February 21, 2014 COMMUNICATIONS MINISTRY

The Communications Ministry has oversight for St. Luke’s marketing and communications, bothinternal and external. This includes the St. Luke’s publications: the newsletter, Let’s Connect, websiteand Facebook.

Members of the Communications Ministry are Mary Beth Jorgensen, Phyllis Albee, Carolyn Alberts, KateDolan, Farley Green, Gwen Letson, Dana Smith, Andy Storjohann, Betsy McTear and ParishAdministrator, NJ Daniel.

Submittals for publications are always welcome. Feedback is also welcome.

Event Publicity:

The Communications Ministry is willing and able to help with publicity both before and after St. Luke’sevents and activities! Here’s how:

1. Fill out the “Event Information and Reservation Request” form. It is available on the websiteand in the reception area in the office. Include any resources you need for publicity andcommunications. If you don’t know what you need or what is available, state that on theapplication.

2. Turn in the event form, to NJ, or click “send” on the website, and a member of theCommunications Ministry will contact you about your event.

3. Communications Ministry members will help with external publicity and advertising. Forexample, they can write press releases and make flyers.

Most events should have a follow up so parish members know how the event went either in thenewsletter, Let’ Connect or on the website.

By coordinating through the Communications Ministry, St. Luke’s will present a unified, polished look tothe world and you will get the best results! -Andy Storjohann

Parish Council UpdateThere was a Parish Council meeting Saturday, Feb 8. Twenty-seven people attended, representing the

various groups, services and activities of the parish. Members of the Congregational Development Plan

Oversight Team reviewed progress to date on each goal of the Congregational Development Strategic Plan.

The Oversight Team reported that all but five of the 20 objectives under the various goals of the Strategic

Plan are either completed or being operationalized. Copies of the update are available in the Parish Hall.

A representative of the Communications Ministry and the parish administrator reviewed the procedure to

schedule all parish events, which uses the “Event Information and Reservation Request” form. The form

triggers the Communications Ministry to assist with internal and external communications of parish

activities.

At the conclusion of the updates, those present voted on priority objectives for 2014. Based on the vote, the

Congregational Development Plan Oversight team has decided to move three objectives forward. Task

forces will be established for each. They are:

· Goal 1 A, “To evaluate the multiple liturgies for opportunities to facilitate building community

among the entire congregation,”

· Goal 1 D, “To develop and implement a plan to increase opportunities for lay leadership,” and

· Goal 2 C: “To develop a program to increase involvement of marginally involved members.”

The task forces will begin work by the end of March. If you are interested in being a part of one of the task

forces, please contact a member of the Congregational Development Plan Oversight team. They include

Georgianne Jessen, Dave Parkinson, John Empsall, Carla Noonan, Gwen Letson, Andrea Storjohann and

Fr. Pat Bell. The next meeting is scheduled for May 17 at 9:30 a.m.

—Andy Storjohann

No One Shall Die Alone Training

You are invited to consider becoming a volunteer with No One Shall Die Alone (NOSDA), which isa volunteer service provided to assist families and their loved ones who is in a terminal, end of lifecondition. Volunteers provide a loving comforting presence in these difficult situations. Anorientation/training session is scheduled for March 15, 2014, in the St. Pius X Faith FormationBuilding. Registration begins at 8:30 a.m. and the training will start at 9 a.m.. Lunch is provided.Please contact Chuck Finan at (208) 659-0186 or Jane Nelson at (208) 772-1413 by March 12 toregister.

Several members of St. Luke’s are involved with this program. If you have an interest, talk to MaryBeth Jorgensen (208-699-3844), Dave Lyon (208-762-0623), Bob Runkle (208-691-2499) orEloise Swanson (208-773-5926) for more details about the program.

