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
Devotions
Devotions
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
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
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
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
