JULY BIRTHDAYS

4 David Lund 5 Theresa Babineaux

7 Brooklyn Clark 12 Vicki Woodcroft 13 Joseph Rougeau 15 Nathan Buysse 15 Ethan Corkran 18 Gary Buchanan 18 Don Hightower

18 Carl Owen 19 Ed Edwards

19 Kurt Moerbe 19 Dorothy Schmidt

24 Pat Belcher 26 Mike Rahja

27 Pat Thibodeaux 30 Margie Matlock

For through wisdom your days will be many,

and years will be added to your life.

(Pr. 9:11)

GOOD SHEPHERD LUTHERAN CHURCH

Rev. Paul Zoch

945 W Roundbunch Rd Bridge City, TX 77611

Phone: 409-735-4573 Cell Phone: 409-988-3003

E-MAIL: goodshepherdoctx@gmail.com

WEBSITE: www.golutheran.org

FACEBOOK: Good Shepherd Lutheran Church

OUR MISSION

A caring Christian family following Christ,

the GOOD SHEPHERD, where we:

SHARE God’s Love! GROW our faith!

and SERVE others!

TAKE HOME ANNOUNCEMENTS

FOR THE WEEK OF

JULY 29— AUGUST 5, 2018

Tenth Sunday after Pentecost

July 29, 2018

Today is the first of five Sundays with gospel readings from John 6, the first four of which focus on Jesus as bread of life. Today Jesus feeds thousands of people with five loaves and two fish. What we have,

what we bring to Jesus’ table, seems like it is not nearly enough to meet all the needs we see around us. But it is not the adequacy of our supplies or our skills that finally makes the difference: it is the power of Jesus working in the littlest and least to transform this world into the world God desires, a world where all

the hungry are satisfied .

The Chancel Flowers for the month of July are donated by Nancy Meek in celebration of the birthdays of her four grandchildren and in gratitude to GOD for his many blessings.

July 22, 2018

First Worship Service Attendance: 32 Offering: $1080.00

Second Worship Service

Attendance: 27 Offering: $790.00 Online Offering: $0.00

TODAY

Traditional Worship — 9:00 am

Fellowship —10:00 am

Sunday School —10:15 am Children/Youth Sunday School—10:15 am

Contemporary Worship—11:00 am

Baptism

MONDAY JULY 30

Compassionate Friends—6:00 pm

TUESDAY JULY 31

Bible Study -10:00 am

WEDNESDAY AUGUST 1

Compassionate Friends—10:00 am

THURSDAY AUGUST 2

Bible Study—10:00 am

FRIDAY AUGUST 3

SEEK & FIND Resale—1:00 pm - 4:00 pm

Fantastic Fridays— 5:00 pm

SATURDAY AUGUST 4

SEEK & FIND Resale—7:30 am-12:30 pm

Back to School LSCO—9:00 am

SUNDAY AUGUST 5

Traditional Worship—9:00 am

Fellowship —10:00 am

Sunday School—10:15 am Children/Youth Sunday School—10:15 am

Contemporary Worship—11:00 am

Beaumont Worship— 3:00 pm (NEW)

FRIDAY AUGUST 10

Nutrition Center, Beaumont —10:30 am

W e h a v e d i s c o n t i n u e d t h e

Compassionate Friends meetings on Monday evenings starting in August. Come join us on Wednesdays at 10 am.

This CHANGES Everything!

“For by grace you have been saved

through faith, and this is not your own do-

ing; it is the gift of God.” - Ephesians 2:8

This simple verse changed everything for Martin Luther and forms the basis for how we Lutherans look at God’s saving work. God’s gifts are all around and the opportunities of the ministry of love are

ever present. Our Sack Lunch Ministry is one of those acts of love for our community.

Over the last two months, we have seen a greater need and so in August we will assemble 60 bags. AND WE NEED YOUR HELP TO DO THIS! Donations are needed of fruit cups, individual bags of chips,

cans of soda, snack items, cheese, lunch meat, and bread. Some of the items you

are invited to bring any time during the month and others the week of. Donations of money will help, too. We also are in

need of help assembling and handing out. Let Pastor Paul know if you can help in anyway. Thank you.

Where do we find moments to share God’s

love? At the end of July’s handing out of sack lunches, a woman from the group that had gather noticed an old stationary bike in the back of my truck. This was a donation for the Thrift Shop; it was old

and I thought no one would want this. I gave her the bike, delivering it to her home in the surrounding neighbor and you should have seen the joy on her face and the expression of gratitude.

