The Redeemer Reporter November 2018

Hello Redeemer

After a very busy summer and early fall filled with travel and family time, I look forward to this season when life seems to slow down a bit and our schedules become more routine. Jeff and I are empty nesters again as Hannah, our oldest, is starting her first real job in Washington DC and Ben is entering his second year of college at Villanova University.

We were blessed this Sunday to have Bishop Kristen Kuempel lead us in worship at Redeemer. Her sermon focused on God’s forgiveness of our sins and what a gift that is. We read about David, his adulterous relationship with Bathsheba, and the plan to have her husband die in battle so that the pregnant Bathsheba could become David’s wife. He does this without any apparent remorse. Then God sends the prophet Nathan , who through a parable, opens David’s eyes to the sins he has committed. By God’s grace , David is enabled to see the truth and expresses his sorrow and desperate longing for restoration to God in Psalm 51.

Like David, we are human and capable of sin. But God forgives us and when we repent “it’s like it never happened”.

Sometimes it’s the small things that trip me up - like letting a choice word fly out of my mouth when I am frustrated in traffic, or letting my anger get the best of me. I am always asking for forgiveness in those situations and strive to do better.

Sunday worship fills me with hope, helps me prepare for the week and reminds me that it is God’s grace that keeps me

A NOTE FROM COUNCIL

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whole.

Thank you to the various pastors that have filled in for Pastor Ken during his Sabbatical. And thanks to the people of Redeemer for your commitment and dedication during this time.

Grace and Peace to you,

Dawn King-Menzner

Council

The church office will be closed on

November 22nd and 23rd for the

Thanksgiving holiday.

We wish all of you a Blessed Thanksgiving Day!

Don’t forget to turn your clocks back one hour on

Sunday,

November 4th

Annual Redeemer

Altar Guild Meeting

If you are interested in serving on the

Altar Guild for 2019, please come.

Sunday November 18th

9:45am in the sanctuary

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First Thursday Lunch will be on November 1st. We begin at 12:00 p.m. with soup, breads, and desserts.

The cost is $2.00 per person and children are free.

Bring a friend and join us for good food and great fellowship.

Starting January 2nd, 2019

Office is closed January 1st

The church office will be open

Tuesday— 9am-1pm

Thursday—9am-1pm

Friday—9am-1pm

Shown is Kelly Anne Kuntz, assistant principal at South Jr. High, receiving Redeemer’s check for $413.00. South

Jr. High greatly appreciates our congregation’s help.

Update Mission of the Month….

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Property Committee Reaches Out…

Your Property Committee is reaching out to the congregation for the names and contact information for reliable commercial building builders/remodelers. We need businesses to give us estimates on a new roof for the Fellowship/Education wing. We know we’ll need businesses that have an association with structural engineers and architects or who have in house architecture and engineering capacity. Please contact me or one of your Property Committee members if you know of a business that has a proven track record. Property committee members include: Carol Green (Council Liaison), Ed Blakeslee, Kurt Gaedeke, Fred Riddle, Larry Spencer, Martina Ngabonziza, Lee Fischer, Thom Garzone, Doug Hardin, and Laurel Simos (Chairman)

Thank you! Laurel Simos ljsimos@gmail.com 208.336.2329

Scott LeBoeuf Tackles Redeemer’s Back Yard

As part of Scott working toward his Eagle Scout Merit Badge, he volunteered to do some work around Redeemer. Scott took on a

particularly challenging job, which was to clean out the ditch and lawn along both the North and East sides of the back yard, take out some

volunteer nuisance trees which had grown fairly tall, and use an earth-friendly weed spray to kill the unwanted weeds. The fence line

had gotten overgrown and had not been addressed for quite a while.

Now the back yard looks fantastic!

It was a lot of hard work and it is very much appreciated!

Brian LeBoeuf supervised the work. Thank you Scott and Brian! Great job!

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Quilts Blessed on

Sunday, October 7th, 2018

The Quilters appreciate the generosity of the congregation for this ministry. They are grateful for being selected as the mission of the month for two consecutive months this year. They set a goal of a hundred quilts and exceeded that by seven. The donations of money, used sheets, and material have gone to good use. They’d like to recognize a few individuals. Dannette Blakeslee for donating her mother’s Kenmore sewing machine. Jerry Smith, for servicing their machines at no cost for the last six years and donating a sewing machine cabinet. Jo Dinnel, for making a special quilt for Frank Church High school to auction off. Lastly, Shirley Gilchrist for material and an iron.

