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C o Sunday Worship 9:00 am
Trinity
KingsKids Sunday Fellowship 10:15 am
TLC Sunday Sunday School 10:30 Lutheran
“Go out and Church
train everyone you
Eden 7
meet, min.
far and near, in this way of Hazelton Sharing God’s Love and Grace by our Words and Actions
12 min.
life, marking them by Twin Falls
20 min.
baptism Sunday Schedule:
in the threefold name: Worship: 9:00 am
Father, Fellowship: 10:15 am
Son, and Holy Spirit. Then Sunday School 10:30 am
instruct them in the Kimberly

2018
practice 17 min. Hansen Communion: 1st & 3rd
16 min. Murtaugh
of all I have commanded 20 min. Sunday
you.”
Matthew 28:19-20 Pastor Mark Schulze
208-432-2544

Elder on Duty:
2/14 ASH WEDNESDAY WORSHIP @7 PM
Del Kohtz-208-312-1135
2/25 TRINITY’S ANNUAL CONGREGATIONAL
Susan Vineyard
EEC Director 208-825-5054 MEETING @10:45 am
Breakfast Potluck following Worship
Heather Moreno, Secretary
208-825-5277 Next Month:
trinityeden@gmail.com The LWML is planning our 2nd annual Bingo Bash Fundraiser on March
Friday’s —8am-1pm 11th. It will follow Sunday school. The funds will go towards Bethesda
Lutheran Homes and children’s ministries (EEC, Kings Kids, etc) here at
Nancy Brune, Newsletter Trinity.
jnbrune4321@gmail.com This was a fun, great event last year and would like to make it even better this
year! We are asking for your help to make this happen.
Nancy Staffen: You can help by:
Sunday School Superintendent —Joining the planning committee
nancy.staffen@yahoo.com —Help with meal planning/prep
—Ideas for great prize baskets &
Raffle items
—Sponsor a themed basket
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Trinity now has its very own web
—Donations for the raffle or
site. You can check it out at
Auction
1602 e 1100 s
www.trinitylutheraneden.org —Sell tickets for Raffle
Church —Help setting up
Permit No. 007 Our newsletter, calendar, events and —Clean up crew
Eden, ID 83325 Lutheran pictures can all be found there. A If you have a passion for any of these ministries, you can see there are many
link can be sent to your e-mail if you
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ways you can be a part of this event. Any questions, please ask.
U. S. POSTAGE Trinity email us at: If you are willing to be a part of this Fundraiser, please talk to me on any
Non-Profit Organ. Trinityeden@gmail.com Sunday, or phone or text me @ 208-358-3750.
Check us out on facebook Thanks for your support, my dear sisters and brothers, Toni
FROM PASTOR’S DESK:
Where did the tradition of giving notes of love and affection
every February 14 come from? Valentine was a physician
th
and priest living in Rome during the rule of the Emperor
Claudius, and became one of the noted martyrs of the third
century. The commemoration of his death, which occurred in
the year 270, became part of the calendar of remembrance in
the early church of the West. Tradition suggests that on the
day of his execution for his Christian faith, he left a note of
encouragement for a child of his jailer written on an irregularly-
shaped piece of paper. This greeting, the first valentine,
became a pattern for millions of written expressions of love
and caring we are familiar with today.
Our Lord knows a little something about love. Our Loving
Creator writes in the first Epistle of St. John, chapter four:
(1 John 4:7-11 NIV) "Dear friends, let us love one another, for which we are justified, namely, faith. In short, as Paul himself
love comes from God. Everyone who loves has been born of
God and knows God. {8} Whoever does not love does not
know God, because God is love. {9} This is how God showed supply its fulfilling is another. Love fulfills the Law by being
his love among us: He sent his one and only Son into the
world that we might live through him. {10} This is love: not that with which it is fulfilled; for faith loves and works, as it is said
we loved God, but that he loved us and sent his Son as an
atoning sacrifice for our sins. {11} Dear friends, since God so
loved us, we also ought to love one another."
God is love. And He showed forth that loving character The Valentine of all valentines, His dear Son, nailed to a cross
by sending His Son to live and die for those who did not love
Him, in fact who despised and rejected Him – us. He did not
love us because we loved Him first, indeed, we cannot by
fallen nature ever love Him on our own. No, He loved us first
because He alone IS love. A sacrificial Love. And since He
lovingly sent His Son to us, He has graciously made us truly
alive in Him – that is, those who once again by grace through
faith are connected to Him and His love. Those who can
reflect God’s love and image to those around us.
Pastor Luther has these thoughts on love: “Love is the
inevitable fruit of faith. This is what Christ meant when He
finally gave no commandment except that of love (John 15:12),
by which men were to recognize those who are His disciples
and true believers. For where works and love do not appear,
faith is not genuine, the Gospel has not taken hold, and Christ
is not recognized aright.”
