Remembering in prayer:
Family and Friends of Roger Jehnke
Jon Cook; Millie Mutka, Zima family friends Cary Gramsch, Stefan Sladek, Dave Butschli, Mick, Steven and Marilyn Hummel; Gregory Bowens; Amber Ross’s daughter Linda; Randy & Diane Niemczyk’s niece Sarah Joda, and their dear friend Denise Hazel; Valeria Hesselberg; Chris Markussen; Anne Verona’s sister/brother-in-law Pat & Woody Woodworth; Dawn Gonitzke’s brother Scott Premo; Claire Holman; the Eberts friend Patricia Kulzick; the Ebert’s friend John Oliver; the Waggoner’s sister-in-law Cheryl Busse; Karen Engels’ niece Lisa and friends Bob and Dawn; Ann Carlson’s people Dwight, Stacy, Sarah, Ben, Staci, Dana, Curt, Jasmine, Troy and Janice; continued safe travels for all of us and our family and friends; and the people of Israel, Russia, Palestine and Ukraine.
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. You may also submit a prayer request for events. For example – a family gathering and seeking prayers for safe travels to/from. We have a prayer request form – that works – on our webpage.
WORSHIP ON FACEBOOK – Live on Facebook on Sundays at 9:00 am and posted for later viewing.
KRINGLE SUNDAY – join us after worship today for a slice of Kringle and a cup of coffee.
GUESTS – if you are visiting us today, please sign our book at the entrance to the sanctuary.
GOD’S WORK – OUR HANDS – actually needs a hand. They will continue to host the first Sunday of the month coffee hour, but they are asking for assistance. Asking members of the congregation to take turns bringing in homemade or purchased baked goods. (Except for Shayne Wilfer – she is obligated to bring in her almond yumminess). If you can assist, please sign up on the sheet in the Narthex or contact Betty Wright at basslakewrights@gmail.com.
NEW TIME! NEW DAY! Let’s Gather Adult Bible Study coming soon! The Christian Ed team is excited to share we have a new Adult Bible Study opportunity coming in October. It will be Wednesdays—October 2, 9, 16 and 23 at 5:30 PM. Snacks will be provided! Please bring a beverage of your choice. (Really? Our choice? This could end up being even more interesting) We’re bringing a variety of facilitators to lead the discussion as we explore scripture together. Mark your calendars! Let’s Gather! Questions? Please reach out to Pastor Grant, Rachel Strong or Shayne Wilfer.
COLD/FLU/COVID – you know the drill. Stay home if you don’t feel well. We will miss you, but we won’t miss your cooties. If you want to take extra precautions when you are at church – do what makes you feel good.
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 $500 to Worship in the Wild and $250 to Northwoods Share.
EAGLE RIVER ROASTERS – if you are ever out and about and need a cup of coffee- please patronize Eagle River Roasters. They have donated coffee to Prince of Peace for all of our fellowship hours/events. They do this for numerous local organizations. Great people, great product and greatly appreciated!
BINS WITHOUT LIDS – FOR THE TAKING – The Weekend Backpack Program has bins without lids free for the taking downstairs. Use ‘em for storing firewood. Use ‘em for kids to sled down a hill. Use ‘em for kids to go down – carpeted – stairs. Use ‘em to make a giant igloo this winter. So many uses other than landfill material.
BLESSING OF THE PETS – On October 20, we will bless our pets during worship. You are invited, at your discretion, to bring your pet into the sanctuary for a blessing. You may also bring a picture or a pet toy instead of your pet. Pastor Grant will be available for 30 minutes after worship to offer an outdoor blessing as an alternative. Feel free to bring your pet pictures prior to October 20th. We will have a “Pet Board” for pictures of all of your beasts. Even better – the Wrights have volunteered to bring snacks for our furry friends. Finally – if you would like – please bring pet food (smaller bags and/or cans) or supplies for us to donate to the Food Pantry for people who are struggling to take care of their pets.
FUN FACT: Since we have been enjoying Kringle Sunday for awhile now – I thought I would look into the history of the Kringle. Fortunately for me – there is a bit of a religious connection – so it works!
