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The Shepherd’s Crook The Church of the Good Shepherd
Pitman, NJ The Rev. Susan E. Osborne-Mott, Rector January 2019
“We Love Our Church”
I was sorting through papers and I found the following poem. I have no idea who wrote it or who gave it to me, but it seems so right for that quiet let-down time after Christmas as we thoughtfully and prayerfully enter into the New Year.
After Epiphany One by one the angels are leaving; (followed closely by Santa, various snowmen and every last reindeer). Poinsettias have shed their petals, evergreens their needles, and we are left with the bills and the pounds. And yet, is it not through the work of our souls: a child’s dearest dream come true, or music’s power to inspire you, that a tired old world is again made anew?
So easy to glimpse paradise at Christmastime, when miracles seem natural! Open hearts and hands endow our greatest gifts, as the cosmos bestows the solstice unto us. The celestial Power that moves heaven and earth will lengthen the day, keep night at bay, illuminate our way. So that our actions generous and humane, may coax the angels to remain.
Blessings! Mother Susan
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BELIEVE!
While we were driving around and looking at all
the Christmas lights in December, we noticed the
significant number of houses who placed large
signs in their yards. One was the word JOY! The
other was the word BELIEVE! When I saw the word
BELIEVE, I immediately looked around to see what
they wanted me to believe in. I looked for what
that clue in their yard that would cause me to
follow through and examine my belief in what they
were promoting.
To my surprise, in almost all cases, the closest
“symbol” located near this most powerful word
was either a manger scene, or – nothing (just
lights).
Accepting the challenge of “believing” in the
coming of Jesus into this world as God, and also as
man, requires a large measure of understanding –
and maybe most important, FAITH.
Frederick Buechner puts in this way, “Unbelief is as
much of a choice as belief is. What makes it in
many ways more appealing is that belief…takes
effort, not to believe doesn’t require much of
anything at all.”
Once again, we begin a new year after girding up
our faith and understanding as we take the next
journey –never alone, but with the full knowledge
of the Jesus being by our side.
Let us BELIEVE! Together as we go through 2019
Deacon Carl
Shawl/Caring Hands Ministry
Every so often we get a request for a Prayer
Shawl to be given to someone in need.
Sometimes it is during an illness, sometimes
during grieving periods after the loss of a loved
one. The Shawls are crocheted or knitted by the
women in this ministry. Every other Tuesday
morning you will find our Caring Hands Group
knitting/crocheting the shawls in our Conference
room. They are made with prayer for those who
will receive them.
I can’t begin to tell you of the peace and
comfort these shawls have brought to so many
people. They need not be members of our parish.
Need is spread everywhere.
If you know of a need, just ask Pat Braidwood
PAGE TURNERS’ BOOK GROUP
Jan 20 A FALL OF MARIGOLDS by Susan Meissner
Feb 17 ANN AND THE SWALLOW MAN by Gavriel Savit
Mar 17 FAITHFUL PLACE by Tana French
Apr 28 THE LEGACY OF LUNA by Julie Hill
May 19 I’LL BE YOUR BLUE SKY by Marisa de los Santos
Jun 16 TO THE MOON AND BACK by Karen Kingsbury
The Page Turners meet once a month, immediately following the 10am Holy Eucharist, in the Conference Room.
CONTEMPLATIVE GROUP
CONTEMPLATIVE GROUP will meet on
Wednesday, January 16 at 10 a.m. in the
Conference Room. Following our period of
Contemplation/Meditation, we will continue
our study of Fr. Rohr’s Fall Upward.
SERVICES
Saturdays: 4:30 PM – Contemplative Prayer 5:30 PM – Holy Eucharist
Sundays: 9:00 AM – Contemplative Prayer 10:00 AM – Holy Eucharist
Tuesdays & Thursdays: 9 AM Morning Prayer
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By Minnie Young
TAIZE CONTEMPLATIVE SERVICE
TAIZĒ SERVICE OF CONTEMPLATION WITH EUCHARIST will be held on Saturday, January 26 at the 5:30 p.m. service.
PICTURES!
