Celebration of Life Service
for
Virginia Mille
2 PM at Good Shepherd
Reception will follow the service.
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Sunday, March 3 is TWO-Can Sunday! Support our smaller local food pantries. Place your items in the shopping cart (please do not use the MUST barrels this Sunday). | |
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Remember the first Sunday of every month is Two-Can Sunday and Hefty Orange Bag recycling.
Hefty Orange Bags are for hard to recycle items (items which can not be put in curbside recycling. Bags are available in the Fellowship Hall for a nominal cost, along with a list of items that can be recycled this way. Bring your filled bags on the first Sunday of each month.
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Please note: The Outreach Committee will NOT be meeting this Sunday. The next meeting is planned for April 7th. | |
ATTENTION USHERS - Usher instructions have been updated. Please review them when you can. They may be found in the Sunday Servant binder in the ushers' cabinet, or on-line at gslutheran.org, (use this link) "ABOUT" tab, Policies and Procedures, scroll down to Usher Instructions. We will schedule some short training sessions in the near future. Stay tuned! | |
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The Youth Envelope Fundraiser
Questions and Answers
This is our Last Sunday for trying to meet our goal.
Our goal is to fill all the envelopes before March 3rd. If we meet our goal, and fill all the envelopes, every envelope filled earns a ticket to "Pie" a staff member and the rest of us can enjoy pie to eat the proper way on that day too.
Will the envelopes really help?
Absolutely! If we can fill all the envelopes, we will have raised a little over $5,000. THANKS BE TO GOD!
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LENT MID-WEEK SERVICES
Join us for worship Wednesdays, March 6, 13, 20 at noon or at 7:30 PM. For these mid-week services, we will meet in the Fellowship Hall and use “Holden Prayer Around the Cross” as a guide for a contemplative service of prayer, and yes, there will be candles!
Prior to the evening worship services around 6:45 PM, we will gather as a community for soup and salad. If interested in bringing soup, please sign up in Fellowship Hall.
March 6: For the Healing of Creation – Prayers on behalf of the whole creation based on Psalms 105 and 145
March 13: Beside Still Waters – a liturgy of healing prayer and anointing based on Psalm 23
March 20: For the Healing of the Nations – intercessory prayer for peoples, lands and nations based on Isaiah 65 and Revelation 21
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ONLY ONE WEEK AWAY!
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MARCH 10, 2024
Downtown Event at The Home Depot Backyard
Onsite Registration and Pre-event activities: 12:00 PM Race begins at 2 PM. Event ends at 4:00 PM. Join with Pastor Karen and her husband and other members as they participate in this walk event.
Good Shepherd is also proud to host a local walk here at Good Shepherd on March 10th at 2 PM to help raise money for the Atlanta Food Bank. Share this event with you neighbors. Rain date is scheduled for March 17. If you plan to attend, sign up in Fellowship Hall.
OR Donate! Put Hunger Walk in the memo line or your check and drop in offering plate or in slot near bookkeeper's office. Electronic giving option is also available thru the link below. Look for the picture of the shoe! Coin boxes are also available at the Welcome Desk for those who would like to contribute in that way.
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Easter is just around the corner and the beautiful Easter lily plants will again adorn our Sanctuary. Easter Lily Forms are now available. Please fill out a form with your dedication and return to Good Shepherd with your payment of $15/plant by March 10th. Checks can be made out to GSLC, put Lily in the memo line and leave in the bookkeeper's wall slot. These forms are also available in this week's bulletin announcement pages.
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CARING FOR CREATION
is now supporting Drake Closet, a clothing boutique that collects women's clothing, accessories, shoes, boots and jewelry donations. The proceeds from the boutique sales benefit The Drake House, which supplies housing for a defined time to women who have met with financial, employment, or family difficulties and are seeking or entering the workplace. Caring for Creation will collect SEASONAL, clean and like new donations and deliver to the Drake House as needed. Look for the drop-off bin in Fellowship Hall.
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Can you help with some donations to fill up our Easter Eggs for our Community Breakfast with the Bunny Event? Drop off bins are in the Entryway. Sign-up in Fellowship Hall to help with this event. | |
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HABITAT FOR HUMANITY: LUTHERAN COALITION
On March 16, Good Shepherd will begin helping to build a Habitat for Humanity house with the Lutheran Coalition for Habitat. The house will be for a community servant such as a teacher or bus driver and will be in Marietta. Work days will be Saturdays from 7:45 – 4. Click the button below to see the activities for each work week and for registration instructions: The address is: 106 Griggs Street, Marietta 30064
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LET'S GO FOR A DRIVE
Our Social Justice Task Force, using information put out by the Cherokee History Museum, is putting together a driving tour of Black History in Cherokee County. We would love to have a few different carloads of people take advantage of this opportunity while sharing meaningful discussions. If you are interested, please sign up in Fellowship Hall. Questions? Please see Mel.
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Ladies Night Out
Date: Tuesday, March 19, 2024; Time: 7 PM
Rally Point Grille (Formerly Semper Fi)
10009 Highway 92,
Woodstock, GA 20188
Sign up in Fellowship Hall.
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It is not too late to join in a class. | |
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We continue our recycling initiatives. We appreciate all help from congregation members to keep these items out of landfills.
1. ORAL CARE WASTE
2. HEFTY ORANGE ENERGY BAGS: (first Sunday of the month
3. BATTERIES: (Size D and smaller)
4. OLD EYEGLASSES
5. POPTABS
6. PRESCRIPTION MEDICINE BOTTLES
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Handmade Card ministry at GSLC
All OCCASION cards are available for a donation of $2.00 per card. All proceeds will support our Good Shepherd Youth Mission Trips. This ministry is being hosted by Molly Maher, Linda Rowell and Pam Hough.
NEW SMILE CARDS-Be the reason someone smiles today! Your card ministry presents Smile Cards! Each Smile Card includes seven mini envelopes, each one with a “smile” message inside. Your recipient can open all the envelopes at one time or open one for each day of the week. Give someone the gift of smiles! Suggested donation for a Smile Card - $4.00.”
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OUTREACH COAT DRIVE
The clothing drive to collect coats, jackets, raincoats and sweaters during January and February was a huge success! Thank you so much to everyone who donated to this worthwhile project. GSLC collected and delivered 140 items to the Cherokee Family Violence Center and 206 items to MUST, Cherokee. Thank you also to all the people who helped count, bag, load and deliver our offerings. With many hands, we had light work. Praise be to God.
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Read about our youth!
Our youth are active and planning many things for all ages. If you would like to engage more with what our youth are doing week to week, sign up to receive our Wednesday Weekly Lamb Buzz on our website. This is an email dedicated to families and their youth.
Read more about our youth programs on our website
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This is our submission form for you to submit non-urgent prayer concerns. Prayers will be posted to the Prayer Circle, via e-mail, during normal business hours, usually around 3 PM. As always, if you have an urgent prayer request, please contact Pastor by cell or email.
If you would like to pray for others, as part of our prayer circle, please contact our Office Coordinator and she can add you to the Prayer Circle group.
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