March 2016 E-Mail: bill@thegoodshepherd.org The Shepherd s Crook is published for GSPC members and friends. PH: 303-452-5478 FAX: 303-450-2377 WEB SITE: www.thegoodshepherd.org Pastor: Rev. Bill Davis Office Manager: Barbara Mitchell Organist/Choir Director Becky Carlisle Treasurer: Jerry Zarret Assistant Treasurer: Joyce Matthews Nursery Attendant: Becky Brizzolara Events Coordinator Diana Bennett Clerk of Session: Mary Archuleta Session Members: Diana Bennett Betty Feusner Erick Hartman Noel Matthews Mary McCarron Teddie McConnell Pat McCune Tim Schneider Jim Steward An Easter Crossroads With all the beautiful, low-70-degree, weather we ve been having throughout the last couple of weeks it feels as if spring is definitely here, and with it our readiness for Lent to be over, Easter lilies in full bloom, and Jesus proving again that life, and love, can indeed conquer death. It s a little funny for me to be thinking about Easter Jesus hasn t entered Jerusalem yet There haven t been shouts of Hosanna or palms waving in the air We haven t gotten to that upper room where the disciples shared a meal of love with their beloved teacher There s so much we still have to go through Yet, it feels like Easter is already here with all this warm weather. In many ways this time of year is a crossroads as we change seasons from winter to spring. It is a crossroads for the disciples as they begin to approach life and living together without Jesus at their side. We are at a crossroads as a congregation as we live into and implement our New Beginnings decision to know our neighbors better, and to develop relationship with them in different ways. This week in Atlanta there was a gathering of Presbyterian pastors, seminarians, and other leaders from across the denomination dreaming, visioning, and learning about what the NextChurch will be about. (This was the conference I attended last year in Chicago.) The theme for their time together was Faith at the Crossroads, in which they explored many stories from scripture where some of the most beloved characters were making important decisions in response to God s call. There is video of their worship, exciting Ignite presentations, and testimonies about the movement of God within our denomination. I encourage you to watch a video or two from that conference online at http://nextchurch.net/national-gathering-live-stream/ These pre-easter days, already thinking about empty tombs and stories of resurrection hearing of churches transformed and moving forward in their own new beginning discovering together what it means to faithfully follow Christ today These are exciting crossroads days, and I m grateful that we re part of the journey together here at Good Shepherd. Peace and Blessings to you during the remainder of this Lenten season. Bill 1
Mar. 20 Palm Sunday 10:00 a.m. Worship 11:00 a.m. Youth Group Fundraiser - Soup for Loot - come enjoy several kinds of soup, bread & dessert! Mar. 24 Maundy Thursday 7:00 p.m. Worship & Communion Mar. 27 Easter Sunday 10:00 a.m. Worship & Communion One Great Hour of Sharing offering received SAVE THE DATE!! Pub Theology (Formerly Beer, Bible and Big Questions) will return on April 11, 2016 at 5:30 p.m. Location to be announced. Watch your bulletins! Join us this Arbor Day (April 29) at 10 a.m. as we celebrate God s creation planting 10 beautiful Blue Spruce trees on the church grounds. Tim Schneider, a member of the Arbor Foundation and our Congregational Life elder, will lead us in this celebration of God s creation. Please RSVP to the church office by Monday, April 25, to let us know you re coming so we have enough tools for everyone to help out. Annual Mothers Day Flower Sale will be on Saturday, May 7th. Order forms will be in the bulletins starting in March. Vacation Bible Camp will be held here at Good Shepherd on June 27 - July 1 and we are fortunate to have the Highland Camp counselors here with us again! National Night Out: August 2, 2016 In the Church Parking lot. Looking for groups that want to set up a table to get info out to the community. Hot dogs & hamburgers will be served! Look for more info in bulletins. Church Rummage Sale Friday, August 19 and Saturday, August 20. Tim Schneider, our new Congregational Life Elder, needs your help! If you are interested in being the Lead Organizer for the sale this year or to volunteer in other ways, please contact Tim! Get your stuff together that you want to donate to this event. Be on the lookout for sign up sheets in the Narthex or the bulletin so you can volunteer. Worship in the Park will be on Sunday, August 21, 10:30 am, with a lunch afterwards. More details to come as the date is closer. 2