Let’s get in the habit of taking pictures of
everything around here! Pictures of Sunday School,
meetings, even of events at services if you can be
surreptitious! Please identify who is in each photo
and what the event is. Thank you!
Maryane has received some great pics from people
keep ‘em coming!
Don’t forget to drop your spare change
in the SQUIRRELS’ NESTS!
They are in the back of the
Church and in the Parish Hall
CHURCH MINISTRY LEADERS
These are some of their names and numbers, if you have any questions.
Deacon - The Rev. Carl Dunn – 609-868-7102
Senior Warden - Deb Prieto – 856-478-0795
Junior Warden - Len Clark - 856/582-1113
Treasurer - Lee Braidwood - 856/228-0737
Asst. Treasurer - George Funk - 856/232-0941
Brotherhood of St. Andrew - Wayne Szalma – 856/469-3028
Women at the Well - Diane Wall - 856/374-9081
Altar Guild - Shelly Harris - 856/589-8160
Youth Group - Chelsea Richmond – 856-723-4123
2018 VESTRY LIAISONS
Endowment Planning – Frank Jackson
Personnel – Georgeanne Moore
Youth Group & Activities – Lauren Kaltwasser
Sunday School – Elizabeth Nelson
Outreach Ministries – Gail Morton
Newcomers/Greeters – Jack Daugherty
Internal Ministries – Steve Mackay
Columbarium – Diane Wall
Choir – Jim Wynkoop
Women at the Well - Diane Wall
Brotherhood of St. Andrew – Jim Wynkoop
Adult Christian Education – Jack Daugherty
Website & Social Media – Jim Wynkoop
Green Team – Lauren Kaltwasser
Stewardship Committee – Diane Wall (2018), Frank
Jackson (2019), Georgeanne Moore (2020), Deb
Prieto (Sr. Warden)
Senior Warden – Deb Prieto
Junior Warden – Len Clark
Treasurer – Lee Braidwood
Clerk of the Vestry – Chuck Lezenby
Assistant Clerk of the Vestry – Aimee Burgin
PASTORAL EMERGENCIES If a Pastoral Emergency should come up for you, hospitalization, death in the family, please call the Church Office 856-589-8209 or after office hours please call Mother Susan at 732-759-4358.
Please Be Considerate of Our Neighbors!
We are so glad you're here! But when you park near the
church, please be considerate of our neighbors and make
sure you have fully cleared their driveways. Thank you!
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Prayers for Parish Families For January
Farley family, Fedullo family, Ferri family, and Fortney family
OUR PRAYERS MINISTRY
Each Sunday during Communion time, our team of Pray-ers offer prayers with our parishioners. We have now expanded this meaningful ministry to our Saturday evening Holy Eucharist at 5:30pm. After you receive Holy Communion, if you want/need additional prayers, there will be a team of Pray-ers in the front of the Church who are willing to pray with you. These prayers can be offered in joy for a Blessing you have received, or can be to help ease a burden which lies on your heart. Please take advantage of this wonderful ministry of our parish. All prayers are confidential. Anyone interested in being a Pray-er Minister at the Saturday night or Sunday services please contact Barbara Elliott @ 589-3980 or [email protected]
CHURCH HISTORY DISPLAY
I hope that you have taken the time to view the items in the glass case in the parish hall each month. It is an exhibit showcasing items from our collective Good Shepherd past! Some of them have been of Pitman in general. We are a church family and it is fun to share with others past pictures and items of interest that have been part of our history together! If you have anything that you wish to share, please let me know. I try to rotate the exhibit every 3 or 4 months and will take good care of your items.
Thanks you! Ellie Dunn
HEALING PRAYER
Mother Susan is now offering Healing Prayer with anointing and laying on of hands on the first Saturday of every month following the Saturday evening service.
THURSDAY BIBLE STUDY
THURSDAY BIBLE STUDY will resume on Thursday,
January 10 at 9:30 a.m. in the Conference Room. We will
continue our study of Rob Bell’s What Is the Bible and will
continue with this book until January 31 when we will
begin a new series called Jesus and Buddha: Paths to
Awakening. This series does a comparison of the Four
Noble Truths in Buddhism with the teachings of Jesus in
the Gospels. Fr. Richard Rohr and James Finley (a
Trappist Monk) will be our guides.
