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Worship:  Saturday @ 5pm & Sunday at 10:30am
Bible Study:  Sunday at 9am, Wednesday at 10am
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First Good Shepherd Family and Friends,
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FunRaiser Appeal Newsletter #2
Click Here IT'S ALL GOOD AND IT'S ALL GOD!
First Good Shepherd Lutheran Church Statistics
Worship Attendance:
Saturday - 27; Sunday - 96; Total - 123; 2022 Avg. - 117
Feel free to share FGS' YouTube channel with your neighbors.
 
Stewardship Life Report
Received for May, 2022
May 1: 
Church:  $8,940.00
MVCS Lease Pmt: 

TOTAL: $8,940.00

May 8:                         Church: $7,898.13
                             MVCS Lease Payment: 
                                                $10,000.00  

 
Church:  $17,898.13
MVCS:$10,000.00
TOTAL: $26,838.13
 
Budgeted Expense for One Week:  $8,155.16
Budgeted Expense for One Month:  $35,339.00
It's not too early to be thinking about our 2022/2023 Confirmation Class!
First class begins September 11th. Deadline to sign up is August 1, 2022. Call or e-mail Debbie at the church office to sign up
 fgschurchoffice@fgslc.org.
JOIN US
Fellowship – Food – Fun
 
First Good Shepherd Lutheran Church Conference Room
Monday, May 16, 2022 @  6:30 pm
 
This month:
  • Fellowship including snack
  • Speaker:Rachael Palumbo, “Getting to Know You”
  • Short Meeting including election of 2022-23 New Officers



An Evangelism Thought...
 
“When they (the disciples in Jerusalem) heard these things, they fell silent. And they glorified God, saying, ‘Then to the Gentiles also God has granted repentance that leads to life.’” (Acts 11:18) The first followers of Jesus were all Jews; in fact it never occurred to them that Gentile could follow Jesus unless they became a Jew first. But they learned that God had a different plan, the glorified God. Never think anyone is beyond the grace of God! (5/15)                                                                                                     Rick
VBS
Dear Friends who love Jesus' mission in Las Vegas,
 
My name is Pastor Bo Brink. I am retired from full time ministry, but the Lord is using me as a volunteer to help get our new Hispanic ministry/church plant off the ground.
I have some exciting news. The kick-off event for this new Hispanic ministry will be an evangelistic Vacation Bible School. 
Here is the basic information you need to know.
1. Our VBS will be held from June 13 to 17, 9 to 11:30 a.m.
2. The location will be Redeemer Lutheran Church, 1730 N. Pecos Rd., 89115.
3. 2,000 postcards will be mailed to the Hispanic families who live nearest the church, and we will hand out 500 more invitations with our volunteers.
4. We are praying that the Lord bless us with about 100 children.
5. We will be using the new material "Monumental: Celebrating God's Greatness!" from Group Ministries.
6. We will need about 40 volunteers for a successful VBS.
7. We are asking for volunteers from all of our circuit congregations in and around Las Vegas.
8. The VBS will be held in English. The volunteers don't need to know Spanish. But we are recruiting some bi-lingual volunteers.
9. After the event, we will carefully follow up on all the children and their families, inviting the children to more events for kids and the parents to small group evangelistic Bible studies.
 
If you would like to serve the Lord at our Hispanic Ministry Vacation Bible School, please go to the following link and fill out the volunteer form.
https://forms.gle/e4FBGYeX7Ribn6GU8
 
If you have questions, please contact me at 702-539-1576 or bo.brink18@gmail.com
I will be in Spain from April 6 to May 20, but I think I will be available by email and WhatsApp.
 
Thank you for prayerfully considering joining the team.
Pastor Bo Brink
 
 
 
Click Here for a prayer chain for the entire family.
Click Here for a helpful prayer checklist.
Click Here for a nature prayer walk scavenger hunt.

