Holy Trinity Lutheran Church

Christmas is reap idly approaching and December 10th has been selected as the date to set u pthe trees. We will start at 9:00 AM. Coffee and donuts will be provided. If you are able to participate please let Norm Craig know. Thanks!

December 4th; bring cash or your checkbook to church to purchase Christmas treated! The confirmation students are baking and selling items. The money raised will be matched by Thrivent Finanacial for Lutherans and donated to Compass Housing Alliances’ “Home Safe” for children in transitional housing to participate in extracurricular activities and sports programs. Be generous! The goal is $500 (+$250 match) = $750 donation.

The 2011 MI Interfaith Thanksgiving Service will be held on Wednesday, November 23, at 7:30 pm. Please join with other faith communities on the Island to celebrate the Thanksgiving holiday, including the reading of Abraham Lincoln’s proclamation and the blowing of the shore. You are invited to bring a nonperishable food item to donate to the Emergency Fund of the Mercer Island Youth & Family Services. Hosted this year by The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints at 4001 Island Crest Way. Refreshments and fellowship to follow the service.

The setting of ‘Jesu Meine Freude” by Georg Philipp Telemann (1691-1787) dates from a 1719 cantata cycle, written while he worked in Frankfurt at the Church of the Barefoot Friars (today, St. Paul’s). The setting has simple charm and is scored for choir, soloists, and violin, oboe and obbligato instrument.

Violins in the orchestra of the Telemann’s day were routinely doubled by ogees, since they made less sound that today’s modern violin. The Choral texts were written by Johann Frank (1618-1677) and the Cantata texts were written by Erdmann Neumeister (1671-1756). We welcome Shari Link on violin and Robert Knoll on oboe and we are thankful they have helped contribute to the beauty of the music in our worship.

Sunday November 20th. This event will begin immediately following worship, 11:15 AM in the Fellowship Hall. There will be:

• Advent logs to decorate (If you have yours from previous years, please bring it along)
• Ornaments to create
• Advent calendars and more

Brunch will be served. This is an ALL CHURCH event helping us all prepare for the birth of the Christ child.

NEEDED: 40 of each: empty glass jars (wide mouth or regular) with lids; pinecones; 12 and 24 count egg cartons. Please bring them to the bin in Kathy’s office before November 18.

Put on your costume, grab a pumpkin to carve and come Wednesday night (10/26) to the Fellowship Hall for food, games & crafts. Decorate the trunk of your car (and fill it up with goodies) for “trunk or treating” at the end of the evening!

6-8 PM. Gonna be a good time ~ invite friends and neighbors, too.

October 30th: 9:30 AM in the Chapel.

Celebrate Reformation Sunday by wearing RED and watching “Opening the Door to Luther” a video presentation for the ELCA by Rick Steves. While you are watching, think about walking in those same streets.

A survey will be handed out to see if there is interest in taking a trip to where Luther (and Bach) walked, prayed, spoke and sang. 2012 is the “Year of Music” for the Luther 500 decade one celebration. Come, see, hear, think!

Our Advent Fair is November 20th and we need Advent logs. If you are trimming trees, or a windstorm blows down branches, please bring them to Kathy by Nov. 15th. They need to be at least 4″ in diameter and 8″ long.