ANNOUNCEMENTS March 3, 2019 ANN OCKER’S 100TH BIRTHDAY WAS FEBRUARY 20TH. There is a large birthday card from all of us by the prayer request podium in the narthex. Please take a moment to sign it. Thank you! Please be sure to pick up your copy of our 2019 Lenten Devotional, PSALMS FOR LENT, at all worship services today. SUNDAY NIGHT ALIVE NOW TAKES PLACE IN THE CHURCH. JOIN US THIS EVENING AT 5:00 P.M. PLEASE SEE THE INSERT IN TODAY’S BULLETIN AS WELL AS THE ARTICLE IN OUR MARCH NEWSLETTER ABOUT THE SHEPHERD’S WALK 2019 THAT WE WILL BE DOING ON WEDNESDAY OF HOLY WEEK, APRIL 17TH. SET YOUR CLOCKS AHEAD BEFORE GOING TO BED NEXT SATURDAY! Daylight Savings Time begins 2:00 a.m. on Sunday, March 10. Be sure to set your clock ahead…you wouldn’t want to be late to church! ETHEL’S COFFEE HOUR IS BEING HOSTED BY OUR GOOD SHEPHERD SCHOOL BOARD THIS MORNING. In addition to the goodies, envelops for donations to the OUR KIDS SCHOLARSHIP FUND will be on the table. Please take one and make whatever donation you can to this fund. Currently the fund is empty, and we are getting applications for school next year with requests for financial assistance. The reason for the fund is to make sure that no child is left out of the Good Shepherd School experience because of financial reasons. Leave your donation today in the basket at the coffee hour table or bring it next week and place it in the offering plate. Thank you so much for your consideration. -Good Shepherd School Board. SHROVE TUESDAY PANCAKE SUPPER! We will be holding our annual pancake supper on Shrove Tuesday, March 5th, from 5:30 – 7:30 p.m. Fun and frolic for the entire family on this final day of indulgence before Ash Wednesday and the beginning of Lent. Pancakes, sausage, apple sauce, fruit punch, water, coffee, tea & dessert. Music & dancing! Bring the family--$3/adult, $2/child (family total not to exceed $10). Please sign up in the narthex. We thank Jim & Lori Mason for heading up this event and ask all of you to consider volunteering. We need plenty of help! Thank you for your support! THIS WEDNESDAY IS ASH WEDNESDAY! We will hold a service of Holy Communion with Imposition of Ashes at 7:30 p.m. here at Good Shepherd and a prayer service with Imposition of Ashes at 2:00 p.m. at Shepherd Hill Community Center. Confirmation class will be held at 6:30 p.m. and the students are asked to remain and participate in our Holy Eucharist/Imposition of Ashes worship at 7:30 p.m. PLEASE JOIN OR SUPPORT TEAM GOOD SHEPHERD HONORING ONE OF OUR OWN, DEREK ZACCHINO, AS WE AGAIN STAND UP TO CHILDHOOD CANCER ON MARCH 11!!! The St. Baldrick’s Foundation is holding its annual head-shaving event right here in Plainview at Mattlin Middle School’s gym on Monday, March 11th, from 3:30 p.m. - 6:30 p.m., and we would once again like to “field” a team. This year’s team is in honor of one of our congregants, 16-year-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 participating and/or donating! You can participate either as a shaver, a barber, or a volunteer. Please note that “Shaving your head” does not mean going bald, rather just a very short buzz cut. If you would like to actively participate or donate to Team Good Shepherd, please register or donate at https://www.stbaldricks.org/participants/mypage/1005382/2019. If you prefer not to donate on line, please use the donation form on the next page and Please consider asking your employer if they have a donation matching program and be sure to include that on the form. Whether you participate or not, be sure to stop by Mattlin Middle School on the 11th 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! 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. 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! 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 10th 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.
