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Congregation Council Meeting Highlights:

1. Approved the minutes from the March 2023 meeting.
2. Approved the Financial Policy for Good Shepherd that will go into effect on May 1st.
3. Discussed providing quarterly financial updates to the congregation. 
4. Discussed painting the education wing (beyond the 2nd set of doors).  
5. Budget discussions with the congregation will take place:

   Zoom call on Tuesday, April 25th @ 7PM

after both services on Sunday, April 30th and Sunday, May 7th 

SEMI-ANNUAL CONGREGATIONAL MEETING - May 21st

Save this date! May 21st, there will be one service at 10 AM. We are also blessed to welcome Bishop Strickland to worship with us. He will arrive to answer questions at 9 AM and preach for us during that service. As this is the end of our Sunday School year, the youth will be filling all the servant and speaking roles for the service. Please ask your youth what and or where they would like participate and get them signed up. (Sign-up Central Online OR use the button below in the youth section) This is a great honor to be working alongside the Bishop. Following the service, we will have our Semi-Annual Meeting to vote on the budget. The morning will conclude with a hot dog lunch and youth fun and games to celebrate the end of the year.

The church office is closed on Fridays. The regular business hours are Monday - Thursday 9 AM -12 PM and 1 PM -3 PM. Pastor Rosy will be out of the office on April 26 - May 3.

You May Have Been Assigned a Servant Role in April

The Sunday Servant Worship Schedule can be found by clicking the button and viewing on our website. There is a link on our home page under "Quick Links."

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.

During the month of April, our Diversion, Equity and Inclusion Task Force is offering resources and hotlines for Sexual Assault Month and more information about the compnay, Safe Gatherings, we use to facilitate our background checks. You will also find this information displayed in Fellowship Hall.

EMPTY NESTER’S TRIP

SAVOY AUTOMOBILE MUSEUM

Date: Saturday, April 29, 2023

Time: Meet at museum 2:30 pm (arrange your own individual carpools)

Tour: 2:30 – 4:30 pm

Dinner: City Cellar Loft in Cartersville 5:00 pm



Savoy Automobile Museum features five exhibition galleries. Four are temporary rotating galleries and the fifth showcases the permanent Savoy Collection. The rotating galleries will feature specially curated exhibits showcasing automobiles surrounding a common theme. The Savoy Collection will display vehicles from Savoy’s special permanent collection. Savoy invites you to stroll through the galleries to appreciate the individual beauty and design of each vehicle while reading about its construction, production, and perhaps spark a memory or two. Come and experience Savoy!

Address: 3 Savoy Lane, Cartersville, GA 30120

Sign-up in Fellowship Hall!

The Garden of Grace's first Spring Harvest!

Lettuces and radishes. Thanks be to God!

The Caring for Creation Committee is constantly seeking ways to care for God’s creation. Single use plastics are part of our everyday lives now and are sometimes unavoidable. Since these take 500 years to biodegrade, we encourage minimizing their use.  REFUSE, REUSE, RECYCLE. It is better to refuse them when possible and reuse those we do get. The last resort is to recycle. 

To help us refuse plastic bags, the Caring for Creation Committee and the Outreach Committee are jointly providing re-usable grocery bags to members of the congregation. These will be available after each service by the Garden of Grace (three per family). When we do get plastic bags, we can reuse them as liners in small trash cans and other ways. 

We can refuse to buy detergents in large plastic bottles. We encourage you to be creative and find other ways you can minimize the use of these plastics and share our ideas with Caring for Creation Committee.

GOOD SHEPHERD IS A CERTIFIED WILDLIFE HABITAT

With thanks and gratitude to our neighbor, Fred McManus, Good Shepherd is now a Certified Wildlife Habitat, awarded by the National Wildlife Federation. Fred was seeking to have his neighborhood, “The Arbors,” become certified by the Federation and brought to our attention that Good Shepherd had the necessary qualifications to also become certified and passed along the information to our Caring for Creation Committee on how to initiate the process. We are happy to announce our certification this Sunday. We have a sign which has been installed by the Garden of Grace.

We continue to collect used eyeglasses. A box is located in Fellowship Hall. These will be donated to the Lion's Club.

We also continue to collect oral care waste for recycling. These items are mailed to TerraCycle where they are made into plastic pellets which can be made into outdoor furniture of playground equipment.  

We also continue to collect used batteries to take to the appropriate recycling facility. This keeps the toxic materials out of landfills.

Our next meeting will May 10, 2023, at 7:00 p.m. on Zoom. If you would like serve God in this ministry, please contact the church office or Reba Sumner.

Connect with the ELCA and SE Synod

• Latest Edition (4-20-23): Southeastern Synod E-News
• April Edition: ELCA Monthly publication "Seeds Monthly"

Thursday Morning Bible Study - 10 AM-Led by Pastor Rosy

(We will not meet this Thursday, April 27th)

We are reading together the book called: “Honoring Our Neighbor’s Faith”. You can either purchase a used book from Amazon or order the revised version on Augsburg’s Fortress website. Book cost is $13.99. We will be dialoging about the similarities and differences of different Christian denominations and different faiths and comparing that with Lutheranism. Open to all! We will also be offering a livestream version of this study on Facebook at glscwoodstock. Come join us, wherever you are!

THEOLOGY ON TAP-at Game Day!

We will meet next, Wednesday, May 10th, then Wednesday, May 24th, at Game Day. Stay tuned to your Sheep Buzz for any new information.

GSLC has disbursed the following to organizations the area that will serve our community members in need:

• MUST Ministries-Cherokee $2,000.00
• Cherokee County Violence Center $2,000.00
• Cherokee County Homeless Veterans Program $2,000.00

These funds were made possible through members generous donations to benevolence programs.

A big thank you to all who have contributed during the Birthday Bash and the Lenten Box Offering. Clark Creek Elementary School will be receiving a total of $972.41 from the donations of Good Shepherd members and visitors during these events. This money is to offset delinquent lunch accounts at their school.  Thanks be to God!

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. 

Some upcoming youth and family events are:

Plan to stay and play BINGO this Sunday After Worship

MAY 21st is YOUTH SUNDAY

Youth Sunday Volunteers!   Youth Sunday will take place on May 21st this year at a combined 10 AM service. WE NEED YOUR HELP! Please sign up for what you would like to help participate in. Please email Mel with any questions! This is a special opportunity to work alongside Bishop Strickland, of the Southeastern Synod who will be preaching for us on this day.

Read the Weekly Lamb Buzz newsletter for more details.

We are looking for volunteers for the Nursery. You can sign up in Fellowship Hall or online here.

This is our submission form for you to submit prayer concerns. Prayers will be posted to the Prayer Circle, via e-mail, during normal business hours. 

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.

Please print your bulletin from home if you are able.

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