	Service Schedule for Sunday March 30, 2014
8AM - Holy Eucharist, Rite I 10AM - Holy Eucharist, Rite II child care available ****** Office Hours Monday, Tuesday, and Wednesday and Friday 8 AM - Noon** closed Thursday ****** Meetings and Events Lenten Potluck Supper Thurs, April 3, 6:00pm --- Vestry Meeting Tues, April 8, 7:00pm --- Craft Night Wed, April 16, 7:15pm all are welcome! ---- Annual Parish Auction Cinco de Mayo theme Sat, April 26 ***** For events and meetings and church office schedule for the months ahead, see the calendar listed under"What's Happening" on our website! Click here to go directly to the church calendar

Outreach

Bargain Box Thrift Shop

Hours of Operation:

Friday: 10am - 3pm

Saturday: 10am - 1pm

Items may be dropped off during regular hours of operation or Wednesdays,

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 4

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

click here for more information

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Reading Food Pantry

Items needed for March:

canned fish items

(tuna, sardines, salmon,

clams, white clam sauce)

ketchup

mayo

relish

Sunday

Service

Participants

Acolytes

Mar 30: John Fitzgerald

Apr 6: Rachel Manzelli

Ushers

Mar 30: Joe and Patti Landry

Apr 6: Paul Dustin and Tim McLaughlin

Coffee Hour

Mar 30:

Hosts: Paul and Merri DuRoss

Bakers: Eleanor Dustin

April 6:

Hosts: Sheila Batchelder

Bakers: Sheila Batchelder

We need volunteers for April and May coffee hours -- please click here to volunteer to host or bake!

Sunday School

March 30 - Our younger children will continue with the Godly Play lesson series "The Faces of Easter." Our older children will have the lesson "Jesus Ascends into Heaven" from Weaving God's Promises.

April 6 -- Our younger children will continue with the Godly Play lesson series "The Faces of Easter." Our older children will have the lesson "Jesus Enters Jerusalem" from Weaving God's Promises.

April 13 (Palm Sunday) -- Easter egg hunt and creating palm crosses for all Sunday School children

April 20 (Easter Sunday) & April 27 (school vacation) -- no Sunday School.

	From the Book of Remembrance
Albert J. Bosnian Florence Howell Mae Tebeau William and Isabel Troughton Ann Francis Ruth Stevenson

Good News

From the Church of the Good Shepherd

a welcoming and inclusive parish dedicated to growing in faith, spirit and community

March 30, 2014

From the Senior Warden

Dear Friends,

I know we have all been looking forward to the end of winter and the beginning of spring. Even more so, you have been watching the calendar, counting the days until Scottie's return. I appreciate all of your prayers, support and patience during these three months, and ask you to bear with us for just a bit longer.

Many of you have approached vestry members and me asking about her return. I can share with you that the vestry in the process of obtaining input from Scottie and the diocese. We will be meeting next week and working together to evaluate her recovery and progress, and to decide what is best for Scottie and Good Shepherd.

As of now, Scottie's date of return is not certain. In the meantime, Rev. Roger has agreed to stay with us as we move through Lent towards the glorious Easter season. Lent is a season of reflection and prayer in which we all try to determine our place in Christian life, dedicate ourselves to God and anticipate the Resurrection. As we do so, it is timely that we are praying for Scottie and Good Shepherd and anticipating our new life.

I will share information with you as I am able and, on behalf of the vestry, ask that you keep Scottie, her family and Good Shepherd in your prayers.

Linda

Spreading the Word of Church of the Good Shepherd: Our New Communications Committee

Our new Communications Committee will be giving a presentation at coffee hour this Sunday, March 30.

Meet the team!
Learn about what we are doing.
Discover how you can get involved through social media.
Explore Facebook and Twitter and how it can benefit the Church.
Let us answer your questions

Churches in the 21st century are not like those of our parents or our grandparents. People do not automatically attend a particular church because their family did in the past. Many people are unsure of their faith in the churches that they were raised in, and are looking for a different place to worship and to grow their faith. As Jesus tasked us to preach the good news to all people, it is our duty to tell these people we are here and to invite them to be a part of our family. But in today's world, there are many new ways and different strategies to tell people that we are here and what we stand for.

The Church of Good Shepherd's Communications Committee was formed to address the following mission:

To assess and recommend events and aspects of our parish that are appealing and important
To educate the congregation on how they can assist with newer forms of communications, such as social media
To improve communications internally and externally by publicizing the church's activities to the local community through the use of traditional and social media means

Through an ongoing plan that incorporates these aspects in alignment with the church's activities, the intended goals of the Communications Committee are to foster growth of the church by making it more visible and appealing; to drive larger attendances to its public events; and to attract new, younger families to join our welcoming community.

