SUMMER CONNECTIONS

Summer is a time for new adventures. So join us at Christ Our Shepherd Lutheran Church for engaging adventures in special worship, camps, and creative serving opportunities.

Connecting in Jesus's pathway of Joy and Life.

SERVING OUR COMMUNITY

Christ Our Shepherd is engaged in many ways in community service, most significantly in feeding people. We seek to serve locally, regionally and globally. For more opportunities to connect and serve in COS Ministries and Missions, please click HERE.

The Summer Sack Lunch Program is an excellent opportunity for families, grandparents, groups and individuals to GIVE BACK to our community. For seven Mondays, June 6th through July 25th, Christ Our Shepherd will provide sack lunches for children who otherwise might not have a lunch to eat! YOU can help by making sandwiches, packing or delivering lunches to hungry children. YOU can drive a lunch route (Fayette County) for the summer or split it with others. It is extremely rewarding to meet, feed and interact with these families/children each week.

A typical Monday is:

· Spend 30-45 minutes making and packing lunches and/or

· Delivering the lunches – takes about an hour.

The summer of 2022, COS provided lunches to 214 children each Monday. Over seven weeks 1504 lunches were packed and delivered to children ages 3-18, 1870 sandwiches were prepared and over 3,000 cookies were baked. Sixteen different drivers/teams covered nine routes for lunch deliveries.

Ways you can help:

Join us for as many Mondays as you can between June 5th and July 24th: sandwich making is from 9:00-10:00 and packing bags from 10:00-11:00 in the Fellowship Hall.
Donate DRINKS (Capri Sun, Kool Aid Jammers), INDIVIDUALLY PACKAGED VARIETY PACKS OF CHIPS or PUBLIX Gift Cards that will help purchase bread for our sandwiches. Please leave at the display table in the Narthex.
Pray for this ministry and these families that they will be nourished with Christ’s love.

Call the office (770-487-8717) for information and to get connected with our

summer lunch coordinator, Ellen Pfundt.

Making Sandwiches at Christ Our Shepherd

small groups - connecting ministries

CONNECTING MINISTRIES & WEEKLY SMALL GROUPS: Barbara Anderson [email protected].

Welcome to the season of summer at COS. Although this is a popular time for travel, we continue to offer opportunities for meaningful and active connections. Would you like to subscribe to our COS emails? Please click here.

One really wonderful way to CONNECT your mind and spirit is to join a Small Group - this group can be a Fellowship Group such as ROMEOS (Retired Old Men Eating Out) or CANVAS Art Ministry, our casual Wednesday gathering in the Conference Room led by Pastor Miriam, or a G.I.F.T. (Growing in Faith Together) Group which meet both at the church and in homes. Each week, the Sunday lectionary text is discussed during TEXT TALK which meet on Sundays at 9:45am.

SUNDAYS: TEXT TALK (9:45AM Conference Room) Meet every Sunday to discuss the weekly lectionary text.

WEDNESDAYS: Join us at 3pm in a casual small group setting led by Pastor Miriam. This group meets in the conference room.

G.I.F.T. (Growing in Faith Together) GROUPS meet regularly to spend time together learning, celebrating, serving, praying, and supporting each other. These groups meet in homes and at church, to foster community, discussion, and relationships. Contact Barbara to connect you with a small group.

ROMEO'S (Retired Old Men Eating Out) Meet the 1st Tuesday of each month to enjoy lunch, fellowship, and a special speaker. For July 2022 only, ROMEO's will meet on the second Tuesday. Currently, bagged Chick-Fila lunches are brought in for those who RSVP in advance.

children & youth ministry

CHILDREN’S MINISTRY: Ingrid Hudson [email protected]

Praise, Popsicles, and Pools - Birth through 5th grade kids and parents will get some fellowship and pool time. Contact Ingrid at [email protected] for more information.

VBS - We are all on God's team! - Our new sports themed VBS is May 30-June 2, 5-7pm. Check out our VBS page for more information.

LutheRanch Family Camp is June 18-23 with horse backing riding, adventure, and worship! Fun for the whole family. Go to www.lutheranch.org for more information.

Lutheroad Day Camp is hosted each year at Christ Our Shepherd and is from June 26-30 this year. This day camp is ran by camp counselors from Lutheroad. This day camps for rising 1st through 6th graders. Click on the button below for the registration form. Contact Ingrid for more information.

MIDDLE & HIGH SCHOOL YOUTH: Shelly Jakubowski [email protected]

Whitewater Tubing (June 4) in Elijay, GA

Middle and High School Summer Camp ( June 18-24) at Lutheridge near Asheville, NC

High School Summer Camp ( June 12-18) at Lutherock in Newland, NC

Youth Sunday ( July 16) Join us at any of the Sunday Services (8:30am, 9:45am, 11:00am) for Youth Sunday where we highlight our summer missions and retreats with our youth.

Youth Ministry Kick Off Party for LOGOS/LOFT ( August 23rd ) It’s our annual kickoff party for middle and high school students. We're getting back together as summer winds down and school resumes. Details are still being worked out so stay tuned!