Wednesday, March 18
12:15 Organ Recital with Aaron Burmeister, D.M.A, Indiana University
5:30 Holden Evening Prayer Lenten service, Faith Story – Sarah Wicks
6:00 Soup Supper; Puppet Ministry – Sunday School room

 Thursday, March 19
10:00-11:30 Bible Study with Pastor April – Going Deeper
Study Jeremiah 31: 31-34; Hebrews 5:5-10; John 12:20-33

Saturday, March 21
5:00 Worship Service

Sunday, March 22
9:30 Worship Service
10:45 Sunday School and Adult Forum (Special Series on the Church)

Special Benevolence Opportunities

For more detail, click on the News/Events tab on the Good Shepherd website.

• Lenten Offerings designated for Pathway to Citizenship (local) and ELCA World Hunger (global)
• Sunday School Lenten Project, Mutuelle Matters
• LED Lighting Initiative
• W/ELCA Basket of Promise campaign

A Special Series on the Church is being offered by the ELCA which provides a 5 week discussion called “Claimed, Gathered, Sent.”  The Adult Forum committee is sponsoring these discussions and then using the topics to organize Forum sessions over the next year.  The topics include:  1. We Are Church.  2.  We are Lutheran. 3.  We Are Church Together.  4.  We are Church for the Sake of the World.  5.  What Difference Do We Make?  Everyone is invited to the Narthex refurbished with a new whiteboard and screen.

March 22:  Pr. Judd Larson – This Sunday‘s Forum presents the Ben Music Project and the liturgy, Behold, I Make All Things New.  Erin Branchaud speaking of Ben’s music wrote, “A heart song is more than a favorite song …a heart song is somehow a part of who you are.  It is a song that, when you hear it, you think it might have just been written for you.  It is that first song you want to sing when you experience joy or pain.  It reaches deep into your heart and opens you to sing your very being.  For me, and I’m sure for many of you, my heart song is a Ben song.  Ben’s music somehow gets to the very core of who we are, and once it is there, it wraps us tightly in God’s love.”  Come and experience Ben’s music!

March 29:  Dan Raney – Hindsight 70/150: Hindemith and Whitman on Human Conflict, Loss, and Healing.  In commemoration of the end of the American Civil War and Lincoln’s assassination, Dan Raney will explore Paul Hindemith’s 1945 “Requiem,” When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom’d.  The discussion will focus on Walt Whitman’s landmark 1865 elegy, and on the common human conditions of conflict, loss, and rebirth expressed through poetry and music.

The Depot Outlet has presented Good Shepherd Lutheran Church with a grant for $2,000 towards purchase of an AED. The grant also covered purchase of the accessories necessary for its proper function as well as an EMT First Responder Kit. The AED has been installed near the sanctuary for maximum accessibility in the building.  The grant proposal was submitted by the Good Shepherd Stewardship Committee.

A new feature called “This Week at Good Shepherd” is being launched this week to provide a handy reference for church activities, especially during the Lenten season.

Monday-Friday
Work schedule for LED lighting and sound system upgrades

Wednesday, March 11
12:15 Organ Recital with Luther student Christine Skogen; light refreshments
5:30 Lenten service, Wanda Deifelt, speaking; Holden Evening Prayer; Puppet Ministry and Soup Supper follows

Thursday, March 12
10:00-11:30 Bible Study with Pastor April; study John 3:14-21

Saturday, March 14
5:00 Holy Communion

Sunday, March 15
9:30 Holy Communion
10:45 Sunday School and Adult Forum (Special Series on the Church)

Special Benevolence Opportunities During Lent
For more detail, click on the News/Events tab on the Good Shepherd website.

• Lenten Offerings designated for Pathway to Citizenship (local) and ELCA World Hunger (global)
• Sunday School Lenten Project, Mutuelle Matters
• LED Lighting Initiative
• W/ELCA Basket of Promise campaign

Again this year, the W/ELCA will be participating in the LWR Basket of Promise campaign.  Each week, we will collect a different item that we’ll use to assemble Personal Care Kits that give people around the world tools to stay healthy in life’s most challenging situations.    We will ask the youth to help assemble the kits in April and they will be collected and sent to LWR on May 2.

Our collection schedule will be:

March 1:  bath towels (light-weight, 52” x 27”, dark color recommended)

March 8:  toothbrushes (adult size, in original packaging)

March 15: combs

March 22: nail clippers (metal, attached file optional)

March 29: bath size bars of soap