Contemplative Prayer Time Before Our Worship Services
For those who seek a time for quiet prayer on Saturdays and Sundays, Mother Susan opens the church on Saturdays at 4:30 PM for the 5:30 PM service. We ask that 4:30 PM to 5:15 PM be a quiet prayerful time. Likewise, for Sundays, she will be in the Church at 9 AM for a quiet time from 9 AM to 9:30 AM. We ask that all who come early to church honor these times as times for quiet prayer and contemplation.
JANUARY ADULT FORUM
ADULT FORUM will meet on Sunday, January 6 following the 10 a.m. service in the Conference Room. We continue our study of World Religions with a focus on Part II of Buddhism.
HAVE YOU THOUGHT ABOUT PUTTING OUR BELOVED PARISH, GOOD
SHEPHERD, IN YOUR WILL?
DEADLINE
The deadline for the February 2019 Crook will be on January 15, 2019. Please e-mail all articles and pictures to [email protected].
Maryanne Charlton Parish Administrator
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Debbie Crystal Snoke Peggy Francis Pvt. Emmett Foreman Pvt. Hannah New Pvt. Benjamin Key Pvt. Alan Kryszak Pvt. Cardre Jackson, Jr. Pvt. James Foster and their families Dorothy Marylou Mitchell Morgan Janice Enstrom Robert Linda Rebecca Sharon Reneé April Ellerbe John & Candace Jemilo Ben Trunzo Harvey Corbett Denise Ladd Barbara Gattinella family Howard Caitlin John Joseph Whaley Anne Lewis Edna Spratt Michael Beard Katherine Lesher Presiding Bishop Curry
Church of the Good Shepherd Prayers of the People
Prayers for the Church and Clergy For all Churches in the Diocese of NJ & Ecuador Michael Curry, the Presiding Bishop William “Chip” Stokes, Our Bishop The Rev. Susan E. Osborne-Mott, Rector Sister Cass, AF Charles Nakash – Missionary in the Dominican Republic Rev. Carl Dunn, our Deacon
Prayers for the Nation Donald Trump, Our President Phil Murphy, Our Governor
“For all those who serve and protect us at home”
Prayers for the Sick and in Need
Tod Porter Tara Ryan Bubnoski Ashley Aaliyah Seely McFadden family Seely family Art Dilworth Bill Brower George Farley Audrey Andrew Buck Joe DeMarco James Anna Candyce Rich Reiniello Emily Mike Daly Maripat Makalusky Helen & Ken Michelle Siegle Natasha Tuoy Melissa Czechowicz Janie Kraus Dora & Ed Beard & family Debbie Milward Tom Rigg Shelly Harris Ruth Buck Paul Kathy Busser Janet Paraschak Asher Poolke Rosalie Jenkins
Prayers for all Military Personnel
* We pray for our enemies and for those with whom we are at war. *
“Almighty God, we commend to your gracious care and keeping all the men and women of our armed forces at home and abroad. Defend them with your heavenly grace; strengthen them in their trials and temptations; give them courage to face the perils which beset them; and grant them a sense of your abiding presence wherever they may be; Through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen.”
MORNING PRAYER
Morning Prayer is on Tuesday & Thursday
mornings at 9AM with Mother Susan in the
Chapel.
