St. Nicholas Fair Saturday, December 10th, from 10am-3pm, Good Shepherd will be having a Christmas Bake Sale and craft fair in the Parish Hall. Come and enjoy a warm drink, and a snack while shopping and enjoying other festivities!
There will be a café featuring soups and sandwiches, live music, a bake sale, vendor tables with handmade wares, gently used items for sale and many things to see and do.
If you would like to bake something delicious for someone to buy, please let Stephanie know. If you are an artist of some kind and would like to donate, please contact Jon Groves. If you just think this all sounds awesome, and would like to help in another way, please contact Anne.
All proceeds will be used to help fund training for Catechesis of the Good Shepherd. We hope to see you there!
Potluck and Greening of the Church This Sunday Good Shepherd will be having a combination potluck, pageant practice, and Greening of the Church, which is a fancy way of saying that we’ll be decorating for the upcoming Advent and Christmas season.
If you have time, please consider staying after the 10:30 service to help decorate, and bringing a dish to share at lunch, but stay and eat even if you don’t! The theme this month is Favorite Holiday Dishes.
Christmas Concert with Brio Vocal Ensemble and Friends! Celebrate the birth of our Savior with music: vocal and instrumental solos and ensembles, plus congregational carol singing! The concert takes place at 3 p.m. on December 18th at Endwell United Methodist Church, 3301 Watson Boulevard, Endwell. Free will offering.
A Special Announcement Join us for a baby shower celebrating Ronnie Murphy and her baby boy, due to arrive in March. All women and girls from the church are invited!
When: Saturday, January 14, 1:00-3:00pm
Where: Church of the Good Shepherd parish hall
Please see Carrie Nelson or Mary Restino for more info, and RSVP by January 2.
Mission Opportunity In February, Anne Thompson will be going to Nicaragua to work with the CHE group communities. Her group will be making baby items with women. If you have any baby fabric, thread, zippers, or patterns that you could pass on, that would be great. Also, if you would like to help cut out some items ready to sew for our 100 kits, that would be wonderful! Lastly, we would welcome you if you would care to join us for a few days in a community, to see CHE in action. Contact Anne at thompam02@gmail.com for more information.
Good Shepherd Food Pantry Did you know that Good Shepherd has a member food pantry? This pantry is a small room off the kitchen and is open to all members of Good Shepherd.
Please feel free to pick up a few items for the pantry when doing your household shopping if you have the ability. We are currently running low on soups, peanut butter, cereals, and general non-perishables.
If you are in need of food, please do make use of the supplies there.
Prayer Offered Good Shepherd has resumed offering Prayer on the side altar during Communion. Beginning this Sunday, you may notice a person standing at the side altar rail as you come forward to receive the bread and wine. That person is part of the newly formed Prayer Ministry–people trained to pray for any anxieties or troubles you may have. If you would like prayer for any reason, please feel free to stop as you pass.
Volunteers for Tech Team Are you a technologically capable person who would like to serve the church with your gifts? Good Shepherd is looking add a volunteer team to run sound and the livestream for our services. If this is a ministry that interests you, please reach out to Micah.
Home Groups Home Groups exist to glorify God and build up the church through weekly gatherings where members of Good Shepherd and non-members alike may come to grow in fellowship and discipleship around God’s word.
Please see the paper bulletin for more information on times and places!
Sunday Worship and Holy Eucharist
The 8am service If you are high risk, or at all nervous to be in social gatherings, this service is designed for you. All those who attend are asked to remain socially distanced throughout the service. The 8am service is not currently being live-streamed.
The 10:30am service You can download a PDF copy of the service bulletin here.
This Sunday’s lectionary readings are: Isaiah 35:1-10, Psalm 146, James 5:13-20, and Matthew 11:2-19.
You’ll also notice that there are links in the offertory section to take you out to two different means of giving electronically. You can give online through Breeze or you can text a donation through Breeze at 607-882-6551. Good Shepherd also has a PayPal account. As always, thank you for your great generosity and kind support.
Catching Up…
Last Sunday’s Sermon Last Sunday, Matt preached on Romans 15:1-13. You can listen or watch ‘Let Each of Us Please His Neighbor for His Good’ here. You can find previous sermons here.
Christian Education This Sunday we continued our Christian Education series for adults built around Carl Trueman’s book, “The Rise and Triumph of the Modern Self.”
