KIRK’S LOG
Stardate: February 24, 2008
Focus Scripture –
John
4:5-12
So he came to a Samaritan city called Sychar, near the plot of ground that Jacob had given to his
son Joseph.
Jacob's well was there, and Jesus, tired
out by his journey, was sitting by the well. It was about noon.
A Samaritan woman came to draw water, and
Jesus said to her, “Give me a drink”. (His disciple
had gone to the city to buy food.) The
Samaritan woman said to him, “How is it that you, a Jew,
ask a drink of me, a woman of Samaria?” (Jews do not share things in common
with Samaritans.)
Jesus answered her, “If you knew the gift
of God, and who it is that is saying to you, ‘Give me a drink’,
you would have asked him, and he would have
given you living water.” The woman said to him,
“Sir, you have no bucket, and the well is deep. Where do you get that living water? Are you greater
than our ancestor Jacob, who gave us the
well, and with his sons and his flocks drank from it?”
Minister: The Rev. Dr. Sue Gallagher Usher/Greeter
Team: 8:30 –
April
Mitchell & Nadine Walther
Lay Reader: Roger
Hailstone 10:30 – Cyndi Brown, Bruce & Carol St John,
Music: Marilyn
Levine, Director Richard
Mitchell & Ruth Randall
Kate
Sauer, organ; Dorenda Morse, piano Hospitality: Kevin
Blackerby
Adult Ed: Floyd
Coppage, Richard Mitchell Lock Up: Gene Johnson
Those for Whom We Pray
Our members: Nancy Eberhardt, Charles Hill, Robert
Huffman, John Jenne, Anis Johnson, and Jeri Smith;
Our homebound members and friends:
Fran Doty (Amy Homicz’s mother) and Fred Luft (Bobbi Luft’s husband);
Our extended family: Linda Coen (friend of Ann Meierkord), Mary Jo
Colegrove (Dorenda Morse's mother), Geneva Davis (Diane Fleming’s mother),
Michelle Feng (Patrick Xavier's cousin), Edgar
Gerhardt (Hillard Gerhardt’s brother), Madeline Katribe Hanna (Linc
Nagle’s former spouse’s mother and grandmother of his two daughters), Roger Hogeboom (Don & Barbara Mitchell’s nephew), Andy
Hurst (Linc Nagle’s cousin) in Iraq, Julia Martinez (Mercy Martinez-Nunnally’s mother), Anna Belle Mohr (wife
of our founding pastor Paul Mohr), Addison Montgomery (Linc Nagle’s daughter and
granddaughter), Justin Zel Montgomery (Linc Nagle’s
son-in-law, serving in the Police Department), Amy Mueller (daughter of Susan Olson-Phillips & Det Phillips),
and Donald
Peterson (Shirley Puariea’s friend), for others for whom we have been
praying, and for those whose names are known by you and God.
Announcements
Lent 2008
“Water”
What do Lent and Water have in common? We tend to take them both for granted! Join
us for a season of exploring the simple things in life this Lenten Season.
Sunday, February 24 – Lent 3: “Deep Waters”
Sunday, March 2 – Lent 4: “Muddy Waters”
Sunday, March 9 – Lent 5:
“Binding Waters”
Palm Sunday, March 16 – “Brooding Waters”
Holy Week
We will read The Last Week,
by Marcus Borg and John Dominic Crossan.
Each day we will take a chapter.
Maundy Thursday, March 20
“Troubled
Waters”
Easter Sunday, March 23 – “Calm Waters”
Our effort
at living the WORD in Lent will be to help an underdeveloped community build a
WELL
so that they may have living water!
Come join
our effort to make a difference.
Lent activities on COGS website – The full list of activities for Lent, with dates and times are now listed at http://www.goodshepherdunitedchurch.com. Look under
"Upcoming Events" on the home page and click on "Lent 2008" or go there directly:
http://www.goodshepherdunitedchurch.com/Lent2008.html.
Next New Orleans meeting – will be TODAY, following the second
service. We will be going over plans. Thank you. – Cindy Hutchinson
Scout Troop #220 is needing
some boys who are looking for a great scout program – Are you one of them? Come by for a visit/chat with a leader, meet
some of the scouts, and see what Troop #220 has to offer. Meetings are held at COGS on Monday night at 7 p.m. Call Bill Filter,
Scoutmaster, at 823-1232.
New Mexico Coalition Against
Domestic Violence –
For help, call 246-9240.
State Hotline: 1-800-773-3645; National Hotline: 1-800-799-7233;
Statewide Legal Resources Hotline: 1-877-974-3400. Services are FREE and confidential.
New
Member Service
INTRODUCTION OF NEW MEMBERS
QUESTIONS OF THE CONGREGATION:
One: We
who are the members of the Church of the Good Shepherd are committed to
building up the body of Christ, which is the church.
All: We remember
Paul’s words to the church at Corinth:
One: There are many
different gifts, but always the same Spirit.
All: There are many
different ways of serving, but always the same Lord.
One: There are many different forms of activity, but in everybody it
is the same God who is at work in them all.
All: We each have a
part to play and a contribution to make to the common good.
One: Each of us has
been given unique gifts: some have the gift of teaching,
All: Some of
administration, some of music, some of caregiving, some of outreach,
One: Some of
discernment, some of prophecy, some of evangelism,
All: Some of prayer
and worship, and some of the stewardship of resources.
One: Let us welcome
one another’s gifts joyfully,
All: Help carry one
another’s burdens with compassion,
One: Pray for one
another with open hearts,
All: Deal with our
conflicts in a healthy and straightforward manner,
One: Keep
communication open, honest, and gentle,
All: And work for
the common good of God’s people.
One: Let us
celebrate our diversity and quiet our temptations toward divisiveness.
All: Let us affirm
our mutual purpose to be the Body of Christ and treat one another with the
respect, understanding, acceptance, and affirmation that are the birthright of
every child of God.
NEW MEMBER RESPONSES
UNISON PRAYER
O God of Hospitality, we praise you for the opportunity to
welcome new members among us today.
We thank you for their life stories, their faith journeys, their diversity of gifts.
May we who have been here a while be zealous in our
willingness to listen and to learn.
Make us open to revised visions and new perspectives, we
pray.
Help
us to provide a nurturing environment for these new friends
as we invite them into our church and into our lives.
Enable us to take time for one another as we establish a
shared faith and a common history.
Bless us all, O God, as we worship together and seek to be
your servants in a needy world.
Amen.
HYMN OF WELCOME AND RIGHT HAND OF FRIENDSHIP
“I
Am One Voice”
(Solo) I am one voice
and I am singing, I am one voice and I am singing,
I am one voice and I am singing; I am not alone.
(Two voices)
We are two voices, we are singing… we are not alone.
(Congregation rise and join in singing) We are God’s people, we are singing… we are not alone.
This
is our story, we’ll keep singing… we are not alone.
Church Meetings for the Week of February 24 to March 2, 2008
All
morning Coffee
9:00
a.m. Children’s
Education Time
9:15
a.m. Adult
Education Time
10:30 a.m. Worship – new members received
Monday: 7:00
p.m. ALL-TEAM
Night
Wednesday: 6:00 p.m. ContemPLAYtion Band
7:00
p.m. Building
Committee meeting
Thursday: 3:00
p.m. Study
of Spirituality Group
All
morning Coffee
9:00
a.m. Children’s
Education Time
9:15
a.m. Adult
Education Time
10:30 a.m. Worship – Communion
11:30 a.m. Listening Post
6:00 p.m. CHI-RO Youth –
until 8
p.m.
