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Grain for the Sheep
Newsletter  
March 2017  
We invite you to worship with us  
at Shepherd of the Hills.
Lenten Rose 
Sunday afternoons at 4PM 
Temporarily worshiping at
McHenry Methodist Church
Mosser & Bumble Bee Roads, McHenry, MD

Please join us . . .
Everyone is welcome.
A Short Message From Our Pastor

Today as all Christians begin a 40-day Lenten journey. Shepherd of the Hills begins a journey which has us leaving our Lakeside worship at the Will O' The Wisp and joining, at least for now, our brothers and sisters in Christ at McHenry United Methodist Church in McHenry, MD. Come and join us as we journey through the next 40 days and into a new future!  [A letter will follow in a second newsletter edition, soon to be sent.]
 
Pastor Rick  
 

 MARCH 1

7:00 - Joint Worship Service with Holy Communion
and Imposition of Ashes
Rev. Rick Egtvedt & Rev. Jonathan Moon

NEW Location: McHenry United Methodist Church 
Mosser & Bumble Bee Roads 
McHenry, MD 21541 
 

Lenten Mid-Week Services


Together with Pastor Peter Suwak (Accident Parish) & Pastor Nathan Hall (Emmanuel, Bittinger) we will hold joint Lenten Midweek events. The mid-week services will involve holding soup suppers, "Holden Evening Prayer" worship, and a Luther associated education program.

Starting at 6:30 PM each week, we are planning to travel to our sister congregations as follows:

March 8, Emmanuel (supper, viewing of Rick Steve's introductory travelogue to the key places of the Reformation, and discussion)

March 15, Emmanuel (supper, "Holden Evening Prayer" worship, and presentation on 8th Commandment)

March 22, Grace, Friendsville (supper, "Holden Evening Prayer" worship, and "Luther and Lent" presentation)

March 29, Shepherd of the Hills (supper, "Holden Evening Prayer" worship, and Lutheran-Catholic Dialogue presentation) Location TBA

April 5, Shepherd of the Hills (Community showing of the 2003 Thrivent supported movie: "Luther" with soup & discussion)
Location TBA
 
All are invited!
Friends, neighbors, colleagues, newcomers and visitors . . . 
  
 

Shepherd of the Hills Lutheran Church
Rev. Richard T. Egtvedt   

  

Temporarily worshiping at
United Methodist Church
Mosser and Bumble Bee Roads
McHenry, MD 21541
 
 
Mailing Address: 
P.O. Box 374, McHenry, MD 21541
     
Contact Pastor Rick:
301-501-8218 cell
email   
 
 
Many Thanks to
Will O' the Wisp
Shepherd of the Hills is so very grateful to Martin Heise and Brenda McDonnell Heise for their generous gift to our congregation, by allowing us to worship in their beautiful facility for the past eight months.  Will O' the Wisp has always been near and dear to our hearts because it is the home where we first began worshiping (as Lutheran Fellowship) nearly thirteen years ago!

This month the lower level of Will O' the Wisp (below Ace's Run Restaurant) is being converted from a banquet and worship facility, to a new recreation endeavor (owned by "Splash Island").

Thank you, Martin and Brenda! 

 
ON-LINE GIVING


 
Take up your cross
 

DID YOU . . .
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L.A.F.F. Dinner
Valentine's Day was celebrated with our February L.A.F.F. Dinner, at the Johnson home, Deep Creek Lake.
Our next dinner will be Tuesday, March 14 at 6PM at the Long Branch Saloon, Maryland Highway, Mtn. Lake Park.
There is plenty of "LAFFter" ... and a great time to invite friends.  Jokes are provided.  Dutch treat.
L.A.F.F. = Life After Forty Five (but all ages are invited.) 
 
Wandering in the Desert

Shepherd of the Hills... thirteen years old... following God's Call. 
Wandering from Will O' the Wisp, to Garrett Eight Cinemas, to Sand Flat Plaza,  
back to Will O' the Wisp ... and now temporarily worshiping at the McHenry United Methodist Church!

"The distance from Egypt to Israel is a mere 381 miles, yet in the story of Exodus the Jews wandered in the desert for forty years.

The journey itself - fueled by desire and sustained by devotion - is the greatest possible human achievement.

Wandering in the desert is the best we can do or be.

The Exodus story hints that our special gift as humans to be engaged in the struggle, to be en route rather than arriving.

Being on the journey, fully engaged in the lessons of the journey, is to be human at its best.
 
Arrival at the destination, a kind of 'graduation,' is a lovely marker of completion, but it is just a momentary pause that also marks the start of another chapter, another journey. While we are here, on earth, wandering through the desert, we are students, and it is specifically as students, not graduates, that we are most beloved by our headmaster.

We are loved for our humanness, because of our humanness.

We are loved for our not-knowing-that-is-on-the-journey-towards-knowing. We are learning how to walk, with sometimes very wobbly steps. This is the human condition.

The idea of the Holy Land beckoned like a beacon of light, whereas the reality of entering the Holy Land was the beginning of thousands of years' more lessons. Moses, having perfected his journey, graduated to a true Holy Land and another stage in his journey, and the rest of the people graduated to a holy land still 'in progress,' to another stage in their journey.

We are all on a journey."
 
Reba Linker.com
 

 

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