JUNE a.m.-noon. Volunteers and donations still needed. See page 8 for details. Register online Pre K rising 6 grade

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1 News You Can Ewes G OOD SHEPHERD L U THERAN CHURCH V O L U M E 7, I S S U E 6 J U N E JUNE CALENDAR 1st-3rd Synod Assembly 3rd Two-Can Sunday Yarn Angels 10:30 a.m. Rm th Pastor Paul surgery 7th Faith Formation Mtg. 7 p.m. 10th Guest Preacher Dave Osborne Backpack Assembly 9:45 a.m rd -High School Mission Trip 17th Guest Preacher Dave Osborne Father s Day 19th Ladies Night Out 7 p.m. Tavern at Towne Lake Finance Committee Mtg. 7 pm 20th -Stewardship Mtg. 7 p.m. 24th H.S. Youth led worship Share the Story 9:45 a.m. JUNE a.m.-noon Volunteers and donations still needed. See page 8 for details. Register online Pre K rising 6 grade PARDON OUR DUST WE ARE OPEN DURING RENOVATIONS Renovations Have Begin Thank you to everyone for your patience while this exciting transformation takes place. The staff may endure limited office hours during this process, but will be checking messages

2 P A G E 2 GUEST PREACHER PASTOR DAVE OSBORNE JUNE 10, JUNE 17 AND JULY 1 Pastor Osborne is a 1973 graduate of Texas Christian University, Fort Worth, Texas, with a BA in Sociology/ Psychology. In the fall of 1973 he entered Concordia Theological Seminary, Saint Louis, Missouri, and graduated from Concordia Seminary-in-Exile in the spring of 1977 with his Masters of Divinity degree, and was ordained three months later. He served Zion Lutheran Church, Wausau, Wisconsin (Assistant Pastor ), Trinity Lutheran Church, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania (Pastor ), Good Shepherd Lutheran Church, Woodstock, Georgia (Founding and First Pastor, ), Christ Lutheran Church, Hilton Head Island, South Carolina (Pastor ). In Pastor Osborne served as Assistant to the Bishop, Pastor for Transforming Congregations for the Southeastern Synod ELCA. Before fully retiring he served as the Interim Senior Pastor, Lutheran Church of the Redeemer, Atlanta, Georgia He is married to Karen Schoenberger Osborne. They have one daughter, Courtney, who lives in Decatur, Georgia and is married with two daughters; and a son, Jeremy, who lives in Austin, Texas. HIGH SCHOOL YOUTH LED SERVICE JUNE 24 Our High School students will be traveling to Milwaukee, WI for a mission trip the week of June 16 through June 23. Please pray for our youth and adults for safe travels and for everyone to have a wonderful service filled week. Want to hear about our experiences during the week? Well we cannot wait to share our stories with you on Sunday, June 24 th at both services and a presentation at 9:45 a.m. in the fellowship hall. Cat will be out of the office most of the month of June. She will be serving on staff at a youth event for the Southeastern Synod called Affirm, the week of June June she will be with our high school youth serving in the city of Milwaukee. Wrapping up June, Cat will be travelling to Houston to serve our Synod at the ELCA National Youth Gathering. She will have limited availability by phone but will be checking s regularly. These events are wonderful faith forming events for youth and we are hoping to send youth from Good Shepherd in the coming years. Bible Study Summer Schedules Coffee and Conversation Men in Mission.. Faith Stories... Word on Wednesday.. Lunch and Learn. Thurs. Morning Bible Study... On break till mid Aug. Continues Sunday On break till Aug. On break till Aug. 22 On break till Aug. 20th On break till July 26th Word on Wednesday: 40 Day Journey with Dietrich Bonhoeffer. Please join us on August 22 at 9:30 as we begin this new study. Contact Lori petersfive@att.net for more information. Coffee and Conversation: Augsburg Adult Bible Study Bring your coffee and join the conversation Sunday mornings beginning in mid-august. We meet at 9:45. Upcoming topics include: Justice in the New Testament and God s World and God s People. Contact Lori petersfive@att.net for more information.

3 P A G E 3 PENTECOST WORD SEARCH DEEDS DREAM FIRE FLESH HEAVEN HOLY JOEL LANGUAGE MESOPOTAMIA PARTHIANS PERPLEXED POWER PROPHESY SAVED SPIRIT VISIONS WINE WIND Answers on page 12 Need a little inspiration? Want to keep up with church news and activities? Check out the Good Shepherd Lutheran Church Facebook GSLCWoodstock. See something you like? Like our page and Share the Good News! Look for the Share button on every post. That s the best way to show the world what we are doing! Yarn Angels meets Sunday, June 3rd, beginning at 10:30 a.m. in Room 120. Needlework Friends We are on break for the summer. We will continue in September every other month.