DEREK ZACCHINO
WORSHIP TO GO SCHEDULE! All are welcome to join us. Following is our upcoming schedule: 1. Prayer Group with Holy Communion (Good Shepherd) followed by the Shepherd’s Table (Shepherd Hill): Thursday, March 7th at 10:30 a.m. (first Thursday of each month). Church’s turn to bring desserts. 2. Huntington Hills (400 South Service Road In Melville): Sunday, March 10th, at 2:00 p.m. (second Sunday of each month) 3. Sunrise (1231 Old Country Road in Plainview) & White Oaks (8565 Jericho Turnpike, Woodbury): Thursday, March 14th & 28th (second and fourth Thursday of each month) 4. Central Island (825 Old Country Road in Plainview) Thursday, March 21st, at 10:00 a.m. (third Thursday of each month) 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 Cathy Aldrich, Dean & Annmarie Brown, and Karen Faucera 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 2/24=142: 8:00 a.m. = 32, 10:15 a.m. = 65, and 6:00 p.m. = 15; Worship to Go at 10:00 a.m. on 2/28 at Sunrise = 7 and White Oaks = 17.
WEEK OF 3/3/19 OPPORTUNITIES/EVENTS AT GOOD SHEPHERD LUTHERAN CHURCH & SCHOOL Transfiguration Sunday 3/3 Holy Eucharist(spoken) Sharing the Faith Adult Christian Education Junior Shepherds Sunday School Holy Eucharist Appetizers & Discussion in Church Sunday Night Alive Contemporary Worship in Church
Monday, 3/4 Children’s Chapel in Sanctuary Children’s Music Classes in Sanctuary Lectio Divina Bible Study in East Cottage Seniors Meet in West Cottage English Conversation & Introduction to Christianity in East Cottage Magicians’ Guild in Gym Bereavement Group in Prayer Chapel Guided Meditation with Pastor Olsen Shrove Tuesday, 3/5 Children’s Music Classes in the Church Pancake Supper in Gym Wednesday, 3/6 Children’s Music Classes in the Church Saintly Sew“ers” & Nifty ‘Nitters in West Cottage Women’s Bible Study/Book Discussion in West Cottage
Confirmation Class in Sanctuary Holy Communion with Imposition of Ashes Choir Practice in Sanctuary
8:00 a.m. 9:00 a.m. 10:15 a.m. 5:00 p.m. 6:00 p.m. 9:30 a.m. 10:00 a.m. 10:30 a.m. Noon 2:00 p.m. 6:00 p.m. 6:30 p.m. 7:30 p.m. 11:00 a.m. 5:30 p.m. 9:30 a.m. 10:00 a.m. 1:00 p.m. 6:30 p.m. 7:30 p.m. 8:45 p.m.
Thursday, 3/7 Prayer Group with Holy Communion in Agape Room The Shepherd’s Table at Shepherd Hill Community Center
10:30 a.m. Noon 7:30 p.m.
Boy Scouts Troop #423 in Gym Friday, 3/8 Saturday, 3/9 Daylight Savings Time—Set Clocks Ahead Before Going to Bed! First Sunday of Lent 3/10 Holy Eucharist(spoken) 8:00 a.m. Sharing the Faith Adult Christian Education 9:00 a.m. Junior Shepherds Sunday School Holy Eucharist 10:15 a.m. Holy Eucharist Service of Healing & Anointing 6:00 p.m.
We thank our School Board for hosting Ethel’s Coffee Hour this morning! Please consider hosting one soon. Thank You!
THOSE IN NEED OF HEALING: Allison & Dave (Karin Kienle’s friends), 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), Rolando Larrondo (Jennifer Stoddart’s relative) Lois Lengenfelder, Charles & Michael Leva (Angel Lorch’s uncle & father), 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 & 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 WHO ARE GRIEVING: Kathy Matullo and the family & friends of her friend Jack, Sue Wakefield and the Jacovino family and the family & friends of Bettyann’s brother in law Steve McCoy, Kiersten & Steve Kessler and the family & friends of Steve’s father, Gary; the family & friends of Thomas Triola. 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.
