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Good Shepherd Lutheran Church, ELCA
What Good News do you have to proclaim? Where and how can you share it in your life? Join us this Sunday, June 14, for worship at 9 AM. Time for conversation and community follows each worship service and we continue our Environmental Ethics study at 10:15 with "An Intrinsic Goodness Ethic". All are welcome in worship, in study, for coffee and conversation, at communion - any time. See you in church! #elca #champaignurbana #SavoyIL
Good Shepherd Lutheran Church, ELCA
Have you ever needed to just breathe? To simply sit in nature, in the sun, under a tree, or even in a favorite comfy spot and do nothing – nothing at all but sit. And breathe. We all need that. Sometimes more than others.
Summer can be a quieter time in our lives, allowing us more time and space to just breathe. It can also be a time filled with plans and new routines as kids are out of school and schedules have changed.
Whether summer is busy or relaxing for you, whether this general season of your life is frantic or lonely, strange or familiar, filled with challenges or filled with peace, God invites us to enter God’s presence and rest. To come with our burdens, to lay them down, and to receive rest for our spirits, our bodies, our souls.
I invite you to join me on Sunday, June 28th at 7 PM for a quiet time with God. A time to breathe. To breathe in God’s presence. To hear the Word and pray together. To relax in the shade of a tree, give our burdens to God and to find rest together. We’re planning to gather once a month over the next little while – just to Breathe. In God’s presence together. Join us. and find space to (breathe). Peace be with you. #elca #champaignurbana #SavoyIL
Good Shepherd Lutheran Church, ELCA
Please join us after worship on Father's Day (Sunday, June 21st) to celebrate our dads and enjoy lemonade, lawn games and fellowship! #champaignurbana #savoyillinois #elca
Good Shepherd Lutheran Church, ELCA
ELCA SUMUD
Sumud, an Arabic word for “steadfastness” is used by Palestinian theologians to describe nonviolent resistance to occupation through advocacy, education, social work, and faith-rooted presence. Sumud is the ELCA’s programmatic response to occupation and injustice in Palestine and Israel. Freed by the transformative life of Christ, the ELCA is committed to accompaniment, advocacy, and awareness-raising with Palestinian partners in the Evangelical Lutheran Church in Jordan and the Holy Land (ELCJHL), the only Lutheran church in the Middle East, whose ministries in education, health care, justice, and leadership are vital to Palestinian society.
Just this week, we learned of the arrest and imprisonment of Natalie Abudayyeh. Natalie comes from a Lutheran family and is a member of the ELCJHL Youth. She is a graduate of Talitha Kumi school in Beit Jala, and a very active member of her church. She played on the National Soccer team for Palestine and recently began studies as a journalism student at Birzeit University. She, along with four other Palestinian young adults, was arrested by the Israeli Defense Force (IDF). Imprisonment without charges is common in Palestine, with over 9,000 Palestinians held in Israeli prisons.
The ELCA Sumud network is advocating for her safety and prompt release. You can help advocate for her and for justice in Palestine by signing up for ELCA Action Alerts and receiving newsletters about Sumud for Justice in Palestine and Israel.
Through the ELCA Bishops, ELCA Sumud has a network of twenty synods with Sumud Ambassadors, who serve as leaders and liaisons in their synods. GSLC member, Al Mytty is the Sumud Ambassador for the Central/Southern Illinois Synod.
We are all Sumud, accompanying our Palestinian partners and following their lead as we bear witness to the truth that only when justice prevails can there be lasting peace for all Palestinians and Israelis. Please join this call for justice and advocacy.
Sources:
www.elca.org/how-we-serve/global-mission/sumud
Written by Al Mytty
#elca #savoyIl #champaignurbana
Good Shepherd Lutheran Church, ELCA
Congratulations to our high school graduates who we celebrated and prayed for this morning at worship! It was a beautiful celebration of their hard work and dedication! #champaignurbana #savoyillinois #elca
Good Shepherd Lutheran Church, ELCA
We give thanks to God for the gifts, wisdom, leadership and faith of our LGBTQIA+ neighbors and siblings in Christ. We ask the Spirit to embolden us as we work together for justice, total inclusion and love for humanity in all its diversity. ELCA #elca #champaignurbana #savoyillinois
Good Shepherd Lutheran Church, ELCA
Do you love Good Shepherd?
Would you like an easy way to show it?
Take a yard sign home with you and ‘plant’ it in your yard for the summer! They are under the coat rack in the narthex!
If you’d like to donate towards the cost of your yard sign, $10, you are welcome to do so.
#champaignurbana #SavoyIL #elca
Good Shepherd Lutheran Church, ELCA
We need your help to pack food (once a month) or to volunteer in the nursery (every eight weeks). Please help out if you can and sign up through Traci in the office: staff@gslc-cu.org. Thank you! #champaignurbana #SavoyIL #elca
Good Shepherd Lutheran Church, ELCA
Join us as we honor our graduates during 9 AM worship this Sunday! #elca #classof2026
Good Shepherd Lutheran Church, ELCA
We received a BIG Thank You from Executive Vice President of Empty Tomb! "Please extend our thanks to all at Good Shepherd Lutheran Church for caring about these littlest among us, and their parents!"
Thank you to everyone who donated and helped with the effort! We collected 6,000 diapers for our neighbors in need!
#champaignurbana #SavoyIL #elca #emptytomb