Those currently quilting are Sandy Boyington, Joy Brizee, Judi Campbell, Alice Dingeldein, Linda Ectenkamp, Willow Hahn, Marlene Isensee, Pat Lindberg, Ruth Makovsky, Mary Reid, Ellen Ribbink, Maxine Spears, and Diana White. A special thanks to, Jerry, who maintains our machines and Thrivent for sending funds to cover some of our batting. May God continue to bless our ministry and the many hands that make it possible.

Picture taken by Pat Lindberg

The quilts were distributed as follows:

-70 to Lutheran World Relief

-20 to foster children.

-6 to Idaho City Schools

-10 to Frank Church High School.

-1 to Frank Church fundraiser.

107 quilts made & donated. (Wow!)

Wednesdays—3:30p-5:00p

Saturdays—10:30am-12:30p

3rd Fridays— 5:30p-7:00p

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The Season of Advent begins

Sunday, December 2nd.

Help make our sanctuary beautiful for Christmas by ordering a poinsettia. Flowers

will be available for purchase beginning November 4th until December 16th. The

Poinsettias are red with gold foil. The cost per Poinsettia is $12.00 each. There will be one

triple white Poinsettia which will be used during Advent and in to Christmas. The cost of

this plant is $33.50 if someone would like to purchase it.

As always, your flower can be dedicated to a memory of someone, or something special in

your life. The dedications will be printed in our Christmas bulletins.

Yes, gift giving season is fast approaching! Redeemer’s council has chosen to continue the practice established in recent years. If you desire to give the pastor a monetary Christmas gift, the council requests that you offer the gift directly to the pastor. If anonymity is important to you, please seal cash in an envelope and give it to the pastor through a fellow member in the congregation.

This practice of giving will ensure the money is a true gift. Money given to the pastor from Redeemer qualifies as income, not as a gift, on this personal tax return. Thank you for understanding.

Faithfully,

Redeemer Lutheran Church Council

Naomi~Esther Circle asks the

congregation to assist us with Christmas

cookies for our shut-ins and our NA and

other groups who meet at church. If you

are willing to contribute, please have 2

dozen cookies at the church on or before

December 12th at 11:30 where we will

gather to assemble for delivery. Your

assistance is greatly appreciated by the

Circle and those who receive the cookies

which are a treat anticipated every year.

The Circle will host a brunch on that day,

December 12th, at 11:30 in the Fellowship

Hall and any church women who would like

to attend are more than welcome. Please

RSVP if you are not a member of this Circle

to Carol Green at

seagreen5044@gmail.com so we can

insure there is enough food.

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NO NAME MEN’S GROUP

MONTHLY MEETING: MONDAY, NOVEMBER 12TH (7:00PM) WHERE: SOCKEYE GRILL & BREWPUB (3019 N COLE RD. BOISE, ID)

Questions

We will use our base set

1. What has gone well this past month?

2. What has not gone well?

And always, any prayer request.

Esther/Naomi Circles

The Esther~Naomi Circle

will meet again on

Wednesday, November 14,

at 1:00 p.m. in the church

Fellowship Hall.

We will use the Gather Bible study. If you have a treat to share, please bring it. There will be copies of the

study, water and coffee.

RUTH Circle

Please join us at

Ceramica on Vista on

Sunday, November 4th

At 3pm

(there is a table reserved for us)

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Wash , Wipe, & Wear Distribution in

October

Many Thanks to the following people who assisted in October. Katherine R., ordered diapers.

Marilyn Smith picked toilet paper.

On Thursday, Sandy W., Lori wambolt, Connie S., and Martina N. sorted diapers.

writers: Gale Faber and Julie W.

A huge thanks to church's youth who were willing to help on the Distribution Day: Audrey Wambolt, Sam and Scott Laboeuf, Cola and Leah (Gale's granddaughters) Sandrina Uwajeneza and Becky. Everyone did a fantastic job!

Many thanks to Carol Green for her donation of warm clothes. Many thanks to Fred Riddle for his donation of winter hats, and Alice Dingeldein for donating the baby blankets, and all who donated the baby clothes. Re-member, it is more blessing to give than to receive.

