We wish you a merry Christmas!
As the staff of Good Shepherd, we pray that the hope, peace, joy, and love that we have been waiting for throughout Advent be with you and those you love during this blessed season of Christmas.

Wondering about our staff Christmas picture? We've prepared a special Christmas message for the children of our congregation, aged 1-92. Watch it on our GSLC YouTube Channel or Facebook page.

Christmas Blessings!

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IN OTHER NEWS

2021 Offering Envelopes

The 2021 offering envelopes are available for pick up. The envelopes may be found in clear covered totes at the front entrance of the church in alphabetical order.

If I have inadvertently not issued you a set of envelopes, please let me know and I'll take care of that right away. As a cost saving measure I have not assigned Simply Giving users a set of regular offering envelopes. If you are a Simply Giving user and would like a set of regular envelopes, please let me know.

Respectfully, Stan Corbett, GSLC Financial Secretary (finsec@goodshepherdcares.org)

Indoor Worship Sign up

Signing up in advance is required to attend an indoor service!  Part of signing up includes an agreement that you are feeling well and have not been in contact with anyone with COVID-19 over the last 14 days.  Indoor worship will include masks and social distancing, a limit of 30 people, no singing, and a shorter time length (about 35 minutes).  There is A LOT more information included on our website, so please make sure to read that for all the details.  For now, if you would like to attend indoor worship on January 3rd at 10:15, please sign up at this link.

Women of Advent: Podcast

Wednesdays in Advent may be over, but listening to the podcasts is infinite.

This Advent, Pastor Larson and Sam Menapace have been exploring the women of the season with a new PODCAST. The podcast, called Women of Advent, consists of five episodes, one on each woman mentioned in the genealogy of Jesus in the Gospel of Matthew. The episodes on Tamar, Rahab, Ruth, Bathsheba and Mary are available to listen now! Keep reading for directions on how to access the episodes.

HOW TO LISTEN TO THE PODCAST:

Go to our very special podcast website: https://anchor.fm/women-of-advent

Scroll down until you see the podcast episodes. All episodes are now uploaded - Tamar, Rahab, Ruth, Bathsheba and Mary.

Click on the episode you’d like to hear, and it will play directly from the website. 

You can also listen to our podcast on Spotify. Just click on the button that says “Listen on Spotify” and it will take you directly to the episodes. 

PRAYING TOGETHER 

It helps, now and then, to step back and take the long view.

We plant the seeds that one day will grow.  We water the seeds already planted, knowing that they hold future promise.  We lay foundations that will need further development.  We provide yeast that produces effects far beyond our capabilities.

We cannot do everything and there is a sense of liberation in realizing that.  This enables us to do something and to do it well.  It may be incomplete, but it is a beginning, a step along the way, an opportunity for the Lord’s grace to enter and do the rest.  We may never see the end results, but that is the difference between the master builder and the worker.

We are workers, not master builders; ministers, not messiahs.

We are prophets of a future not our own.

-Bishop Ken Untener

In Our Prayers 

This week. . . 

Arthur Matson, Wendy Ying, Karen Peterson, Maria Steckley, Susan Rovaldi, Phyllis Taxiera, Kathy Allen, Jen Cinelli, the family of Mike Hardina, the family of Toby Cloutier, Jeanne Maurer, Layla Bair, Beth Hamilton, Tarah Sproul, Layla Bair, Vila Makkray, Brian Mulvihill, Cathy Dorey, Jimmy Pritchard, all those affected by addiction, all those affected by mental illness, all military personnel and first responders, for those who have contracted COVID-19.

If you or someone you know would like to be remembered in our prayers, call the church office or email prayercircle@goodshepherdcares.org. Names remain on this list for four weeks. Let us know if you’d like to renew, add, or remove a name.

Good Shepherd Lutheran Church
Pastors Jeff Goodrich & Victoria Larson
183 W. Main St., Westborough, MA 01581 • (508) 366-7095
office@goodshepherdcares.org • www.goodshepherdcares.org

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