Treasure Valley Prays

Reimagining Church Together
SHARING STORIES AND EXPLORING SPIRITUAL CONNECTION

We are ELCA leaders and pastors from the Treasure Valley
and Northwest Intermountain Synod.

Devotions – Look for Monday and Thursday posts through the end of 2022

Little Free Pantry

tvprays April 27, 2022 3 Comments

Video about the ministry of the Little Free Pantry at Shepherd of the Valley Lutheran Church, Boise

We live in a time when we are bombarded with information. With that comes the competition of who might yell the loudest for our attention. Coupled with that is a demand for our attention, which may be the most recent piece of information. Often the first casualty of an event is the headline that gets

Leave It As It Is

Diane McGeoch April 22, 2022 No Comments

Leave it as it is, you cannot improve on it. The ages have been at work on it and man can only mar it. What you can do is to keep it for your children, your children’s children, and for all who come after you, as one of the great sights which every American if

Trinity New Hope Housing

Meggan Manlove April 20, 2022 1 Comment

Video about Trinity New Hope Housing

A Living Stone and a Holy People

Di Seba April 18, 2022 No Comments

Like newborn infants, long for the pure spiritual milk, that by it you may grow up into salvation—if indeed you have tasted that the Lord is good. As you come to him, a living stone rejected by men but in the sight of God chosen and precious, you yourselves like living stones are being built

Seven Words

Anne Palma April 15, 2022 No Comments

A video devotion on the seven last words of Christ.

Jesus is Laid in the Tomb

tvprays April 14, 2022 No Comments

Station 14 – Mortician shares photos of COVID-19 victim with family -of me. Emily Dickinson Gracious God, we thank you for thekindness of strangers, for the peoplewho live out the compassion and loveembodied in you, Jesus. Anoint withyour spirit of graciousness the peoplecaring for the dead and dying. Grantthem strength for their work andknowledge of

That They Might Lovely Be

Kathryn Baerwald April 13, 2022 2 Comments

16th Street NW in Washington, DC, north of the White House and to the Maryland State Line, is sometimes referred to as the street of churches. There are Catholic and Orthodox churches; synagogues and a Christian Science Reading Room; just about every variety of Protestant churches you can imagine, as well as gathering places for

Jesus is Taken Down from the Cross

tvprays April 12, 2022 No Comments

Station thirteen – A doctor hugs and comforts a patient It asked a crumb Emily Dickinson Holy God, we pray for healers and for the dying. Grant physicians and nurses strength and resolve in their care of the dying, hold in your loving embrace the ill and isolated. With your gracious compassion and care, alleviate anxiety,

Saturday

Kent Schaufelberger April 11, 2022 2 Comments

Several years ago—a lot longer than I want to admit–one of my favorite authors, Phillip Yancy, jolted my thinking about Holy Week, and Holy Saturday in particular. He wrote: Two days, Good Friday, and Easter Sunday, are perhaps the most significant days on the Entire Church calendar, and yet, in a real sense, we live

Let Your Light Shine!

Keith Hammer April 8, 2022 1 Comment

“This is the crisis we’re in: God-light streamed into the world, but men and women everywhere ran for the darkness. They went for the darkness because they were not really interested in pleasing God.” John 3:19 The Message I presided and preached at worship this past Sunday, the Fifth Sunday in Lent. The text for

COVID- 19 patient lies in her bed communicating via video

Jesus Dies on the Cross

tvprays April 7, 2022 No Comments

Station Twelve – A Covid-19 patient attempts to communicate via video. Yet – never – in Extremity, Emily Dickinson Almighty God, the healing power of your love binds us one to another, no matter if our presence is virtual or in person. Give your angels charge over those at the boundary of life and life

Midweek Lenten Service

tvprays April 6, 2022 No Comments

Join a midweek Lenten service premiering on Wednesday, April 6 at 7:00 PM. The service is led by Immanuel Lutheran Church, Boise, ID. We will be following Holden Evening Prayer.

Jesus is Nailed to the Cross

tvprays April 5, 2022 No Comments

Station Eleven – A wife weeps while hugging her husband And on the strangest Sea Emily Dickinson God of compassion and consolation, be with us. Help us to confront the reality that this pandemic has laid bare a healthcare system malicious in its care of marginalized communities. We see that black and brown communities are

Embodiment

Sarah Henthorn April 4, 2022 1 Comment

“The Word was made flesh, and dwelt among us, and we beheld his glory, the glory as of the only begotten of the Father, full of grace and truth.” (John 1:14) It is possible to grow up within the Christian tradition with little regard for bodies. Sometimes the gospel is interpreted as if the body