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1 G O O D S H E P H E R D L U T H E R A N C H U R C H News You Can Ewes V O L U M E 7, I S S U E 3 M A R C H H A P P E N I N G N O W Two-Can Sunday, March 4 Yarn Angels, 10:30 a.m. 12:30 p.m., March 4 Bake-Off March 4, noon Midweek Lenten Service, Noon & 7:30 p.m., March 7 Needlework Friends, 11 a.m., March 10 Daylight Savings Time Set Clocks Ahead!, March 11 FX3 and Confirmation, 12:30 p.m., March 11 Church Council Meeting, 7 p.m., March 13 Midweek Lenten Service, Noon & 7:30 p.m., March 14 Staff Meeting, 10:30 a.m., March 14 Midweek Lenten Service, Noon & 7:30 p.m., March 21 FX3 and Confirmation, 12:30 p.m., March 25 Ladies Night Out, 7 p.m., March 20 Palm Sunday, March 25 Maundy Thursday, March 29, Noon & 7:30 p.m. Good Friday, March 30, Noon & 7:30 p.m. Easter Sunday, April 1st, 7:00, 8:30 & 10:45 a.m. C H E C K O U T G S L U T H E R A N. O R G F O R D E T A I L S.

2 P A G E 2 How does your garden grow? The Bible is strong on gardening. Whether in Genesis, Jeremiah or the Gospels, gardens play a prominent role in God s plans. Gardens are a special place to bear witness to God s creation. It is a place to commune with God, love your neighbor and care for creation all at the same time. It is for these reasons that Outreach is creating a community vegetable garden here at Good Shepherd. It is our hope that Good Shepherd s garden will foster community among its members while providing fresh produce for our neighbors at Forever Fed Mobile Food Pantry. Gardening together as a church allows us to be stewards of the earth for the benefit of all people. It is a ministry, not just an activity, and we hope you will join us in our efforts to feed our neighbor with a sustainable and ongoing garden ministry. Here is how you can help Join the GSLC Garden Committee to help oversee maintenance, offer expertise, or just help in general. If interested, contact Kristin Brenneman at outreach@gslutheran.org Help build our raised beds. Calling all handymen and women. Join us on Saturday, March 10:00 a.m.as we construct and fill our garden beds with soil. Look for more information soon. Help plant our garden. Join us on Saturday, April 14 as we plant our first crop of summer vegetables. Look for more information soon. Help maintain our garden by joining us for regular harvesting and maintenance that will be announced throughout the year as needed. Donate needed garden supplies through our Caretakers of our Community program now through March. Suggested items are Hand trowels Hand rakes Rakes Kneeling pads Watering cans Wheelbarrow Composter Rain barrels Hoses Collection bins are located in the entryway. Good Shepherd is holding a contest to name our garden... If you have a creative name that you think suits our garden, be sure to pick up a ballot slip and place it in the marked box located in the entryway throughout the month of March. Our panel of esteemed judges will then choose from the entries and the winner will be awarded a prize along with the prestige that comes with naming our garden. There will also be a permanent sign placed in the garden with the new name. So use your creativity, scour your Bible, or pray for enlightenment as you come up with the best entry. Don t forget to mark your calendars for our garden build on March 24 at 10:00 a.m.

3 P A G E 3 Empty Nesters Tour of Gibbs Gardens Daffodil Fest! Join us on Saturday, March 24, for the Gibbs Gardens 7th Annual Daffodil ColorFest as it bursts on the scene with more than 50 acres of blooming daffodils create a feast for the senses beginning in March and continuing through mid-april. We will meet at the church at 8:00 a.m. to carpool to the gardens. Group rate: $16 prepaid Please pay Karen Yerkes or Tammy Frink when you sign up Sign-up at Sign Up Central We will then travel from Gibbs to have lunch at Two Brother s Bar-B-Que in Ball Ground. Rain Date, Saturday, April 7 Annual Easter Brunch Easter is right around the corner! Our Annual Easter Brunch will be held from 9:30 a.m. until 10:45 a.m. on Sunday, April 1, Easter Sunday. It is not to soon to start thinking about the wonderful dish you want to share with your church family. The Sign-up sheet will be available soon at Sign-Up Central. We can already smell the aroma from all the recipes you will share. Mark your calendars now. The Fellowship Committee!! Get Active in a Group... Yarn Angels meets Sunday, March 4 from 10:30 a.m. - 12:30 p.m. in Room 120. Needlework Friends meets on Saturday, March 10 from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. at the home of Linda Rowell (114 Newcastle Walk Woodstock) for needlework and fellowship. Bring your projects, learn something new, teach or help another friend. Knit, Crochet, Cross-stitch, Embroider, Sew, etc. Light refreshments provided. Contact Linda at or larowell@bellsouth.net.

