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Vol. 12 Mar. 20, 2024

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Special Invitation

Tomorrow at noon (March 20), I'll be preaching at First Lutheran for the final Regional Council of Christian Ministries (RCCM) Lenten Service for this year. Several of you have said that you plan to attend while others are still considering attending. While it may be challenging for some of you to consider, I also believe that the witness you have in loving others can be very powerful. Whether you're called to show up at First, or to show love in other ways, remember that you are a beloved child of God. A soup lunch will begin at 11:30. The service is at noon, and lunch will resume again at 12:30. I plan to eat following the service but will be there at 11:30. I hope to see you there...


Bible Study: Mark 11:1-11

11When they were approaching Jerusalem, at Bethphage and Bethany, near the Mount of Olives, he sent two of his disciples 2and said to them, “Go into the village ahead of you, and immediately as you enter it, you will find tied there a colt that has never been ridden; untie it and bring it. 3If anyone says to you, ‘Why are you doing this?’ just say this, ‘The Lord needs it and will send it back here immediately.’” 4They went away and found a colt tied near a door, outside in the street. As they were untying it, 5some of the bystanders said to them, “What are you doing, untying the colt?” 6They told them what Jesus had said; and they allowed them to take it. 7Then they brought the colt to Jesus and threw their cloaks on it; and he sat on it. 8Many people spread their cloaks on the road, and others spread leafy branches that they had cut in the fields. 9Then those who went ahead and those who followed were shouting,


“Hosanna!

Blessed is the one who comes in the name of the Lord!

10 Blessed is the coming kingdom of our ancestor David!

Hosanna in the highest heaven!”


11Then he entered Jerusalem and went into the temple; and when he had looked around at everything, as it was already late, he went out to Bethany with the twelve.


+Jesus anticipates that someone will ask why the disciples are untying the colt. Why do you think they just go along with it rather than objecting?


+Jesus rides in on a colt that’s never been ridden before. Would you ever do that? Why or why not? Do you think there may be some type of symbolism or significance involved in him riding a colt that hasn’t been ridden before?


+Why do you think there was so much attention placed on obtaining a donkey that Jesus rides in on?


+Why do you think people put their coats on the colt and the road? Who might those people be?


+Why might these people be following Jesus?


+How would you welcome/ receive a leader?


+Would we follow Jesus today?




Blessings, Pastor Ann.


Interested in membership at New Day?

We'll be having some new members joining us March 24th!

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Palm Sunday BULLETIN


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This past Sunday's service in case you missed it!

March is Women's History Month

Sacagawea with Lewis and Clark.

A Shoshone Indian born circa 1788, Sacagawea was kidnapped by the Hidatsa when she was around 12 years old. Eventually, she and another captive were acquired by and married to Toussaint Charbonneau, a French-Canadian trader.

When Charbonneau was hired as a translator for the Lewis and Clark ExpeditionMeriwether Lewis and William Clark also wanted to take advantage of Sacagawea’s linguistic knowledge (she could speak both Shoshone and Hidatsa). Sacagawea set out with the expedition on April 7, 1805, only two months after giving birth. She took her son, Jean Baptiste, on the journey, where the presence of mother and child was an indisputable asset — as war parties didn’t take along women and children, the group wasn’t seen as a threat by the tribes they encountered.

Sacagawea assisted the expedition in other ways: When a panicked Charbonneau almost capsized a boat, she saved navigational tools, supplies and important papers. She was able to locate edible and medicinal roots, plants and berries. The landmarks she remembered also proved useful in their travels.

When the group returned to the Hidatsa-Mandan villages in 1806, Sacagawea didn’t receive any pay (her husband got $500, as well as 320 acres of land). Clark acknowledged the unfairness of this in an 1806 letter to Charbonneau: “[Y]our woman who accompanied you that long dangerous and fatigueing rout to the Pacific Ocian and back diserved a greater reward for her attention and services on that rout than we had in our power to give her....”

Sacagawea died in 1812, soon after giving birth to a daughter, Lisette. Indicating how much he’d appreciated her, it was Clark who took responsibility for Sacagawea's children.

Source:  https://www.biography.com/history-culture/famous-native-american-women-native-american-heritage-month


Monday Lent Videos

Several people from New Day have taken time to talk a bit about their faith. Look for them on Mondays during Lent on Facebook. Note: you may have to make sure the volume is on ON the Facebook video player.

Website Transformation

The technology committee had a meeting and discussed the current state of our website. A proposal was made to council to use a different provider and council approved. If you haven't seen the website lately, now is a good time to take a fresh look! www.newdaylutheran.org

Upcoming Celebration: May 5, 2024

We'll be celebrating New Day Lutheran becoming an authorized ELCA congregation in 2019. We'll do this in conjunction with a youth fundraiser. We'll have a time to reminisce about the history of New Day followed by a meal. We need your help to make this a success.