The Christian cannot but love. Yes, we have a selfish,
evil, sinful nature that clings to us still, breathing hatred and
self-centeredness into us and through us. But it is at war with
that new and loving nature of Christ that we have been born
again and anew in through the gracious waters of our
baptism. We have the Love of God in Christ flowing into us,
causing us to respond with fruits, acts of love and godliness to
those around us. (And if you have had a slight memory lapse
as to what constitutes acts of love, break out that small
catechism and study the section on the 10
commandments. Especially focus on the positive side of those
Commandments – those things that we ARE TO DO for our
Lord and our neighbor). These loving acts are of God, and
bear witness to His love and the faith and life which He has re-
created within us. These loving acts did not MAKE us alive,
rather they are the evidence of that life, indeed, the natural
result of that life that is
ours through faith.
To this thought
Luther adds these
words: “Now although
faith does not fulfill the
Law, yet it has that by
which it is fulfilled; for it
obtains the Spirit and
love. By these the
Law is fulfilled. On the
other hand, although
love does not justify
us, yet it
manifests that by
here puts it: ‘Love is the fulfilling of the law,’ as though he
would say: The fulfilling of the law is one thing, and to make or
that fulfillment itself, but faith fulfills the Law by supplying that
in Galatians 5:6 ‘Faith worketh by love.’”
My family in Christ, as the 14 of February draws ever
th
closer, may the God Who is Love, make you ever mindful of
for you, buried in a tomb for you, and raised from the dead for
you. And mindful of that Love which made you alive by His
work of grace, that you would be so moved to love in kind not
only your Lord, but those who are around you, that they too
might see the Love of God for them lived out before
them. That they might know you are Jesus’ disciples by your
love for them.
February will be a time for the preschool children to learn
about how Jesus loves children, Jesus performs miracles
feeding 5,000 with a boy's lunch, Jesus forgives sinners even King’s Kids is going well, our numbers vary from
Zaccheaus and us, the Transfiguration and other miracles
Jesus preformed. 30-40 each week. Pastor Mark has been doing
We will have valentine parties on the mornings of February
13th and 14th . The children will be bringing valentines for a fabulous job preparing the lessons and other
each other and learning how much their Savior loves them.
The children have been enjoying chapel with Pastor. They activities each week., we are blessed!
love to sing and learn about Jesus. In January each class made a table decoration
We have been learning about numbers, writing our names,
cutting with scissors and learning some easy words. We for the Senior Center in Eden for the month
have been working on using kind words and taking
turns. The letters for February will be W, V, U and X. We will of February. We are thankful for your prayer
talk about the weather and will learn about Tooth Care.
The children are being gentle and patient with their teacher support and our faithful volunteers.
as she continues to recover. I am still unable to bend until
March so this is a lesson in patience for all of us. We can always use some cookies or fruit for
We ask for continued prayer for the EEC children, teachers
the meal if you would be willing to donate them
and the future of this program. Enrollment for next year will
begin soon so if you know of a special someone that could King’s Kids Staff.
benefit from our loving Christ centered program please have
them contact me at 208-825-5054 or Pastor at 208-825-
5277. We are truly blessed to have this ministry in our
church and community. We are helping these children learn
about Jesus so they can tell others about Him and all he has
done for us.
Recently I saw an article about how few children in Idaho are
entering kindergarten with the skills they need. Another Winter is a good time to cozy up by
article said that only 30 % of children in Idaho attend the fire and read a great book.
preschool. We have the opportunity to make a Check out the variety of books in
difference. May God continue to bless us in our efforts for the front entry in the little yellow bookshelf...there’s
Him. something for everyone there. Enjoy! Betty Jo Jones
In Christ's Service, Sue Vineyard
LWML will meet on Saturday,
February 3rd @ 10 am.
Sharon Gebauer - hostess
We will watch a video entitled ‘The First Rosa’. Rosa Young is often referred to as the Mother of Black
Lutheranism. It tells of the history of her life in Alabama. This will be followed by a short discussion/Bible study.
We will do further planning for the Bingo Bash Fundraiser that is scheduled for March 11th, following Sunday
School. The funds raised will go toward Bethesda and children’s ministry (EEC, Kings Kids,etc) here at
Trinity. We will need donations/prizes for this event and ask for your generosity to help us. Any new ideas are
welcome! Watch for more info in the coming weeks.
The servant project for this month is the Jubilee House. Their urgent needs are:
All purpose cleaner- toilet cleaner- shower cleaner- paper towels - toilet paper
frozen chicken/meats- dairy products: milk, cheese, yogurt, etc.
Have a ❤LOVE-ly ❤ month!
‘We love because He first loved us.’ 1 John 4:19