Good Shepherd Weekly 3/21
Funds Donated to Ukraine
WELS set up a fund to gather gifts intended to support relief and humanitarian efforts both for members of the Ukrainian Lutheran Church (ULC) and for the refugees and local citizens in need of help. Those gifts are being channeled through WELS World Missions, which remains in contact with the ULC and is still able to transfer funds to where they are most needed. Good Shepherd’s Outreach Committee voted to give our remaining outreach budgetary funds from 2021 to this Ukraine fund. The amount donated was just over $3000.
Ladies Group Outing
Save the date for Saturday, March 26.
We will be spending the day in Hudson MA (Hudson was recently voted #1 Main Street in the USA). We plan to meet at the Wild Hare at 10am for brunch followed by
Shopping and browsing our way through Main St. at the boutiques, cheese shop, home goods store, apothecary, and other fun shops – there is also an ice cream shop and brewery.
After shopping we will head over to Nashoba Valley Winery for wine/beer tasting (it's also a distillery) and relaxing by the orchard. If it's nice we can sit outdoors otherwise they have a heated pavilion. Lunch and charcuterie platters are also available.
Carpooling will be happening!! Let Debbie G know if you are planning on joining us so we can plan accordingly. It is sure to be a fun day!!!
Flower Arrangements for Sundays
We can always use flowers for Sunday services, in fact there are many Sundays open on the flower sign up sheet. But now providing flower has become even easier. This year Inga Wohlgemuth is willing to create your arrangement for you. You can set the price and she will do the rest within your budget. Let her know if you would like her help.
Midweek Lent Service Schedule
All services on Wednesday nights at 7pm.
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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