Service To The Community
Cast Your Cares Ministry
Cast Your Cares is an outreach ministry to the needy and homeless living in the Kensington sections of Philadelphia. It offers food and water through their food cupboard and soup kitchen, clothing, and the life-changing proclamation of the Gospel. Good Shepherd members assist this ministry by volunteering time at the soup kitchen on the last Saturday of the month. Typically, helpers meet at Good Shepherd at 2:30 p.m. to car pool down and return to the church by 7:30 p.m. Consider joining this growing group of volunteers. If you are unable to assist in staffing the soup kitchen, you can still provide much needed assistance by making a monetary donation or cooking/donating food. The menu changes monthly and recipes are provided. If you would like to help in any way, please contact Dave Smith through the church office.
Prayer Shawl Ministry
The Prayer Shawl Ministry makes prayer shawls which are given to people in need of comfort and healing. At meetings, ministry members pray over completed shawls and work on other projects such as afghans for the Abington Hospice, lap robes for homeless shelters and Veteran homes, baby blankets for Project Linus, and knit hats for children on Indian reservations. The Prayer Shawl Ministry meets the third Tuesday of the month at 10:00 a.m.. Anyone can join who likes to knit or crochet (or learn how). If you cannot attend the meetings, you can still help by knitting or crocheting items as you have time.
Bucks County Opportunity Council Food Distribution
Food Drives
I am the church, YOU are the church, WE are the church TOGETHER!
We are accepting donations of food and other items for the Jesus Focus food bank. High Priority items usually include peanut butter, jelly (no glass, please!), pasta, pasta sauce, baby diapers (size 3,4,5) and wipes. Donations can be dropped of to:
Wayne and Bobbi Georlich
152 Hershel Street
Feasterville, PA 19053
Call or text with any questions. If you drop off items or choose to have them delivered, please use the second driveway (the one on the hill). The items can also be placed on the porch near that driveway.
You can use the Amazon Wish List to order. Please consider using Amazon Smile and designating Good Shepherd Lutheran Church. Wayne and Bobbi are also happy to accept items at the church after the Sunday service, but please do not have deliveries made to the church.
Thanks for your continued support!
Wayne and Bobbi Goerlich
Teen Mission Trip
Each July, our high school and college youth travel somewhere in the United States to gather with youth groups from across the country and serve another community. Participants grow in faith, make new friends, and bring the good news of Jesus to communities through their words and service. Contact Kelli Barulli for more information.
Code Blue
While the cold weather drives most of us indoors, those who are homeless in our community have little choice but to brave the elements and seek a little warmth wherever it can be found. In 2009, several area churches reached out to the homeless in Lower Bucks County. Those living in homeless camps were transported to churches where they shared meals and were provided with clean clothes. That same year, Bucks County Commissioners worked with this “Homeless Outreach Team”, soon officially named “Advocates for Homeless & Those in Need” (AHTN). What began as an effort by a few of the faithful has now grown to include over thirty-nine places of worship.
Whenever the temperature drops below 20 degrees, Bucks County responds by calling a “Code Blue”. Volunteers respond by driving buses, preparing meals, staffing shelters, and treating our guests and friends with dignity. This year will start the 12th Code Blue Shelter Season. Code Blue runs from December 1st, 2020 to March 31st, 2021. AHTN refers to those we serve as guests and friends.
If interested in volunteering, you may speak with members Jack Hafer or Steve Schroeder
