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Register My Child Enjoy a kid-free evening on Friday December 1st, from 6:00p-9:00p. We will have a pizza dinner and an evening full of activities. Drop off is at 6:00pm. Pick up is at 9:00pm. Both will occur in the Connector (double doors on the right side of the church, hallway of windows between the church building and the gym building). Each child will receive a wristband with a code that the person picking up must have at pick up.…

Wednesday night grow Join us each Wednesday starting August 16th for our Wednesday Night Grow discipleship opportunities. We begin each Wednesday with dinner at 5:30pm in our Fellowship Hall and start classes for all ages at 6:30pm. Find below a list of all classes. Nursery is also available. Methodist Who? What? why? (ADULT) Come and Join us while we discuss who we are as a denomination, what it means to be a United Methodist – Then and Now, and why…

This Sunday October 29th will be a One Service Sunday! Service will be at 10:30 AM and there will be no Sunday School. At 9:30 am we will be gathering for Games, Food, and More to help us fellowship with one another and share in the Joy of being with each other as the Good Shepherd Family. We are inviting everyone to wear a Tie-Dye Shirt, sweatshirt, or other article of clothing if you have it to help celebrate the…

1 Peter 5:10  And after you have suffered a little while, the God of all grace, who has called you to his eternal glory in Christ, will himself restore, confirm, strengthen, and establish you. As the Devotional from last week about prayer, I thought it would be good to talk about prayer and the way god may answer our prayers. We all tend to pray for God protection over those we love, for certain outcomes, some self-growth, and for guidance…

16 Rejoice always, 17 pray continually, 18 give thanks in all circumstances; for this is God’s will for you in Christ Jesus.     1 Thessalonians 5:16-18  (NIV) I love to pray.  I pray all the time.  And I love to talk to others about an active, effective prayer life.  Rick Hamlin, executive editor at Guideposts magazine wrote a book, 10 Prayers You Can’t Live Without.  Part of his introduction says this:  “To try to pray is to pray.  You can’t fail at it.  Nobody…

Discipleship – Going Where No Disciple-Maker Has Gone Before When he had finished speaking, he said to Simon, “Put out into deep water, and let down the nets for a catch.” Simon answered, “Master, we’ve worked hard all night and haven’t caught anything. But because you say so, I will let down the nets.” When they had done so, they caught such a large number of fish that their nets began to break. So, they signaled their partners in the…

Ecclesiastes 3:1-13 3:1 There is a time for everything,    and a season for every activity under the heavens: 2     a time to be born and a time to die,    a time to plant and a time to uproot,3     a time to kill and a time to heal,    a time to tear down and a time to build,4     a time to weep and a time to laugh,    a time to mourn and a time to dance,5     a time to scatter stones and a time to gather them,    a time to embrace and…

By: Austin Teegarden “28 One of the scribes came near and heard them disputing with one another, and seeing that he answered them well, he asked him, “Which commandment is the first of all?” 29 Jesus answered, “The first is, ‘Hear, O Israel: the Lord our God, the Lord is one; 30 you shall love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind and with all your strength.’ 31 The…

Join us for Kristin on a Mission 6:30 pm, December 14th in the Fellowship Hall. We will hear from Kristin, a South African Missionary, who will share with us about ABBA’s House.  Soup & sandwiches provided! Please Register to let us know how many to prepare for.

Here we are beginning the 2nd week of Advent, the joyous Christmas Day is fast approaching, and it may be challenging to find this week’s word of focus- PEACE. I am drawn to my favorite advent scripture from the Prophet Isaiah “For a child has been born for us, a son given to us; authority rests upon his shoulders; and he is named Wonderful Counselor, Mighty God, Everlasting Father, Prince of Peace.” Jesus is the Prince of Peace.  When Isaiah…