Kringle is a Northern European pastry, a variety of pretzel. Pretzels were introduced by Roman Catholic monks in the 13th century in Denmark, and from there they spread throughout Scandinavia and evolved into several kinds of sweet, salty or filled pastries, all in the shape of kringle.
The shape of the kringle has given name to a similarly entangled feature found in some proteins, the so-called kringle domain.
In Denmark, kringle denotes the pretzel-like knotted shape rather than the pretzel pastry type. Kringler may be made from puff pastry (like Danish pastry) or yeast dough, filled with remonce or marzipan and raisins, sprinkled with coarse sugar, nut flakes or icing.
Other types of kringles in Scandinavia include:
- saltkringler, which are small salty kringler – the Scandinavian equivalent of pretzels
- kommenskringlerwhich are half-hand-sized breads in the kringle shape, made from unsweetened yeast dough spiced with caraway
- Sukkerkringlerare similar, but sweet pretzels, sprinkled with sugar instead of caraway.
- Fødselsdagskringlerare a large sweet bread pretzel for birthday celebrations.
- Smørkringlerare large crusty and sweet pretzels with a spread of butter on the backside. Smørkringler are not as popular nowadays. That is sad because they sound amazing.
Kringle are pastries with a long history in Denmark, and are still popular items in modern Danish bakeries. Nowadays, kringles are usually made with only one crossing and not two, as in the original kringle and pretzel shape.
In the United States, kringles are hand-rolled from Danish pastry dough (wienerbrød dough) that has been rested overnight before shaping, filling, and baking. Many sheets of the flaky dough are layered, then shaped into an oval. After filling with fruit, nut, or other flavor combinations, the pastry is baked and iced.
Racine, Wisconsin, has historically been a center of Danish-American culture and kringle-making. A typical Racine-made kringle is a large, flat oval measuring approximately 14 inches by 10 inches and weighing about 1.5 lb. The kringle became the official state pastry of Wisconsin on June 30, 2013. Woo Hoo Wisconsin! We missed celebrating September 22 as Wisconsin Brandy Old Fashioned Day, but – never fear, the entire month of September can be celebrated as Wisconsin Brandy Old Fashioned Month!
Baker’s guilds in Europe have used the kringle or pretzel as a symbol for centuries. It is told (but currently unconfirmed by historic documents), that when Vienna was besieged by the Turkish Ottoman armies in 1529, local bakers working in the night gave the city defense an early warning of the attacking enemy. For this, they were later rewarded by the Pope, with permission to use a crown as part of their kringle guild symbol.
The guild in Denmark is now the only baker’s guild in the world with official authority to display a royal crown as part of their baker’s guild trade symbol that is often hung outside of bakery shops.
Many thanks to Wikipedia again.
NOTES: Sigh. Only Barb Zima shared a photo with me re: the best of summer pictures. Her picture is one of the “gang” after opening the cottages for the summer.
I’m going to keep holding out on sharing my photo. I know you all did SOMETHING this summer that was wonderful. Or saw something wonderful.
I should let you know I will be out of the office tomorrow – Thursday, Sept 26th. Burt and I are heading to CO for a couple of days to see some long-time friends of his. I purchased tickets during Southwests anniversary sale this year. Burt said we couldn’t afford it. I said we couldn’t afford not to do it. We are both right. We’ll figure it out – we always do.
Those last two sentences reminded me of something that happened this weekend. We are in the midst of our mud room renovation. My contribution will be priming and painting the ceiling (14 foot planks) which are currently out in the barn. Burt and I were having a discussion – in the house – of the best way to prime/paint the planks. We were having the classic miscommunication. So we walked out to the barn to visualize what each other was saying. As we discussed the process further – we found a better way to manage the project – together. It was a great reminder for me. Because initially I was very annoyed. By talking it through – understanding each other’s perspective – we found a solution that wasn’t the one either of us had thought of – but definitely was the correct one. We talked about it a little bit on the way back to the house. I was excited about the process and outcome. Burt – not so much. He was more of the mindset – it was fixed. Nuff said. Hey – it works for us. He understands I get overly excited about stuff, I understand Burt has a high threshold for excitement. Perspective is powerful in all spaces.
