Treasure Valley Prays

Reimagining Church Together

Connecting ELCA congregations in the Idaho Treasure Valley through devotions, storytelling, service, and shared resources
to be church in the world, together.

LENT

Join the Treasure Valley ELCA Churches in worship together during Lent

Mid-Week Lenten Services

Hope, Eagle

5:45pm – Lenten Walk around the neighborhood
6:30pm – Soup Supper
7:00pm – Lenten Worship
Theme: Living our Baptism…Five gifts of discipleship

Immanuel, Boise

6:00pm – Soup Suppers
7:00pm – Lenten Worship

King of Glory, Boise

6:00pm – Soup Suppers
7:00pm – Lenten Worship

Redeemer, Boise

7:00pm – Lenten Worship
Theme: Stories of Faith

Shepherd of the Valley, Boise

6:00pm – Soup Suppers
7:00pm – Lenten Worship

St. Paul, Ontario

6:00pm – Soup Suppers
7:00pm – Lenten Worship

Trinity, Nampa

6:15pm – Soup Suppers
7:00pm – Lenten Worship
Theme: Sing with All the Saints in Glory

Lenten Traditions in Our Churches

Devotions

Devotions

boy hugging girl

Lunch Buckets

Because of the Lord’s great love we are not consumed, for his compassions never fail. They are new every morning; great is your faithfulness. (Lamentations 3:22-23 NIV) When I first started working in the public schools, I drove myself crazy collecting discarded jackets and lunch kits when I had playground duty after school. I waved

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man looking out over sky and mountains

Longing to be Rescued

Last year I had a goal to read the Bible from start to finish, five pages a day every day for a year, but I got stuck in Deuteronomy. Moses’s sermon to the people of Israel before they enter the Promised Land is long and not particularly hopeful. But then Moses had a lot of

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cosmic night sky over water

Peacemakers be with you

“Blessed are the peacemakers for they shall be called the children of God.” (Matthew 5:9) One of the recurring questions of my life is, “what does faithfulness look like?” Another way to put it would be, “what is a peacemaker really?” It’s easy for me to be inspired by the poetry of scripture. The beatitudes

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Trinity sanctuary

Come Into the Wilderness

You would love the way our sanctuary looks right now, during this season of Lent. Some gifted women in our congregation have transformed it into a wilderness, visually inviting us on a Lenten journey. When you first walk into the sanctuary there is a display of sage brush, desert rocks and even a skull laying in

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