What's needed:

  • Photos & stories... your memories! 🙂 Contact Theresa if you have photos or stories you can share from 2019 to now.
  • A Thrivent Grant to purchase food HAS BEEN OBTAINED
  • "Baskets" or other fundraising items to raffle off... Do you have items that you can donate for our fundraising efforts??
  • Volunteers to assist with set-up, cooking, & clean-up   

**Contact church@newdaylutheran.org or Pastor Ann by email or cell phone












Mid-week Lenten Soup Suppers & Compline Prayer Worship Service

6:00 Themed Supper (free will donation to support youth attending the National ELCA Youth Gathering) followed by worship at 7pm. There is a food sign-up available for main dish, salad, and bread, NO DESSERT. Please make sure to sign up to bring a dish. The clipboard is passed around on Sunday, or you can contact Pastor Ann or Theresa.


3/20 – Soup Supper


Community Mid-week Noon Lenten Services

The Regional Council of Christian Ministries(RCCM) will be offering rotating mid-week (Wednesday) Lenten services as well as a soup & bread lunch both before and after the service to accommodate those with varying lunch schedules. Lunch will be at 11:30 and 12:30 with services held at 12 noon. Preachers and hosts will rotate.


Host Location & Preacher:


March 20th

Facility – at First Evangelical Lutheran

Pastor – Reverend Ann Bjorklund

Holy Week Worship Schedule

March 24 Palm Sunday 9:15AM NDLC

  • We will meet in the narthex just outside the sanctuary and process in with palms this year.
  • If you do NOT want to be on camera, process in and go to your seat behind the offering plate.
  • If you don't mind being on camera, process in to the front and then to the side and back up to where you plan to sit.

March 28 Maundy Thursday St. Luke's 7:00pm

March 29 Good Friday Joint with St. Luke's 1:00pm & 7:00pm

March 30 Holy Saturday NDLC 6:00PM

  • We are meeting outside at the front of the church. Dress warm. It will be a short service. Coffee will be afterwards in parish hall.

March 31 Easter Sunday NDLC 9:15AM

  • We plan to do a cross processional
  • It is customary to stand and face the cross as it moves towards the front of the sanctuary.
  • We will also process out with the cross

2024 ELCA Youth Gathering

Robert and Anora are excited to have the opportunity to attend the 2024 ELCA Youth Gathering held in New Orleans this coming summer! Aside from the monthly noisy offering they will be doing some bigger fundraisers as they will need to raise $4500 total for the trip.

  • You can use the button below to give online! Just put Youth Gathering where appropriate!
  • You can also mail a check made out to New Day Lutheran to:

New Day Lutheran Church

2184 Channing Way #474

Idaho Falls, ID 83404

GIVE NOW for YOUTH GATHERING

Robert and Anora would like to thank everyone who has donated. Our new total raised is $2235! Thank you so much! The funds are used for travel, food, housing, and chaperone expenses.

Noisy Offering

We will have a noisy offering the first Sunday of the month through July to assist the youth attending the National ELCA Youth Gathering in New Orleans. Bring your loose pocket change, or the entire change jar!

Meetings/Updates

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Council

  • Sunday April 21 at 10:30am upstairs conference room.
  • All congregants are welcome to attend council meetings.
  • If you would like to request time to address the council please contact Merlene Brockway at (208) 317-3757 or email president@newdaylutheran.org


Thrivent Choice Dollars & Action Grants

  • Do you have Thrivent Choice Dollars that need to be allocated? This is your friendly reminder that New Day would appreciate your generosity if you choose us as your recipient.
  • Are you able to help New Day fund projects through an Action Grant? Pastor Ann can help you with ideas or assist you in applying. 


Health and Safety Committee

  • If you would like to be CPR/first aid/AED trained please contact us at church@newdaylutheran.org


Pride Committee

  • We are have formed a Pride committee to work through the logistics of Pride in both Rexburg and Idaho Falls this year!
  • Want to help? Let Theresa know!
  • Committee: We are meeting Sunday April 28th at 10:30am in the upstairs conference room. Grab your snacks and head on upstairs after worship.


Worship Committee

April 13 & 14

Small Groups

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Monday Coffee

Mondays 10am Church Parish Hall


Bible Study

Mondays 6pm Church Columbarium Narthex


Beer Group

Tuesdays 3pm Idaho Brewery Idaho Brewing Company


Book Club

1st Wednesday each month 4pm Church Parish Hall


Thursday Coffee

Thursdays 10am Greenhouse Coffee


Dog Gone Fun Day

1st Friday each month 4pm Idaho Falls Dog Park if 50°+ and no precipitation.

