Lutheran Church of the Good Shepherd

Weekly Bulletin 11-03-2013

To celebrate our 55th anniversary, members were asked to bring specific food and household items. The goal was 55 items each week. Even the children of our Kid Friendly Worship contributed catchup.

Here’s the result.

Donated items to celebrate 55 years of community and charity.

All of this will go to T.E.A.M. to restock the food pantry.

Thank You

Weekly Bulletin 10-20-2013

Blessings this week in this gorgeous autumn weather! May God be praised, it could stay this way year round as far as I’m concerned.

Worship this Sunday will be based on the quirky parable about the widow and the unjust judge. One of our confirmands, as we were studying the story said, “This is SO STRANGE!” How true. That’s our Lord Jesus alright, with his sense of humor. We’ll have beautiful hymns, as always! It is also our celebration of Pastor Dave Swan’s 40th anniversary of his ordination so we will have a prayer of blessing during worship for him, then a lovely little drop-in reception in the Welcome Area after each service. Bless you Pastor Dave, or as he calls himself now, “Just Plain Dave”. Kid-Friendly Worship will wrestle with Jacob wrestling the Angel. Our Adult Bible Study will be on the weird judge.

“Thank you gracious God for health care and trained medical people. Our system is imperfect but we are grateful for how you send your healing grace into our lives. Amen.”

Pastor Linda

Weekly Bulletin 10-13-2013

Coming this Sunday is the story of the 10 lepers. What a fascinating, multi-level story. Beautiful music and beautiful hymns will be part of our rich worship. are we not blessed with music here at Good Shepherd? At the 55th celebration last Sunday I listened in wonder to the musical gifts of our congregation. Also the beautiful messages of the witnesses was so inspiring and uplifted my spirits. Of course when it comes to breaking bread together around the tables, well, we are beyond compare.

KFW will hear the Gospel according to Curious George this week. Remember to bring or wear George-ish stuff. Has your curiosity gotten you into trouble? I empathize with George, having been more than once told I “asked too many questions”. And the bigger question of the first 2 lessons this Sunday is: are you a good little monkey? Do you find that even when you try to be good and do what God asks that your choices somehow get away from you? Thank God for the “man in the yellow hat”.

This Sunday our collection for our “55 Gifts of Love” is canned chili. The cart is in the foyer as you walk in the front doors. We were blessed by your donations of canned tuna – thank you for your generous spirits!

Next Sunday October 20 come to the drop-in reception after each service  to celebrate with Pastor Dave on his 40th Anniversary of Ordination! Make sure you sign the congregation’s book for Pastor Dave!

Have your marked your calendars for our November 9 planned giving event hosted by Joyce “JP” Palmer, who is the ELCA Director of Charitable Gift Planning? It will be approximately 90 minutes in length and is purely informational. Meet at 9 am. Please contact Lori Kreppert, Bill Hake, Bill  Hoehne, or Bill Hale with any questions or comments. Please note the time
change!

Blessings to you this week. We’ll see you on Sunday. If you’d like an audio copy of the 55th worship celebration we have it recorded. Let us know. The ushers always record one service per Sunday. Let us know if you miss a Sunday and want a recording.

Blessings in Christ’s name!
Pastor Linda

Sunday we celebrated 55 years together as a community. Some of us are new and some of us have been here since the beginning. We are all celebrating together.

Weekly Bulletin 10-06-2013

Sunday, September 29th, we remembered our furry, slimy, squeeky, and raucous pets with blessings and prayers for their good health.