SHEEP BUZZ NEWSLETTER

March 8, 2024

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.

Join us THIS SUNDAY March 10th at 4pm at Mountasia Mini Golf! (Address: 175 Barrett Pkwy Marietta, GA 30066). A round of golf will be paid for by the church! ALL are welcome- no family is to big or age is too old!

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!

LENT MID-WEEK SERVICES

Join us for worship Wednesdays, March 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 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

Join us for Coffee with Council next Sunday, March 17, between services. Share a slice of pie too during our "PIE DAY" event.

The Youth Envelope Fundraiser

PIE DAY IS NEXT SUNDAY, March 17

Questions and Answers

Did we reach our goal? Yes

Will we pie our staff? Yes, at 9:45 AM next Sunday, March 17, If you contributed, you can receive 1 pie to use on the staff member of your choice.

Can we bring a pie to eat and share? Yes! Sign -up in Fellowship Hall, or just bring your favorite.

Fellowship is hosting an Easter Breakfast, Easter morning between services, beginning at 9:30 AM.. Please sign up in Fellowship Hall a dish to share.

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.

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 big orange drop-off bin in Fellowship Hall.

March 23 | 10 AM

Spread the news and share with your neighbors. Crafts, Games, Pancake Bar and Egg Hunt!



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.

We are in need of:

• Stickers
• small toys
• fidget toys
• tattoos
• peanut free candy
• bouncy balls
• yoyos
• whistles
• squishies
• ring pops
• fruit snacks
• small bubbles
• sticky hands

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

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.

It is not too late to join in a class.

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-Please remove labels (see below)

3. BATTERIES: (Size D and smaller) 

4. OLD EYEGLASSES

5. POPTABS

6. PRESCRIPTION MEDICINE BOTTLES

We need to remove labels from these bottles try these methods:

1. Warm the label in the sun
2. Use a hairdryer for heat
3. Put bottle in a glass of very hot water

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.”

MORE NEWS AND INFORMATION

Thank you for the 131 lbs. of food that was dropped off to Timothy Cupboard. They are so appreciative of all of the donations that we bring.

Handbell Workshop

(February 16-18)

Drew Dickerson, Wendy Vogt and Lori Peters attended the Lutheridge Advanced Track Handbell Workshop led by composer Brenda Austin. (in photo)

DATES TO REMEMBER

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.