Weekly Announcements 03/08
The church is hiring a facilities manager. They are accepting resumes for 2 weeks. If you are
interested in applying please send your resume to the church office -churchoffice@gslcs.org.
The job description can be found here.
Please join us for our Lenten Midweek Services, the Seven Marks of the Church: All Lent services are at 4:30 p.m. & 6:30 p.m. with a meal in the fellowship hall between.
Lent 3 Midweek 3/11 – The Calling and Ordination of Pastors
Lent 4 Midweek 3/18 – Prayer, Praise, and Thanks
Lent 5 Midweek 3/25 – The Holy Cross – Suffering as a Congregation
Holy Thursday 4/2 – The Lord’s Supper – The Sacrament of the Altar
Christian Outreach will be hosting the Lenten Meal on Wednesday, March 11th, which will include chili,
chicken noodle soup, hot dogs, cornbread, carrots and celery and assorted desserts. The proceeds from the free will offering will go towards VBS 2026.
Donations for Easter Baskets: Since Good Shepherd Lutheran no longer has a food pantry, the Board of Congregational Life is asking for cash donations to be used to purchase Aldi gift cards for our single teachers, seminary field workers and church members who indicate they need assistance with groceries. While cash donations are always welcome for this ongoing emphasis, we are asking that this be a special consideration leading up to Easter. You may place your donation in the offering plate, marked “Easter Basket". Thank you for your generosity!
Illinois March for Life: The Life Team would like to take a van of people to the Illinois March for Life in Springfield on March 19 to celebrate LIFE. The event begins with Matins and Prayer Service at 11 am at Trinity Lutheran Church across from the state capitol. An inexpensive bag lunch will be available afterwards followed by a rally in front of the capitol with pro-life speakers at 1pm and the March around the building at 2 p.m. (Marching is optional!) If you are interested in all or part of these events and would like more information call or text: Lynn Cook, 618-789-4749, or Pat Hoffmeier, 618-305-9622.
New! Audio Stream During Church Services
1. Download the AudioFetch app (scan the QR code in the announcements or search “AudioFetch” in the App Store or Google Play).
2. Connect to the GSLSGUEST WiFi network. Password: welcome guests
3. Open the app and adjust the volume as needed.
Easter Breakfast and Egg Hunt - Please join us on Easter Sunday, April 5th at 9:15 AM for Easter Breakfast and an Easter Egg Hunt. A hot breakfast will be hosted by Christian Outreach and the Youth with proceeds from the free will offering going to the youth. An Easter Egg Hunt for children ages 0 through 6th
grade will take place following the breakfast, so be sure to bring your Easter baskets to collect eggs. Please plan to attend and be sure to invite your friends and family!
Easter Egg Hunt Help Needed - Christian Outreach needs your help in making the Easter Sunday Easter Egg Hunt a success. Please grab a bag of 24 plastic eggs to take home and fill with small toys or pre-packaged candy and return to the church narthex no later than Sunday, March 29th.
Easter Lilies – Help Good Shepherd’s altar look beautiful for Easter Sunday! Please complete the form in the bulletin announcements and return along with your check to the church by March 30th. If you have any questions, please call the church office at 618-344-3151 or email churchoffice@gslcs.org Thank you!
2026 Flower Chart: Please sign up for April 26th and May 24th & 31st. The cost is $40/vase.
Save the Date - VBS 2026 - Get ready for an island adventure on Tropical Trek at this year's Vacation Bible School! Join us June 22 - June 26 for a week of fun, faith, and discovery as we learn how Jesus came to seek and save the lost. Stay tuned for information on early registration. Mark your calendars today!
VBS Volunteers Needed -Your help is needed to make a Tropical Trek a success. There are endless ways to serve, so whether you feel called to teach, lead a group of students, help with snacks, decorate, or something else, please scan the QR code in the bulletin announcements to register today to serve at VBS 2025. Please see Jennifer Buchanan or Rachel Forden with any questions.
Table of Friendship - In an effort to encourage more members to try Table of Friendship and for participants to make more connections/friendships at GSLC, the Board of Congregational Life is making a few changes to Table of Friendship. Here is what will stay the same: three opportunities for a fellowship meal during April, May and June and each couple (or single) would have the opportunity to be the monthly host who organizes the when and where for the meal (dinner, brunch or lunch at a restaurant, potluck at a home etc.).
What will change: participants can choose to participate for one, two or all three months of the three-month cycle; each month you would meet with an entirely “new” group so that many more connections & friendships can be made. The logistics sound complicated, but we are confident we can make this
work. Please register by MARCH 29th & contact Jan Van Beek at janetlvb@yahoo.com or call 217-851-7417 with your questions and/or registration. Please. We hope you will give Table of Friendship a try!
Save the date – Red, White and Bid! Help with the Good Shepherd Lutheran School Benefit Auction on March 21th at 5 p.m. There is a bulletin board in the narthex with many items still left to donate. Thank you!
Issues Etc. – Karaoke for Christian Hymns… You can sing hymns like “The Angel Gabriel,” “Silent Night,” “This Joyful Eastertide,” “The Day of Resurrection,” “Come Holy Ghost, Creator Blest” and more. Lutheran
Public Radio has produced YouTube videos of more than 55 hymns featuring the Lutheran Public Radio Choir. Sing along at lutheranpublicradio.org/karaoke.
Thanks to those who serve this week:
Usher Team: (5:30) D. Ulkus
(8:00) J. Fiudo
(10:30) M. Schneider
Altar Guild: (5:30) Pam Hoffman
(8:00) Paul & Lynn Lauber
(10:30) Denise Brune
Greeters: (8:00)
(10:30) Mike & Susan Kober
Flowers – Given by Bruce & Ramona Cross to the Glory of God.
Attendance last weekend was 480. The offering was: General Fund $26,456 Specials $3,705 including memorials for Ann Goldsmith, Total $30,161.
Prayers
For Gail Mayhew, who is undergoing eye surgery this week
For Richard Tiek, friend of Jim & Mary Kruta, who is hospitalized, wisdom for the Doctors
For the family of Robert Graff, Julia Klaas's father, Asleep in Jesus
For the family of Karen Eatherton, Hannah Gruben's grandmother, Asleep in Jesus
For the family of Gary Rothe, Camille Butler's father, Asleep in Jesus
For Reuben Woolery, nephew of Rachel Forden & Karen Witschie, undergoing chemo therapy
For the Christians being persecuted in the country of Pakistan