Because we had many clothes for men, women and children I let them take as many as they could and they were excited. a man made me laugh when he found a very good suit and he didn't even see its size he just took it fast and went outside with his wife. If you donated the suit God bless you. I got so much happiness when I

saw how God blessed the people through our giving.

Submitted by Martina Ngabonziza.

Mission of the Month for October

Help For Our Veterans

Please remember our veterans this year. We have extended the warm clothing drive for our male and female homeless veterans through November 4th.

This will allow us a little more time to fill the baskets.

Thank You! Kari Spencer

Outreach Activities

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Mission of the Month November

Helping Families at Christmas

Additionally, for November we would like to help a family (or

families) enjoy Christmas. We are asking for monetary donations for this outreach. The church council will update

the congregation on the family that will receive our assistance for the holidays.

This holiday season share the joy of reading with a needy child by donating a new book to Operation Wish Book from November 4th-25th.

Over the last twenty-five years more than 340,000 books have been donated through this program in the Treasure Valley.

Types of new books needed:

Pre-school “paddle” books (cardboard pages)

Hard cover books for grades K-2

Soft cover (paperback) books for upper grades 3-12

New books will be collected in a box labeled “Operation Wishbook” in the sanctuary.

If you prefer to make a monetary donation*, please make checks payable to

“Boise Schools Foundation” and place in the collection plate during the offering.

Please contact Dannette Blakeslee (208-342-3028) if you have any questions.

*One hundred percent of the money donated goes toward the purchase of books.

Operation Wish Book

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Readings for Sundays in November

November 4 Elisha Heals Naaman 2 Kings 5:1-15a

November 11 Micah Micah [1:3-5]; 5:2-5a; 6:6-8

November 18 Swords into Plowshares Isaiah 36:1-3, 13-20; 37:1-7; the 2:1-4

November 25 Jeremiah’s Temple Sermon Jeremiah 1:4-10; 7:1-11

November Altar Guild: Carolyn Rapp

Flowers: Coffee and Fellowship Time:

Nov 4 Roxanne Wasson Council

Nov 11 Nowel Virginie

Nov 20 LeBoeuf Kari Spencer

Nov 27 Woodall

Linda Albers Family Ryan Albers Betty James Allen Family of Rev. Baughman Chris Clay Binford Peter Bond Joy Brizee Family of Tom Bryant Family of Rob Bursik Darla Bylinski Ray Carleton Family of Lorraine Chavez Don Coffman Family of Janice Collins Bev Cordes Connor’s Family Family of Katie Davis Kristi Davis Debbie Deidhaar Family of Dick Gasparotti Family of Darrell Dorn

Dowell Family Jennifer Draney Draney Family Mike Edgekoski Lori Floyd Family of Louise Gaedeke Thom Garzone Dani Goodson Everly Goodson Waverly Goodson Alice Holmes Harold Horton Patsy Horton Julie Hulvey Ingraham Family Family of Ed Irons Family of Larry Irons Gloria Jay Family of Marilyn Jennings Family of Fran Keibler Betty Kidd Grace Kinsey

Family Loren Larson Family of Bettie Leavitt Richard McCaskill Michele Joe Mogen Roger Oldenburger Kitty Patton Andrew & Becca Pike Tina Qualls Grace Ruddy & Family Family of Hank Sather Sonia Safron Anita Searcy Family of Russ Schroeder Family of Flora Schweitzer Scott and family Maxine Spears Robin Stewart Family of Stoor/Smith Anna Sutherland Alan Syron Marjorie Tripp

Jennie Trott Jonah Udstuen Leia Vogt Family of Kenny White Family of Michael Zipser

PRAYERS OF THE PEOPLE: New prayer requests are shown in bold print.

Military Seth Erickson

Devan Irons

Matthew Jay

Jason Kinsey

Carol Kohtz

Logan Kostick

Jonathan Negron

Jon Savage

Jim Schmeits

Brian Waybright

Redeemer Lutheran Church

2920 Cassia Street

Boise, ID 83705

Office: 208-344-6758

Web: www.redeemerboise.org

Table of Contents:

Note from Council Pgs 1-2

Fall info Page 2

1st Thurs/Changes/Update Page 3

Property/Quilts/Joseph’s Closet Pgs 4-5

Xmas Season/ Redeemer Groups Pgs. 6-7

Outreach News Pgs 8-9

November Calendar Page 10

Readings/Prayers Page 11