First Good Shepherd Newsletter

First Good Shepherd Lutheran Church Statistics
Worship Attendance:

Saturday - 35; Sunday - 103; Total - 138; 2021 Avg. - 123

Worship is also posted online.
Feel free to share FGS' YouTube channel
with your neighbors.

Stewardship Life Report

(Received for November 2021)

November 7th:

Church: $7,651.00
MVCS Lease Pmt: $9,000.00
TOTAL: $16,651.00

Month Total: $16,651.00

Budgeted Expense for One Week: $8,155.16
Budgeted Expense for One Month: $35,339.00

Thanksgiving Worship

Join us Wednesday evening at 6:30pm for Thanksgiving worship.
November 24, 2021

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An Evangelism Thought...
“Let us hold unswervingly to the hope we profess, for He who promised is faithful.” Hebrews 10:23
We can be confident in our salvation, because it does not depend on us and what we do – it depends entirely on Jesus and what He had done for us!

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.
*San Pedro y San Pablo Lutheran Church in Bell Gardens, CA
*Good Shepherd Lutheran Church in Des Plaines, IL

Please also keep in prayer:
*Al Bianco, prayers for Robin, Emily & Richard.
*Wayne Dibos, in the medium ICU at Mt. View Hospital with an infection in his abdomen and low blood pressure.
*Carolyn Gaugert, prayers for God’s continued strength and healing during Cancer treatment
*Kathy Goebel, biopsy.
*Jo Etta Hill, surgery on November 17th for a biopsy and possible mass removal.
*Family & friends of Warren Jamar, Joe Woods' landlord, who was called home to be with Jesus.
*Family & friends of Cynthia Miller, Alyssa Mau's foster cousin, who was called home to be with Jesus on November 2nd.
*Tre Navrkal & Sarah Ginsburg, tested positive for covid.
*Ivan & Janet Peterson, Jon Peterson's uncle & aunt, contracted covid. Janet is in the hospital.
*Rita Schied, healing for dementia & aggressive cancer.
*John Steiner, hip replacement surgery November 10th

"Do not be anxious about anything,

but in every situation,
by prayer and petition, with thanksgiving,
present your requests to God."
Philippians 4:6

Please contact the church office if you are in need of prayer.

Sign up to sponsor the Altar Flowers in honor or memory of a special day. When you sign up we appreciate a $25 donation to defray the cost of the flowers. Any donations above the cost of the flowers go to the youth. You may place your offering for flowers into the offering plate using one of the envelopes from the pew.

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

Birthdays this week

Nov 14 Richard King
Nov 15 Autumn Youmans
Nov 16 McKenzie Holmes
Nov 16 Kasandra Perez
Nov 20 Michael Miller

We thank God for all of you!

If we missed a birthday or anniversary, please let the office know!

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.

National Youth Gathering

All youth who will be going into 9th grade in the fall of 2022 (current 8th graders) through this year's graduating seniors. Click Here if you missed the information meeting. We recorded it on Zoom.

Young Adult Volunteers (ages 19-25), Click Here for registration information.

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MVCS is now accepting applications for the 2021-22 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.

Chronological One Year Bible in the conference room during the Bible study hour. Click Here for the downloadable study sheets. There are also other resources available for download: maps, visuals, charts, Bible basics. Click Here for a direct link to the weekly study guides.

ZOOM

The conference room is set up for Zoom. Click Here to join Bible study via Zoom if you are unable to join in person.

Adult Bible Study in 2022

All are invited to a new Bible study being led by Neil Grepke on Apologetics. Join us in January, 2022!
This study will be available on Zoom as well each week.