Welcome to Emmanuel’s web pages. Inside here you’ll find out things about our mission as the body of Christ, meet some of us, and peruse our news.

The tomb is empty. Darkness has not overcome the light. Death has not won. There is no reason to fear. Christ is risen. He is risen indeed.

NEEDED: Part-time music director for Lutheran (ELCA) congregation in Moscow, Idaho. To work with pastors and other parish musicians to plan and oversee the congregation’s music ministry. Requires keyboard proficiency, ability to work with and coordinate music volunteers, and to direct ensembles; More detailed job description and salary benefits available from Music Search Committee at Emmanuel Lutheran Church, 1036 West A Street, Moscow Idaho 83843, 208-882-3915. Please submit cover letter, resume and two references to the above address.

Come worship with us. Come serve alongside us.
Come study, learn, discuss and grow with us.
Continue to share the peace, mercy, justice and joy of Christ.
8 and 10:30 am at Emmanuel Sunday Worship
9:15am Classes for all ages, between the services

To see what's happenin' this week or this month, click on the "Calendar" page

Link for the Synod : http://www.ewaidsynod.org

To read the latest about  "ELCA Council Sets Process to Keep Synods Informed of Assembly Proposals 06-053-MRC" link to
http://www.elca.org/news  ELCA News  OR  Blog:  http://www.elca.org/news/blog

Church-wide link: http://www.elca.org  

Campus Christian Center link:
You can reach our office assistant, Doug Wood, at office@cccenter.org .
The Center is located in the middle of campus at 822 Elm Street at University Ave. and the telephone is 882-2536. www.cccenter.org   
Karla Neumann Smiley, Lutheran Campus Minister
822 Elm St., Moscow ID 83843 208.882.2536 ext. 2# lcm@uidaho.edu

CHURCH COUNCIL MEMBERS FOR 2007: 

Ben Beard – President
Mike Whiteman – Vice President, Finance
Bob Dwelle  – Treasurer
Deb Dumroese  – Secretary
George Paris  –  Personnel
Troy Hullin – Mission Endowment
Steve Nelson – Stewardship
 Becky Branson  – Emmanuel L.I.F.E.
Steve Fountain -- Building & Grounds
Kevin Peterson -- Outreach
Larry Clott -- Personnel, Preschool Board
Jon Kimberling -- Stewardship
Gwen Sullivan -- Worship & Music

Mission Statement:  We, the Body of Christ at Emmanuel Lutheran Church, proclaim the crucified Christ.  Our mission is to extend the Gospel of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ through worship, outreach, fellowship, teaching and love to God's children, locally and worldwide.

EMMANUEL'S SERMONS may be heard every Sunday morning on the radio station, KRPL, AM-1400 at 8:00 a.m.

CHURCH COMMITTEE DOINGS
Emmanuel L.I.F.E. – Meets 2nd Thursdays at 7:00 p.m.
All other committees should be meeting on 2ndTuesdays at 6:30 pm.
CHURCH COUNCIL meetings will be 3rd Tuesdays at 6:15 p.m.

EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE meetings will be 4th Tuesdays at 12:30 p.m. for lunch at various Moscow restaurants.

Emmanuel has numerous standing committees, for example:
Worship and Music, chaired by Kathy Anderson
Emmanuel L.I.F.E., which is composed of:
            Youth and Family Ministry, chaired by Robbie Giles
            Parish Education, co-chaired by Deb Dumroese
            Fellowship, chaired by Cindy Lish
            Campus Ministry, chaired by Mary Furnari
Finance, chaired by Carolyn Todd
Stewardship
Outreach, co-chaired by Nancy Ruth Peterson & Gloria Peterson

PLUS, there are our Habitat group, auxiliary groups and circles, our preschool board which all gather and work and study and pray.

LEFSE MAKING.  If you are interested, 2 recipes are at the bottom of this page.  For pictures of those making lefse click here! Or check our new page of recipes. 

8 c riced Russet potatoes (16-20)
½ cup heavy cream
½ cup butter
1 T salt
4 c flour

Peel potatoes and cook. Drain. Rice potatoes (some do twice). Add butter, cream and salt.

Mix in flour and roll into balls about the size of a tennis ball or smaller. Keep balls of dough on a plate in fridge. Take out one at a time. Roll out paper thin on lightly floured board (some cover board with canvas).

Bake on stove top griddle at 500 degrees.

8 c. riced potatoes (Ricing will make the potatoes absolutely smooth; lumps  cause sticking. Before ricing, let the drained potatoes set about 30 minutes to let the steam out, preferably in a shallow dish. Letting the steam go before ricing will reduce the moisture and also help prevent sticking. But more importantly, you will find you need less flour, which results in better flavor.)

Add to riced potatoes:

3/4 c. cream
3/4 c. butter
2 Tb. sugar
2 tsp. salt

Mix well and refrigerate overnight.

The next day, add 4 c. flour, work in well use your mixer to mix in flour (unless you have a commercial grade mixer, you will need to divide the dough into smaller amounts) Fform balls (about 1/3 c. ea). Roll out each ball on a pastry board using a sleeve covered rolling pin (to help prevent sticking and lessens the amount of flour required in the rolling out process). Lift with lefse stick and dry hot (about 400degrees) grill for about 1 minute on each side or until you see light brown spotting-- the lefse should NOT be crisp. Another tip-- use separate lefse sticks for lifting to the grill, and lifting off the grill, i.e. a cold stick, and a hot stick. This will help prevent putting holes in your beautifully rolled lefse because a hot stick will quickly soften your thinly rolled lefse making it easy to break a hole while working off the pastry
board. Keep lefse stacked under a kitchen towel while grilling the batch. A pizza wheel comes in handy to cut into wedges.