Shrove Tuesday Pancake Supper
All are welcome to indulge in pancakes, sausages, and fruit on the final day before Lent
Please come to the Shrove Tuesday Pancake Supper on Tuesday, February 17, from 6:00 - 7:00 PM.
Come and enjoy delicious pancakes while sharing fellowship with members of our community.
We hope to see you there!
Rev. Eleanor Applewhite Terry
2026 01 25 Gospel & Sermon, Rev. Eleanor Applewhite Terry, Rector
Two ways to bring hope to a family
Volunteer or donate to furnish a home
Are you feeling down about the state of the world? Here are two ways you can bring hope to a family.
Hundreds of social service agencies refer people who are recently homeless, veterans, survivors of domestic violence, low income, immigrants, victims of disaster, or are coping with illness or disability to Household Goods. Last year they furnished over 3000 homes including the home of our newest refugee family. Watch this video to see inside this amazing operation.
Join a team of Shepherds Jan. 24 or 28 12:45-4:00 doing a variety of tasks at Household Goods. Volunteers must be 14 years or older. Click here for the link to sign up.
Donate to our Linens and Lamps Drive. We are collecting towels, sheets and blankets in excellent condition and lamps with shades until January 28.
Rev. Eleanor Applewhite Terry
2026 01 11 Gospel & Sermon, Rev. Eleanor Applewhite Terry, Rector
Rev. Eleanor Terry
Rev. Ellie offers an uplifting message on Christmas Eve.
Gospel & Sermon for Christmas Eve, Rev. Eleanor Terry, Rector
2025 Mission Outreach Accomplishments
Mission Outreach: Faith in Action 2025
The Church of the Good Shepherd has had another wonderful year of showing what Faith in Action looks like.
Thank you to everyone who has supported our Mission Outreach programs this year. The list below is the outcome of all of your generous giving this fall.
Our 7-week food drive delivered 623 pounds of food to Loaves and Fishes and the Acton Food Pantry!
Along with other members of the partnership, we have supported our refugee families during particularly difficult months in several ways: providing Target gift cards so our new family could get needed furnishings and winter clothing. Together with First Parish of Stow and Acton we were able to give them cards worth $1000.
We purchased Market Basket cards to help our new family weather the halt in SNAP benefits while St. Anne’s in Lincoln did the same for the Rohingya households.
This week we delivered baskets of Christmas cheer to all three households, chock full of all kinds of fruits, homemade cookies and candy.
We far exceeded our goal to help finance the food that the mothers at Esperanza Academy prepare each year for their Christmas celebration. We will deliver these funds and the chocolate fountain to the school this week.
To finish out the year, the Fair Trade Craft Sale this Sunday and next will support scholarships for our Salvadoran students.
And every week during these months a contingent of devoted Shepherds has represented our community at the Burlington ICE protests no matter the weather.
We can proudly say our church has been busy doing good work!
We are full of gratitude for the many ways that you have all opened your hearts.
Rev. Eleanor Terry
Rev. Ellie explores how during the time of Advent we can prepare for not just a one-day celebration of Christmas, but for an incarnation that will be born in us and will last for all time. Secular Christmas preparations happen in many ways but preparing our hearts is often harder to do. Easier to forget. Advent provides us the gift of time – to pause, reflect, slow down. A time to prepare our hearts for the extraordinary thing that is about to happen.
Gospel & Sermon for Advent 3, Rev. Eleanor Terry, Rector