This week, we continued discussing the politicization of the self, and how “identity” became such a dominant concept in public discourse.
You can watch that class here.
You can find previous classes here.
Zoom Morning Prayer This service normally meets online by zoom at 7am Monday through Friday. The liturgy and readings are available each day at www.dailyoffice2019.com. Join the parish email list and look for a weekly email invitation in your inbox.
Morning prayer has resumed meeting.
Preventing Grace Did you know that Matt and Anne have a podcast? Most weeks they cover topics like church polity, raising children, current events, and baking bread. In this week’s installment, ‘Is Santa A Lie’, Anne and Matt talk about Christmas and Santa Claus and the difference between a myth and a lie. Is it a sin for Christian parents to tell their children about Santa?
Miss an episode? You can find many previous recordings here.
Tuesday Morning Bible Study This Tuesday we continued our series on the miracles of Jesus.
We had some technical difficulties, so the entire class was not recorded. You can, however, watch the two partial recordings here.
Miss a class? You can find all of the previous classes in this series and previous series here.
Thursday Evening Beginner’s Bible Study The Thursday evening study meets in person at 6pm in the classroom area. The class is working through the book of Judges. This is a great place to connect with others and learn more about what God has to say to us through his word.
Men’s Breakfast and Bible Study The Men’s bible study meets at 6am each Friday morning, and they are currently studying the book of Jeremiah.
Women’s Bible Study This study is meeting at 4:30 pm on Friday afternoons in the Parish Hall. Anne Kennedy is leading and they are studying Advent texts taken from The Messiah. Children are welcome—as in, we hope to have some childcare available. If you’d like to join by zoom, please join the church email list and look for a link in the weekly update email.
| Weekly Bible Reading | |
| Monday
December 12 |
Psalm 106:19-48
Isa 55 Luke 14:25—15:10 |
| Tuesday
December 13 |
Psalm 107:23-43
Isa 56 Luke 15:11-end |
| Wednesday
December 14 |
Psalm 109
Isa 57 Luke 16 |
| Thursday
December 15 |
Psalm 113, 114
Isa 58 Luke 17:1-19 |
| Friday
December 16 |
Psalm 116, 117
Isa 59 Luke 17:20-end |
| Saturday
December 17
|
Psalm 119:25-48
Isa 60 Luke 18:1-30 |
| Sunday
December 18 |
Psalm 119:73-88
Isa 61 Luke 18:31—19:10 |
| Serving at Good Shepherd December 11, 2022 | Serving at Good Shepherd December 18, 2022 |
| 8am Celebrant: Matt Kennedy 8am Preacher: Matt Kennedy 8am Assistant: Anne Kennedy 8am Reader: Terry Ray 8am Usher: Terry Ray 10:30am Celebrant: Matt Kennedy 10:30am Preacher: Matt Kennedy 10:30am Supporting Clergy: Bob Carlson 10:30am Assistant: Jonathan Groves 10:30am Reader: Bonnie Rios 10:30am Crucifer: Jonah Carlton 10:30am Acolytes: Seth Carlton, Addy Pineau 10:30am Usher: Scott Pineau Tellers: Chris Jones, Bruce Layman Altar Guild: Karen Carlton Nursery: Ronnie, Abigail, Addy Prayer: Jenn Fowler Potluck Theme: Favorite Holiday Dishes Shepherds Bowl: Stephanie Warner with Team 3 |
8am Celebrant: Matt Kennedy 8am Preacher: Matt Kennedy 8am Assistant: Anne Kennedy 8am Reader: Terry Ray 8am Usher: Terry Ray 10:30am Celebrant: Matt Kennedy 10:30am Preacher: Matt Kennedy 10:30am Supporting Clergy: Bob Carlson 10:30am Assistant: Jonathan Groves 10:30am Reader: Bonnie Rios 10:30am Crucifer: Jonah Carlton 10:30am Acolytes: Seth Carlton, Addy Pineau 10:30am Usher: Scott Pineau Tellers: Chris Jones, Bruce Layman Altar Guild: Karen Carlton Nursery: Ronnie, Abigail, Addy Prayer: Peggy Hughes Potluck Theme: Favorite Holiday Dishes Shepherds Bowl: Stephanie Warner with Team 3 |
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