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Important Lenten Opportunities for Worship & Study + Sunday, 3/19 @ 11:30 AM Page Turners - discussing News of the World: A Novel by Paulette Jiles + Tuesdays @ 6:30 PM “Why Lent? What’s the Point?” Start w/soup & salad and end with prayer. + Thursdays @ 9:30 AM “Uppity Women of the Bible” + Fridays @ 7 PM Stations of the Cross - add a soup supper @ 6:30 PM on March 31 WOMEN’S 9 TH ANNUAL BFF RETREAT “BEYOND THE RED DOORS” This year’s Annual Retreat will be held at the Raph- aela Center in Haverford, PA on Sunday aſternoon through Tuesday aſternoon, May 21- 23. We have started planning our program and events. The cost is $225.00, covering all meals and accom- modaons. Transportaon is by carpools. Please consider coming to get to know one another and share a wonderful me. The signup sheet is in the Parish Hall. Checks should be made payable to COGS with “retreat” in the memo. Please give checks to George Funk or place in the offertory during services. If you can’t pay the full amount at one me we can arrange payments. All reservaons and payment must be made by May 1 st . If you have any quesons please contact Jenniff- er Harrington @ 856-245-7700 or Diane Wall @ 856- 374-9081. Welcome! Welcome to Church of the Good Shepherd. We’re glad you’re here! Episcopal worship is parcipa- tory. We stand, we kneel, we respond vocally dur- ing parts of the service, somemes with singing! Please join in at your level of comfort. If you’d like to learn more about what we as Episcopalians believe and do, or if you have any quesons, please fill out one of the yellow cards in the pew and give it to Mother Susan or one of our ushers. We hope you feel welcome here and that you will come back oſten to feed your faith. A Word About Receiving Communion in the Episcopal Church All are invited to the Altar to receive. If you would like a blessing, just cross your arms over your chest. If you decide to receive only the bread extend your hand for the wafer and cross your arms over your chest to decline the wine. For the wine or grape juice you may guide the chalice to your lips by placing your hand gently on the chalice’s base and guiding it. Or you can dip your host (wafer) into the wine. Or you can give the host to the Lay Eucharisc Minister, who will dip the host into the wine and place it in your mouth. Stations of the Cross You are invited to Stations of the Cross eve- ry Friday evening during Lent at 7 PM continu- ing until April 7th, in the Church. On March 31 st we will have a Soup Dinner before @ 6:30 PM. Lenten Devotion Materials At the back of the church you will find a basket of Lenten materials for you to use during Lent. Please help yourself. Sunday School Project Angels of God, a local community outreach or- ganization just a few blocks away from Good Shepherd, offers the Angels Snack Bag Pro- gram to local underprivileged daycares and preschools or to qualified families visiting An- gels of God. Volunteers collect, assemble and decorate lunch bags filled with nutritious snacks. As part of our Palm Sunday Youth Fel- lowship, we are asking the Sunday School youth to help us be "Snack Angels". In order for this outreach exercise to be a success we need your help! Before Palm Sunday on April 9th, we will be collecting healthy snacks. Some ideas: Raisins, Granola bars, Cheddar or peanut butter crackers, Juice boxes, small pretzel bags, Veggie chips, and Apple sauce containers or pouches Snacks can be dropped off downstairs in the Teacher Resource Room in the Youth Group wing or in a box in the Parish Hall labeled "Angels Snack Bags". On Palm Sunday, the Sunday School children will be tasked with dec- orating and assembling these bags. Please contact Amanda McNally [email protected] if you have questions. Progressive Dinner A Progressive Dinner to benefit the Scholarship Fund will be held on Saturday, April 22. Cock- tail hour begins at 6:30 PM. The suggested do- nation is $25 per person. We need about 6 vol- unteers who live locally to host dinner and des- sert. There are sign up sheets in the parish hall for both people who would like to attend and those who would like to host. Please join us for this very fun event. For more information con- tact Diane Wall @ 856-374-9081.
