ANNOUNCEMENTS March 10, 2019 Please be sure to pick up your copy of our 2019 Lenten Devotional, PSALMS FOR LENT, at all worship services today. COME WALK THE SHEPHERD’S WALK--Wednesday of Holy Week, April 17, at 10:00 a.m. beginning by the Jones’ Beach Theatre and ending at Good Shepherd. The "Shepherd's Walk" is a guided prayer walk through the Journey to the Cross. This 18+ mile walk will feature the 14 Stations of the Cross. The day’s purpose is to give you space to reflect on the events of Jesus’ crucifixion in unique and meaningful way. Walk for yourself, a cause. Walk for peace, walk for someone you love, perhaps someone departed. As we walk each station we hear and come in touch with the events of the journey our Lord took to his crucifixion. Our soup and bread supper and service of Healing & Anointing follow at 6:15 p.m. and 7:30 p.m. We also need volunteers and will be announcing a volunteer meeting shortly. PLEASE JOIN OR SUPPORT TEAM GOOD SHEPHERD HONORING ONE OF OUR OWN, DEREK ZACCHINO, AS WE AGAIN STAND UP TO CHILDHOOD CANCER TOMORROW!!! The St. Baldrick’s Foundation is holding its annual head-shaving event right here in Plainview at Mattlin Middle School’s gym tomorrow, March 11th, from 3:30 p.m. 6:30 p.m., and we are once again “fielding” a team. This year’s team is in honor of one of our congregants, 16year-old Derek Zacchino, who recently underwent surgery and is being treated for brain cancer. Last year our team of only six participants raised $7,058! Please help us surpass that amount by making a donation at https://www.stbaldricks.org/participants/mypage/1005382/2019. If you prefer not to donate on line, please pick up a donation form in the narthex. Please consider asking your employer if they have a donation matching program and be sure to include that on the form. Everyone is invited to stop by Mattlin Middle School tomorrow for food, raffles, hair extensions & lots of fun! Maybe you’ll win some great prizes! AND SPEAKING OF WINNING… Enter your donation to St. Baldrick’s through this link: https://www.stbaldricks.org/fundraisers/mypage/3571/2019 for a chance to win two tickets to Hamilton Musical on May 1st at 8:00pm! Each $10 donation will give you one chance at winning. You may enter as often as you like. Please be sure to include both your preferred phone number and email address at the time you make your donation to ensure that St. Baldrick’s is able to contact you if you win. Your donation will go towards life-saving childhood cancer research grants. We can't do this without you! OUR WOMEN’S BIBLE STUDY/BOOK DISCUSSION WILL NOT BE MEETING THIS WEDNESDAY. PLEASE JOIN US ON WEDNESDAY EVENINGS FOR SOUP & BREAD & PRAYER Our Lenten soup & bread suppers take place in the gym each Wednesday evening Lent: March 13th, 20th, 27th, April 3rd, 10th & 17th at 6:15 p.m. We thank Lori & Jim Mason for hosting this each year. OUR HOLDEN EVENING PRAYER service immediately follows at 7:30 p.m. in the church. Feed your soul and your body with good things—don’t miss this wonderful opportunity to grow in faith and fellowship. Soup makers and bread bringers are always needed for this event. There’s a sign-up sheet awaiting your name in the narthex! JOIN US ON WEDNESDAY FOR ADULT CO-ED VOLLEY BALL NIGHT! Adults 18+ are welcome to join us for an evening of volleyball on Tuesday, March 26th at 7:30 p.m. Ask your friends and come on down. If there is enough interest, we will join the Long Island Beach Volleyball League at Cedar Beach for the summer. Any questions contact Glen Cacchioli at
[email protected] or 516-526-6778. TAIZE IS NEXT SUNDAY at 6:00 p.m. Start the week a peaceful mindset. Reflect, meditate, unwind, and refresh at our Lenten Taize service next Sunday, 3/17 at 6:00 p.m. There won’t be one in April, so you’ll want to be there next week. You’ll be glad you came.
EASTER FOOD BASKETS FOR THE HUNGRY are once again being put together by Lutheran Social Services’ New Life Center. Please refer to the list of suggested items for these baskets below. Food donations will be received throughout the month of March in order to be delivered for Easter. As always, we appreciate your response to these appeals.
