you how

Hope can become a part of your new year resolution. For some of you, it may be that you are

hoping to attend church more often. Others of you may see the new year as an opportunity to

get involved in one of the many activities that we have here at Hope. It could be joining one of

the committees here, coming to more family events as they are hosted, coming to check out

what Bible study has to offer, signing up to help with one of our many community outreach

activities or even stopping in for an adult forum one Sunday after the early service.

However, while there are many opportunities within the church building, don’t forget to think

about how you can help us serve out in the community.

Over the next few weeks, we encourage you to think about how Hope can help change your

future in 2014 and maybe this will be one resolution that sticks!

Blessings to you as we start the adventures of new year together.

Kayla Billings

Pastoral Intern

Chill 2014: Confirmation and High School Retreat February 7-9 Yellowstone Alliance Adventures Camp

Join us for an unforgettable weekend of Winter fun! We will go snow tubing, play broom ball, have lots of free time, and learn and grow together. All confirmation students are strongly

encouraged to join us...and all high school youth are welcome to come too!

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Confirmation Update

Young Adult Ski Retreat

Don’t miss our annual Young Adult

ski retreat to Grand Targhee Resort

in Alta, WY. This trip is for all

current college students and any

young adults who are no longer in

high school. We will depart from

Hope Lutheran on Friday, January

17 and head to a rental home near

the ski resort. On Saturday we will

ski all day. On Sunday we will drive

over the pass and go into Jackson

Hole for Church and a

snowshoeing adventure in the

Grand Tetons. The cost of this trip

is greatly reduced to make it

affordable for college students, and

is $75 for people who have their

own equipment and $100 for those

who need rentals. The fee covers

transportation if traveling with the

group, meals beginning with

Breakfast on Saturday and ending

with Breakfast on Monday, lift

ticket, snow shoe rental (though if

you own snow shoes please bring

them!), and admission to Grand

Tetons. We will return on Monday,

January 20, which is Martin Luther

King Jr. Day.

Space is VERY limited, and on a

first come first served basis. The

only way to sign up is to give your

$75 to Paul Goodman.

Coming in January: Confirmation will begin again on

Sunday, January 5 at 5:30 and this

spring almost every gathering will be

from 5:30-7. We will begin with a

review night, followed by learning

about the Apostle’s Creed and the Ten

Commandments. This spring we will

also have several guest speakers,

including Rabbi Ed Stauffman, who

will teach us about Judaism, Dr. Rahul

Amin, who will teach us about Islam

and more! We will also have two fun

nights, including a trip to Bozeman

Hot Springs, and another to the Spire

climbing center. It should be a

GREAT spring! The schedule for

January is as follows

January 5: Review Game Show with

prizes.

January 12: Overview of The Apostle’s

Creed

January 19: NO CLASS: MLK

WEEKEND

January 26: Does God Still Create

Things Today?

February 2: How Can God be Three

in One?

February 9: Family Night: Family

Creeds

February 16: NO

CLASS...PRESIDENT’S DAY

WEEKEND

February 23: Special Guest Speaker:

Purchase gift cards with a percentage being

given to our congregation!

You are now able to purchase gift cards from hundreds of

businesses like Lowes, Safeway, Exxon, Olive Garden, and more. Hope Lutheran will

automatically receive a percentage from each card purchased ranging from 3-18%. You still

give the full face value of the card to spend locally or give as gift card. This is an excellent

way to not spend an extra dollar but increase revenue for Hope Lutheran. Checkout:

http://www.shopwithscrip.com

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Got those Mid-Winter Blues ? ? ? Well…

Join a Choir & Sing Your Way to Happiness

Study found singing in a chorus boosted mental well-being,

sense of meaningfulness

FRIDAY, Dec. 6, 2013 (Health Day News) -- Singing in a choir might be good for your mental health, a new study suggests.

British researchers conducted an online survey of nearly 400 people who either sang

in a choir, sang alone or belonged to a sports team. All three activities were associated with greater levels of mental well-being, but the levels were higher

among those who sang in a choir than those who sang alone.

The poll also revealed that choral singers regarded their choirs as more meaningful

social groups compared to how athletes viewed their sports teams.

The study, presented Thursday at a meeting of the British Psychological Society in

York, England, did not actually show a cause-and-effect link between singing in a choir and being happy, however. "Research has already suggested that joining a

choir could be a cost-effective way to improve people's well-being," study author Nick Stewart, of Oxford Brookes University, said in a society news release. "Yet we

know surprisingly little about how the well-being effects of choral singing are brought about."

"These findings suggest that the experience of using your voice to make music may be enhanced when you feel part of a cohesive social group," he said. "Further

research could look at how moving and breathing [in concert] with others might be responsible for creating a unique well-being effect."

