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[Occasionally, place holders will appear below for future items which will become available closer to the specified date.]

The Staff Kirk's Log Sunday Bulletin

February 2012 February 26, 2012 February 26, 2012

February 19, 2012 February 19, 2012

February 12, 2012 February 12, 2012

February 05, 2012 February 05, 2012
January 2012 January 29, 2012 January 29, 2012

January 22, 2012 January 22, 2012

January 15, 2012 January 15, 2012

January 08, 2012 January 08, 2012

January 01, 2012 January 01, 2012
 
December 2011 December 25 2011 December 25 2011

Christmas Eve Bulletin December 24 2011

December 18 2011 December 18 2011

December 11 2011 December 11 2011

December 04 2011 December 04 2011
 

EVENTS SECTION

Church of the Good Shepherd is a fun and friendly congregation with lots of activies for everyone.
You can view photos of past activities here. Please contact us if you have any great photos of church activities
that you want to share.

A Policy regarding photographs of children on the website
was approved by the Church Council on August 9, 2009

Permission of a child's parent or guardian is required before a photograph of said child (under age 18) may be posted on the COGS website.     Details of Policy     Permission form (pdf file)  or   (doc file)

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List of Topics
Photos for 2012 - Album covers (links)
Music year-end Party - December 29, 2011
Christmas eve services - December 24, 2011
Last of the Dinners for Ten in 2011 - December 17, 2011
Forever Young Christmas party - December 13, 2011
Bach cantata is performed by Chancel Choir accompanied by an instrumental ensemble - December 11, 2011
Decorating the Sanctuary for Advent - November 25, 2011
New Members join COGS - November 20, 2011
Annnual Thanksgiving dinner at COGS - November 20, 2011
Children's Musical - Fast Forward through the Old Testament - November 6, 2011
Forever Young - tours the Tamarind Institute - November 4, 2011
Family Promise returns to COGS - October 30 - November 6, 2011
COGS Crop Walkers - October 23, 2011
An October Sunday at COGS - October 16, 2011
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Music year-end Party - December 29, 2011
Many of the COGS music programs have weekly practices on Thursday nights during the year - but Thursday night December 29 was different - we gathered at the Gilmour home for an end-of-year potluck and fellowship as shown in the accompanying photos.
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Christmas eve services - December 24, 2011
On Christmas eve, COGS held two worship services, one at 4 pm and one at 7 pm. The photos below are from parts of both services. The first service ended with a perfectly timed red sunset glow enveloping the Sandia mountains as we sang Silent Night by candlelight. Luminaria welcomed those coming to the later service. There was lots of music - by the Bell Choir, Good Shepherd Singers, Chancel Choir - interspersed with readings from the New Testament read by members of COGS.
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Last of the Dinners for Ten in 2011 - December 17, 2011
During 2011, various groups of ten met over a potluck at member's homes. The last such dinner was held on December 17, 2011.
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Forever Young Christmas Party - December 13, 2011
Each Christmas season, the Forever Young group (age 50 and up) holds a gift exchange and potluck at one of the member's home. This year we had to switch venues at the last minute because our host had a fall and ended up in the hospital. But we soldiered on and had a great time - good food and fun to open a gift and have the person with a higher number take it away - boo hoo! Enjoy the fun below with the photos.
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Bach cantata performed by Chancel Choir accompanied by a instrumental ensemble - December 11, 2011
The Chancel Choir performed the Bach cantata Unto us, a child is born in German. They were accompanied by an instrumental ensemble.
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Decorating the Sanctuary for Advent - November 25, 2011
This year we have a new Christmas tree and new decorations for the Sanctuary. Here we show members putting up the decorations. [This was taken from an article in the December Staff.
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New Members join COGS - November 20, 2011
Five new members join the Church of the Good Shepherd on the day that we had our annual Thanksgiving celebration.
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Annual Thanksgiving dinner at COGS - November 20, 2011
A complete Thanks-giving dinner is an annual tradition at COGS - when we give thanks to all who pledged to the church, for our new members who are joining the church, and for all our blessings. We had a full house of at least 100 people which included members, extended family, neighbors and friends. As you can see, there was plenty of good food to be had. At the end of the meal, we had a chance to make crismons, Christmas tree ornaments.
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Children's Musical - The Old Testament Fast Forward - November 6, 2011
This musical was a superb presentation by the Children's Choir led by Linda Gilmour. The children memorized both their lines and the songs. They spoke clearly so we all understood. There were many humorous lines in the musical which had the congregation laughing. A job well done!
Do you recognize Adam? How about Noah's Ark in front of the animals? Abraham and Sarah? Jacob and the many colored coat?
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Forever Young tours the Tamarind Institute 2011
On Friday November 4 Forever Young had a tour of the Tamarind Institute, a state-of-the-art lithographer known throughout the world for the high quality of their fine art prints. The artist draws one color of his work on a specially treated limestone plate from which prints are made. This process is repeated for each color carefully aligning each printing. A fascinating and exacting process.
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Family Promise returns to COGS - October 30 - November 6, 2011
Three families with 9 children between them arrived on Sunday October 30th to spend a week at COGS. The youngest child was a 6 week-old baby girl who made a real hit with all of us. More photos added December 2.
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COGS folks participate in Crop Walk - October 23, 2011
We wanted to update you on the Crop Walk. We had 20 walkers (some didn’t make it to the photo shoot.) We raised over $4,000.00! We are so proud of COGS. A special “thank you” to John Palmer for taking the photo.
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Sunday morning at COGS - October 16, 2011
The Fall Sunday routine has resumed at COGS. Photos capture the Children's breakfast club, an adult education class, the Men's Ensemble singing in Japanese!, Pastor Bill delivering the children's sermon and then the regular sermon, and finally Pastor Bill greeting worshipers as they leave the sanctuary.
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