Greetings!
REGULAR SCHEDULE
Divine Service is Sunday at 10:00 AM.
Sunday School is on Sunday at 9:00 AM.
Adult Bible Class is on Sunday at 9:00 AM.
CALENDAR: For a calendar of events and meetings, click here.
INTRODUCTION VIDEO FOR GOOD SHEPHERD LUTHERAN CHURCH
Here is a video to introduce people to Good Shepherd Lutheran Church of Novi. Share it as much as you can.
MID-WEEK ADVENT VESPERSTo prepare our hearts for Christmas, we offer additional services in the Advent season. Our Advent Vespers (a prayer service) will be conducted on the Wednesdays in December leading up to Christmas. We will serve a supper at 6:00 PM. Vespers will be at 7:00 PM. The schedule for topics and preachers can be found here.
Good Shepherd will be purchasing poinsettias to be displayed during the Christmas season. You are welcome to purchase any of these and take them home following the Christmas Eve or Christmas Day service. In order to be sure that we have purchased enough poinsettias to allow people to take them home and still have some left for the altar, please indicate which kind and how many you would like to purchase. All poinsettias will be red. They will be $4.99 for a 4” pot and $14.99 for a 6” pot. Checks may be payable to Good Shepherd. If you opt for cash, please indicate who you are and what the cash offering is for.
CHRISTMAS SERVICES
Christmas Eve Candlelight Service – December 24 at 7:00 PM.
Christmas Day Festival Service – December 25 at 10:00 AM.
Please invite family and friends to join us for these services. Then keep inviting them to join us for services in the new year!
BIBLE INFORMATION CLASS
We will be starting up a new Bible Information Class in the new year. The classes will be on Mondays from 7:00-8:30 PM. The start date will be Monday, January 13. A schedule will be released soon. For now, think about whom you might invite to this class and attend it with them. There is no cost. For more information please speak to Pastor Schroeder.
> We are looking into updating the kitchen at the church. Several ideas have been proposed for what will best suit our purposes. If you have any ideas to enhancements to our kitchen, please speak to Bob Wozniak. All suggestions will be received, but we may not be able to achieve all of them.
> A proposal was made to renovate the kitchen in the parsonage. This is a much larger project and would not happen until late in 2025.
> We will be getting postcards printed to give out as invitations to our Christmas services. In order to make these postcards worth the cost and effort, it will be up to our members to distribute them as invitations to friends and family. You may also want to invite friends and family to a new Bible Information Class which will begin in January 2025. Start date still TBD.
> We passed a budget for the 2025 year. If you would like to receive a copy of the budget, please contact Dan LeFevre.
> Elected to Church Council offices are the following – Ken Reisig, president; Tom Brisbey and Ron Rose, elders; David Kirvan, treasurer; Matt Crenshaw, evangelism committee chairman; Philip Schroeder, stewardship committee chairman. Each of these men will serve a two-year term, beginning on January 1, 2025.
We will always have services as scheduled at Good Shepherd. Since I live across the parking lot, I can get to the church no matter how bad the weather gets. Even if the service is just me and my family, we will be here. For everyone else, please use your God-given common sense to determine whether or not you will get on the road to attend any service when the weather is bad. We don't want anyone to risk his or her life to be here. But if you do venture out, the scheduled service will take place. It may be only a handful with a cappella singing and/or spoken liturgy, but we will be here.
Bible Classes and meetings may be canceled due to weather. Check your email regarding announcements to see if any of those scheduled events are canceled. If there is no email about it, it is not canceled. But again, use common sense to determine if you can make it, and call the pastor to let him know if you will not be coming.
The made. known. website was introduced at the WELS Youth Rally earlier this summer. madeknown.net is dedicated to “walking with you in faith through identity, gender, and sexuality.” It does this through a growing library of written resources and connection to personal support.
We pray madeknown.net can be a resource to you as you embrace Christ’s enduring message of grace and forgiveness for yourself and your loved ones.
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In Christ,
Pastor Schroeder
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DIVINE SERVICES are on Sundays at 10:00 AM.
Sunday School -- Sundays at 9:00 AM.
Adult Bible Class -- Sundays at 9:00 AM.
Bible Matters will resume on Wednesday, January 8, 2025 -- 6:30 PM.
GOOD SHEPHERD’S WEBSITE
www.GoodShepherdNovi.org
PASTOR SCHROEDER’S BLOG
www.LutheranSubject.blogspot.com
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