Weekly Announcements 03/29
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
Holy Baptism for Raleigh Louise Jackson, daughter of Justin & Chelsea Jackson at the
Saturday evening service. Please help in welcoming Raleigh into our Good Shepherd home!
Adult Confirmation is at the 10:30 a.m. Service. Please help in welcoming our new members into Good Shepherd: Isaac Adedokun, Donna Asbeck, Ron Asbeck, Kelly Borneman, Jennifer Gibson, Gabrielle Mayhew, Deborah Kay Milton, & James Pisetta.
Please check the narthex coat rack for coats and jackets that have been left. Thank you
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.
Youth Yard Sale is Coming!!! Start collecting items for the annual yard sale! We hope to have a clothing drive at the same time! More details coming soon!!
Youth News:
Sign up to help this week and weekend with the Easter Breakfast!
Senior High:
April 12- Cardinal’s game
Junior and Seniors- sign up for the Upper Classman Retreat - May 26-28.
Junior High:
April 18th: Area Middle School Dance. Get your tickets early from the school office! Parents sign up to help!
MELHS Spring Musical - “Do you know….the Muffin Man?” If you don’t, go see…. Shrek The Musical! Tickets are available for purchase now! Please go to https://www.onthestage.tickets/show/metro-east-lutheran-high-school/69bae1f8c7374f46d06013c4 The musical will be Friday and Saturday, April 10 and 11 at 7 pm and Sunday, April 12 at 2:00 pm.
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. – PODCAST PROGRAMMING FOR HOLY WEEK… Issues, Etc. is a podcast produced by Lutheran Public Radio in Collinsville, IL, and hosted by LCMS Pastor Todd Wilken. This week's teachings include: Judas; the Lord’s Supper & Closed Communion; The Holy Week Hymns “The Royal Banners Forward Go,” “Sing My Tongue the Glorious Battle,” “O Sacred Head Now Wounded” and more. You can listen at your convenience at issuesetc.org, the LPR mobile app, Amazon Alexa, Google Home, Apple HomePod, TuneIn or a podcast provider.
Thanks to those who serve this week:
Usher Team: (5:30) D. Ulkus
(8:00) C. Engeling
(10:30) K. Splaingard
Altar Guild: (5:30) Italiano
(8:00) Jeff & Terri Blasingame
(10:30) Janice Wilson
Greeters: (8:00) Steve & Carol Hyatt
(10:30) Kent & Kathy Splaingard
Flowers – Given by Janet Tieman and Jeff & Jeannine Moeller for Blessings Received
Attendance last weekend was 431. The offering was: General Fund $17,022 Specials $1,768 including memorials for Betty Moeller, Total $18,790.
Prayers
For Donna Kober, Asleep in Jesus (March 26, 2026)
Emma Cowgill, who suffered a stroke
For Megan Pfeiffer, teacher at Zion Lutheran in Bethalto, 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 Afghanistan