Good Shepherd Weekly 11/22
Zoom Bible Study on Pause
Wednesday evening Bible study will be canceled on Wednesday, November 24 due to the Thanksgiving holiday. Bible study will also be canceled Wednesday, December 1 due to Advent by Candlight. Bible study will resume as usual on Wednesday, December 8.
Advent by Candlelight
Our annual Advent by Candlelight service will be held on Wednesday, December 1. Advent by Candlelight is an opportunity for sharing a meal together as well as a time to start preparing our hearts and minds for Christmas. We will start the meal at 6:00pm and the service will begin around 7:00pm (dependent upon how quickly folks finish eating!). The service will feature a series of brief devotions, readings, and advent songs. All are welcome to attend. If you would like to bring a dish for the meal please see the sign up sheet on the bulletin board at church.
Church Christmas Decorating
In order to get the church building ready for the Christmas season, a decorating day has been scheduled for Saturday, December 4 at 3:00pm. This will be the first year we will be using our new artificial tree and we are hoping to fill it with our beautiful ornaments. It will be a festive afternoon, so wear your favorite Christmas PJs and be ready for hot chocolate and cookies to be served.
Current Bible Studies
Sunday 9:15am In-Person
1 Peter is a written to Christians who were scattered across the Roman province of Asia Minor suffering under intense persecution. Peter calls these people exiles and he extends them hop. Though we may not face as intense of suffering, we too are exiles. We are in the world but we are not of the world and sometimes it can even feel like we are exiles here, but there is hope. There is hope in the fact that we have been made the family of God. There is even hope in the midst of suffering as our suffering can bear witness to what Jesus has done for us. We even have a hope filled future with Christ.
Wednesday 7:00pm Zoom
Christians know that the Bible calls on them to pray. We can even quote passages like, "Pray continually." But for many of us, prayer doesn't come all that naturally. Talking to God can seem strange. Figuring out where to start can be overwhelming. Even worse, sometimes we feel too guilty to pray, and then when we don't pray we feel even more guilty. Yet prayer is vital to the Christian life. It is so vital that sometimes prayer is called spiritual breathing. We breath in deeply God’s word to us and we breathe out our praise, confession, thanksgiving, and requests. This Bible study will give you a practical overview of prayer so that you can expand and enrich your prayers.
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