Weekly Announcements 03/22
Portals of Prayer for April - June are available in the narthex.
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 5 Midweek 3/25 – The Holy Cross
Holy Thursday 4/2 – The Lord’s Supper
Please join us for Holy Week & Easter Services March 30th – April 5th:
Sunday: Palm Sunday with Children Choir
Monday, Tuesday & Wednesday Vesper Services at 6:15pm
Thursday: Communion Services 4:30pm & 6:30pm
Friday: Chief Service at 12p.m., Tenebrae Services at 4:30pm & 6:30pm
Saturday: Easter Service at 5:30 & Easter Vigil Service at 7:30pm
Sunday: Easter Services at 8am & 10:30am with Easter Breakfast and a Egg Hunt between
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.
Easter Egg Hunt Help Needed - Please remember to return your bags of plastic eggs filled with small toys or pre-packaged candy to the church narthex no later than Sunday, March 29th.
Easter Breakfast and Egg Hunt - Join us on Easter Sunday, April 5th at 9:15 AM for Easter Breakfast and an Easter Egg Hunt. Christian Outreach and the Youth are teaming up to prepare breakfast consisting of scrambled eggs, ham, fruit and pastries compliments of Kruta Bakery. A free will offering will be collected with proceeds going to the youth. An Easter Egg Hunt for children ages 0 through 6th grade will follow the breakfast, so be sure to bring your Easter baskets to collect eggs. Flyers are available in the narthex, so be sure to pick up a few and invite your friends and family.
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!
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: welcomeguests
3. Open the app and adjust the volume as needed.
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. Please register by next Sunday, 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!
Issues Etc. – Equipping the priesthood of all believers... Issues, Etc. is a podcast and radio talk show produced by Lutheran Public Radio in Collinsville, IL and hosted by LCMS Pastor Todd Wilken. Recent topics include: Speaking Truth to Power; The 98th Academy Awards; Leisure & Love of Neighbor;
Philippians 4:8: “Think on These Things;” Reaching Out to Gen Z Women and more. You can listen on-demand at issuesetc.org, Amazon Alexa, Google Home, Apple HomePod, TuneIn, the LPR mobile app and a
podcast provider. You can also tune in live weekdays from 3-5 p.m. on KFUO, 850 AM in St. Louis.
Thanks to those who serve this week:
Usher Team: (5:30) D. Ulkus
(8:00)M. Kober(10:30) W. CurtisAltar Guild: (5:30) Pam Hoffman
(8:00) Paul & Lynn Lauber
(10:30) Denise BruneGreeters: (8:00) Jeanne Lomax
(10:30) Donna Kober
Flowers – Given by Ed & Amy Beyer in honor of their daughter, Rose’s birthday
Attendance last weekend was 501. The offering was: General Fund $30,924 Specials $1,300 including memorials for Betty Moeller, Total $32,224.
Prayers
For Gail Mayhew, who is recovering from eye surgery
For Garrett Hendry, for a successful recovery from tricep surgery
Megan Pfeiffer, teacher Zion Lutheran in Bethalto, for her recent pancreatic cancer diagnosis and treatment
For Reuben Woolery, nephew of Rachel Forden & Karen Witschie, undergoing chemo therapy
For the Christians being persecuted in the country of Iran