Friends and Family of Pastor Bob Dahm.
PRAYERS – Jon Cook; Millie Mutka; Jim Moravec; Myria Strong; Kathy Mayo; Barb Zima’s friends Mick, Steven and Marilyn Hummel; Gregory Bowens; Laurie Nelson; Amber Ross’s daughter Linda; Jerrie Van Haverbeke’s niece Jolane Gervasi; Sandy Bishop’s friend Kelly Newman; Randy & Diane Niemczyk’s daughter Julia VanAvery, niece Sarah Joda, Denise Runde and Denise Hazel; Dick Volland; Valeria Hesselberg; Chris Markussen; Anne Verona’s sister/brother-in-law Pat & Woody Woodworth and friends Dennis Peterson, Natalie Madine, Eli Peters and Randy Ballard; Strong’s friend Erin Molle; Debbie Cyrtmus’ mother, Rose Wicker and sister, Corrie Trittin; the Ebert’s friend Patricia Kulzick; Karen Stanton’s friend Mary Lou Zelinski; Patricia Rasmussen’s sister Christine; Joyce Leander’s cousin Laurie Nelson and friend Casey Hohs; Sandy Bishop’s brother Larry; Ashley Clark’s friends Keith & Becky Hernandez and Kristie Dehart; the Waggoner’s sister-in-law Cheryl Busse, and friends Karla Zyhowski, Melissa Branta ; Karen Engels niece Lisa and friend Bob; Ann Carlson’s people Walt, Darren, Curt and Troy; prayers for those impacted by Hurricane Melissa; peace for all nations and comfort for those in distress.
PRAYER LIST PROCEDURE – Submit your prayer requests to the office in writing, by phone, by email or in person. If requesting prayers for someone other than yourself or an immediate family member, please obtain permission – unless the circumstances are public in nature.
Happy Birthday to you
Happy Anniversary to you
May the Lord Jesus Keep You
Ever faithful and true!
GUESTS – if you are visiting us today, please sign our book at the entrance to the sanctuary.
THANKSGIVING SERVICE – will be at 10:00 am at St. Francis Episcopal Church in 120 N. Silver Lake Road, Eagle River. Pastor Grant will be co-leading the service. The offering will be for Caritas and they are asking for canned goods to be brought – if possible.
DECEMBER CHURCH CALENDAR IS OUT –Copies are in the Narthex. And we will be updating the website calendar.
PLEDGE CARDS – LAST CALL – thank you to everyone who has submitted a pledge card. If you were planning on pledging – please return your pledge card by the end of this month.
GRAB A CUP? GRAB TWO ! – we need assistance with coffee hour. There is a sign-up sheet in the Fellowship Hall. Please consider assisting with set-up or clean-up.
ENDOWMENT GRANTS – Help the Endowment Team use our Endowment Fund as effectively as possible to enhance the mission outreach of Prince of Peace. As the fund’s custodian, the team is looking for ways to help the church ministry in the community. If you would like to offer a suggestion to the Endowment Team or financially contribute, get a request form from the narthex, the church office or the website. A donation of any amount will help immensely and be much appreciated. Recently our endowment made a contribution of $1,000 to the Children’s Museum, $250 to Leathernecks of the North, and $1,000 to Praise in the Pines.
JOLABOKAFLOD – is the tradition of gifting a book to someone on Christmas Eve. I will be hitting the local library book sales/thrift stores to find some good reads. Books will be wrapped and here for the taking after our Christmas Eve service. If anyone else is interested in participating – please feel free. (Please do not purchase new books). [I know it’s early – but I wanted to get it out there for planning purposes]
JOIN US FOR OUR NON-REHEARSAL CHRISTMAS PROGRAM!
Dec 14 • Just show up as early at 8:30 AM! No rehearsals. No stress. ALL fun.
This year, everyone—kids, teens, adults, and grandparents—gets to be part of the Christmas story! Show up to choose your role and join the most delightfully unscripted Christmas program ever.
