Good Shepherd Weekly 2/28
WELS Christian Aid & Relief for Ukraine
The Ukrainian Lutheran Church has 25 congregations 14 mission outposts across the country, including congregation in Kharkiv and Kyiv where some of the fighting has been fiercest. I mentioned in church on Sunday that one of the pastors in Kharkiv was unaccounted for. Thankfully the pastor is alive and safe, Bishop "V'yacheslav Horpynchuk" posted, "Both Pastors Victor Khaustov and Oleksandr Feschenko are alive. Russians were launching missiles from MRLS on residential areas of the cities. Ukrainian Air Force has destroyed MRLS column near Tokmak. But the city for three days now has no electricity, water and heating. Please continue to keep Ukraine in your prayers."
Congregations in Western Ukraine have become staging grounds for refugees fleeing Eastern Ukraine and are in need of support. If you are interested in offering financial assistance, WELS Christian Aid & Relief has stated that the best and safest way is through WELS World Missions. These funds will be used to provide immediate assistance to members of our sister church in Ukraine and others in need.
Follow this link: https://community.wels.net/page.aspx?pid=365. Select Ukraine in the dropdown menu.
Ash Wednesday Service & Soup Supper
Lent is just around the corner. On Wednesday March, 2 we will celebrate Ash Wednesday. Service will start at 7pm. We will also have a soup supper before the service at 6pm. As signup for food and other items is on the bulletin board next to the kitchen door.
Midweek Lent Service Schedule
All services on Wednesday nights at 7pm.
Mar 2: Ash Wednesday
Mar 9: When failure turns to strength
Mar 16: When betrayal reveals restraint
Mar 23: When obedience doesn’t matter
Mar 30: When guilt consumes you
Apr 6: When plans fail
Current Bible Studies
Sunday 9:15am In-Person
“Meaningless! Meaningless! Everything is Meaningless!” Solomon cries out. Solomon has not lost his faith in God, rather he has lost his faith in everything else. Presumably as an old man Solomon reflected on his own wisdom, his own work, his own achievements and success and he shaked his head and cries out, “Meaningless!” Is it true that your job, your family, your hobbies are meaningless? Of course, life is meaningful when we assign value to these things. We can even find a moment of what we might call transcendence in them. But these things are only “under the sun” they are for moment, for the short term, they are for me. Is it possible then to find meaning that transcends these things under the sun? This is the question Solomon takes up and in the end he will provide you with the kind of meaning and purpose people have been seeking for millennia.
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