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DONUTS AND FLOWERS

We need sign-ups for January and February!

The new 2024 flower and donut charts are now posted in the Administration Hallway. Secure your favorite dates! Prices remain the same. $30 for donuts and $40 for flowers. Always remember to include a form, checks can be made out to GSLC. Please note flowers or donuts in the memo line on your checks. You can also pay online, using the donate button on our website. Want to help serve donuts? Contact a member of our Fellowship team or the church office.

NEXT OUTREACH MEETING

Our next outreach meeting will be held January 7, at 9:30 AM. Please plan to attend if you are able.

Upcoming Outreach Events

Mark your calendars for January 15th, at 10:30 AM for a Martin Luther King Day of Service. We will be writing notes to our active military, making gifts for the First Responders that serve our area and delivering them and making gift bags for Sunabella and The Oaks Assisted Living homes and delivering them. 

The Outreach Committee is also collecting gently-used coats, jackets, sweaters and raincoats for men, women and children during the months of January and February. Please make sure that they are clean with no tears. We will be donating them to the Cherokee Family Violence Center and to MUST, Cherokee.

Two Can Sunday is this Sunday, January 7th.

(It is also Hefty Orange Bag Hefty Recycling Day too. Need more bags? They are located in Fellowship Hall.)

Thank you for the support for Timothy Lutheran's Cupboard during the month of December.

Youth Sunday is coming soon on January 28th, at the 10:45 AM service sign-ups are already happening so secure your spot. A Family Fun Night of bowling will also take place that evening at Stars and Strikes in Woodstock at 5 PM.

Looking for all the news for our Youth? Be sure to read your Wednesday, Weekly Lamb Buzz Email. Some exciting things are happening at GSLC for all ages of our youth. Access each week on our website under the Youth Tab, the button below or sign-up to be on the e-mail list. Let Mel know at youthfamministry@gslutheran.org if you want to be included in the email blast. 

Read the Weekly Lamb Buzz newsletter for more details.

Ladies Night Out

Date: Tuesday, January 16, 2023 Time: 7 PM

Longhorn's Steakhouse

1420 Towne Lake Pkwy.

Woodstock, GA 30189

Sign up in Fellowship Hall.

YARN ANGELS

Our next meeting will be on Monday, January 15th, from 11:00 a.m. to 1:00 p.m. at the home of Jennifer Taylor. Light refreshments will be provided.

A new member class will be scheduled sometime in January. If you have been thinking about joining Good Shepherd, please let Pastor Karen know and we can begin to send you some materials about membership.

Email Pastor Karen here.

Handmade Card ministry at GSLC

 Now that Christmas is over, we have THANK YOU cards available for a donation of $2.00 per card. There are also a limited number of BELATED BIRTHDAY cards and new cards for various occasions.

All proceeds will support our Good Shepherd Youth Mission Trips. This ministry is being hosted by Molly Maher, Linda Rowell and Pam Hough

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I would like to thank GSLC for all of the donations on behalf of my Silver Award Girl Scout team. Just to recap, we are working on the Hope project. This stands for Helping Others Positively Everyday. We want to create bags of hope with items of need and also include a message of hope & encouragement. We have finished the first portion of our project with Good Shepherd's assistance where we created bags for families in need. I planned most of this part, and to start, we printed our logo onto 50 reusable canvas bags. We took into consideration who we were helping and what we were each doing when designing the logo and deciding on a name for the project. Printing the bags did take a while. Luckily, our group worked quickly and Instant Imprints was a big help to us in creating the bags. Then, we campaigned for supplies to fill the bags. We appreciate everyone who donated money or items to support the project. 

Next in the process, we wrote notes of encouragement. Our group then filled the bags with the help of the rest of our Girl Scout troop. The bags included some paper goods, household detergent for dishes and laundry, sponges, and some snacks, soups, pastas and canned meats. Finally, we donated the bags to Encompass Ministries, also known as Papa's Pantry to go to any families in need. 

