May 12, 2024 – The Seventh Sunday of Easter
PENTECOST PICNIC – In Celebration of PENTECOST and the traditional end of the program year, we’re having a PICNIC after the late service. Our Vestry Fellowship Team is providing us with Buddy’s BBQ bagged lunches, including drinks. Please join us for some fun, food, and fellowship as we mark the end of Formation & Sunday School for the summer.
MISSION TRIP PRAYER PARTNERS – We are looking for prayer partners for the 15+ youth attending our 2024 mission trip to Chattanooga May 24-27. Prayer partners pray for and send notes of encouragement to a young person during the trip! This has been a favorite in the past, and we are excited to begin it again! If you are interested, contact sinead@goodsamknox.org to be partnered and find out specifics about this fun and loving ministry. Scan the QR on your announcement sheet for a Power Point presentation with further instructions.
A BIG KONDOA THANK YOU! – A Message from Elizabeth Colonna, Good Sam parishioner and diocesan coordinator for communication with our sister diocese in Kondoa, Tanzania. – As many of you experienced our joyful celebration of baptism and confirmation on May 5 with Babba Given/Askofu and Mama Lilian in our midst, your support through the “cash in the plate” offering of $2,773.00 is amazing! You have also supported our friends in Kondoa though our annual Alternative Gift Market in December as well. My daughter, Morgan Colonna, started this concept of purchasing items in Kondoa, then reselling the items here and throughout the diocese in 2017. Thank you for your continuing support of Kondoa though the sale of their beautiful items. At the December 2023’s Alternative Gift Market, we raised over $1,200. After the tea held in Lilian’s honor on May 6 (sponsored by The Church of the Ascension) another $1,200 was raised. These funds will be wired to Kondoa to help with the Women’s Empowerment program as well as getting the secondary school completed, hopefully by next school year. Please prayerfully consider a pilgrimage to see our friends in Kondoa. It is a life changing trip. A trip is being planned for next spring/ early summer. Other ways to help include sponsoring a child so they can go to the primary school which Babba started in Kondoa or helping a young woman learn to read, write, sew, and running a small business through the Women’s Empowerment program.
The Cash In The Plate For Today Goes To Good Sam Mission Trip.
An annual favorite event with the Good Sam Youth is our laundromat takeover in Chattanooga. On Memorial Day, we will once again take over a laundromat on the Southside of Chattanooga, providing detergent and dryer sheets, smiling faces, and free laundry to all who join us! Funds raised will provide the quarters for laundry machines, soap and dryer sheets, and snacks and lunch for attendees! You can also bring in-kind donations of laundry supplies (new or opened) during the month of May for us to use—a great opportunity to repurpose laundry items you might have tried and not enjoyed. This event really helps our youth connect with community members in Chattanooga and promotes conversation and support. We also are able to discuss the many socioeconomic and cultural issues we encounter during the event and gain insight into ways we can understand social issues in the community.
Donations can be made by sending a check to Good Sam, specifying “Helping Mamas “ in the memo line, or through Good Sam’s online giving portal by scanning the QR code on your announcement sheet.
Donations can be made by sending a check to Good Sam, specifying “Mission Trip.” in the memo line, or through Good Sam’s online giving portal by scanning the QR code on your announcement sheet.
Last week’s offering of $577.00 has been designated to go to Helping Mamas Knoxville.
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Want More News & Information?
Click HERE to go to the archives of our weekly e-newsletter, GoodNews from GoodSam. Typically, the weekly e-newsletter has much more information about news and events at Good Sam than space allows in the Sunday Bulletin Announcements.