UNITED IN ORANGE! Thank you for all your support for the United in Orange Food Drive. Our church donated 1,945 items to our Food Bank, which included $761 (each dollar counted as 1 item). This response was amazing and we appreciate you ALL!! LAY READERS for March Mar. 6 Mary McCarron Mar. 13 Fred Finke Mar. 20 Masha Morton Mar. 27 Diana Bennett START PLANNING THOSE GARDENS! Now is the time to start thinking "SPRING"! It's also time to remember our Annual Flower Sale! Order forms will be available in the Narthex and in the bulletins soon---plan to take some forms for your friends & neighbors as well! Pickup will take place in the Narthex on Saturday, May 7, from 10 a.m. - noon, right before Mother's Day, so plan for Mom, too! Orders must be turned in by Sunday, April 24. Mar. 6 Mar. 13 Mar. 20 Mar. 27 FELLOWSHIP HOUR HOSTS FOR MARCH Jim & Mary McCarron Gwen Thompson & Louise Schwartz Harley Brown & Luitgard Ramsey Tim & Dawna Schneider 3
March: 02 Marion Hubner 06 Patrick Kelly 07 Jared Braun 08 Katie Davis Barbara Wilkison 09 Hannah Bond Dexter Schneider 10 David Blount 14 Justin Diehl 19 Gloria Robinson Judy Ezzell 20 Becky Johnson 23 Cathy Cronn 24 Nancy Harris 25 Barbara Haring Tom McConnell Dawna Schneider 27 Jay Abasolo If we have inadvertently missed your birthday, please notify the church office so we can update our records. Mar. 6 Mar. 13 Mar. 20 Mar. 27 Hannah Bond s 13th birthday OPEN OPEN OPEN Arrangements are $20 each. Please pay one week in advance so that we can order the flowers. Thank you! Strasburg Presbyterian Church, 56635 Iowa St, in Strasburg invites everyone to a St. Patrick s Day Dinner on Saturday, March 19, 2016 from 5:30-7:00 p.m. Enjoy delicious corned beef and cabbage, homemade soda bread, baked potato bar and dessert for $10 for adults and $5 for children. All proceeds benefit the Zimbabwe Mission Project. For Reservations & Tickets call the church at 303-622-4325. Congratulations to Bill & Linda Keck on the birth of their granddaughter, Amelia Grace Gallegos, on February 7, 2016, to Jessie & Jason Gallegos. Amelia joins sister Adrianna and brother Dominic. Congratulations to Jerry Wetsel on the recent birth of her great granddaughter, Melissa, to Bruce & Jessica Hajdu. 4 Luann Anderson Lori Boesl Debbie Brown Betty Casady Maxine Chappell Sue Coleman Estephen Greenwich Sue Holland Daniel Leieritz Tom McConnell Margree Mitchell Jerry & Jacque Noland Aurora Schneider Eddie Steward
From the Mission Workgroup... Last March Rev. Parker Smith preached at Good Shepherd about his 2014 trip to Zimbabwe. At that time we took a special offering to be used to cover school fees for children who are served by the HCOC (Heather Chimoga Orphan Care Center) in Zimbabwe. It is a tradition in Presbyterian churches to direct mission endeavors in a balanced way to local, national and international projects. We at Good Shepherd have always done this through the annual Church-wide offerings and things like the CROP Walk, our own food bank, Growing Home and Highlands Camp. Two years ago we responded to a request to support Ralston House, a local child-advocacy center, by selling pinwheels and displaying them in a garden on our property. We repeated that in 2015. This year the Mission Work Group has voted to have another special offering for school fees at the HCOC and to discontinue our support for Ralston House. We recognize that we cannot do it all and we cannot continually ask all of you for money. Good Shepherd has been one of the 10-12 Partner churches in the Zimbabwe Mission Partnership (ZMP) since its inception over 12 years ago. This is the Denver Presbytery Partnership that supports the HCOC. Because of our long partnership and our obligation to these children we desire to do our best to make it possible for as many children as possible to go to school. School is not free for them and because they are orphans most of them have no one to cover these costs. Currently there are nearly 1,000 children, preschool high school age, being helped in some way by the staff at HCOC. The ZMP (we 12 or so churches) support the HCOC in its many outreaches to feed, clothe, provide medical care and advocate for these children who live near one of the 3 schools operated by HCOC. The staff continues to work 5 to become a self-sufficient agency. They have received several large grants in recent years, allowing them build a large poultry run and raise chickens for sale and also to supplement the feeding program for the children. They are also growing moringa, a highly nutritious plant, for food and to sell. They have built new staff housing and toilet facilities for some of the child-headed households. They work tirelessly! Unfortunately, neither the monies raised by the ZMP churches nor the grants cover the cost of school fees. Our assistance with covering those fees for some of the children is a small way we can give additional help beyond what we include in our annual GSPC budget or that we raise with our annual fall mission fund-raiser and our support of riders in the June Elephant Rock Bike Ride. The cost for one child to go to school for a year (3 Terms) is $60.00. One Term is just $20.00. Please consider how you can help a child go to school! The special offering will be received on March 6. THANK YOU for your generosity now and in the past. This is, indeed, a very generous congregation! May God bless all our efforts. Items needed for Food Bank in March: canned soups, canned fruit, and mac & cheese. Please place items in the bench in the Narthex or bring to the Food Bank. Thank you for your continuing support of this important mission.
