After the Harvest
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Fed by Faith was our Vacation Bible School (VBS) theme at Trinity this summer. I am thankful I was late, an unusual occurrence, to this year’s planning meeting. By the time I arrived our leaders had already decided they wanted to have food be a focus, ending each session with a family meal. This idea was inspired by the film A Place at the Table which many of us had seen at the Egyptian Theater in Boise last spring. One of the film’s theses is that hunger and obesity in the United States are two sides of the same coin. A great vignette in the documentary is a teacher in a Southeast inner-city grade school who brings a melon to her classroom and gives each student a bite. She then encourages her students to find the same kind of melon in the grocery store and ask their mom or dad to purchase one. Continue reading
I never went on a church campout as a kid. I went to camp—private camp, YMCA camp, church camp. Adding the “ing” to go camping meant hiking or paddling into the forest and sleeping in a tent or under the stars for several nights. I certainly knew about pop-up campers and RVs. I grew up the daughter of the Chamber of Commerce director in a tourist town. I could have told you not only the five reasons you should stay in Custer instead of any other town in the Black Hills, but which campgrounds around Custer were the best for your family’s particular needs. But I had never been on a campout until I came to Idaho. Trinity Lutheran Church in Nampa has a steady history of church campouts and Southwest Idaho has some beautiful state parks, so last weekend I joined 40 people of all ages on the annual campout, sleeping in a tent. Continue reading
For 20 years, when you walked out of Trinity Lutheran Church and looked across the parking lot you saw a tall wooden fence. That changed this winter. In the mid-90s, Mercy Housing approached Trinity and asked if they could lease the land around our parking lot for a dollar a year and build 16 low-income houses, appropriately named New Hope. The proposal and final agreement were surrounded by controversy, summed up in the initials TLC no longer standing for Trinity Lutheran Church but That Lutheran Church. Continue reading
by Amanda Hanson
When Pastor Meggan asked if I would be interested in taking the Master Food Safety course I will admit I was a bit hesitant. Things had been pretty difficult after losing our son Klayton and I wasn’t sure I could make that big of a commitment. Then, I took a moment and thought about what I had promised Klayton before he passed. I promised that I was going to take more time to help people. You see, he was able to help someone at only 6 days old and give the gift of his kidneys to a mother of two. So, with that I started on the journey of learning about food preservation. Continue reading
by Meggan Manlove
One of the things I remember about moving into the parsonage in Soldier, Iowa (where I served as pastor from 2004-2010) was the dirt. I grew up on a hillside in the Black Hills of South Dakota. We never had a lawn to mow. We had Ponderosa Pine needles and pine cones, a gravel path from the garage to the house, and gatherings of grass all covering fine brown soil that would fly away with the slightest breeze. The dirt in Iowa was black. It looked different, felt different, and smelled different. This was not dirt; it was soil, soil perfect for growing corn, soybeans, grass, weeds, vegetables and flowers. Continue reading
by Meggan Manlove
ELCA Domestic Hunger Grant – proposed July 2012, granted Jan. 2013
Trinity Lutheran Church, Nampa, ID – AFTER THE HARVEST
Trinity Lutheran Church founded Trinity Community Gardens in the spring of 2008, when the original plot was planted in the church’s backyard. Trinity Community Gardens planted additional plots on congregational members’ acreages in the spring of 2009. (Currently, Trinity Community Gardens has a plot on the grounds of Trinity Lutheran Church and grows and gleans on several other plots in the Nampa area). Continue reading
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