Look for those moments to be God’s love!

“Cheap grace is our church’s deadly enemy … Costly grace is the gospel which must be sought again and again …. Such

grace is costly because it costs one’s life; it is grace because it cost God his Son’s life … Above all, it is grace because God did not reckon his Son to be too dear a price to pay for our life.”

Dietrich Bonhoffer

MUSIC ACADEMY

Our Pinnacle Music Academy is off to a good start. We are offering private music lessons for Piano, Vocal, Guitar, Drums, Bass, Trumpet and more! David Gonzales is leading this new joint venture. We have a number of students that come in each week for vocal, piano and guitar lessons.

This is very exciting!

For more information visit

www.PinnacleMusicAcademy.com .

REFRESHMENTS

Please remember that each week we

need a volunteer to bring refresh-ments for the fellowship time after the first service on Sunday. There is a sign up sheet in the Narthex and we appreciate your help in making sure that there is something good to eat as we do a little bit of socializing be-fore our Sunday School class. Thank you.

MONTHLY SERVICE PROJECT

Our monthly service project for July is Christmas Toys in July. We will be collecting toys this month to give to the BCOF Ministerial Alliance, who

will in turn give to needy children at Christmas. Please bring your new toys, so we can bring smiles to children in our area.

PRAYERS ARE

UPLIFTED FOR:

John & Martha Akers,

Marilyn Bennett,

Nancy Carlson,

Judy Colebrook,

Anita Fox,

Eddie Fox,

Flo Gilbert,

Charlie Hall,

Iris Hughes,

Nora Klier,

Beverly LeBlanc,

Margie Matlock,

Nancy Meek,

Susan Neil,

Mike Rahja,

Douglas Rathgaber,

Clint Smith,

Buddy Stelter,

Beverley Swink,

Pat Thibodeaux,

Grace Walhood.

SOME OTHER PLACE VOLUNTEERS

Lunch is served at Some Other Place in Beaumont on Friday, August 10 from 10:30 am to 12:30 pm. If you are interested is helping, please let Pastor Paul know.

The Lord looked down from heaven upon the children of men, to see if there

were any that did understand, and

seek God.

(Ps. 14:2)

DARING STEWARDS

We are a church that shares a living, daring confidence in God’s grace — our church family is an evangelical mission center where courageous and wise stewards are grown. Congregational stewardship begins with a healthy understanding of gratitude and generosity. We have first received and therefore we give.

Therefore, developing a culture of gratitude and generosity is the focus for growing stewards in our congregation. Through the study of Scripture, we develop a trust in God’s abundance and strive to be faithful disciples and stewards. Thus, the formation of generous stewards is a lifelong journey, and one in which we accompany each other.

Relationship with God

Our practice of stewardship can begin by looking at how God has come down to us in love. Stewardship begins with God and how God has shown love for us. We are first receivers. We belong to God and all that we have belongs to God. Out of this receiving, we are freed in Christ to love, give and serve.

God comes down to us through creation. Stewardship begins at creation when God gave humanity dominion over all that God had made. God entrusted all of creation to our care — living creatures, plants, land, water and all that is. God has called us to care, nurture and preserve creation for future generations. How might we honor and care for God’s creation?

God calls us to be stewards through our baptism. In baptism we are

Con’t. claimed as God’s children and receive God’s grace. As stewards, we live out our callings as children of

God by sharing God’s grace with the world. How might we share God’s grace in our everyday lives? We are the church that shares a living, daring confidence in God’s grace. For us as the ELCA, this faith comes through the good news of Jesus Christ and gives us the freedom and the courage to wonder, discover and boldly participate in what God is up to in the world. God comes down to us through the gospel. God so loved the world that God gave us Jesus. The gospel story is alive in us and written on our hearts. We are stewards of God’s good news. How might we share God’s story with our neighbors through our actions and words?

“Expect great things from God! Attempt great things for God!!!”

William Carey

SOME OTHER PLACE

Tuesday August 21 is the day for the Some Other Place Tasting. It is held in Beaumont from 5:00 pm to 7:00 pm. Please see Nancy Meeks for tickets to this fun and worthy cause. A $10 ticket gets you inside the cool confines of the Beaumont Civic Center where you can taste

bite-sized samples from more than 50 food vendors, restaurants, local businesses and churches.