Chancel Choir meets Thursday evenings from 7-8:30 P.M.

See you there !

SCRIPTURE READINGS FOR JANUARY 2014

January 5 John 2:1-11

January 12 John 1:35-51

January 19 John 2:13-25

January 26 John 3:1-21

ADULT FAITH ENRICHMENT

BIBLE STUDIES

The Thursday 11:30 Bible Study focuses

on the Scripture texts assigned for the upcom-

ing Sunday services. The discussion is facili-

tated by Pastor Steve or Pastoral Intern Kay-

la.

WOMEN’S CIRCLE

BIBLE STUDIES

The Mary-Martha Circle meets at 9:30 am

at the Bozeman Lodge.

DEBORAH CIRCLE

Join the ladies in Deborah Circle when they

meet every month on the first Tuesday at 7

pm at the church.

Return on Sunday January 12 at 9:30am on Sundays

Jan. 12 “Baptism: A Little Dab Will Do Ya or Only

Total Immersion is Valid?” by Pastor Steve

Jan. 19 “Holy Land Presentation” Part 1 by Kayla

Jan. 26 “Holy Land Presentation” Part 2 by Kayla

We Say Thank You

TO FOR

The Thrivent Gallatin/Broadwater Chapter For donating coffee, tea and hot choco-

late mix.

Ellen Connolly, Alan Goldhahn, Jim Johannes,

Jim, Dick Deschamps, Dick Kracht, Kelly Dubose,

Miriam Tilleman, Hayden Ferguson, Matt and Mia

Edwards, Licia and Gary Bishop, Michael

Zacharisen, Jim McKenna, WJ Anderson

For performing all the tasks of

preparation, serving and clean-up for the

Pancake Breakfast on Friend Sunday.

Leslie Derham, Don Heyden, Dan Lohss, Dan

March, and all other individuals who spent

countless hours shopping, soliciting funds, setting

up, baking cookies, shopping helpers, gift

wrappers, greeters, cleaning up, Girl Scouts and

everything else . . .

To make Christmas Shoppe 2013 a huge

success.

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Lent, Holy Week and Easter dates this year:

Ash Wednesday, March 5 — Palm Sunday, April 13 — Maundy Thursday, April 17 — Good Friday, April 19

Easter, April 20

JANUARY BIRTHDAYS 1st

Nancy Becker

Grant Blomstrom

Mandy Drysdale

Rose Hoff

Larry Larson

Shari March

Ashton McAllister

Chris Mehl

Mico Monks

Doug Shanley

Suzy Thayer

2nd

Ty Free

Carol Long

Lizzie Meltzer

Shirley Sales

Herb Strom

3rd

Barb Moe

Sydney Stites

Larry Willard

4th

Candice Donaldson

Dave Ferre

Joyce South

5th

Marge Erickson

6th

James Asserson

Janet Krob

7th

Linda Breeden

Giles Cokelet

Nicholas Linsky

Melana Neutgens

Marty Schultz

9th

Tyler Anselmi

Connor Atkins

Terry Deal

10th

Eli Collins

Fran Folkvord

Travis Hackbarth

Wayne Hansen

11th

LeAnne Grote

Don Heyden

Elaine Ollestad

12th

Christene McDonnell

Linda Olson

14th

Ron Batchelor

Heidi Parkes

15th

Susan Nelson

16th

Brett Sather

Reid Wilkinson

Fred Woodham

17th

Mitch Kayser

Bev Tompers

Tammy Walker

18th

Marti Miller

Jan Riekenberg

Clayton Schievelbein

Tyler Smith

20th

Elizabeth Kinion

Deleores Kottwitz

Joyce Lohss

Tom Starner

20th

Ali Weedin

Reese Young

21st

Marsha Hertz

Wendy Rivers

Tom Wold

21st

Samuel Robinson

22nd

Jim Johannes

Isabella Robinson

Barb Vance (93)

23rd

Dan March

24th

Mike Kraft

25th

Mark Hackbarth

Joyce Olson

Kirt Walstad

28th

Pam Bredberg

Luke Delaney

Zeke Pershing

29th

Ivan Albrecht

Max Amberson

Tess Hagenlock

Savana Starner

30th

Jayme Schlepp

31st

Angela Shanley

JANUARY ANNIVERSARIES

January

January

Steve and Allison Coffman 2 Tom and Karen Cahill 10

Laura Hoehn and Chris Mehl 2 Ivan and Judy Albrecht 13

Joe and Abby Waldear 2 Art and Sandy Tysse 55 17

Toby and Mandy Naylor 8

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