This article is the first in a series presented by the 2011 Stewardship Committee. If you are interested in submitting an article for the series, please contact Father Matt, we’d love to print your submission! This month we continue the series with a note from Diane Buschel:
“Jesus loves me, this I know, for the Bible tells me so….” Remember that song? The moment I step into the Church of the Good Shepherd, I experience that feeling of love and belonging which we all need. We show that love by our outreach programs such as Carpenter’s Kids, Shoeboxes for Kids and many other ways. We reach out to each other in times of trouble and lend a hand when needed. The camaraderie is fantastic and everyone is very supportive of you whatever you might be going through. I look forward to Sunday mornings and any other opportunity to get together with our church family and friends.
Another reason I love Good Shepherd is that I have such fond memories of my three children in church. They served as acolytes of the church, they were part of the Christmas pageants and attended Sunday School classes. I derived a great deal of pleasure and have great memories years of teaching Sunday School and watching children become excited as they learned about God. In addition, all three of my own children were baptized at our church. I also had the pleasure of seeing my two grandchildren baptized in the Church of the Good Shepherd. (My granddaughter, Callie, was just baptized at the end of September!).
I also love the music which is very moving and warms my heart. I’ll never forget one Christmas Eve Midnight service and the pews were filled to capacity. I sang with the choir and the music just resounded through the church and filled my heart with joy! I also got that feeling when we installed Fr. Matt when the choir pews filled with clergy and we sang opposite them. Again, the church was filled with joyous music ~ what an awesome feeling!
So I know that “Jesus loves me” as he led me to the Church of the Good Shepherd and this wonderful church family of ours. I hope I can spread the word of this awesome feeling to many generations to come!
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