Praise God for all the work He is doing throughout the world during this time and always.
*Lamb of God Lutheran Church, 2791 Inca Drive, Lake Havasu City, AZ 86406
*Saint Mark Lutheran Church, 280 Mill Creek Drive, Youngstown, OH 44512
*Reinhold Schouweiller, thankful praises - continued healing and good health. 

Please also keep in prayer:
*Nichole Beckman's aunt, Stephanie, aunt is having heart surgery Thursday 5/5/22.
*Randy Doring's son, Joseph, has been diagnosed with Lymphoma, prayers for the final diagnosis to be Non-Hodgkins Lymphoma and prayers for Joseph and his family to remain strong as they go through this together.

*Debbie Simkins' brother-in-law, Paul Meadows, beginning Chemo therapy this week.



Please contact the church office if you are in need of prayer.  
"Do not be anxious about anything,
but in every situation,
by prayer and petition, with thanksgiving,
present your requests to God."
Philippians 4:6

Feel free to stop by FGS if you have an offering to give.  You may also mail your offering through the post office, TEXT MESSAGE or ONLINE!  Click Here to visit FGS' online giving page.
Faith Lutheran Robotics 

Leo Gonzales and Marcos DeLeon, are spotted on the right!


Way to go Leo! Leo's team, Tech Cerberus, was ranked 74 out of 800!!!


All youth in 7th grade and above are welcome. Click Here for an information flier.


BABY BOTTLE
for your donations are in the Narthex

HELP! First Choice Pregnancy Services Needs Ultrasonographers! We have paid and volunteer ultrasonographer positions available effective immediately. First Choice is a CHRISTIAN LIFE-AFFIRMING medical center in the heart of Las Vegas. We're believed to be the busiest pregnancy center in the nation as measured by the number of pregnancy tests, ultrasound exams provided and babies saved! All of our services are always FREE to all of the women we serve. We are looking for nurses, sonographers and radiologists of any specialty. Prior OB/GYN ultrasonography experience is NOT REQUIRED. First Choice will pay for your training! Come and serve the Lord by helping save the lives of unborn babies at-risk to abortion!
Call 702-294-CARE (2273) or visit FCPSFriends.org for more information
Psalm 96:1
Sing a new song to the LORD!
Let the whole earth sing to the LORD!


First Good Shepherd Lutheran Church
Shepherd’s Chorale

Sandra Youmans – Director sbgymusic@gmail.com
Ed Carroll - Accompanist

Campus Prayer Walk

An opportunity to cover the FunRaiser Appeal, our campus and the community in prayer!

•Saturday, May 14th or
•Sunday, May 15th

(after church)


Commitment Celebration Hawaiian Luau
May 22, 2022

Celebrating our 3 year commitment to the FunRaiser Appeal. FGS needs each one of us to reach our goal .Your participation makes a difference!

(after church)


CONGRATULATIONS 
2022 GRADUATES!!!

Join us this Sunday, May 15th for a special prayer during worship for our graduates.

Marcos De Leon, Jr.
My name is Marcos and I plan to attend Iowa State University in Ames, Iowa this fall. I intend to major in Aerospace engineering in hopes of becoming an aeronautical engineer, the ones that design aircrafts. An accomplishment that I am proud of is that I received a full ride scholarship to Iowa State for academics. Another accomplishment I am proud of is winning the state championship for robotics, as it is something I put a lot of time and effort into and it was nice to see all of that hard work pay off. Finally, I would like to say thank you to everyone at the church for all the love and support they have given me throughout my life.

Victor Edgington
Victor will be graduating from Mountain View Christian Schools. Victor will be working towards being an electrician.

