Mission Statement - Sharing The Love Of Jesus!
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Our Mission Statement
A Community of Miraculous Expectation
A Community of Miraculous Expectation
Sharing the Love of Jesus!
A Community of Miraculous Expectation
A Community of Miraculous Expectation
A Community of Miraculous Expectation
As a community of believers, we are called to serve God through love and faithful service.
All Are Welcome
A Community of Miraculous Expectation
All Are Welcome
"Come Have a Life Changing Experience."
Pastor Ted Niemi
General Information
Services
Food Distribution
Food Distribution
Services and Activities postponed until further notice. Click on the "Find Out More" button to download the Worship Devotional for the Sixteenth Sunday of Pentecost, September 20.
Included are files for children’s bulletin’s that you can print up if you have kids or know some that would like them and music from Ron Delarm.
Food Distribution
Food Distribution
Food Distribution
There will be a drive through food distribution of the Lutheran Hunger Network's FREE Neighborhood Market at TBA on Saturday, 10/3, from 9-11 a.m.
We are asking all of those in the high risk categories to please refrain from volunteering this time around.
Central CA Food Bank will provide gloves, and you must use your own masks. On 10/3, anyone planning to volunteer who is or has been feeling ill - especially if they have or have had a fever, cough or flu-like symptoms - is asked to PLEASE stay home.
Please share this information with everyone you know who could benefit and with those who might want to volunteer.
Taking Donations
Food Distribution
Taking Donations
Please consider giving generously to Good Shepherd's Thanksgiving Basket Fund in this Covid 19 time. Gift cards will be given to Roeding School families for food during the Thanksgiving break. Thank you so much to our Good Shepherd family 's past and present generosity. Checks may be written to Good Shepherd with a memo of Thanksgiving Baskets.
Yours in Christ,
Pam Gerster
Stewardship (559-999-5443)
Also, we are in need of replenishing of funds with our ”Raise the Roof” campaign.
If they can help please mark the donation “roof”.
Thank you,
Sue Hays
Pastor's Note
A Word From Pastor Ted Niemi
Dear Friends,
I’d like to thank you for praying for me over the past month. As I mentioned in a sermon a month ago I had to have almost all of my teeth extracted. I am happy to say I am on the other side of that experience! I know some of you have had to wear dentures and seem to be doing quite well with them. That gives me peace that I will adjust.
One thing that will come out of this experience is that I will be a better pastor because of it. Now when I pray with someone who is going to lose their teeth I will know exactly what they are going through. I think of the other experiences that have been difficult that I have gone through, probably the two biggest being my liver transplant and my divorce. Both of those also made me a better pastor. Never have I been able to relate to someone who is going through marital strife or someone who may be facing the end of their life like I can now.
The problem is, I’m getting tired of these experiences that make me a better pastor! I appreciate being able to relate to the trials of others but it would be nice to be able to relate to someone whose life is smooth sailing as well!
You are probably feeling fatigued too. This year has been a doozy. Even if you weren’t told you had to have almost all of your teeth replaced you have lived through a pandemic, a crazy economy and some of the most dramatic times on our national stage I can ever remember. Not just politics, but as I write this the east is facing two different hurricanes and the last I heard there were over 400 fires in California. The smoke is so thick you can taste it when you breathe.
It is at times like this that we need to remember that we are Easter people. When Jesus was raised from the dead God took the worst the world could throw at God and turned it into the best that God could do for us. Because we have a Savior we are freed not to get mired down in the realities of life the way it is now. That means after all the cruddy times you go through victory is promised. That isn’t always easy to remember when you are knee deep in it!
I encourage you to pray for patience. This time will pass. Unless that asteroid that I heard about that may be headed our way hits us we’ll have brighter tomorrows. What a year! No matter what happens we win!
God’s Peace,
Pastor Ted
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