Sat 22nd

5:30 p.m. HE II

Sun 23rd

8:00 a.m. HE I9:15 a.m. The Well Service

9:30 a.m. Chancel Choir 10:30 a.m. HE II

12:00 p.m. Vestry meeting

Mon 24th

9:30 a.m. Prayer Shawl5:30 p.m. EfM

Tues 25th

9:30 a.m. Altar Guild Security Training

5:30 p.m. Men’s AA

7:00 p.m. Book Study w/Bob Runkle

Wed 26th

10:00 a.m. Fit & Fall Proof

10:30 a.m. Newsletter Team

3:00 p.m. Studies in the Bible

4:30 p.m. Bell Choir practice

7:00 p.m. Chancel Choir practice

Thurs 27th

9:30 a.m. CDA Art Club1:00 p.m. Blankets for Kids

3:00 p.m. Book Study w/Bob Runkle

6:00 p.m. Communications meeting

Fri 28th

10:00 a.m. Fit & Fall class4:30 p.m. CDA Fund Raiser

Sat 1st

1:45 p.m. FPNI birthday party

5:30 p.m. HE II

This Week atSt. Luke’s

February Reverse OfferingWe are collecting for the Rathdrum

Food Bank this month. Here are a few

ideas for items in high demand. You

may also check our website for a more

detailed list.

● Canned Meat & Tuna

●Macaroni & Cheese

● Peanut Butter

● Canned Fruit

● Canned Veggies

● Canned Stew

● Canned Spaghetti Sauce

Carpool anyone?

We have several members who live at

Garden Plaza in Post Falls who are having a

difficult time getting a ride to church on

Sunday.

If you are interested in helping out and

giving these folks a ride please contact

me for more information.

Thank You

NJ

Having the right supplies can make a huge difference!

Daughters of the King (DOK) is collecting school supplies for the twenty-five or so children who live

in St. Vinnie’s Transitional Housing. Many organizations collect school supplies for the September

start of school, but by this time of year, additional supplies are often needed. Having adequate

supplies can go a long way towards helping these students have a successful year at school. If anyone

would like to contribute from the following list, it would be much appreciated. Gently used or new

supplies can be placed in the DOK book box under the coat rack. Cash or check donations can be put

in the collection plate, made out to St. Luke’s and marked in the memo box “for DOK school supplies,”

or given to any Daughters of the King member or to NJ. Thank you for any and all help.

- Barbara Webb

● Calculators- suitable forbasic algebra

● Ultra fine sharpies - black

● 2 inch 3-ring binders ● Flash drives - 4 GB

● Colored pencils ● Colored markers,preferably thin

WHAT HAPPENS IN HEAVEN WHEN WE PRAY?

I dreamt that I went to Heaven and an angel was showing me around. We walked side-by-side inside a largeworkroom filled with angels. My angel guide stopped in front of the first section and said, “This is the ReceivingSection. Here, all petitions to God said in prayer are received.”

I looked around in this area, and it was terribly busy with so many angels sorting out prayer petitions writtendown on voluminous paper sheets from people all over the world.

Then we moved on down a long corridor until we reached the second section.

The angel then said to me, "This is the Packaging and Delivery Section. Here, the graces and blessings thepeople asked for are processed and delivered to the living persons who asked for them." I noticed again howbusy it was there. There were many angels working hard at that station, since so many blessings had beenrequested and were being packaged for delivery to Earth.

Finally at the farthest end of the long corridor we stopped at the door of a very small station. To my greatsurprise, only one angel was seated there, idly doing nothing. "This is the Acknowledgment Section”, my angel

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friend quietly admitted to me. He seemed embarrassed. "How is it that there is no work going on here?” Iasked.

"So sad," the angel sighed. "After people receive the blessings that they asked for, very few send back

Acknowledgments.

"How does one acknowledge God's blessings? " I asked.

"Simple," the angel answered. Just say, "Thank you, Lord.

"What blessings should they acknowledge?" I asked.

"If you have food in the refrigerator, clothes on your back, a roof overhead and a place to sleep you are richerthan 75% of this world. If you have money in the bank, in your wallet, and spare change in a dish, you areamong the top 8% of the world's wealthy, and if you get this on your own computer, you are part of the 1% inthe world who has that opportunity.

"If you woke up this morning with more health than illness... You are more blessed than the many who willnot even survive this day."If you have never experienced the fear in battle, the loneliness of imprisonment, the agony of torture, or thepangs of starvation... You are ahead of 700 million people in the world.

"If you can attend a church without the fear of harassment, arrest, torture or death you are envied by, andmore blessed than, three billion people in the world.

"If your parents are still married.... you are very rare.

