Fall Work Weekend October 12-14, 2018: FREE event Join in Christian fellowship as we prepare the camp for Winter! Free lodging, meals, and campfires.

Women’s Retreat October 19-21, 2018: $130 early reg This retreat is designed to be an encouragement and spiritual renewal. Enjoy time in Bible study, worship, hiking, playing, and relaxing. PS - schedule a massage!

Junior High Snowjam January 4-6, 2019: $105/person Come play in the snow, eat great food, sit by a warm fire, build new friendships, and grow in your relationship with God through Bible study, worship, and close community.

Women’s Crafting Retreats January 11-14 & February 8-11, 2019: $135-$145 Grab your scrapbooks, quilts, sewing machines, and creativity. Get ready to craft your weekend away!

Winter Family Flurry February 15-18, 2019 Join us for tubing and snowshoeing, snowmen building contests, and more! There is limited space in the comfort of the Retreat Center, so register early! Cost Varies

Men’s Winter Weekend March 1-3, 2019: $130/person Enjoy meals and fellowship in the winter wilderness! Activities include cross country skiing, snowshoeing, and tubing. Rent a snowmobile or bring your own.

Senior High Snowfest March 8-10, 2019: $105/person

Hang out by the fire, eat excellent food, and play in the snow while spending time in prayer and the Word with others from the region.

REGISTER ONLINE AT

CampPerkins.org Camp Perkins Lutheran Outdoor Ministries

(208)788-0897 or Email info@campperkins.org

PLEASE PLACE STAMP HERE

Trinity Lutheran Church 909 8th St.

Rupert, Idaho 83350

Phone: 208.436.3413 E-mail: tlcrupert@gmail.com

www.tlcrupert.com

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October 7th, 2018 Volume 6, Issue 10

INSIDE THIS ISSUE

From Pastor’s Desk Cont .........2

LWML Central Zone ................2

Comics......................................3

Youth Sunday Schedule ...........3

Camp Perkins ...........................4

Dear friend of Trinity, (October 2018)

This month, I begin sharing with you the beginning of an important lesson I've been preparing for both families and individual students of God's Word at Trinity. And to get the most out of this session the texts I would suggest for your meditation are the 7 Petitions of the Lord's Prayer in Luther's Small Cate-chism. I hope you enjoy: Praying the Catechism - Part 1 With much thanks to Doctors Jim Nestingen and John Pless, who are the mas-ter teachers of the following ways of approaching Luther’s Small Catechism in a more positive and playful manner! Luther’s Small Catechism for personal use and study How can you get the most benefit from it. I don’t think I’ve talked about that enough. So, here is a very important lesson, I’ve been working through, in order to give it to the families and individual students of God’s Word here at Trinity Lutheran Church. Now if you just read this Catechism cover to cover, there’s a lot of good things in there, but definitely, I don’t think that’s how you get the max benefit out of this. Its a document for study, we do what’s called Catechesis in the Church, where it’s brought to heart and enlightens your thoughts of God and your un-derstanding of the Bible’s teaching, but its also much more than that! The Big Question? How do you get the gold that’s inside of this Catechism into your life? I love reading and meditating on God’s Word here! And one of the most im-portant things is establishing a regular discipline. Now this has taken me longer than I would have liked in my life. But now I do morning and evening prayer in the catechism and I share that when I can with my children. Doing Morning and Evening prayer I always have one psalm and I use a set of texts and devotions so I’m always thinking and can be in discussion with friends and family around those texts. And when you do something like that you get more and more familiar, and you start hearing more and more. So using the Catechism daily, starting with morning prayer and then taking one of the chief parts, you cycle through it over a week, and your questions start to sharpen and your perceptions to deepen. So its a lot of fun! And it might really help us if we worked in our homes and at times in the Church, learning the Catechism with more playfulness! Perhaps think of learning by games like Catechism Baseball: First, the kid who was able to an-swer the question could ask the question of one of his classmates or sib-lings. So we all work together and it can be playful and fabulous! This makes it more easy to memorize and learn by heart. Luther had suggested kind of playing games with it too, taking Two Pouch-es: kind of a Love pouch or a Faith pouch, as he called it, and if you found a text, you would assign it to one of those pouches. Fun! Is this talking about faith? or is this talking about love? That’s really what the Catechism is about: Faith in the Lord Jesus Christ, worked through the Holy Spirit. As the Spirit gives us access to the Father through the Gospel and Love toward the neighbor. And the Catechism is deceptively simple, because Luther uses these texts that had long been used within the Church: The Commandments, the Creed, the Lord’s Prayer. And its sometimes said that familiarity breeds contempt, but in (Continued on page 2)