Peter Larrabee Brian Almondrod Raymond Harris, III Steven Sanders Matt Spangler Lynn Spangler Scott Thomas Glen Tim Dan Hurlbut Zak Bartelt Brian Randazzo Buzz Parish Charlie Hiemeril John A. Lukacs Joe Sheridan Hal Wagner Matt Rebecca Jon S. Lehr Keith Tucker Dave McElwain Hugh Robinson Andrew Olsson Joshua Albright Zachary Guise
Scott McPherson Andrew Ten Eyck Matthew Cushinotto Theresa Cushinotto Mike Grzybowski Ted Mike McHugh Tom Devore Bonnie Weis Kane Lawlor Drew Naphy Rhen Brinkerhoff Brian Opel Jonathan Dickson Matt Michael Marta Marcos Bryan Jensen Allistair Edinger Andrew Kyle Ryan Bubnoski Chris Carson
Sophia Capano Joseph Capano Steelman family Evelyn Recinello
Jessica Carter Maryalice Ross Chris Burness
Jackie
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WHAT’S HAPPENING IN JANUARY
All Tuesdays & Thursdays - 9 AM Morning Prayer
All Thursdays – 9:30 AM Bible Study 6:30 PM Bell Choir Practice 7:15 PM Choir Practice
January 1 – NEW YEAR’S DAY - Parish Office Closed
January 2 – 7 PM Brotherhood of St. Andrew
January 5 & 6 - EPIPHANY Saturday, 4:30 PM Open Prayer 5:30 PM Holy Eucharist Healing Prayer Sunday, 9 AM Open Prayer 10 AM Holy Eucharist 10 AM Sunday School 11:15 AM Children’s Choir Practice 11:30 AM Adult Forum 11:30 AM Youth Group
January 8 – 9:30 AM Caring Hands
January 9 – 7 PM Property Committee Mtg.
January 12 & 13 – EPIPHANY 1 Saturday, 4:30 PM Open Prayer 5:30 PM Holy Eucharist Sunday, 9 AM Open Prayer 9 AM Parish Breakfast 10 AM Holy Eucharist 10 AM Sunday School 11:15 AM Children’s Choir Practice 11:30 AM Vestry Meeting
January 14 – Women at the Well – ECW
January 16 – 10 AM Contemplative Prayer 6:30 – 8 PM Good Shepherd Quilters
January 19 & 20 – EPIPHANY 2 Saturday, 4:30 PM Open Prayer 5:30 PM Holy Eucharist Sunday, 9 AM Open Prayer
10 AM Holy Eucharist 10 AM Sunday School 11:15 AM Children’s Choir Practice 11:30 AM Page Turners 11:30 AM Youth Group
January 22 – 9:30 AM Caring Hands
January 26 & 27 – EPIPHANY 3 Saturday, 4:30 PM Open Prayer
5:30 PM Taize Service Sunday, 9 AM Open Prayer
10 AM Holy Eucharist 10 AM Sunday School 11:15 AM Children’s Choir Practice ANNUAL MEETING
JANUARY BIRTHDAYS
01 – Connie Parent
03 – Tyler Froio
05 – Ronald Smashey III
05 – Jenna Sobolewski
06 - Lori Vicente
08 - Becky Snodgrass
08 – Anamaria Pastiu
11 – Scott Braidwood
14 – Betty Beard
14 – Ethan Klein
14 – Pat Parker
15 – Kaitlyn Greco
15 – Ave Irving
16 – Lauren Braidwood
THE FOOD PANTRY
We have changed our approach for collecting food donations for the Pitman Food Pantry. Each week we will be collecting a different food item. We will announce the upcoming needed food item each week in the trifold. Also we will have a monthly list in the Crook.
Food donations for January are: 1/5 & 6 – Tuna 1/12 & 13– Peanut Butter 1/19 & 20 – Cereal 1/26 & 27 – Mac & Cheese
All donations are greatly appreciated and accepted.
The Pitman Food Pantry is open on even dated Tuesdays each month from 6pm – 7pm.
16 – Jullian O’Brian
17 – Victor Prieto
17 – Sarah Marie Foster
18 – Carson Price
21 – Katey McFadden
23 – Melissa Long
23 – Heather McFadden
24 – Judy Taylor
25 – Stuart Lynd, Jr.
26 – Grace Yahnke
27 – Ashley McFadden
31 – Sue Dixon
31 – Grace Morris
Lee & Pat Braidwood
wearing their ugly
Christmas Sweaters
on Ugly Sweater
Sunday!
So festive!
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OUTREACH
Thank you so very much for the wonderful
donations of shoes and clothing for the people of
Camden! They are thrilled to receive them at St.