Want to be an angel? Grab a halo.
Feeling sheepish? Be an animal!
Mary or Joseph? We’ve got room.
Shepherd? Absolutely.
Townsperson? Bethlehem needs you!
Come as you are, become who you want, and help bring the story to life! Let’s celebrate Christmas together—with joy, laughter, and a whole lot of Jesus!
CHRISTMAS GARDEN – The Christmas Garden form is available. Please fill out and return to the Front Office by the morning of Dec 18.
ONLINE T-SHIRT SHOP – We are in the process of creating an online t-shirt shop. This would enable people to order a “Hearts on Fire” t-shirt whenever they wanted. We’ve also been working on a couple of designs that you may be interested in. If you have a t-shirt idea that you would like us to create – please let us know. All shirts will be sold ‘at cost’.
BELATED BIRTHDAY SUNDAY – (Apologies – I was under the weather and missed out on announcing birthdays/anniversaries for November for our Birthday Sunday.) We celebrate John Adams, Jo Simons, Tim Wright, Dawn Copple, Mary Akins, Zach Braunel and Benjamin Braunel birthdays in November. No anniversaries were report.
HUGE SHOUT TO THE NIEMCZYKS – Randy and Diane have been busy in our ‘library’ area. Prepping the walls and painting the room so we can move forward in making it a resource for everyone. Prepping the walls ended up being a monster of a task. We deeply appreciate their willingness to share their knowledge, sweat and time.
ANN OOTO – She will be out of the office the first week of Dec, returning on Dec 9.
FUN FACT – I didn’t have an immediate fun fact in mind this week. Probably will revisit Advent next week. As I was typing out the information about the Thanksgiving Day worship service – I thought – what IS the definition of “Episcopal”? Honestly – I thought it was going to be a tad bit more meaning.
Episcopal adjective epis·co·pal i-ˈpi-skə-pəl -bəl
1 : of or relating to a bishop
2 : of, having, or constituting government by bishops
Nope. Guessing someone couldn’t say “Bishopal”. (‘Course – that could lead to a bunch of irreverent memes.) Dug into the etymology and the word is from Middle English (not Middle Earth), from Late Latin episcopalis, from episcopus bishop. Earliest known use was from the 15th century.
Then there was a note stating more information was within the definition of ‘bishop”. You know I cannot resist a rabbit hole. Onto the definition of ‘bishop”. Where the expected definition of church leadership was indicated as well as the chess piece. BUT there also is a “mulled port wine flavored with oranges and cloves” which is called a Bishop. Timely for Thanksgiving?
And in case you wanted to devote a poem to “Episcopal” here are five words that rhyme:
archepiscopal, chorepiscopal, monepiscopal, nonepiscopal and unepiscopal. And each has to do with being or not being ‘piscopal’.
NOTES FROM ANN – The picture at the top has a hidden image. An owl is halfway up – blending nicely into the bark. I was able to snap a picture of this beauty in our driveway. I hear them on a regular basis, but this was my first ‘sort of-up close and personal’ opportunity to take a picture. Then – I snuck a picture of Randy – hard at work in our library/history/family/timeout room. It is wonderful to see a variety of visions coming together. Diane has been here every day as well – also helping with transforming the room into usable space for all!
I don’t know about you – but I’ve been busy working on my Thanksgiving Day menu. I have to cut most of my recipes into fourths because Burt doesn’t like all the extra stuff. But – he does like enough of Thanksgiving food to look forward to making leftover Thanksgiving pizza. Which is amazing. Pizza crust with cranberry sauce – dot with leftover mashed potatoes, turkey and stuffing – cover with mozzarella and bake. Your taste buds are in for a delight!
Gearing up for the big holiday rush. Take time out for yourself. Remember what is most important. Take time to breath and enjoy – not just do – or just check it off the list. If you’re traveling – travel safe and be well.
