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Advent Prayer Calendar

November 30, 2015 by Jane Kemp

An Advent Prayer Calendar provides a Word for each day of Advent. This calendar will help us pray through Advent. Use the Word to center your thoughts and open you to God’s presence as you move through your day. Watch for where you see the Word at work in your day. For example, when the word is wait: when did you have to wait today? Was it in the grocery store, online, on hold, at the doctor’s office? How is that like waiting for God?

The Word of the Day will be posted on the Good Shepherd Facebook site each day. To access this site, go to the Good Shepherd website www.goodsheperddecorah.org and click on the Facebook logo on the upper right side. Each day a new Word will appear. “Like” the word and if you wish, “Comment” on it.

Please share your thoughts and pictures about where you see the Word at work in your life during Advent. Post them on our Good Shepherd Facebook page and they’ll be shared with all who follow our page. Add #GSAdventprayer in your post so we can search for these photos online. (Please share your own photos or credit the source of the photo.)

With thanks to First Lutheran Church, Onalaska

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Christmas Coming to Good Shepherd

November 30, 2015 by Jane Kemp

Signs of the Christmas season will begin to appear in the Sanctuary throughout Advent. In addition to our Advent Wreath, poinsettia plants gradually will be added to the altar area beginning on the Second Sunday, December 6, with a full display in place for our Christmas Eve and Day services. Contributions may be made in honor or memory of relatives and friends and delivered to the Narthex table for placement by Altar Guild representatives throughout the month.

The Christmas tree in the sanctuary will help us move towards Christmas as a congregation. The first Sunday in Advent, November 29, there will be no tree. The second Sunday, December 6, there will be an empty tree. The third Sunday, December 13, there will be lights on the tree, The fourth Sunday, December 20, there will be a tree with lights and ornaments. We will decorate the tree on Sunday, December 13 after Sunday School and Fellowship Hour.

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Good Shepherd News and Events, November 30-December 6

November 29, 2015 by Jane Kemp

Monday, November 30
7:00 pm – Budget Committee Meeting

Tuesday, December 1
4:00 pm – Mary Circle, Marion Hanson, Host
6:30 pm – Altar Guild Gathering
8:00 pm – Worship and Music Committee

Wednesday, December 2
5:30 pm – Evening Worship
6:15 pm – Simple Supper provided, intergenerational faith conversation
6:30 pm – Confirmation Festival at Decorah Lutheran
7:00 pm – Choir Rehearsal
8:00 pm – Band Rehearsal

Thursday, December 3
10:00 am – Adult Bible Study
5:00 pm – Community Meal at First Lutheran
7:00 pm – Budget Committee Meeting

Saturday, December 5
4:00 pm – Luren Singers Reception following caroling

Sunday, December 6
8:45 am – Youth Handbells Rehearsal
9:30 am – Worship –Second Sunday of Advent
10:30 am – Fellowship Hour
10:45 am – Sunday School – Lise Kildegaard sharing the Christmas Story and Christmas Program practice
10:50 am – Chat with Pastor Amy; Jan. Ministry Team and New Members

We will share Holy Communion and light the Advent Wreath at all services.

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Celebrating the Beginning of Advent

November 29, 2015 by Jane Kemp

The first Sunday of Advent, and the first Sunday of the new church year, was celebrated at Good Shepherd with the lighting of the first candle on the Advent Wreath by the Gertz family.

New Advent paraments and vestments woven by congregation member Barbara Berg were blessed.

The exterior of the church was decorated with planters filled with seasonal greens, birch bows, and branches. Wreaths wrapped with blue ribbon were hung on the doors.

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Christ the King Sunday at Good Shepherd

November 23, 2015 by Jane Kemp

On Sunday, November 22, Christ the King Sunday was celebrated at Good Shepherd with several special events. The pulpit paraments for all the seasons of the church year were hung from the altar. The paraments were woven over several years by congregation member Barbara Berg. From left to right in the photo the paraments are intended for the seasons of Advent (blue), Trinity (green), Lent (purple), Pentecost and Reformation Sunday (red), and Easter and special celebrations (white).

The day was also a celebration of the 57th birthday of the founding of the Good Shepherd congregation. Charter members living in the area were recognized during the service. Those attending were: John Bale, Erik Berg, Lindsay Erdman, Lowell Erdman, Mildred Kjome, Karl Knudson, Verne Koenig, Justine Lionberger, Beverly (Ramsey) Nelson, Diane (Wicks) Osborn, LaVerne Ramsey, Helen Schweizer, and Anvy Wicks.

Two new members also joined the congregation on Sunday.

Photos by Clara Knudson