Wilfrid’s clinic to be distributed each month! They
need men’s shoes and clothing the most of all! If
you have something that you would like to donate,
in good condition, please place it in manageable
size bags only, and leave them on our front porch.
We will make sure that they get to Camden where
they are in great need! With the cold weather,
coats, sweaters and gloves would be very much
appreciated also!
We are at 223 Highland Terrace, Pitman.
Thank you,
Deacon Carl and Ellie Dunn
Thank You God for a Fresh Start
by Alice Aultman
So here we are looking at a brand new year. What ever happened or was accomplished in 2018 is history. The media is offering all sorts of advice about doing great things. Buy a new car, join a fitness club and change your pattern of eating along with all sorts of other suggestions we have all heard before and managed to forget to follow through on after a few weeks in to the cold of January.
My thought is why not do something needed, that should be done that might your improve your living situation and quietly move on. Let’s start with sorting through the volume of Christmas decorations that have to be stored. How many years have some of them been around? Is it time to discard some and start out with a new container or at least pack away carefully what is left?
Or why not tackle a chore that would help on a daily basis like cleaning out the drawer that seems to collect everything or sort through your clothes closet? My project is to organize batches of recipes. For years I have clipped and saved with the thought of using them someday and have envelopes, folders and loose clutter that I will never use. I am going to throw away what I will never use.
Thank You God for giving us items that are useful in their time and the minds to be able to decide what is best for us.
Camden Christmas Was a Wonderful Experience!
I wanted to just take a moment and thank everyone at the Church of the Good Shepherd for your prayers, donations and your presence when we shopped, wrapped and helped at the event on December 23rd. My heart continues to be filled with gratitude and thanksgiving for ALL you did to make this a wonderful time for everyone who attended. The joy we experienced together as the kids and adults came through was amazing. I thank God for each of you. I pray we take what we have experienced and then use that to find ways to be a blessing to everyone we encounter in 2019! May God Bless you and your families in the days ahead. May you know and feel the Lord’s peace and His presence each and every day. May you KNOW God has been with you and worked through you to touch the lives of those who continue to need to experience His love as they struggle beyond our understanding in this life. You are an amazing congregation because you put God first – every day.
Your VERY Thankful Deacon.
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Green Initiative Ministry
The Green Initiative Ministry held its first meeting on November 14, 2018. We briefly reviewed the Mission Statement, discussed goals and action items during the meeting.
Additional updates include:
Signs for trash cans and recycle cans have been made and will be posted.
Additional recycle cans will be priced and ordered.
Ideas for introducing environmental issues and solutions to present to the
congregation, Sunday School and Youth Group are being researched.
There was a lot of discussion and great Ideas shared about using the church grounds to grow flowers, vegetables or in some way better serve the environment. Also discussed were methods for collecting or redirecting rainwater run-off. There was lots of interest and potential for these ideas.
Another meeting will be held after the holidays. Anyone interested in joining should contact Lauren Kaltwasser or Diane Wall or any Vestry member. We encourage you to join us in these efforts, and if you have any ideas or suggestions, please let us know. Together we can make a difference by reducing the impact we have on our Earth. Care and justice for all creation is a core value of the Episcopal Church.
Give us all a reverence for the earth as your own creation, that we may use its resources rightly in the service of others and to your honor and glory. (BCP 388)
The Annual Meeting will be held January 27th
after the 10 AM Service
The Spirituality of the Twelve Steps…. If you’re like me, you thought the Twelve Steps were only for those who were addicted to alcohol, drugs or food. Surprise! The Twelve Steps are a spiritual path on which everyone can find spiritual growth and maturity.
In his book, Breathing Under Water: Spirituality and the Twelve Steps, Richard Rohr states that the Twelve Steps actually parallel and/or makes practical the teachings Jesus gave us. Jesus called it being called into an enlightened life. AA says that it is a call into a life of recovery. Worked honestly, the Twelve Steps bring us into the hidden place where we disguise our addictions. You see, we all have addictions – alcoholics or drug addicts just have their powerlessness out there for all the world to see!