Committee members include co-chairs Kristian LeBlanc and Valerie LeBlanc, Peter Gorman, Bob Stasonis, and Warren Poor. New members welcome!

The Communications Committee

Kristian LeBlanc Valerie LeBlanc Peter Gorman

Bob Stasonis Warren Poor Your photo here?

Rev Roger and Daniel

Many of you met Rev. Roger's friend Daniel Kuol Paac when he came to Good Shepherd a few weeks ago. Daniel is from South Sudan in Africa. His is a remarkable story of survival and determination supported by the power of the Holy Spirit.

Daniel arrived one Sunday morning in January 2010 at the Parish of the Epiphany in Winchester. There he met the Rev. Roger Nelson, who agreed to become his sponsor for a student visa in the USA.

Daniel received such a visa in late spring 2010, and has now completed his classes, graduating from Bunker Hill Community College with honors in June 2013. He is presently enrolled in Harvard Extension School courses working towards a degree in international governmental relations.

Daniel is a devout convert to Jesus and an active member of Epiphany as well as the Sudanese Anglican congregation at Grace Episcopal Church in Everett. He lives with Rev. Nelson and his educational expenses are provided for by a special fund supported by members of Epiphany. Any donations to this fund should be made out to the Parish of the Epiphany, marked "Daniel" on the memo line and sent to the church at 70 Church Street, Winchester, MA 01890.

Lenten Potluck Supper -- You Are Invited!

April 3, 2014

6:00 to 8:00

Casual dress

Please join in the fun and fellowship at our Lenten Potluck Supper! We have a good group already signed up, but would love to have everyone there who can make it. If you would like to contribute some food, there is a signup sheet online (click here) and on the bulletin board outside the sanctuary, so you can RSVP and indicate what you will bring. If you have any questions, please contact Sheila Batchelder at sheilab411@comcast.net or (781) 587-1923.

Parish Directory

An updated Parish Directory is available on our website at www.goodshepherdreading.org (scroll down to the bottom right of the home page). The password is woburnstreet. Please check your listing and contact the parish office by April 6 at cgsreading@gmail.com or 781-944-7572 if you would like to make any corrections or changes. Once all changes are received we will post a new version.

Easter Flower Memorials and Thanksgivings

The deadline for submitting a memorial or thanksgiving request is Sunday, April 13th.

Donations are now being accepted for Easter memorials and thanksgivings. Yellow slips are on both exit tables in the sanctuary and on the table outside the church office. Please complete one and submit it with your donation. You may leave it in the offering plate on Sunday or in the basket on the counter in the church office. You may also mail your donation to the church; please include the names of the people to remember or blessings you wish to acknowledge as well as your name and phone number or email.

Annual Parish Auction -- April 26th!

Please mark your calendars for the evening of April 26th for our annual Parish Auction. Social hour begins at 6:00 with the Auction at 7:00pm. This year will feature a Cinco de Mayo theme, so start thinking about your festive attire now! Donations of auction items are due to Merri DuRoss by April 12th. If you have any questions or would like to volunteer to help, please contact Merri at mduross6@comcast.net or 781-944-2268.

B-SAFE 2014 -- July 16-18 -- Save the date!

Once again we are participating as a partner church for the B-SAFE program this summer!
B-SAFE provides safe, fun programming for 500 elementary and middle school students in need at 5 different sites in Boston, and is coordinated by St. Stephen's in the South End. Kim Manzelli is leading the Good Shepherd team again this summer -- thank you Kim!!!

Our site is St. Luke's in Chelsea, where we provide lunch and a snack to the kids and staff. We are sharing a week with St. Paul's Lynnfield. Good Shepherd's days at St. Luke's will be Wednesday, July 16 and Thursday, July 17. We will share the field trip on Friday, July 18 (destination TBD!). Please mark your calendars.

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.

Christine Camper, Kevin Cellucci, Gerry Chagnon, Betty Fraser, Bernice Herrick, Linda Johnnene, Scott Johnnene, Thomas and Henrietta Kane, Debra Katt-Lloyd, Joe Lehman, Tony Lopes, Lynn McDonald, Rheta McKinley, Bishop Thomas Shaw, Kevin Smith, Hector Torres, Jake Torrisi, Scottie Wagner, Stephen Wagner, Michael Webb and Nickie Zitoli.

Contact Information

Church office: cgsreading@gmail.com or 781-944-1572

The rector: rectorgoodshepherd@gmail.com

Visit our website: www.goodshepherdreading.org

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