\u2020\u00a0IN OUR PRAYERS<\/b> \u00a0Stella Q.<\/i><\/b>, Sue V.<\/i><\/b>, recovering from surgery at St. Luke\u2019s; Aaron P.<\/i><\/b>, at Barnes-Jewish Hospital in St. Louis receiving treatment for cancer; Kathy P.<\/i><\/b>, suffering health issues; Jack H.<\/i><\/b>,\u00a0<\/i><\/b>recovering at home; Paula <\/i><\/b>B.<\/i><\/b>, April K.<\/i><\/b>, Sara P.<\/i><\/b>, Sara T.<\/i><\/b>,\u00a0<\/i><\/b>undergoing treatment for cancer.<\/p>\n
\u2020\u00a0CHURCH MEMBER SURVERY\u00a0 <\/b>The online and paper survey begins today and will run from April 10th<\/sup> \u2013 20th<\/sup>.\u00a0 Visit https:\/\/www.surveymonkey.com\/r\/C3WTY66<\/a>\u00a0using passcode GSCS2016<\/b>, or obtain a paper survey from the church office and return it to the church office by April 20th<\/sup>.\u00a0 Please pay careful attention and answer the\u00a0 survey questions exactly as asked. Certain questions on the survey may ask for 3, 4 or possibly 5 answers.<\/p>\n \u2020\u00a0GAME GATHERING\u00a0 <\/b>The Lutheran Youth Fellowship will be hosting another\u00a0 Game Gathering<\/i><\/b> event today at 3:00 pm, in the Fellowship Hall.\u00a0 This will be a fun afternoon of Bingo and prizes put on by the members of our LYF.\u00a0 Everyone is\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 encouraged to come, bring a friend and enjoy some fun while supporting our youth for the National Gathering in July!\u00a0 There will be some concession type food available during the time and there will be door prizes and Bingo prizes including gift cards to various restaurants and other locations.\u00a0 The suggested donation for a pack of Bingo cards to play all the rounds is $10.00.\u00a0 Hope to see everyone here!<\/p>\n \u2020\u00a0MORNING BIBLE CLASSES\u00a0 <\/b>There will not be a Tuesday morning Bible Class this week because Pastor will be gone for a Pastoral Conference.\u00a0 Also, there will not be a Wednesday morning Bible Class this week because Earl Kirn will be gone for training.<\/p>\n \u2020\u00a0VBS PLANNING MEETING\u00a0 <\/b>Next Sunday, after the late service, there will be a VBS planning meeting.\u00a0 Anyone interested is welcome to attend.<\/p>\n \u2020\u00a0BASKETS OF PROMISE\u00a0 <\/b>LWML would like to extend a big thank you to everyone who donated items for the Baskets of Promise during Lent.\u00a0 Instead of the goal of 35 personal care kits, they were able to put together 48 kits.\u00a0 On top of that, they donated an extra 365 items to Crosslines of Carthage.\u00a0 Thanks for your generous donations!<\/p>\n \u2020\u00a0PASTOR SUBMISSIONS\u00a0 <\/b>If you\u2019d like to submit a pastoral candidate to the Call Committee, submit a written request to either Dave W. or Rob S. by May 5. The submission should include the pastor\u2019s name, current position, your name (in case we need to follow up with you) and how you know the pastor.<\/p>\n \u2020\u00a0ATTENTION ALL GRADUATES\u00a0 <\/b>If you are graduating from high school, college, tech school, etc. we want to hear about it.\u00a0 Please get a picture with a bio to the church office by April 22.\u00a0 We want to publish your accomplishments and future plans in the May issue of the Shepherd\u2019s Staff.\u00a0 Parents, we may need your help with this, we don\u2019t want to leave anyone out, but if we don\u2019t have the information we can\u2019t print it.\u00a0 Thanks.<\/p>\n \u2020\u00a0LWML SPRING RALLY\u00a0 <\/b>The LWML<\/a> Spring Rally will be held on Sunday, April 24,\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 at St. Andrew\u2019s Church in Stockton.\u00a0 It is scheduled to begin at 3:00 pm with\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 registration starting at 2:30 pm.\u00a0 The program will be Jason Glaskey with the Comfort<\/i> Dogs<\/i>.\u00a0 All ladies (and men) are invited to attend these rallies.\u00a0 They are a wonderful afternoon of spiritual growth and spending time with fellow Lutherans.<\/p>\n \u2020\u00a0SUNDAY SCHOOL OFFERINGS\u00a0 <\/b>For the first couple of quarters in 2016, both the adult and the children\u2019s Sunday School offerings will be going to Children\u2019s Haven in Joplin.\u00a0 If you would like to monitor our progress, keep an eye on our bulletin board downstairs that will track our Sunday School offerings!<\/p>\n \u2020\u00a0VOTERS\u2019 MEETING\u00a0 <\/b>The regular Voters\u2019 Meeting will be held Sunday, April 24, at 7:00 pm in the fellowship hall.\u00a0 Along with our regular business we will also be asked to approve a resolution to GSLC\u2019s Constitution.\u00a0 The insert in the bulletin today addresses this resolution.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" \u2020\u00a0IN OUR PRAYERS \u00a0Stella Q., Sue V., recovering from surgery at St. Luke\u2019s; Aaron P., at Barnes-Jewish Hospital in St. Louis receiving treatment for cancer; Kathy P., suffering health issues; Jack H.,\u00a0recovering at home; Paula B., April K., Sara P., Sara T.,\u00a0undergoing treatment for cancer. \u2020\u00a0CHURCH MEMBER SURVERY\u00a0 The online and paper survey begins today… Read More »Announcements — April 10, 2016<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"neve_meta_sidebar":"","neve_meta_container":"","neve_meta_enable_content_width":"","neve_meta_content_width":0,"neve_meta_title_alignment":"","neve_meta_author_avatar":"","neve_post_elements_order":"","neve_meta_disable_header":"","neve_meta_disable_footer":"","neve_meta_disable_title":"","ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1576","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-announcements"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gslc-carthage.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1576","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gslc-carthage.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gslc-carthage.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gslc-carthage.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gslc-carthage.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1576"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.gslc-carthage.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1576\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1577,"href":"https:\/\/www.gslc-carthage.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1576\/revisions\/1577"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gslc-carthage.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1576"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gslc-carthage.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1576"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gslc-carthage.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1576"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}