So….First Month, First Step. Step One – “We admitted we were powerless over ____________ [alcohol] – that our lives had become unmanageable.” {AA Big Book)
“I cannot understand my own behavior. I fail to carry out the very things I want to do, and find myself doing the very things I hate…for although the will to do what is good is in me, the performance is not.” (Romans 7: 15, 18)
“Until and unless there is a person, situation, event, idea, conflict, or relationship that you cannot “manage,” you will never find the True Manager.” (Breathing . . ., p. 3) Albert Einstein frequently said that no problem can be solved by the same consciousness (ego) that caused the problem in the first place. Simply stated – we cannot heal ourselves.
As I gave up the drink I began to realize that was the easy part. My addiction turned to candy, ice cream, “stuff” – anything to keep from dealing with the inner part of me that was hurting – the true part that I couldn’t manage - that which was broken, wounded, loveless. Nothing else could enter in – no matter how good a face I put on for those around me.
You have to fill in that blank for yourself. What in your own life are you powerless over? Is it food, work, relationships, ego, pride, anger, fear, loneliness or perhaps hatred? Like me, you will search to find something, anything to ease the discomfort and pain this powerlessness causes in your life. Taking this first step, recognizing and admitting that you are not the solution can be the beginnings of a new joyous life!
From Mel Caron
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January 2019
Sunday
Monday
Tuesday
Wednesday
Thursday
Friday
Saturday
1 New Year’s Day Parish Office Closed Sumer Lunch Program
2 7 PM Brotherhood of St. Andrew
3 9 AM Morning Prayer 6:30 PM Bell Choir 7:15 PM Choir Practice
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5 4:30 PM Open Prayer 5:30 PM Holy Eucharist Healing Prayer
6 Epiphany 9 AM Open Prayer 10 AM Holy Eucharist 10 AM Sunday School 11:15 AM Children’s Choir Prac. 11:30 AM Adult Forum 11:30 AM Youth Group
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8 9 AM Morning Prayer 9:30 AM Caring Hands Sumer Lunch Program
9 7 PM Property Committee Meeting
10 9 AM Morning Prayer 9:30 AM Bible Study 6:30 PM Bell Choir 7:15 PM Choir Practice
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12 4:30 PM Open Prayer 5:30 PM Holy Eucharist
13 Epiphany 1 9 AM Open Prayer 9 AM Parish Breakfast 10 AM Holy Eucharist 10 AM Sunday School 11:15 AM Children’s Choir Prac. 11:30 AM Vestry Meeting
14 7 PM Women at the Well - ECW
15 9 AM Morning Prayer
Crook Info Due
16 10 AM Contemplative Prayer 6 – 8:30 PM Good Shepherd Quilters
17 9 AM Morning Prayer 9:30 AM Bible Study 6:30 PM Bell Choir 7:15 PM Choir Practice
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19 4:30 PM Open Prayer 5:30 PM Holy Eucharist
20 Epiphany 2 9 AM Open Prayer 10 AM Holy Eucharist 11:15 AM Children’s Choir Prac. 11:30 AM Page Turners 11:30 AM Youth Group
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22 9 AM Morning Prayer 9:30 AM Caring Hands
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24 9 AM Morning Prayer 9:30 AM Bible Study 6:30 PM Bell Choir 7:15 PM Choir Practice
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26 4:30 PM Open Prayer 5:30 PM Taize Service
27 Epiphany 3 9 AM Open Prayer 10 AM Holy Eucharist 10 AM Sunday School 11:15 AM Children’s Choir Prac. ANNUAL MEETING
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29 9 AM Morning Prayer
Summer Lunch Program
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31 9 AM Morning Prayer 9:30 AM Bible Study 6:30 PM Bell Choir 7:15 PM Choir Practice
Place Fridge Magnet here!
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Church of the Good Shepherd 315 Highland Terrace Pitman, NJ 08071
Telephone – 856-589-8209 E-mail – [email protected]
www.goodshepherdpitman.org
The Shepherd’s Crook
Pitman, NJ
January 2019
Church of the Good Shepherd