Weekly Announcements 10/04
Harvest Fest! Please join us this Sunday, October 4th from 3- 6 PM for FREE food, games, bounce houses, music, and more, and be sure to invite your neighbors, friends and family to join us as well. If you are thinking about volunteering please click, Good Shepherd Lutheran Christian Outreach: Harvest Fest 2026 to see what we still need help with. If you have any questions about Harvest Fest, please contact Jennifer Buchanan at buchanjL@gmail.com or 618-580-3150.
Braille Help: The Braille ministry that Good Shepherd participates in every first Thursday of the month at Zion Lutheran Church in Bethalto continues to do well. We are one of several churches that put together Braille books of the Bible in assembly fashion. We need 10 people to make up the assembly line and we are in need of people to substitute. If you think you might be
interested, contact the church office.
Blood Drive: Our next blood drive will be Sunday, October 4, from 2:00-6:00 p.m. during the Harvest Fest!!! This will not be in the mobile unit, but will be in the Early Childhood Center Lobby so that people can stop in to donate while they are at the Harvest Fest and save themselves a trip. If we have 20 viable units of blood donated the school will receive a grant for Physical Education equipment. It is a WIN, WIN, WIN, opportunity…Harvest Fest, Blood Drive, and possible school grant in one afternoon!!
Youth News: Mission Trip News! Our team of 24 will be traveling to Guatemala this summer to build two homes and two cookstoves for families in the San José Calderas. We will also be holding a VBS there for the children of the village. In the evenings we will be interacting with the children of the Child Beyond Children's Home. To be able to bless these three areas, our group must raise $850 per person for just the homes' materials, VBS snacks & materials and a set donation for the orphanage. Along with these donations, each person must pay for their travel, lodging, and food. This cost will be around $2000 per person. Our group hopes the members of Good Shepherd would help with some of these costs through your donations and supporting our fundraisers this year. Please be on the look-out on how you can be part of this mission too through your financial support and your prayers! Stay tuned for more info about the trip to Guatemala!
Our Fundraisers for October:
MUMS for Sale: Stop by the Youth Group’s mum sale at Harvest Fest and pick up a beautiful mum—or two! All proceeds will go toward helping our youth with the upcoming Mission Trip.
$20 per mum
Pickleball Tournament: No matter what your skill level, you will have a blast at the Bi-Annual Youth Pickleball Tournament!
When? October 18th 1:30pm
Where? Metro-East Lutheran High School
What? Doubles Pickleball Tournament to support Good Shepherd's Youth Program
Cost? $25 per person
Prizes, Concessions, & Fun!
Register here: Pickleball Doubles Tourney
We also are looking for business sponsors that will have the opportunity to promote their logo on our event t-shirts, signs, and event promotions. Contact Carrie Kober for more information or to sign up: 314-221-9722 or ckrenning@hotmail.com
Dine to Donate: October 6th. Come eat at Panda Express, Edwardsville. Here is the code to use when ordering for our group to get credit: 3863968
Envelope Wall: Pick an envelope from our envelope wall, place the dollar amount shown in the envelope, turn in the envelope to the offering basket or turn into the church office.
Please join the Women's Christian Fiction Book Club at Panera in Collinsville on October 19th to discuss In This Moment by Karen Kingsbury. You can come for dinner at 6:00 or arrive at 6:30 for the book discussion. We would love you to join us for book discussion and fellowship.
Volunteers are needed from Good Shepherd to drive and deliver Meals On Wheels for the Collinsville area for our elderly, disabled, and homebound community. Our church is responsible to deliver six weeks of the year Monday through Friday rotating with nine other local churches, one week every two months. Deliveries are from approximately 10 AM to 11:15 AM. If you can volunteer in this way, either regularly or as a substitute and would like to know more, please contact Tamara Tucker-Lindsey at 618-806-3062 or by emailing ttlindsey@att.net. Thank you.
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: How to Read the Bible, Why Men Aren’t Marrying, The No Contact Movement, Debate Over the Location of the Town of Bethsaida and more. You can tune in live
weekdays from 3–5 p.m. on KFUO, 850 AM in St. Louis. You can also
listen on-demand at issuesetc.org, the LPR mobile app or a podcast provider.
LCMS Foundation: Including a statement of your Christian faith is important in your estate plans. Creating that statement of faith is something we do in community. We might call your
statement of faith a Christian Preamble (if you include it at the beginning of your will) or a Family Blessing if you just tuck it away with your will/trust documents. But where do I start in summarizing what I believe? Think about the creeds, both Apostles and Nicene, which we recite together regularly in worship. In the community of faith, we have a great common statement of our faith. Your LCMS Foundation Gift Planning Counselor can help you to get started on writing your personal statement. Contact Scott Radden @ 618-977-4049 or scott.radden@lfnd.org.
Thanks to those who serve this week:
Usher Team: (5:30) D. Ulkus
(8:00) M. Kober
(10:30) W. Curtis
Altar Guild: (5:30) Steve & Marla Hendry
(8:00) Kathy Bohnet & Marie Wudtke
(10:30) Amy & Rose Beyer
Greeters: (8:00) Steve & Carol Hyatt
(10:30) Kent & Kathy Splaingard
Flowers – Given by Given by Tamara Tucker-Lindsey in thanksgiving for our Pastors
Attendance last weekend was 467. The offering was: General Fund $16,741, Specials $1,329, Total $18,070.
Prayers
Norma Stanfill, asleep in Jesus
Pastor O'Brien, recovering in rehab
Mike Kober, diagnosed with prostate cancer
Carolyn Ashcraft, recovering at home
Ron Hartman, on his ongoing cancer treatments
For Reuben Woolery, nephew of Rachel Forden & Karen Witschie, undergoing chemotherapy
Pregnancies
Mason and Kendra Wilkerson, due 11/9/2026
Caleb and Gabby Mayhew, due 11/14/2026
Emmanuel and Joyce Ben, due late January, early February