4 P A G E 4 Council Update June 2018 Discussions Financial Secretary, Geoff Morton, reported April was a good month as we had five Sundays and Easter, however, income is still $8, behind where we were at the end of April in Simply Giving remains strong and on budget. Treasurer, Mary McCoy, reported that we are $37,000 under the year-to-date budget. We are in good shape as everything continues to be running under budget. Max Epling made a presentation for The Lutheran Coalition. He also introduced Mike Dooley who will be replacing him on the board of The Lutheran Coalition when he moves. Accolades Many thanks to the teachers and assistants that dedicated their time teaching Sunday School classes this year. A huge thank you to all the adults that assisted each week with Saints and Sinners, Confirmation, FX3, and Bible Study groups. Thank you to the Fellowship Committee and the congregation for helping, serving, and preparing a delicious meal for the Picnic Celebration Lunch on April 29, Thank you to Max Epling for his years of service on The Lutheran Coalition and the Habitat for Humanity builds. Welcome to Mike Dooley as he replaces Max on The Lutheran Coalition Board and as Good Shepherd s contact person for the Habitat builds. Oops! I Think I Forgot to Register for Sunday School for Next Year! No problem! If you have a child ages 4 through high school age by September 1st and have not already verified your information or registered your child, please contact Janice Swinford, Sunday School Superintendent at sundayschool@gslutheran.org. All are welcome, members and visitors, in all our Bible Studies and Sunday School classes. We will begin all Sunday School classes on August 12th. Two-Can Sunday is June 3 Bring in your Canned Goods for support of our local food initiatives. A huge thank you to Good Shepherd Toucan Contributors! Our Toucan Sunday program has been a huge success and Papa s Pantry and Timothy Lutheran pantries have been so appreciative. Each month we have collected lbs. of food.

5 P A G E 5 Last Day of Sunday School For the last day of Sunday School, Little Red Barn brought their animals to us for a petting zoo to help us celebrate raising $179 through Sunday School offerings, which allowed us to donate 100 chicks, 2 roosters and one goat to God's Global Barnyard through ELCA Good Gifts. So if you believe you heard a moo moo here and a baa baa there on Mother's Day, you did! Thank you to all the parents, grandparents, teachers and assistants of our Sunday School classes that contributed to this success. And most importantly, thank you for a wonderful Sunday School year for all classes, children and adult. You brought your children and yourselves and with God's guidance through our outstanding teaching teams, we had a grace filled year of learning. We are so grateful to have a full complement of teachers and assistants already signed up to help next year, many of them returning! A special shout out of thanks to Pat Bull for photographing all our friends! Have a wonderful summer and we will see you in worship! Sunday School Team Please join us in thanking this group of teachers for their leadership in our Sunday School Ministry! 4s/Kindergarten (T) Jenny Champion (T) Gina Crittenden (A) Scarlett Hovda (A) Sarita Morris Middle School (T) Deborah Ezell (T) Karen & Mark Yerkes (A) Tim Matthews (A) Mindi Pirkl 1st/2nd (T) Karen Epstein (A) Missy Jayroe (A) Karen Britts 3rd-5th (T) Chuck McCoy (T) Leanne Reynolds (A) Carrie Escamilla (A) Trina Hutchison High School (T) Mike McCoy (A) Kristen Brenneman (A) Tracey Homer Adult (T) Jaime Escamilla (T) Mary Tucker (T) Lori Peters

6 P A G E 6 Dear friends at Good Shepherd, Spring is in full swing and so are we here at Good Shepherd! The garden is growing, VBS is around the corner, and apparently your hearts are overflowing with generosity. I wanted to take a moment to personally thank you on our recent successes in our many Outreach endeavors. First, I would like to thank everyone who contributed to our ELCA Feed the World spare change collection challenge during the Lenten season. To date we have collected $727 with approximately $300 more in quarters still to be counted. We will have final numbers soon, but to be hovering around the $1000 mark in simply spare change donations is incredible. Also, thank you to all who have donated to our annual GAKAC backpack campaign. I am happy to report we will be providing 150 backpacks filled with all the supplies a successful high school student needs. Thank you to all who donated socks and underwear to GAKAC as well. Returning this year is a backpack assembly day so you can see your donated dollars in action. We invite you to join us on Sunday June 10th, to stop by the Fellowship Hall between services to help pack a backpack with all the necessary goodies needed for a successful school year. We will have all the supplies on hand, in assembly line fashion. This is a project all ages can help with and will only take a few minutes of your time. For the month of June we will focus our Caretakers of Our Community collection efforts on our own needs for a successful MUST Summer Lunch campaign which will take place July All items can be dropped off in the designated bins in the fellowship hall during the month of June. And finally, in a show of appreciation for all you do to make our Outreach efforts a success and also in an effort to advertise just how awesome we are here at Good Shepherd, we encourage you to stop by Fellowship Hall and pick up some of our new, reusable grocery totes compliments of the GSLC Outreach and Green team. The bags will be located in Fellowship Hall in the weeks to come and are free for the taking. The only thing we ask is that family units living under the same roof please limit themselves to three bags so that all our members can receive some. As always, thanks for your tremendous support in all we do here at Good Shepherd. I truly cannot do it without you! Kristin Brenneman GSLC Outreach Coordinator

