Good Shepherd Lutheran Church
Fresno, California
Sierra Pacific Synod
Evangelical Lutheran Church in America 

Church Women United is celebrating May Friendship Day and Scholarship Award Luncheon on Friday, May 6^th at St. Paul’s United Methodist Church, 2435 N. Thesta at Clinton. Registration begins at 9:30 am and lunch is $7⁰⁰. The 10 am service theme is “Living Our Friendship … Passing On the Key.” Fellowship of the Least Coin will be a special offering. Make reservations with Lois Green, 227-2607 by May 1^st.

Don’t Forget

Kids’ Sunday School is every Sunday from 10-10:45/10:50 in Julie’s office. 

We meet in Jacobson’s to get our snacks, and then we dig into the Bible!

Calling All KIDS!

We are having lots of fun very Saturday.  Our new time is from 3-5 p.m. in the Community Center,

 and everyone is welcome.  Bring your friends and we’ll have a ball!

Our VBS this year will be presented from Sunday, June 12—Thursday, June 16, from

 6-8 p.m.  Dinner will be served from 6-6:30, and classes for adults and children will run

 from 6:30-8 p.m.  See Julie if you’d like to volunteer to help.  Mark your calendars now!

Thanks to our youth and children for their efforts this Lenten Season as they helped our Sewing Saints with their “Britches for Boys” project.  Nearly every Wednesday after the soup suppers, the young people gathered to put the elastic through the waists of the many pairs of shorts sewn by the Sewing Saints.  Thank you to Dee Snyder and the rest of the “Saints” for entrusting them with this project.  It was fun!

Roeding Saturday Sports & Crafts

We are back to meeting in the mornings for the warmer months ahead.  We will be on site at the school at

 West and Dakota from 9-11 a.m. on the first Saturdays of the month, except in July and September due

to holidays.  The next dates are 5/7, 6/4, 7/9, 8/6, and 9/10   Thanks so much to our loyal regular volunteers

 and contributors.  If you haven’t been out there yet, mark these dates, and make an appearance—you’ll be blessed!

Roeding

Elementary Testing Help

 We are  still collecting juice boxes and granola bars for our kids at Roeding to help them do well during testing.

  The testing period is coming up soon, but it’s not too late to grab some juice or granola bars.  We hope to provide

 a couple of days worth of healthy snacks for the WHOLE school.  Thank you for all your support of these students!

2012 ELCA Youth Gathering

We are formatting a plan to take our youth to New Orleans to the National Gathering July 18th– 22nd of next year.

  Please plan to help us with our fundraising!  This is a wonderful event that unites thousands of Lutheran HS students

 from all over the nation, and we can’t go without your support.  If you have any awesome ideas of

ways we can work to raise funds, please share them with us!

A new Wednesday evening Bible study is starting this week - Wednesday, April 27 at 6:30 in the Community Center.  Join us in a seven week study led by Jennifer Rothschild "Walking by Faith: Lessons Learned in the Dark".  This is the same woman we enjoyed last summer as she led us in the interactive study "Fingerprints of God".  She is an amazing woman who lost her eyesight in her teens, but gained something much more valuable - spiritual insight.  God has taught her to see that living a life based on faith rather than  sight requires us to look at our situations through a lens that filters out what is seen and, instead, focuses on what is unseen - those things that are eternal.  The study begins April 27 and concludes June 8.

The “Older Wiser Lutheran Seniors” will meet on Monday,

May 16 at 12N. Bring a potluck dish to share for our lunch.

Louise Boyden, Sue Brisendine,

Dorothy Brechmann, William Kuester,

  & Zella Summers.

The Parish Nurses announce monthly FREE blood pressure checks between
church services at 10 am in Jacobson Hall each first Sunday of the month.

Sunday, 10:30 am & 11:40 am Bible Study in the Conference room (or the Parish house patio, weather permitting).

Our Food Pantry at Good Shepherd Lutheran Church is truly blessed
by the kind food donations received from our congregation recently.
Needy clients referred to Good Shepherd Lutheran Church by LOVE In the Name of Christ
 will benefit by these food donations and loving our neighbors as ourselves will glorify God’s holy name.
 32 children, 1 infant and 44 adults were recipients of God's love through the Food Pantry in 2007. Bless you!

Thanks to the congregation of Good Shepherd Lutheran Church for providing

food for our food panty. 40 adults were served, including 4 disabled adults,

& 31 children in 2008.

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You can purchase flowers for the altar on a Sunday morning. 
The cost is $36.70 for these beautiful arrangements. 
You can take them home following the Traditional Worship service approximately 11:30 am.
Sign-up on the Flower Chart in the narthex.
Also, please inform the church office of the dedication announcement
for the Sunday church bulletin & flower color preference by the previous Wednesday. Thank you.

A rose bud & baby's breath in a glass vase
 announcing a birth are $14.50. Thank you.

Sunday bulletin announcement submission deadline is the previous Wednesday at 1:00 PM.

The 20th of the month!!!

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