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this case, familiarity actually

leads you deeper and deeper into

the text. I want to remind you

students of God’s Word, of a little

phrase from C.S. Lewis. Where

C.S. Lewis talks, not about mas-

tering a text, but growing up and

into a text. And that’s what you

really do with the Catechism —

You grow up and into the Cate-

chism. You think of something

like the Lord’s Prayer, and most

of us who grew up in Christian

homes never remember a time

when we did not know the Lord’s

Prayer. We prayed the Lord’s

Prayer at church and in family

devotions. And a child prays the

Lord’s Prayer in one way; a teen-

ager yet another way; a middle

age person yet another way; and

when someone is coming to their

death, I think they pray the Lord’s

Prayer yet in a different kind of

way.

Even though these words are the

same, and the words are there

throughout one’s lifetime, you’re

really growing into these words,

and the words kind of bend and

shape you as the experiences of

life challenge and change. I think

this is what Luther meant when

he would often talk about, not

just learning the Catechism,

but Praying the Catechism! The

text of the Catechism really be-

comes kind of fodder for our

prayer and shapes the way we

think about God, the world, think

about ourselves, and how we re-

spond then in faith toward Christ,

and love toward one another...

Stay tuned: In coming months I

might share more about this,

which I think is a very important

lesson for us as the People of God

in this place. Happy October!

In Jesus,

Bryan Lindemood

Pastor

LWML CENTRAL ZONE

LWML Central Zone will be gathering together on Sunday, October 14

at 2:00 pm at Peace Lutheran Church in Filer for our Fall Rally. The

theme is based on the LWML Sunday Theme “Our Rest in a Changing

World” Psalm 62:1-8 with the Bible Study to be led by Pastor John-

son. Our guest speaker will be Nicki Kroese; PR Director at Stanton

Healthcare of Twin Falls. Deya Reed, Society President from St. Paul’s

Jerome, will share her personal story of the gift of adopting her son

Benjamin because of the support and service provided by Stanton

Healthcare to the mother. Registration for the event will be $3 and a

Mite Offering will be gathered. We will be collecting an ingathering of

baby items for the Stanton Healthcare Wishing Well Store. These items

include: diapers (all sizes), baby wipes, new clothes (newborn – 3T),

receiving blankets, baby shampoo, baby lotion, diaper rash cream,

teething toys, Similac Advance Formula. The evening meal will be pro-

vided by Filer LWML Society. 2

ANNOUNCEMENTS

The ladies of Dorcas Society will

meet on Wednesday, October

10th, at 7PM in the Parish Hall.

All ladies of the congregation are

invited to attend!.

Join us Sundays on Television

and Radio!!

Worship Anew Television Pro-

gram – 8:00 a.m. KSAW

(Channel 6)

Lutheran Matins 8:30 a.m.

Lutheran Hour 9:00 a.m. - KBAR

(AM 1230)

**Please be sure to submit an-

nouncements for the bulletin

by 3PM each Wednesday.

**Please submit all materials

for the Newsletter and calendar

by 3PM

on the last Thursday of the

month.

**Please be sure to submit all

calendar items to the office to

be sure that the schedule is

clear and the event has trustee

approval.

October 14th is Youth Sunday! We will be gathering together for our first Youth outing on Saturday, October 13th to go to the Corn Maze.

We had a Youth/Sunday

School Teacher Meeting after

Worship on Sunday, Septem-

ber 30th. Teachers and kids

are well on their way to a great

Sunday School year!!

Our First Youth outing for this

year will be on Saturday, Octo-

ber 13th. We will be going to

the corn maze out towards Al-

bion. We will be meeting at

Trinity Lutheran Church at

4:30. If younger children

would like to come, Sunday

School teachers would ask that

the parents join us to help

watch the children! All youth

will be paid for by the church.

Planning for Youth outings is

still under construction but,

we have a lot of fun plans for

this year, including: Trap

shooting (November 11th), the

Christmas program and crafts

(starting November 25th), and

skiing this winter season!

For more info on dates or

plans for this Sunday school

year, please contact the Sun-

day school secretary (Ronda

Rogers), or attend the next

meeting for all of your ques-

tions, concerns and interests!!

COMICS

CURRENT YOUTH SUNDAY SCHEDULE

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