Report from the Community Outreach Group February 23 rd was our second meeting. The members are Mary Ann Hood, Barb Mitchell, Bill and Linda Keck, and Jan Myers. One of our first tasks is to research the feasibility, logistics, and liability questions. There are many unknowns at this time. Then there is the possibility of networking / and working with other nearby churches. Although the recommendation is to begin with just two programs we still have four on our list: Vantage Point and Crossroads Schools. How can we be a good neighbor? Reading Program for young children. To be held at Good Shepherd without the parents present. Linda will meet with the Christian Ed Committee on Sunday 02/28 and check liability. Victims Services. Linda Keck will gather information from Adams County. An art workshop for teens at Vantage Point and Crossroads. This would be held in our Fellowship Hall with Jan Myers. We will keep the congregation informed (Minutes on the website and bulletin board) and we welcome any and all input you may have. Please Email Jan Myers, secretary, jan.myers@earthlink.net. One Great Hour of Sharing Around the world, people lack access to food, clean water, sanitation, education and opportunity. Each gift to One Great Hour of Sharing (OGHS) helps change the lives of people in these challenging situations. The Offering provides us a way to share God's love with our neighbors in need. Presbyterians, including we at GSPC, have a history of working to build a more just, resilient, and sustainable future. When you give to OGHS during Lent, you are supporting the gifts and talents of people and communities all over the world. The One Great Hour of Sharing offering will be received on Easter Sunday, March 27. The CENTS-A-BILITY (Two Cents a Meal) offering on Feb. 7 was $86.91. * * * AT THE FIRST MEETING OF THE CAPITAL IMPROVEMENTS COMMITTEE, it was decided that input from the congregation regarding the use, size and design of our physical assets was extremely important. With that in mind, please share your thoughts and ideas by contacting Dick Kelly, chairman of the committee, at richardc.kelly@comcast.net or by calling 303-460-7621. 6 Don t forget the set your clocks ahead one hour before bedtime on Saturday, March 12, as Daylight Savings Time begins on Sunday, March 13th.
March 2016 Sun Mon Tue Wed Thu Fri Sat SA - Sanctuary FH - Fellowship Hall SH - Shepherds Hall 1 FH Reserved for SS room clean-up 2 Lib. Reserved for Highlands Dev. Comm. 1-3 pm Bible Study 3:30 3 SH (Matthews) 7-9 pm 4 SH 7-9 pm FH 7-9 pm 5 Highlands Day Camp mtg. FH 10 am - 2 pm SH 4-7:30 pm SH 9:30am - 3pm (SDA) 6 Bells Play Confirmation 11:15-12:15 Youth 6:30 pm SH 8:30-11:30am SA & FH 1-4 pm 7 8 Mission 1 pm 9 Bible Study 3:30 pm 10 11 SH 7-9 pm FH 7-9 pm 12 SH 9:30-3 (SDA) Sets clocks ahead one hour before going to bed 13 W & M 11:15am Confirmation 1115-12:15 Youth 6:30 pm SH 8:30-11:30am SA & FH 1-4 pm 14 FH Daisy Troop 6:30-8 pm 15Retired Nurses (FH) 8 am - noon Children in Worship 10:30am Outreach12:30 pm Session 6:15 pm 16 Bible Study 3:30 pm 17 Sometime Circle (SH) 1 pm 18 SH 7-9 pm FH 7-9 pm 19 St. Patrick s Day Dinner at Strasburg Pres. 5:30-7:30 pm SH 9:30 am - 3 pm 20 Youth Soup Lunch Fundraiser 11:15 am SH 8:30-11:30am SA & FH 1-4 pm 21 Capital Improvement Comm. 6:30 pm 22 Church Women United (FH) 9 am - 1 pm 23 NO Bible Study 24 Maundy Thursday Worship and Communion 7 pm 25 SH 7-9 pm FH 7-9 pm 26 SH 9:30 am - 3 pm (SDA) 27 Communion Easter Worship 10 am SH 8:30-11:30am SA & FH 1-4 pm 28 OFFICE CLOSED FH Daisy Troop 6:30-8 pm 29 Presbytery meets 5 pm 30 Bible Study 3:30 pm 31 DAYLIGHT SAVINGS TIME BEGINS ON SUNDAY, MARCH 13TH! 7
Good Shepherd Presbyterian Church 10785 Melody Drive Northglenn CO 80234 Offices: Shepherds Hall 650 Kennedy Drive Northglenn CO 80234 E-mail: office.barb@thegoodshepherd.org Website: thegoodshepherd.org PH:303-452-5478 FAX:303-450-2377 Adult Classes 8:30 a.m. Worship 10:00 a.m. Nursery provided all morning The mission of Good Shepherd Presbyterian Church as a Christian community is to grow in faith through worship, fellowship, and service as we share the love of Jesus Christ with all people. Revised and Adopted January 2015 8