Sunday, September 26 @ 8:30 AM or 10:00 AM
Sunday Morning Holy Eucharist
View 10:00 AM online: https://youtu.be/d1XS3OjmmWA

NOTE: Governor Edwards has reinstated a mask mandate for all indoor activities within business, schools, and churches. You must wear a mask at all events, including worship services, at Good Shepherd Church. Thank you.

Lectionary readings for Sunday, September 26, 2021 (Year B Proper 21)

Old Testament: Numbers11:4-6,10-17, 24-29
Psalter: Psalm 19
Epistle: Jame 4:7-12
Gospel: Mark 9:38-48

You may download a copy of the readings here:
https://bcp2019.anglicanchurch.net/wp-content/uploads/2021/08/B56-Proper-21-September-25-to-October-1.pdf

Our Hurricane Ida relief efforts continue at Good Shepherd Church. On Tuesday, we took delivery of yet another 26 foot truck filled from front to back with supplies including cleaning supplies, hygiene kits, diapers, and other necessities. We are working diligently to get these into the hands of people in our immediate community and into the hands of other ministries, especially those on the ground in St. Charles parish.

Two Ways You Can Help

Cooking
In the coming days, we will be receive two deep freezers that will then allow us to receive food to be cooked. We believe we will have a literally hundreds of pounds of chicken coming our way for those freezers. When that happens, we will need volunteers to help us cook those birds and get them distributed into the hardest hit sections west of us where houses are completely destroyed, people remain in shelters, and power still has not returned. If you feel called to help us cook, please let Fr. Randall or Fr. Jim know.

Distributing
We have been working with officials in the Emergency Operations Center of St. Charles parish. They are preparing to be able to bring in teams of volunteers from around the country to help clean up and begin rebuilding St. Charles parish. As this is being written, a team of chefs from the New Orleans area are coming together to form a coalition of cooks. At that point, Good Shepherd Church will be looking to send parishioners from our church into St. Charles parish to help distribute meals cooked by the chefs. This will be similar to our operations that we conducted in our parking lot from September 4 through September 14 with the only difference being the distributing will take place at a site in St. Charles parish. Again, if you feel called to help with this, please let Fr. Randall or Fr. Jim know.

If you will be submitting an article for the October edition of the Shepherd's Voice Newsletter, please email your article to Fr. Randall by noon on Friday, September 24, 2021.

Join us Thursday evening at 6:30 PM for our Bible study which will be held, socially distanced, in our sanctuary. Please remember, masks are required. If you'd like to listen to the study in advance, please use this link:
https://www.bemadiscipleship.com/35

Good Shepherd Church will hold a Yard Sale on Friday, September 10 and Saturday, September 11, in the church fellowship hall. Doors will open to the public at 8:00 AM and will remain open until early afternoon on both dates.

If you have donations of items for the yard sale, please bring them with you to church on Sundays. We are also in need of volunteers to help place and price items for the sale. Set up will be on Wednesday, September 8 and Thursday, September 9. For more information, please see Mel or Margaret Aucoin.

On Saturday, September 11, Good Shepherd Church in cooperation with the Blood Center of Greater New Orleans will be hosting a blood drive.

The blood mobile will be at church from 9:00 AM until 1:00 PM. Please share this information with family, friends, co-workers, and neighbors. Late summer is always a time of great need for blood and the current pandemic has made that need even more urgent.

Donors may "walk in" between 9:00 AM and 1:00 PM or may schedule an appointment to assure a particular time spot.

Appointments may be scheduled here: https://www.tbcdonors.org/donor/schedules/drive_schedule/44550

To save even more time, donors can fill out the "medial/travel" questionnaire online in advance by using this link: https://www.thebloodcenter.org/fastlane

Thank you in advance for helping make this blood drive a GREAT success!

Good Shepherd Church will hold a Yard Sale on Friday, September 10 and Saturday, September 11, in the church fellowship hall. Doors will open to the public at 8:00 AM and will remain open until early afternoon on both dates.

If you have donations of items for the yard sale, please bring them with you to church on Sundays. We are also in need of volunteers to help place and price items for the sale. Set up will be on Wednesday, September 8 and Thursday, September 9. For more information, please see Mel or Margaret Aucoin.

On September 11 we will also be hosting the Blood Bank of Greater New Orleans. They will be available at our church for folks to donate blood. This is the time of year when the blood supply becomes very low and this has been made worse by the continued rise in hospitalizations due to the pandemic. PLEASE, if YOU or someone you know can be a donor, come to church on Saturday, September 11 between 9:00 AM & Noon and give life-giving gift of blood.

If you will be submitting an article for the September edition of the Shepherd's Voice Newsletter, please email your article to Fr. Randall+ by noon on Saturday, August 21.

It's already back-to-school time and as such, this Sunday, August 8, Good Shepherd Church will offer our annual Blessing of the Book Bags at our 10:00 AM Sunday morning Holy Eucharist. We would like to invited students of all ages and grades to join us for this and receive a special blessing for the new school year!