Luther Heights Bible Camp

We are an owner of Luther Heights Bible Camp - so it is important we are invested in the things they are up to! If you need more info on them, call 208-886-7657 or email them at info@lutherheights.org

NWIMS (Northwest Intermountain Synod)

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NORTHWEST INTERMOUNTAIN SYNOD 

REGIONAL GATHERINGS 2024

FUNDING FORWARD: 

STEWARDSHIP FOR TODAY AND TOMORROW

Ezra 3:10-13

In this passage, we meet the Israelites as they are trying to find their ‘new normal’ after the destruction of the first temple and the rebuilding of the second. There is a mix of both grief and hope in the air as the foundation is being laid. This passage reminds us to tend to the variety of emotions present as we tend to the work of innovation in the church today.


We are excited to invite you to one of Regional Gatherings this coming spring. This will be an opportunity to learn together, to reconnect with friends and build relationships with people from neighboring congregations.


April 27, 2024 - Advent Lutheran Church - Spokane Valley, WA

May 4 - Our Savior Lutheran Church - Twin Falls, ID

May 18 - First Lutheran Church - Ellensburg, WA

  9:30 am Registration 10:00 am Gathering


Congregation Registration will be sent out to congregations in February. Each congregation is asked to register for the day-long event closest to you. The registration fee is $300 per congregation. Bring as many people as you would like. In March, information will be sent to register participants. There will be $15 fee per person to cover lunch expenses. The Gathering will conclude at 4:00 pm.


Our presenter is Grace Pomroy who is the Director of the Stewardship Leaders Program at Luther Seminary in St. Paul, MN. She’s a lay, millennial stewardship leader, speaker, and financial educator based in Allyn, WA. She is the co-author of the stewardship book, Embracing Stewardship: How to Put Stewardship at the Heart of Your Congregation’s Life, as well as author of the 2013 ELCA stewardship resource, “Stewards of God’s Love.” She is currently working on a book about alternative financial models for ministry with Fortress Press, an imprint of 1517 Media. 


A Message from Bishop Manlove

Regional Gatherings - What, Why, and Who?

 

I have been reading instructor Grace Pomroy’s Stewardship Leaders Newsletter for at least five years. I know the word stewardship does not excite everyone as much as it does me, so let me state clearly that there has always been something unique about Pomroy’s approach to generosity and stewardship. It is holistic, includes both data and stories, creative (but not trendy), and it is always grounded in scripture and prayer. Last summer, when I read the draft of her forthcoming book, I loved the way she started with the Ezra 3:10-13 passage and also began each chapter with Dwelling in the Word (similar to Lectio Divina). Over the years, I learned that Pomroy’s seminary students do case studies on the various ways churches are finding or creating funding streams beyond the Sunday offering. So, when she said she was available to present at our three regional gatherings this spring, I was elated.

 

The regional gatherings are something I have been excited about since the idea first arose. Full-disclosure, I was one of the original three authors of the resolution that moved us into this experiment. I wonder sometimes if people think we wrote the resolution because we disliked synod assemblies. Nothing could be further from the truth. I love synod assemblies! I also love long retreats and full weeks at our outdoor ministry sites. I love the ELCA Youth Gathering. I am a product of so many of our Lutheran gathering events and spaces. My faith in the Triune God has been nourished, my soul has been fed, my conscience prodded, my sense of belonging and belovedness nurtured, and my imagination opened by gathering with other Christians.

 

I helped write the original resolution about regional gatherings because I wanted more people in our synod to have access to those spaces. Generally, only two lay voting members can attend from each church. Who can take off work and who can be away from home for two nights limits who is available to be voting members. We knew, back in 2018, that when we gathered people, as we did for the Treasure Valley Cluster church council leadership retreats, that they all enjoyed being together and learning from one another. That was pre-global-pandemic, so consider our desire now for companionship and knowing we are not following Jesus on our own. Finally, we original authors recognized the financial burden of annual synod assemblies on many congregations. The regional gatherings are less than one-third the cost for food and lodging. There are even more savings when calculating travel costs. Yes, some things are lost in not having synod assembly annually, but I still believe the gains can and will outweigh those losses.


There were around 250 of us in the Tri-cities for Synod Assembly 2023. What if 150-200 people attended each of the regional gatherings in 2024? We would double the number of people who have an experience learning, praying, worshiping, and eating with other Lutheran Christians across our synod! Who in your congregation would like a day with other ELCA Lutheran Christians? Who is ready to be inspired by Grace Pomroy, who cares deeply about congregational life and grounds her work in rich scriptural interpretation and wonderful questions? Who wants to get to know other people in your congregation with a mini-road trip to Twin Falls, Spokane Valley, or Ellensburg? Get ready to register and we will see you this spring.

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