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Service Schedule
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HOLY WEEK
7:00 pm:
3/28 Maundy Thursday
3/29 Good Friday
3/30 Holy Saturday
Easter Day, March 31:
Festival Eucharist
8:00am with musicians
10:00am with choir
child care available at 10am
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Office Hours
Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday and Friday
8 AM - Noon
closed Thursday
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Meetings and Events
Wednesday, March 27
7:15pm
Crafters -- all welcome!
Saturday, March 30
11:00am
Property Committee
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Outreach
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Bargain Box Thrift Shop Hours of Operation: Friday 10am - 3pm Saturday 10am - 1pm ** Please note: Bargain Box will be closed Saturday, 3/30
Items may be dropped off during regular hours of operation or
Wednesday,
9am - 11:45am
**please note: if you have items to donate, but cannot bring them during the hours listed here, please contact Martha Wishart to make other arrangements: jacksnana1@verizon.net
DO NOT LEAVE ITEMS AT THE CHURCH and PLEASE -- NO TVs,
COMPUTERS OR OTHER LARGE ITEMS
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Bread of Life Feeding Ministry
Next Date: Friday, April 5 First Baptist Church 493 Main Street, Malden Volunteers needed: 4pm for food prep 5pm for food service 5:30 - 7pm for clean-up Bakers also needed Contact Tony Lopes for details: 978 710 6927 |
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Sunday
Service Participants
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Acolytes
March 31: Joanna Torres and Allison Torres
April 7: Sarah Ines
Ushers
March 31: Dave and Edna McDonald, Freddy Torres, and Martha Wishart
April 7: Ray and Barbara Luddy
Coffee Hour
March 31:
no coffee hour - Happy Easter!
April 7:
Hosts: Marie and Joe Field
Bakers: Ruby Cox, Bill & Alice Webb
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From the Book of Remembrance
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Albert Bosnian
Ann Francis
Ruth Stevenson
Mae Tebeau
William and Isabel Troughton
George Crouse
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Easter Sunday: No Sunday School. Children are invited to sit with their families in church.
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Good News
From the Church of the Good Shepherd
a welcoming and inclusive parish dedicated to growing in faith, spirit and community
March 31, 2013
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We wish you a joyous and blessed Easter! |
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Holy Week Services
Please sign up to participate in the prayer vigil from Good Friday night until the Easter Vigil on Saturday. The signup sheet is on the bulletin board outside the sanctuary. Maundy Thursday, 28 March 7:00pm -- Choral Eucharist with foot washing and stripping of the altar Good Friday, 29 March 12:00pm -- Community Good Friday Service First Congregational Church, 25 Woburn St., Reading and 7:00pm -- Good Friday Liturgy and Communion from the Reserve Sacrament Holy Saturday, 30 March 7:00pm The Great Vigil of Easter, at Church of the Good Shepherd with Emmanuel Episcopal Church, Wakefield, followed by a reception in the Lounge Easter Day, 31 March 8:00am -- Festival Eucharist with musicians 10:00am -- Festival Eucharist with choir |
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Service Auction *** Save the Date! ***
Join us Saturday April 27th for a night  of FUN and FUNDRAISING! It's the annual Service Auction!!! Please consider donating items or services -- there is a signup sheet on the bulletin board outside the sanctuary. It is a great night to socialize and give back to the church. Admission is an appetizer or dessert. Details to follow...
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Formation: Confirmations and Exploring the Eucharist Classes
 Six of our young people will be confirmed at The Cathedral in Boston on June 1. We will celebrate our young people at our parish on June 2. Please keep all of these beloved parishioners in your prayers as they continue to prepare to be confirmed. Our confirmands are: Dan Coveney, John Fitzgerald, Sara Ines, Greg Landry, Holly Manzelli and Rachel Manzelli. Children in grades one through three are invited to participate in a special class that will explore the Sacrament of Holy Communion. The class will be taught for four Sundays during Eastertide, during our church school time. Some of the participants in the class will receive the Eucharist for the first time on Pentecost (May 19), and we will celebrate all of the participants that Sunday. |
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Summer Camp
 Registration is now open for summer camp at the Barbara C. Harris Camp and Conference Center on beautiful Otter Lake in Greenfield, NH. Traditional week-long summer camp programs offer the perfect mix of fun, friendship and faith formation. Weeks run 6/29-8/3. Specialty camps also available. The camp is a ministry of the Episcopal Diocese of Massachusetts. Visit www.bchcenter.org for more info! |
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For your prayers....
O God of compassion, at whose table all are welcome: draw near to homebound, hospitalized, or sick members of our parish family during the coming week, and to those who minister to them. May all our members always feel included at our table, strengthened in our friendship, renewed by bread and wine for their life's journey and always filled with your loving presence, through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen
The following members of our parish community have asked for our prayers. Please remember them this week when you pray, and let us know if there is anyone whose name you would like to add.
Chuck and Ginny Barthel, Dorothy Brown, Christine Camper, George Chace, Betty Fraser, Gloria Graves, Bernice Herrick, Allan Johnson, Deborah Katt-Lloyd, Lisa Kimball, Robert Knoettner, Mary Anna Krause, Tony Lopes, Carole Lutton, Maureen Manzelli, Jim McCallum, Lynn McDonald, Rheta C. McKinley, Sara O'Brien, Rhonda O'Keefe, John Parsons, Eleanor Schott, Kevin Smith, Anita Webb and Ashley Westerman. |
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Contact Information
email: Church office: cgsreading @gmail.com The rector: rectorgoodshepherd@gmail.comphone: 781 944 1572Shop Amazon via Church of the Good Shepherd ...
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