King of Glory Lutheran Church will be hosting an Advent Feast and Auction at Saint David’s/Trinity Church (3318 Merritt St., Saskatoon) at 5:30pm on Saturday, December 1st.

Tickets are $15.00 each.

Just a reminder that King of Glory will again register as a team for the Scotiabank Aids Walk for Life on September 23rd.  We (and friends, family) can all be team members.  Please sign on as a team member and /or pledge/donate online at “Scotiabank AIDS Walk Saskatoon 2018.  Our team is “King of Glory Lutheran Church” and team leader is “Michael Poellet”.  All money raised will go directly to support people who are infected by, affected by, and at risk of HIV, HVC and other blood borne pathogens.  Registration starts at 12:00 at the Roxy Theatre on 320 20th Street West.  The walk will be from about 1:00-2:00pm with speeches, prize drawings and refreshments afterwards.

“…love dwells nowhere but in the heart, indeed, in the innermost center of the heart, and for this reason there is that difference between [His children] and bond servants, because [His children] serve Him, not in fear of punishment or desire or glory, but only to fulfill the will of God; but the bond servants are forced by fear of punishment, and they serve Him unwillingly and with great difficulty, or they are desirous of a reward, in which case they serve him with a mercenary intent, but never absolutely out of a desire to fulfill His will.  Particularly in time of tribulation does the servant and hireling run away, but [His child] perseveres….”

Lectures on Roman

Greetings,

On behalf of Canadian Lutheran World Relief, thank you very much for your donation…Because of your support we are able to place essential aid into the hands of men, women, and children around the world that desperately need your help.

Together in 2017 we dispatched four containers of supplies to Mauritania, Tanzania, Liberia, and Angola.  These shipments benefited many children, and elderly.  For families that have already lost so much a warm quilt or a carefully prepared WE Care kit means a lot.

We are happy to report that in 2017 the WE Care program with your help shipped 22,266 quilts and blankets and 14, 696 WE care kits.  Together we were able to sen 50,134 kg of aid, valued at over $495,034.  We know that with your help we will be able to do so much more in 2018.

The challenges facing the world’s poor are immense, but together we have the opportunity to make a positive change in the lives of those displace by war, famine, and natural disaster.  Thank you very much for your continued support of CLWR and the We Care Program.

Sincerely,

Ian Mair

We Care Program Assistant

Thursday, September 6, Bible Study, “A Life of Prayer and Praise:  Studying the Psalms,” 730pm.  Host Needed.  We meet in Pastor Michael’s home, 1010 Duke Street

“Matthew 28:20: Remember, I am with you always, to the end of the world.”

“What does it really mean to say that Jesus or God is with us? that God is in the world? Where and how are we aware of that? God lives, lives for the world, the world is filled with God, is transfigured, is meaningful, sub specie aeternitatis [from the viewpoint of the Eternal]—that was the Easter message. But now we ask further: Where can I sense something of this divine fullness in the world and in my own life? And we answer that today, too, God is still walking among us; today, too, we can speak with God; we are together with God, walk down the street with God, encounter God in the foreigner on the road, the beggar at the door. The world is God’s world; wherever we go, we encounter God, and Jesus, the Resurrected, is with us. Remember, I am with you. . . .
But isn’t all this merely metaphorical language? What can we possibly mean by saying that Jesus is with us? Isn’t that merely an approximate, undefined feeling?
Not at all. It is completely clear.  Jesus is with us in his words, and that means clearly and unequivocally that he is in that which he wants and in that which he thinks about us. He is with us with his will, in his words, and only in our dealings with Jesus’ words do we sense his presence. The word, however, is the clearest and most unequivocal means of expression by which thinking beings connect. If we have a person’s word, then we know that person’s will; indeed, we know the whole person.”

Excerpt From: Dietrich Bonhoeffer. “The Collected Sermons of Dietrich Bonhoeffer.”

Last night KOG celebrated the 30th anniversary of Ann Salmon’s ordination:  “We give you thanks compassionate and gracious God for raising up among us and sending out faithful witnesses for the ministry of word and sacrament.  We give you thanks for the ministry of Ann Salmon.  You have given your church a faithful pastor, patient teacher, wise counselor, and inspiring musician.  Through the sufficiency of the your grace enable her to continue to exemplify the Gospel in word and deed.”

Below is a picture of Ann and her husband Carl enjoying the festivities:

Thank you to all involved in the quilts that have been made by members of King of Glory and their friends.  132 quilts will go to Canadian Lutheran World Relief for various aid programs around the world.  Prodigious thimbles full of thanks to the industrious sewers Bev Gregory, Karen McKenzie, Sharon Morgan, Doreen Matschke, Ursula Coakwell .(Missing, Marge McMillan and Sherry Andrews)