4 P A G E 4 Thank You! Dear Friends of Good Shepherd Lutheran, I want to thank each and everyone who contributed to my special 100th surprise birthday party after the 8:30 a.m. service on February 4th. Thank you for all the beautiful and meaningful cards, gifts, birthday wishes and delicious cake. God has surely blessed me and I am so thankful to be a part of a caring congregation. May God bless you all! Marion Janzen Council Update, February 2018 Discussions Financial Secretary, Geoff Morton, reported that January giving was behind by $6,000, half due to late rent from the preschool. Simply Giving remains strong and on budget. To date, the stewardship campaign has resulted in 135 pledges for $473,140. Treasurer, Mary McCoy, reported that we were $18,000 under year-to-date budget and on track for full year expenses. The Finance Committee has begun work on the budget. Renovation plan for Phase 2 was approved, Steve-N-Sons will do both phases of the work. Work is planned to begin in mid-may and conclude prior to VBS on June 22 Council planning session output is to assemble three task forces for recommendations on Active Shooter Safety Plan, Kitchen/ Renovation, and Space Usage for Nathex/Library. Further output from these groups will be shared in the future. God s Little Achers Come join us in Fellowship Hall on Thursday, March 22 at 1:00 p.m.to enjoy the movie Going in Style. Look for the sign-up sheet at Sign-Up Central. Accolades Many thanks to everyone who made the Ash Wednesday youth fundraiser such a success the youth and families who donated the delicious food, and especially all the members of the congregation who came out to support the youth and our mission trip programming. We truly appreciate all you do to make these experiences possible! Thank you to Michael and Karen Epstein, Monica and Ray Smith, Linda and Paul Kronau, Al Reynolds, Barb and Ken Kidder, Cynthia Christensen, Sue Pence, Nancy Dias, Denise Kelly, and Steve, Tammy and Aaron Frink for all they did to make the Synod Council Meeting meals and snacks such a huge success. A special thanks to Michael and Karen for making special dishes to accommodate all dietary needs!

5 P A G E 5 Welcome New Members GSLC welcomed new members on February 25. Be sure to say hello! Ed Aebischer lives in Marietta, GA. You can usually find him at the 8:30 a.m. service. Ed is retired now but used to work in a university as an educational program manager and as a public information officer for academic and research organizations. Ed has three Pictured Left to Right Gwen, Ed, & Aimee! children and seven grandchildren and 1 (soon to be 2) great-grandchildren. In his free time he enjoys social-services volunteering, tutoring, and senior learning experiences and traveling. He is a native of Wisconsin but has lived in the Southeast since Aimee Stonehill lives in Woodstock GA, with her husband Brent and two children, Samantha & Braden. She enjoys coming to the 8:30 a.m. service. She works in the healthcare IT area and enjoys spending her free time camping, hiking and traveling. Gwen Epley lives in Acworth, GA with her husband DeWayne. She usually worships at the 8:30 a.m. service. She is a technical writer in the IT/Software area. Her hobbies include bicycle riding and photography and she is a cat lover with two fun kitties Willow and Ziva. Feed the World As part of our Feeding Our Neighbor theme we are collecting coins throughout the season to be donated to the ELCA World Hunger Campaign. Feed the World coin boxes are available in the entryway and the Fellowship Hall and we invite you to pick one up on your way out and help us change the world. We ask for the boxes to be returned by Sunday, April 8. Are you interested to learn how to ring a bell or play a chime? Beginner Classes will be given to any who are interested. Please let Sharon Bost, Cathy Mattocks or Thomas Eisnor know if you might be interested. Ages 4th grade to unlimited. Consider ringing with your parents/ child/grandchild. It can be a lot of fun. Workshop (classes) to be determined via interested participants.

6 P A G E 6 Thank You to everyone who came out to support our Youth at the Italian Feast on Ash Wednesday! Attention Middle School Youth!! We are going on a movie outing to see A Wrinkle in Time on Sunday, March 18th in the afternoon. Cost will be $15 due to Cat by March 11th. The cost will cover a pizza lunch and your movie ticket. We will have lunch at the church and then travel to Regal Cherokee 16 Cinemas, 355 Cinema View Drive, Woodstock for the movie. Official movie time will be published closer to the date.

7 P A G E 7 Saints and Sinners will meet at the Church every Wednesday from 6:30pm to 8:30pm. Wednesday, March 7 th - Game Night followed by Lenten Service Wednesday, March 14 th - Devotion followed by Lenten Service Wednesday, March 21 st - Holy Week Activity followed by Lenten Service Wednesday, March 28 th NO Saints and Sinners Holy Week DESSERT BAKE-OFF Hope you remembered to not give up sweets for Lent because it s bake-off time!! We will be giving prizes for the best tasting dessert for our adult and youth categories, judged by a wonderful panel of judges including Pastor Paul and Hailey Hovda. Another prize will be given to the dessert with the best name voted by you in the congregation. You will be able to buy tickets to vote on the best name the day of the Bake-Off. The Bake-off will be held on March 4th after the 10:45 a.m. service with the youth providing a Mexican lunch. All the money raised is going toward the youth missions trips. Please see Cat Ontiveros for an entry form which are due by February 28th. Confirmation Class and FX3 will be held on Sunday, March 11 and March 25 th. The Confirmation Lessons will cover Saved by Grace through Faith and The ELCA and Southeastern Synod. Confirmation class meet from 12:30 p.m. to 2 p.m. in the Fellowship Hall. Do you like to hang out with amazing youth and help them along their faith journey? Then we would love to have you. We are always in need of a second adult for youth activities. Whether you are a parent of a youth or interested in helping out our youth ministry, please consider volunteering. Those who are interested, and have taken Child Youth Protection training, please contact Cat and she will get you added to our Sign-up Genius list, or visit our website at gslutheran.org. If you need CYP training in order to volunteer we can set that up as well. We can t do our ministry without you.

8 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 9:30 a.m. Sunday School 10:45 a.m. Praise 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. Easter Lily Order Form Sunday, March 18 is the last day to place your order. Number of Lilies ordered at $10 each Total amount enclosed Please make checks payable to Good Shepherd Lutheran Church and note Lilies on the memo line. PLEASE PRINT!!! In Celebration of In Memory of In Honor of Given by Phone Please include your check made out to GSLC and place in the slot in the Administration Hallway!