FIRST HOLY COMMUNION CLASSES We will be celebrating First Holy Communion during our 10:15 a.m. worship service on Palm Sunday, April 14th. If you have a child in third grade or higher who would like to receive his/her First Holy Communion, please plan to attend two Communion classes: the first on Sunday, April 7th immediately following our 10:15 a.m. worship service and the second at our soup supper on Wednesday, April 10 th at 6:15 p.m. in the school gym. If you have a baptized child younger than First Communion age, but you feel that he/she is ready to receive, please speak to Pastor Eric so that he/she may be included in this class.
WORSHIP TO GO SCHEDULE! All are welcome to join us. Following is our upcoming schedule: 1. Huntington Hills (400 South Service Road In Melville): Sunday, March 10th, at 2:00 p.m. (second Sunday of each month) 2. Sunrise (1231 Old Country Road in Plainview) & White Oaks (8565 Jericho Turnpike, Woodbury): Thursday, March 14th & 28th (second and fourth Thursday of each month) 3. Central Island (825 Old Country Road in Plainview) Thursday, March 21st, at 10:00 a.m. (third Thursday of each month) 4. Prayer Group with Holy Communion (Good Shepherd) followed by the Shepherd’s Table (Shepherd Hill): Thursday, April 4th at 10:30 a.m. (first Thursday of each month). Shepherd Hill’s turn to bring desserts. THIRTY THREE 2019 OFFERING ENVELOPES are on the ushers’ table in the narthex. If yours is among them, please pick them up. If, for some reason, you did not receive your offering envelopes, please contact Maureen at 516-349-1966 or e-mail
[email protected]. Thank you. THANKS TO OUR USHER TEAM of John Bird & Joe Grappone at our 8:00 a.m. worship and Karl & Carol Burfeindt, Ron Maisch, and John Schwaninger at 10:15 a.m. In addition, we thank our Head Usher, Jim Mason. We sure do appreciate your service! We are always in need of usher teams. If you can serve as an usher once every 6-8 weeks, please speak to Jim Mason or Marge Wenger. OUR SOCIAL MINISTRY TEAM DELIVERED 96 lbs. of food on Tuesday, 2/19, as well as baby items, a humidifier, clothing, and a lot of winter coats from both church and school to the New Life Center. Thank you for your ongoing response to our calls. BABY, IT’S COLD OUTSIDE!!! It might be just an old coat to you but think of how much your gently used coat might mean to someone else. It kept you warm, and now it will keep your neighbor in need warm, too! The New Life Center has a need for that coat you no longer wear. Please bring it to the narthex, and we will get it to them. We also need new hats, gloves, mittens, and socks. As always, thank you for your support. OUR SOCIAL MINISTRY TEAM COLLECTS two specific items for the Community Food Bank sponsored by the Mid Island Y right here in Plainview: Hunt’s Pasta Sauce and canned fruit with no sugar added. This is separate from our regular, ongoing food donations. THANK YOU FOR YOUR DONATIONS OF WEEKLY COUPONS to our Plainview Community Food Bank sponsored by the MIYJCC. They are very helpful and very much appreciated. Please be sure to drop any you won’t be using into the box in the narthex. MINUTES of our January Council Meeting are available in the narthex. Please feel free to take a copy. ATTENDANCE ON 3/3=245: 8:00 a.m. = 48, 10:15 a.m. = 88, and 6:00 p.m. Sunday Night Alive = 16, Ash Wednesday at Shepherd Hill at 2:00 p.m. = 21 and 7:30 p.m. = 72.
WEEK OF 3/11/19 OPPORTUNITIES/EVENTS AT GOOD SHEPHERD LUTHERAN CHURCH & SCHOOL First Sunday of Lent 3/10 Holy Eucharist(spoken) Sharing the Faith Adult Christian Education Junior Shepherds Sunday School Holy Eucharist Holy Eucharist Service of Healing & Anointing Boy Scouts Leaders’ Meeting in East Cottage Monday, 3/11 Children’s Chapel in Sanctuary Children’s Music Classes in Sanctuary Lectio Divina Bible Study in East Cottage English Conversation & Introduction to Christianity in East Cottage LICAN Meeting in West Cottage Bereavement Group in Prayer Chapel Ministry Teams Meeting
8:00 a.m. 9:00 a.m. 10:15 a.m. 6:00 p.m. 7:00 p.m. 9:30 a.m. 10:00 a.m. 10:30 a.m. 2:00 p.m. 2:00 p.m. 6:30 p.m. 7:30 p.m.
