Good Shepherd Update Thursday, January 26th, 2012
Dear Good Shepherd,
I hope that you all are doing well. Here is your Update for this week.
-Matt T
In this Update:
1. Want to visit Joyce Coppola? Knitting Outreach Hospitality Update Tax Time Offering Envelopes ACW Meeting “ICE” - In Case of Emergency This Week in Christian Education Last Sunday’s Sermon Bible Studies and Mission Groups Discussion Questions
Want to visit Joyce Coppola in the hospital over the coming days? Of course you do! Though you’re of course welcome to visit her anytime, with or without a signup, you’re invited to register on our church’s official care calendar for visiting her, which is here: http://www.carecalendar.org/logon/100865 . The calendar ID is 100865, and the security code is “acogs.” Any words in red are a visit day no one’s signed up for; click that red text to be taken to the signup sheet. No site registration necessary, and your contact info is invisible to everyone but Kellie French, who’s coordinator. (If you do create an “edit key” for your calendar profile, though, please make it different from your computer passwords, because Kellie will also receive the edit key.) Thanks very much!
Knitting Outreach : One of our upcoming outreach projects is teaching knitting/crocheting skills to the youngsters at the Saratoga Youth Center. If you have any knitting needles, crochet hooks, or yarn or if you would like to join us in this venture, please see Carmen or one of the members of the Outreach Team.
Hospitality Update: In 2012 we plan to have a dinner after the 10:30 service once a month and in between have regular coffee hour with snacks and drinks. We will be setting up teams of people to host these weekly events so when you are asked please be open to helping with this important ministry to one another. This monthly dinner would also be a great time for those who attend the early service to come back and join us so that we can have regular fellowship as the whole body of Christ at Good Shepherd. Many hands make light work so the more people who agree to help with this the less often they will need to do it. Thanks ahead of time.
Our February dinner will be the Annual International Dinner on February 5th, so be checking your cook books for ethnic dishes. Lets see how many different areas of the world can be represented. Also we would like to have a display with items of interest from a few countries. If you or your family are from another country or have visited other places and have some items of interest from that place you would like to share with us, please contact Kay Seaman or Virginia Wetherbee before February 5th. Also please consider the dinner as a point of interest for inviting a friend who may not usually attend church to join you for the morning.
Tax Time: Please remember to pick up your year end financial statement for your use in filing your income tax return. The envelopes are in the front of the church, you can ask a usher to give you yours. If it is not picked up by January 29, it will be mailed in accordance with federal tax law. In an effort to save the church money on stamps, please pick it up before then.
Offering Envelopes: If you have not already picked up your offering envelopes, please ask an usher for yours. Please see Cookie Finch or Chris Jones if you would like them but did not request them, there are a few extra.
ACW Meeting : Anglican Church Women (ACW) next meeting will be Saturday, March 10, 2012. At that meeting will have a quest speaker, Carrie Moorhead. Carrie is the leader of the on-campus Christian organization, InterVarsity, at Binghamton University. Mark this on you calendar!!
I.C.E. - In Case of Emergency : On your cellphone, there is an option to list contacts as “ICE” contacts (or “In Case of Emergency” contacts.) This is an important feature on your phone because, in the event of an emergency, those that you list as ICE contacts can give valuable information to EMTs, police, etc. like your medical history and allergies if you are unable to do so. Make sure that you are using this feature, and that your loved ones know about any important medical information in the event that you are in an accident. This message is brought to you by the Anglican Church Women.
This Week in Christian Education We’ve finished Tim Keller’s Reasons for God and we’ll be starting a new series this Sunday. Looking forward to seeing you there.
Last Sunday’s Sermon by Matt: “Contempt in the Face of Grace” (Jonah part 9) can be found here or below:
VIDEO
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 HoseaThursday 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 Morrison scheduled to cook.Women’s Bible Study : Saturdays at 10:00am—presently studying Revelations
Discussion Questions: Jonah .4:1-4
Have a Great Week!
Have an item for the Update? Email Matt at matthew.j.tuttle@gmail.com by Monday night.
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Want to visit Joyce Coppola in the hospital over the coming days? Of course you do! Though you’re of course welcome to visit her anytime, with or without a signup, you’re invited to register on our church’s official care calendar for visiting her, which is here: http://www.carecalendar.org/logon/100865. The calendar ID is 100865, and the security code is “acogs.” Any words in red are a visit day no one’s signed up for; click that red text to be taken to the signup sheet. No site registration necessary, and your contact info is invisible to everyone but Kellie French, who’s coordinator. (If you do create an “edit key” for your calendar profile, though, please make it different from your computer passwords, because Kellie will also receive the edit key.) Thanks very much!
