KIRK’S LOG
Stardate: March 9, 2008
Focus Scripture –
John 11:11-23, 32-44
After
saying this, he told them, "Our friend Lazarus has fallen asleep, but I am
going there to awaken him."
The
disciples said to him, "Lord, if he has fallen asleep, he will be all
right." Jesus, however, had been speaking about his death, but they
thought that he was referring merely to sleep. Then Jesus told them plainly,
"Lazarus is dead.
For
your sake I am glad I was not there, so that you may believe. But let us go to
him." Thomas, who was called the Twin, said to his fellow disciples,
"Let us also go, that we may die with him." When Jesus arrived, he
found that Lazarus had already been in the tomb four days. Now Bethany
was near Jerusalem,
some two miles away,
and many of the
Jews had come to Martha and Mary to console them about their brother. When
Martha heard that Jesus was coming, she went and met him, while Mary stayed at
home. Martha said to Jesus, "Lord, if you had been here, my brother would
not have died. But even now I know that God will give you whatever you ask of
God."
Jesus
said to her, "Your brother will rise again."
When
Mary came where Jesus was and saw him, she knelt at his feet and said to him,
"Lord, if you had been here,
my brother would
not have died." When Jesus saw her weeping, and the Jews who came with her
also weeping,
he was greatly
disturbed in spirit and deeply moved. He said, "Where have you laid
him?" They said to him, "Lord,
come and see."
Jesus began to weep. So the Jews said, "See how he loved him!" But
some of them said,
"Could
not he who opened the eyes of the blind man have kept this man from
dying?" Then Jesus, again greatly disturbed, came to the tomb. It was a
cave, and a stone was lying against it. Jesus said, "Take away the
stone."
Martha,
the sister of the dead man, said to him, "Lord, already there is a stench
because he has been dead four days."
Jesus
said to her, "Did I not tell you that if you believed, you would see the
glory of God?" So they took away the stone.
And
Jesus looked upward and said, "God, I thank you for having heard me. I
knew that you always hear me,
but I have said
this for the sake of the crowd standing here, so that they may believe that you
sent me."
When
he had said this, he cried with a loud voice, "Lazarus, come out!"
The dead man came out, his hands and feet
bound
with strips of cloth, and his face wrapped in a cloth. Jesus said to them,
"Unbind him, and let him go."
Minister: The Rev. Dr. Sue Gallagher Usher/Greeter Team: 8:30
– Pamela & Erik Giberti
Guest Preacher: Marilyn Levine 10:30 – John Davis, Jon & Karla Mitovich
Lay Reader: Bob Rosenak Judy Gilman, Ann Travelstead
Music: Marilyn Levine, Director Hospitality:
Christa Manning
Kate Sauer, organ; Dorenda
Morse, piano Lock Up: John Davis
Adult Ed: Floyd Coppage, Richard Mitchell
Those for Whom We Pray
Our members: Nancy Eberhardt, 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: 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 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.
Church Meetings for the Week of March 9-16, 2008
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.
Palm Sunday, Mar. 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, 6:30 PM
“Troubled Waters”
A commemoration of the Last Supper & story of the last
days of Jesus’ life. Communion
will be served in silence.
Good Friday – March 21, 12 noon
Worship at St. Paul’s UCC,
2701 The American Rd. SE, Rio Rancho.
Easter Sunday, March 23 – “Calm Waters”
Bring your “change
for a change”.
Worship services
at 8:30 a.m. and 10:30 a.m.
Breakfast served
from 9:15
– 10:15 a.m.
The two worship services
EASTER Sunday will be identical. Think
about coming at 8:30
and being first in line for EASTER
breakfast!
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.
Thank
you from Ann Meierkord – I would
like to thank everyone at COGS for your prayers and concerns for my friend,
Linda Coen, who passed away February 18.
– Ann Meierkord
Remember Project Share,
Sunday, March 30 –
Bring your stuff! Check the sign-up board to see what we
need. Thank you for the generous gift of your time and resources! – COGS Community Service
Program
New
Members and Inquirers Class
New
members will be received Easter Sunday, March 23. If you feel ready to join this family of
faith, please contact Pastor Sue. The
Inquirers Class for people interested in learning more about Church of the Good
Shepherd will be next Sunday, March 16, 11:30 a.m., in the parlor.
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.
Would you like to be part of
a Ministry? – Here is your chance to volunteer for
one of the five ministries we offer. The five ministries are:
Worship, Administration, Hospitality, Justice and Community Interface, and
Faith Development. When you are called upon to help,
please consider a big YES, as we need many hands and hearts to make
these ministries effective and viable for COGS.
Forever Young – will meet this
Tuesday, March 11, at
11 a.m.
in Fellowship Hall. The program will consist of a presentation by Natalie &
Gene Johnson about their experiences as medical missionaries in Zimbabwe.
Lunch will be potluck. Bring something to share. Everyone is welcome.
“Journey to Sacred Places in New Mexico” outing
– has been planned for 2 weekends in
April. April 19 will be a trip to Chaco Canyon. April 25 & 26 will be a visit to the Sanctuario de Chimayo and the Pecos Monument,
and to spend the night and part of the next day at the Pecos Benedictine
Monastery. You are also invited to join
the group at 5 p.m. on April 27 to
visit, learn about, and meditate at the Buddhist Temple of New Mexico, at 320 Louisiana Blvd. SE. See poster in the hallway for details. – Shirlee Coppage,
281-0998
Floyd Coppage's Contemporary
Religious Study Class – has just begun a
new book, A New Christianity for a New World, by Bishop John Shelby Spong. Books are available at all the major
bookstores.