Tuesday, 3/12 Children’s Music Classes in the Church Divorce Support Group in West Cottage School Board Meeting in Room 5
11:00 a.m. 6:30 p.m. 7:00 p.m.
Wednesday, 3/13 Children’s Music Classes in the Church Saintly Sew“ers” & Nifty ‘Nitters in West Cottage Soup & Bread Supper/Confirmation Class Holden Evening Prayer Service Choir Practice in Sanctuary
9:30 a.m. 10:00 a.m. 6:15 p.m. 7:30 p.m. 8:30 p.m.
Thursday, 3/14 Worship to Go at Sunrise Worship to Go at White Oaks Executive Committee Meeting Band of Brother Support Group Boy Scouts Troop #423 in Gym Friday, 3/15 Saturday, 3/16 Second Sunday of Lent 3/17 Holy Eucharist(spoken) Sharing the Faith Adult Christian Education Junior Shepherds Sunday School Holy Eucharist Kitchen in Use Taize
Please Consider Hosting Ethel’s Coffee Hour One Sunday Morning in March. Thank You!
10:00 a.m. 10:00 a.m. 6:00 p.m. 6:30 p.m. 7:30 p.m.
8:00 a.m. 9:00 a.m. 10:15 a.m. 12:30 p.m. 6:00 p.m.
THOSE IN NEED OF HEALING: Barbara Altman (Alice Vorstadt’s friend), Helen Anderson, Anthony (Karen Faucera’s friend), Ariana (Susan Ferraro’s friend), Charlie Aviano (Garcia family friend), Pat Ballard (Reverend Dale Carr), Chris Balos, Barbara Bajore, Alex & Derek Bartkow, Carolyn (Wuerffel) Bayerkohler, Marilyn & Paul Benner, Joe & Carol Berardino, Martha & Tom Berardino, Grace Berry, John Binsfeld (Benner family friend), Miriam & Paula Bistany (Grappone family friend), Emily Brandi (Wakefield family friend), Laura Brandt (Thomas family friend), Janet Brazel (Terry Miccio’s relative), John Brooks (Debra’s husband), Annmarie Brown, Arthur Brown (Dean’s father), Glen Cacchioli, Connie Campbell (Patty Larson’s sister in law), Patricia Cannata, Lynn Carlson, Bill Carroll (Rose Minnick’s friend), Sally Christophedes (Grappone family friend), Olga Colandro (Olsen family friend), Amanda Conca (Grappone family friend), Gisela Conforti, Maya Contreras & family (Alice Vorstadt’s relatives), Frank Costeira (Martha Peterson’s friend), David Cronin, Chris Cucci, Frank Dell’Aquila (GSL teacher Diane Kideris’s father), Claudia DeMauro, Georgeann Diblasi (Sue Wakefield’s relative), Gregory Diehl (Dorothy Turaukas’s son), Romia Dimor (Wenger family friend), Steven Dux (Irma Carlson’s nephew), Theresa Eby (Mary Oliveto’s relative), Dilliana Edwards, Becky Ernst (Paul Wenger’s cousin), Judy Esposito (Karen Faucera’s friend), Richard Faithfull (Grappone family friend), Eric Faret, Ricky Fedyk (Sue Wakefield’s friend), Margaret Fiedler, Pat Fiedler, Danny Fink, Marcelle Figlo, Susan, Anthony, and Alice Ferraro, Arlene Fraraccio (George Hirn’s sister), Gary, June & Rosalie, Jackie Gentner, Ray Gorka, Katelyn Gregorie (Grappone family friend), Kenneth Hall (Ronn’s brother), Sean Harrison (Lorch family friend), Ellen Harvey (Terry Miccio’s friend), Waltraud Havenschild (Andrea Uzzo’s relative), Diane Helmers, Gunhild Hendrickson, Katherine Hill, Tobi Indellicati, Michelle Jackowdik (Annmarie Brown’s relative), Jessica, Jimi (Chrissi