Good Shepherd’s Adult Forum on Sunday, February 19, will focus on its response to ELCA Bishop Elizabeth Eaton’s Pastoral Message on Immigration and Refugees and call for congregations to adopt a statement expressing our Christian values of welcome to refugees and immigrants. Bishop Eaton’s Pastor Message follows.
Adult Forum, Sunday, February 19, on Bishop Eaton’s Message on Immigration and Refugees
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This Week at Good Shepherd, February 13-19
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Tuesday, February 14
9:30 p.m. – Anna Circle – Jane Borelli hosts
7:00 p.m. – White Privilege Conversation
Wednesday, February 15
7:30 a.m. – Men’s Breakfast
1:00 p.m. – Prayer Shawl Ministry – Jeri Laursen hosts
6:00 p.m. – Education Committee
6:00 p.m. – Handbell Choir Practice
Thursday, February 16
March Newsletter articles due
10:00 a.m. – Adult Bible Study with Pastor Amy
5:00 p.m. – Community Meal at First Lutheran
Sunday, February 19 – Seventh Sunday after Epiphany
8:45 a.m. – Handbell Choir Rehearsal
9:30 a.m. – Worship with Holy Communion
10:30 a.m. – Fellowship Hour
10:45 a.m. – Adult Forum – Discussion of Response to Exec. Order on Refugees and Immigrants
10:45 a.m. – No Sunday School President’s Day Weekend
Installation of 2017-18 Council and Committee Members, Sunday, February 12
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We will have an installation of all of 2017-18 Congregation Council and Committee Members as well as other leaders and servants next Sunday, Feb. 12 at worship. We’ll invite the Congregation Council members to come forward and then have all others who are involved in service and leadership stand up from their spots in the pew.This Week at Good Shepherd, February 6-12
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Tuesday, February 7
4:00 p.m. – Mary Circle, Naomi Craft hosts
7:00 p.m. – White Privilege Conversation
Wednesday, February 8
7:30 a.m. – Men’s Breakfast
10:30 a.m. – Pr. Amy at Aase Haugen
1:00 p.m. – Pr. Amy at Wellington Place
2:00 p.m. – Miriam Circle – Bev Nelson hosts at church
6:00 p.m. – ConFest and Conference Assembly at Decorah Lutheran
7:00 p.m. – Choir rehearsal
8:00 p.m. – Band rehearsal
Thursday, February 9
10:00 a.m. – Bible Study with Pastor Amy
1:30 p.m. – Property and Management Committee
Sunday, – February 12 – Sixth Sunday after Epiphany
8:45 a.m. – Band Warm Up
9:30 a.m. – Worship with Holy Communion
10:30 a.m. – Fellowship Hour
10:45 a.m. – Adult Forum – John Moeller on the new political climate
10:45 a.m. – Sunday School and Confirmation Class
Wanda Deifelt to be Guest Preacher, Sunday, February 5, 2017
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Reformation Anniversary Event: Good Shepherd member, Professor Wanda Deifelt, will be our guest preacher and presenter on Sunday, February 5. Professor Deifelt is a scholar of Martin Luther and serves on the Lutheran-Roman Catholic Commission on Unity. She will offer an Adult Forum on February 5 as well.
Wanda Deifelt has been a professor in the Luther College Religion Department since 2004, focusing on the topics of Luther and Lutheranism, Creation, and Christology.
She achieved her Ph.D. and Masters of Theological Studies at Joint Garrett-Evangelical Theological Seminary and Northwestern University Doctoral Program (Evanston, Illinois) and her Bachelor of Arts at Faculdade de Teologia, Escola Superior de Teologica, (Sao Leopoldo, Brazil). She also achieved her Th.D. Honoris Causa at the University of Olso (Olso, Norway).
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