The part I enjoyed was that each of the three of us on the team is taking a small piece that's ours, to plan and work. Then coming together to help the other team members. Getting to do this project has taught me a lot about how fortunate we are to be here with people who care for us inside and outside of the church.   

Lily

You May Have Been Assigned a Servant Role

If switching to a new role, please email our Office Coordinator, Melina, so she can add you to our schedules. Also, please let the office know in advance if you are scheduled, or future plans have you going away and cannot serve. Thank you.

We could use a few extra hands on Saturday, January 6, at 10:30 AM, to take down the Christmas decorations as we move into the season of Epiphany. With the extra help, it should not take very long. Thank you.

Our music programs are up and running, but it is never too late to join our groups!

The Praise Team rehearses some Saturdays 9-11 and some Thursday evenings from 7-9 PM. Contact Pam if you are interested in any of our music programs.

Click here to email Pam, our Praise Service Coordinator

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Sunday School 

Most school groups on break till January 21

• THIS SUNDAY, Jan 7: All are invited to a "How to spot a scam" seminar, in Fellowship Hall | 10 AM

• Jan 14: All are encouraged to attend the Ministry Fair at - 9:45 AM, younger kids will have activities available in the classrooms, so parents can attend the fair.

Coffee and Conversation meets Sunday mornings at 9:45 AM, and is engaged in a study titled, God's Law is Love" that includes excerpts from several books of the New Testament. Ben Setzer continues to lead this group.

Faith Stories: Meets at at 9:45 AM in rm. 117. We encourage new faces to join us at anytime.

Men in Mission: We are currently working through the Master Builders Bible for Men. We meet Sunday Mornings at 9:45 AM in rm. 118. Join us for good conversation and reflection. We also try to meet at Marlow's Tavern, usually the first Wednesday of the month for lively dinner conversation at 7 PM. Check with the group on Sunday mornings for updates to this schedule. 

WEEK DAY BIBLE STUDY OPPORTUNITIES

Wednesday Lunch and Learn: We will meet in the Meeting Room at 11:30 AM. Bring your lunch and join us for this lunchtime study. We are always looking for new study partners. Watch for details of our new study coming soon.

Word of Wednesday (WOW): Word on Wednesday meets at 10:00 a.m. in the Fellowship Hall. Virtual options will be available for those not able to attend in person. We invite you to join us in our journey along the path of life with God as we study "The Serenity Prayer - a simple prayer to enrich your life" by Trevor Hudson. Lori Peters continues to lead this group. We will resume this coming Wednesday, Jan. 10th.

Thursday Bible Study: Join in conversation with Pastor Karen on the topic of Thessalonica. We begin at 10 AM. Bring your Bibles.

CARING FOR CREATION

Our next meeting will be Wednesday, January 10, 2024, at 7:00 p.m. on Teams

GARDEN OF GRACE: Fall plantings include radishes, lettuce, spinach and carrots. We have already been harvesting radishes and lettuce and expect to have carrots in a few weeks. The peppers have produced abundantly all summer, but were killed by the recent freezing weather. All produce harvested from the Garden of Grace is donated to Forever Fed.

CARING FOR CREATION: Our recycling initiatives are going well including collection of oral care waste, small batteries, used eyeglasses, pop tabs and Hefty energy bags for hard to recycle items. We recently added collection of beverage pull tabs. We will resume collection of prescription medicine bottles tin January. If you have questions, please see any member of the committee.

Reducing our Carbon Footprint

For the next couple weeks, the Caring for Creation Committee will highlight articles on ways you can reduce your carbon footprint at home. Our next article is about Insulation. You can read this article and more on our website. Here is the introduction to that article:

Insulation

Did you know that you can have your local utility come out to your home and do an energy audit? I can hear it now, why in the world would I ask for an audit. It’s not that kind of audit. This kind of audit an expert comes out and measures the amount of air leaking from key areas like windows, doors, chimney’s, attics, basements, etc.  Click here to read more....

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