Sterling Fitzgerald
In May, I will be graduating from the Advanced Technologies Academy, where I will receive the Honors College and Career Readiness Diploma. In my years at A-Tech, I have been a member and Vice President of the P7 Bible Club, the National Honor Society, a member and President of the Bridge Club, a member of science Olympiad, a member of speech and debate, and have served as a school student ambassador. I intend to pursue a professional degree in Architecture in which I have had the opportunity to study as a program area throughout my high school career. In April, my CIRT/ACE team took first place in the National Roundtable Competition, for the second consecutive year, where we won against 27 other teams from across the country! I have been blessed to receive the following scholarships: the Ace Mentoring Program of Southern Nevada Scholarship, the Construction Industry Round Table Scholarship, the Nellis Area Spouses’ Club Charitable Association Scholarship, and the Trail’s End Scholarship. In the fall I will be attending Syracuse University, GO ORANGE!

Marilyn Dey's Gradchildren:
Megumi Suzuki

UC Davis University California Davis
Graduation with a 4.0 majoring in History

Justin Sandford
UVU Utah Valley University
BA Science Aviation
Will be starting a job as a Pilot Instructor
Youth Happenings
 
Please click here to visit the youth page of the church website.
Youth news is sent via e-mail.  Click here to sign up for the youth e-mail list


YOUTH NIGHTS!
All youth are welcome. Invite friends! Click Here for more information and the RSVP sheet.
 
Please keep FGS' youth in prayer as we prepare for the National Youth Gathering.   



Family Camp Movie
Looking for a family friendly, faith-based movie? Check out Family Camp! https://familycampmovie.com/ in theaters May 13th. Brought to you by The Skit Guys. 
https://skitguys.com/
FGS Education Hour!
  • Junior High & High School; Room 110.  Join us as we finish watching the movie "Left Behind". We'll be comparing its theology with Lutheran doctrine to learn about different beliefs regarding Jesus' return.
  • Adult Bible Study; Conference Room.  Apologetics with Neil Grepke
Adult Bible Study in 2022
SUNDAY STUDY:
This week in our 9 a.m. study we will cover the topic of abortion. How can we be ministers of the Gospel through this important cultural issue, speaking the truth in love? Even if you have not been involved in the class thus far, you’re invited to join us.
 
All are invited to a new Bible study being led by Neil Grepke on Apologetics. 9am Sunday mornings in the conference room! 
Click Here for PDFs of all the study materials. 
The study will be live streamed on FGS' YouTube channel each week.

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No books are necessary. However, the study will very much align with a book called I Don't Have Enough Faith to Be an Atheist.

Wednesday Morning Bible Study

Wednesday morning Bible study is at 10:00am each week in the conference room. If you aren't able to make it in person, Click Here for a Zoom link.


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MVCS is now accepting applications for the 2022-2023 school year.
http://mvcs.net/


Click Here for MVCS' current newsletter.



Financial Grant
There are multiple families that are receiving grants to attend MVCS.  Please Click Here if you are interested in sponsoring a student.  Please contact Ray LeBoeuf if you have any questions.
Comfort Dog Ministry
 After Lois retires (in a few years), FGS is looking to continue comfort dog ministry with a new dog. Please contact Jennifer Pollock or Diana Scheck if you are interesting in serving on this ministry team. If you aren't able to volunteer, but would like to financially support the ministry, please bring your offerings to church and mark them for comfort dog ministry. 
Check out Lois' Facebook page to see all the great adventures she has had so far.
Contact the church office if you wish to schedule a visit.
Check out Lois' billboard in the narthex!
2 job positions are available at one of our fellow Lutheran Schools 
Mountain View Lutheran Church and School


 
Click Here to view the current sign up sheet. Please contact the church office to sign up for altar flowers.

Sign up to sponsor the Altar Flowers in honor of a special day.   When you sign up we appreciate a $25 donation to defray the cost of the flowers. You may place your offering for flowers into the offering plate using one of the envelopes from the pew.
Birthdays
May 13          Preslee Hill Moyer
May 14          Jean Bogner 
May 15          Diane Haag
May 17          David Kaufman
May 17          Steve Launer
May 17          Conchita Schumacher
May 18          Cindy Ward
Anniversaries

May 1        David & Melissa Kaufman
 
We thank God for all of you!
If we missed a birthday or anniversary, please let the office know!
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