Canino’s relative), Amy Kalb (Karen Faucera’s friend), Robin Kane (Rose Minnick’s relative), Lois Kazarian, Susie Klemm (Bruno family), Myung Sook Ko (GSL School Teacher Esther’s sister), Evelyn & Niko Kontonis & their family, Jon Krenkel (Terry Miccio’s cousin), Heather Rose Landry, Kenneth Lane, Carol Larson (Bob Rickmeyer’s sister), Toni Ann LaGois, Rolando Larrondo (Jennifer Stoddart’s relative) Lois Lengenfelder, Charles & Michael Leva (Angel Lorch’s uncle & father),Lindsay (Marc Ferrers’ friend) Madeline LoCuercio, Angel, Christopher & Marie Lorch, Ron Lupi (Meyer family friend), Roger Luedtke (Sue Devine’s brother in law), Joe Marino (Annmarie Brown’s relative), Vanessa Masih (Lisa Cacchioli’s student’s sister), Matt Massucci & his family (Vollono family friend), Diane Matales (Lilli Schulz’s friend), Pastor Fred McElderry, Dorothy McGowan, Annette Meitzner (Roy Steinhilber’s friend), Nancy Michaelis (Dawn Zacchino’s mother), Martha Minnicozzi & Pat Miskey (Brown family friends), Judi Miranda, Teddy Moore (Miccio family friend), Maryellen Moyse, Ellie Mueller, Jane Muller (Sean Cooke’s friend), Karen Murphy (Donna Hickey’s friend), Richard Murphy (Mary Ann’s Son), Ann Ocker, Anthony Pericone (Donna Hickey’s friend), Diana Petrielo (Terry Miccio’s friend), Mark Prowatzke (Danny Wenger’s father in law), Bob Rickmeyer, Justin Rogers (Karin Kienle’s nephew), Stephanie Rogers (Ferrara family friend), Mackenzie Ruff, Barbara Russo (Susan Ferraro’s friend), George Saueracker, Elena Savage (Jeff & Susan Wakefield’s granddaughter), Craig Schumacker (Elaine Mark’s relative), Danna Sgambati, Kenny Shrypek (McGowan family friend), Diane Sicca (Debbie Garcia’s sister), Barbara Silber (Sarah Wenger Silber’s mother in law), Eric Silva & his family (Karen Faucera’s friends), Jennifer Sorenson (Cathy Vollono’s friend), Judy Stal (Christine Adolphus’s daughter), Ken Steffens, Ed Strauhs, Raymond Tarnok (Pat Fiedler’s nephew), Debbie Tassi (Denise Donitz’s sister), Richie Taylor (Ann Rickmeyer’s friend), Paul Thompson (Lisa Olsen’s relative) the Thomas Family, Tori & Family (Karen Faucera’s friend), Nancy Tucker, Domenick Tuozzo, Kathy Van Driessche, Lisa Van Tress (Donna Hickey’s friend), Ralph Wahl (Alice Vorstadt’s relative), Jeff Wakefield, Clifton Weed (Fiedler family friend), Danny Wenger, John Wenger, Marilyn Weyant (Maisch family friend), Derek Zacchino, Brother George Zenle, Julia, Pat, Josie, Jennifer & Nicole (Genevieve’s Helping Hands). THOSE SERVING IN THE MILITARY: CPT Hector Ruben Alejandro, USMC, (Lori Mason’s friend), Matthew Beers (Army), Keith & Kyle Calderone (Army), SGT Sean Hassett (Lori Mason’s cousin), MAJ Paul Rickmeyer, Captain Robert Saueracker, 1st Lt. Jack Senft (Maureen Cooke’s friend), Major Philip Sounia, Corporal Nicholas Ventrelli-O’Connell (Patty Larson’s family friend). THOSE PREPARING FOR ORDINATION: Vicar Adam Reinhardt. THOSE WHO ARE UNABLE TO JOIN US IN BODY BUT ARE WITH US IN SPIRIT: Audrey Lassus.