7 P A G E 7 How do you show God s Love? With Chris & Sammie cheering them on, Kari, Avery, Mark & Jessie Corley have been students at The One Taekwondo Center for about 4 years. Master Kim asked families to host 25 students from two Korean Taekwondo Demonstration Teams. These kids are students of Master Kim s former classmates and friends. They have enjoyed the aquarium and World of Coca-Cola during school hours, as well as putting on demonstrations for local elementary schools and attending worship at Good Shepherd. The Corley s have enjoyed spending time with Do Hyun, Jun Seo, and Jin Woo. Do Hyun went bowling for the first time and won, Jun Seo helped prepare dinner one evening, and Jin Woo keeps everyone laughing. With the Corley s not knowing much Korean, and the boys having limited English, communication can sometimes be troublesome (Google Translator comes in handy), but they have found food and fun to be universal. They were also excited to have them there as Avery and Jessie tested to earn their Black Belts and watch the two demonstration teams. Having this opportunity has been educational and rewarding for all.

8 P A G E 8 Calling all VBS Volunteers!! Are you ready to experience the ride of a lifetime as we share God s love and Word with the children of our community? VBS will be held June from 9 a.m.-12 p.m. and we are in search of volunteers to help make this another successful week. We are especially in need of someone to head up our decorating committee. Sign Up at Sign-Up Central in the Fellowship Hall or contact Kristin Freeman (kfreeman647@comcast.net) if you are interested in volunteering for this exciting week. Looking for other ways to help with VBS? We are in need of some items to purchase or borrow. See the list below. Also, check out the VBS headquarters in Fellowship Hall for bins to drop off your donations. Please return all items by June 17. Join us for the ride of a lifetime at Rolling River Rampage VBS on June from 9 a.m.-12 p.m. Children (PreK (age 4 by 9/1/18) through rising 6th graders) will experience the ride of a lifetime with God as they learn exciting new music, create fun crafts and amazing science experiments, as well as play games and hear wonderful Bible stories throughout the morning. Registration at rrr.cokesburyvbs.com/gslutheran2018.

9 P A G E 9 JOIN US EVERY 3RD TUESDAY OF THE MONTH Empty Nesters SAVE THE DATE!! SunTrust Park tour, Saturday, August 25, with lunch or dinner afterward at a restaurant TBD in the Battery! June 19th 7 p.m. Tavern at Towne Lake 1003 Towne Lake Hills East, Woodstock, GA Price is about $20.00 per person for the tour. Mark your calendars!

10 P A G E 10 Good Shepherd Scrapbook Page Garden Dedication Bells of Good Shepherd Confirmation Last Day 1st and 2nd Grade Sunday School class Burning Mortgage at Celebration Service April 29, 2018

11 P A G E 11 Caring for Creation One billion plastic toothbrushes are thrown away every year in the United States, creating 50 million pounds of waste annually. Please join us in our ongoing ministry of Caring for Creation by recycling your toothbrushes, toothpaste tubes, and other oral hygiene products through the Colgate Oral Care Recycling program. A box is located in the Fellowship Hall collecting the following items (all brands accepted): Toothbrushes Toothpaste tubes and caps Floss containers All Outer packaging Check out the new webpage Join us at our next planning meeting! Habitat Builds Again! Once again, Good Shepherd, in support of our Lutheran Coalition of churches, will help build a home for a family in need. Details on this year s build are located on the Outreach bulletin board. We hope you will come out to join us one Saturday for this very worthwhile project! Registration will only take place online and information can be found on our website. gslutheran.org. We are beginning a new project in Acworth in June. Congratulations to our Graduates! 17 Remember all those special men in your lives Christian Adams Benjamin Angalet Shane Cassidy Emily Endozo Adrian Escamilla Abigail Heintz Hailey Hovda Haley Hutchison Samuel Jackson Alec Letsinger Grant Morris Rachel Renner Grayson True Alyssa Winnett Thank you to Trina Hutchison for having the GSLC blankets Embroidered for our graduates. College Graduates James Walker, Jr., B.A. Taccoa Falls College Nolan Rinderknecht B.A. in Real Estate & Finance University of Georgia Madison Bauer B.S. Athletic Training, minor in P.E. Georgia College & State University

12 Good Shepherd Lutheran Church 1208 Rose Creek Drive Woodstock, GA gslutheran.org An Evangelical Lutheran Church in America (ELCA) Congregation serving North Cobb and Cherokee County Communities. Join us! 8:30 a.m. Traditional Service 9:30 a.m. Sunday School (on break for Summer) 10:45 a.m. Praise Service Welcome one another, therefore, as Christ has welcomed you. Romans 15:7 Good Shepherd Lutheran Church warmly welcomes people of any age, race, nationality, sexual orientation, life circumstance, and physical or mental capability. DID YOU FORGET SUNDAY S ANNOUNCEMENTS? Word Search Answers from page 3 Go to and look for the quick link to Sunday Bulletin Announcements.