Good Shepherd Update Thursday, December 15th, 2011
Dear Good Shepherd,
I hope you all are doing well. The semester is finally over, and it feels so nice to breathe. Here is your Update for this week, I hope you are as excited for the Advent season and all the upcoming events as I am! See you Sunday!
-Matt T
In this Update:Greening of the Church Good Shepherd in the News Coffee Hour Christmas Pagaent Saratoga Christmas Outreach - Updated! Last Sunday’s Sermon This Week in Christian Education Bible Studies and Mission Groups Discussion Questions
Greening of the Church : On Sunday, December 18th we will decorate the church for Christmas. There will be a pot luck dinner after church . Please bring a dish to pass and plan on helping with set up and especially with clean up. Are there any willing dish washers in the house??? Please don’t feel like you can’t eat if you don’t bring food. You are welcome to come and eat just as you are. See you then!
Good Shepherd in the News : The Christian Broadcasting Network picked up Good Shepherd’s story from the Wall Street Journal article in October and has run their own four minute report. The report includes other Anglican churches as well as our own. You can read the article and watch it here or below:
Coffee Hour : Thanks to all of those who have helped with coffee hour in the last year. It is an important part of our Sunday morning worship and fellowship time. Please plan on doing your part in the new year by signing up to host a 2012 coffee hour. We need 2-4 families each time to help out with planning the snack, serving and cleaning up so there is a job for each of you to do. The church can help with financial assistance to cover costs for the snacks if you need it. Please sign up for this ministry or speak with Kay Seaman or Virginia Wetherbee for more information.
Christmas Pageant : Its that time of year again! Time to get ready for the Christmas Pageant! If you would like in anyway to participate (either in it or helping with it) in this year’s pageant I would like to hear from you. Practices for the Christmas Pageant will be directly after church from November 20th through December 18th and there might be one practice the week before Christmas or on Christmas Eve as needed. November 20th we will choose parts and pass out scripts, so that will be a short but critical day. After that we will run through the whole script at each practice so it is important to be on top of any lines that need to be learned, and to practice songs, if at all possible, through the week. The Pageant will be at 5pm on Christmas Eve. Pray about it, talk to your kids and let me know how you’d like to be involved! -Anne
Christmas Outreach Updated: Again this Christmas we at Good Shepherd have the amazing opportunity to celebrate Christ’s birth by helping those less fortunate than ourselves. 30 needy children from Saratoga Youth Center have provided us with wish lists for Christmas. Please join the Outreach Team in surprising these dear children with some special presents (valued at $15-$20) this holiday. Select a child represented on the Christmas tree on the wall in the Parish Hall. Please gift wrap the present and be sure to place the number of the child on the wrapped package. Please bring it to church by Sunday December 20th. Thanks so much!
Last Sunday’s Sermon , “Jonah’s Great Fish, Miracle or Metaphor?” (Jonah part 5) can be found here . You may also watch it below:
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This Week in Christian Education This Sunday we will take a one class break from Tim Keller’s “Reason for God” to discuss the meaning and importance of Christmas and the Incarnation. See you there!
Mission Groups : (all mission groups meet in homes and in keeping with our Sunday morning sermon series. You are invited to join the one nearest you.Mondays at 6:30pm Lee and Jane Bronson’s Mission Group meets at Darrell and Carolyn Dean’s house at 19 Newton Street in Port Dickinson.Tuesdays at 6:00pm Ife’s Mission Group meets at Carrie Moorhead’s house at 5 Hancock Street in Binghamton.Wednesdays at 7:00pm Joe Kovac’s Mission Group meets at 108 Allen Street in Johnson City.Wednesdays 7pm Bill Woollet’s group meets at Mary Lindsey’s House, 41 Hayes Street in Southeast Binghamton (near the present church.)
Bible Studies (all bible studies meet at the church in the parish hall and each study takes one book at a time and studies verse by verse)Tuesday Morning Bible Study : Tuesdays at 9:00am—presently studying RomansThursday Evening Bible Study (for beginners): Thursdays at 6:30pm—presently studying the Book of ActsMen’s Breakfast and Bible Study : Fridays at 6:30am—presently studying the book of Acts. Greg M. is scheduled to cook.Women’s Bible Study : Saturdays at 10:00am—presently studying Revelations
Discussion Questions: Text: Jonah 1:17
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Greening of the Church
Last Sunday’s Sermon, “Jonah’s Great Fish, Miracle or Metaphor?” (Jonah part 5) can be found here. You may also watch it below:
