The service Guild of Good Shepherd Church has been an active organization for many years. We have earned money by dues, monthly “birthday box” contributions, and by having semi-annual bake sales as well as other activities so that we can do special things for the church not taken care of by finances of the regular budget.

We meet on the first Tuesday of every month at 1:00 pm in the Common Room. We have a monthly hostess or hostesses who serve dessert after the regular business meeting.

Our mission reason for “being” is to do things to improve the fabric of the church and to be able to serve any bereavement lunches needed following funerals in the parish and to help provide gifts to various charities.

In the last few years we have carpeted the Common Room, paid for new floors in the kitchen and parish hall and the paint for them and purchased a complete new set of china dishes for church dinners. We paid for at least eight of the badly needed new folding tables, purchased the new church dishwasher, had the kitchen stoves commercially cleaned and had the new stainless steel sink and new disposal installed in the kitchen.

Last month we had a bake sale. This month we have put up a gift tree in the foyer and all donations will go to any needy families in the parish through the church’s Good Samaritan Fund. Please be generous during this Christmas season.

Our officers are: Maxine Hoppe, President; Mary Ellen Dickerson, Secretary; Beverly Saxon-Ellis, Treasurer. The members regularly attending and lending active support to our work are: Sandy Balance, Norma Brandon, Helen Debniak, Mary Ellen Dickerson, Ramona Cassidy, Hazel Caton, Ginny Chrostowski, Ann Gray, Barbara Hale, Nancy Hamilton, Maxine Hoppe, Linda Keeling, Peggy Kupka, Alta Light, Georgia McReynolds, Beverly Saxon-Ellis and Joan Wagner.

We need more members! The tasks are many and the fellowship is great. Come join us.