"If you can hold your head up and smile, you are not the norm, you're unique to all those in doubt anddespair......."

"Ok," I said. "What now? How can I start?"

The Angel said, "If you can read this message, you just received a double blessing in that someone was

thinking of you as very special and you are more blessed than over two billion people in the world who cannotread at all."

Have a good day, count your blessings, and if you care to, pass this along to remind everyone else how blessedwe all are..........

ATTN: Acknowledge Dept."Thank you Lord, for giving me the ability to share this message and for giving me so many wonderfulpeople with whom to share it." - Karen Olson

Birthdays02/22 Clyde Denniston02/24 Lynn Inkley02/25 James Lyon02/25 Ern Warner02/26 Joan Lewis02/26 Charlotte Hennig

Anniversaries of their death

Joe Smatlan, Jr., John & Jody Miranda,

Peter Bates, Steve Hamm, Curt Campbell,

Brian Simpson, Dave Otto, Howard

Martinson, Joe Manuola, Jason Clifford,

Chelsea, Helen McTear, Bill Brooks, Violet

Hise, Evelyn Chute, Sara, Carolyn, Victor

Casebolt, Sandy Davis, Gary, Mike Maheu,

Bill, Lucie Maier, Karen McClendon, Connie

Prosser, Ken Jungjohann, Char Mills, Ryan

Slippich, Marj Hay, Gretchen Rehberg,

Victoria Barrett, Bobbi Ostby, Sarah Francis,

James Figel, Bob Hasseries, Jack Dempsey,

Natalie Lykke, Katrina Foley, Elizabeth,

Nancy Park, Joyce & Manny Funtall, Wilbur

Lyon, Lori Thompson, Joe Stalnaker, Bill Bell

Healing & Support

02/22 Jim Yates02/23 Virgil Shepperd02/24 Clara Walley02/27 Gerry Kirk02/28 Oscar Peterson

David Hudson, Laura Hudson, Richard Rogers,

Chuck Lund, Brian Boyer, James Rowland, Chris

Butterfield, Eddie Barnett, Dane Summerfelt,

Jamie Butterfield, Alan Ewald, Shane Mott, Nick

Cazel, Chris Empsall, Shaun Pennington, George

Runkle, Jason Bowers, Mike Ferrari, Scott

Parkinson, Tim Jarratt, Bobby Carbajal

Military personnel deployedthroughout

the world, especially:

Leviticus 19:1-2,9-18Psalm 119:33-401 Corinthians 3:10-11,16-23Matthew 5:38-48

Prayer Requests

Flowers are given by

Tom & Joan Lewis

in honor of

Joan’s birthday

AN EVENING OF PANCAKES AND JAZZ

On Tuesday, March 4th, St. Luke’s Men will have their traditional Shrove Tuesday Pancake Supper

from 4:30 p.m. to 6:30 p.m. At 7 p.m., the choir will be performing Bob Chilcott’s “A Little Jazz

Mass.” This is a regular Eucharist with the service music set in a jazz format. As far as we know this

service has never been held in Coeur d’Alene.

Jazz as we know it today began in the 1700’s as slave work songs in the form of call and response

where while working, a leader would call out a line and the rest of the workers would respond, not

unlike the antiphonal music we have in liturgical church music today. Spirituals expressed the

slaves’ strong religious beliefs as well as their desire for freedom. Elements of both work songs and

spirituals are part of the foundation of jazz.

As African Americans began migrating north they brought with them the sounds of jazz and blues.

For the first time radios and record players were available to the average household and jazz went

from being played only in New Orleans to become a staple of the American airways, dance halls and

homes.

A number of jazz musicians have composed sacred music for use in churches throughout the world.

The great Duke Ellington, born in 1899 and died in 1974, composed and performed three sacred

concerts, one for the Episcopal Cathedral of St. John the Divine in New York and a jazz mass for

St. Augustine Church in New Orleans, the oldest African American church in America. He said

“Every man prays in his own way” and our own Pearl Harwood has said “God is never closer to me

than when I am playing jazz.”

So plan on spending Shrove Tuesday, March 4th, at the Pancake Supper followed by a beautiful

Eucharist service, and “A Little Jazz Mass.”

- Carolyn Alberts & Phyllis Albee