Upcoming Events

Post-Service Fellowship and Catechism
Mar
8

Post-Service Fellowship and Catechism

After service, join us for a time of fellowship, catechism/Christian education, and lunch at our pastor’s home.

Due to our current building arrangements, we’re unable to host post-service fellowship and education at the same building that we worship in. This is a minor inconvenience, but if you’re visiting, please don’t let this scare you away. We hope you can join us for lunch and the time of fellowship and education.

Location: Boyer Homestead

Questions: Pastor Tom, Tom@ChurchoftheGoodShepherd.com

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Post-Service Fellowship and Catechism
Mar
15

Post-Service Fellowship and Catechism

After service, join us for a time of fellowship, catechism/Christian education, and lunch at our pastor’s home.

Due to our current building arrangements, we’re unable to host post-service fellowship and education at the same building that we worship in. This is a minor inconvenience, but if you’re visiting, please don’t let this scare you away. We hope you can join us for lunch and the time of fellowship and education.

Location: Boyer Homestead

Questions: Pastor Tom, Tom@ChurchoftheGoodShepherd.com

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Post-Service Fellowship and Catechism
Mar
22

Post-Service Fellowship and Catechism

After service, join us for a time of fellowship, catechism/Christian education, and lunch at our pastor’s home.

Due to our current building arrangements, we’re unable to host post-service fellowship and education at the same building that we worship in. This is a minor inconvenience, but if you’re visiting, please don’t let this scare you away. We hope you can join us for lunch and the time of fellowship and education.

Location: Boyer Homestead

Questions: Pastor Tom, Tom@ChurchoftheGoodShepherd.com

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Women's Retreat
Mar
27
to Mar 29

Women's Retreat

Our first Good Shepherd Women’s Retreat will be held at the Dunrovin Retreat Center in the Stillwater, MN—a beautiful and restful space.

This will be a two night retreat with space for fellowship, prayer, silence, and solitude.

There’s still space available. Cost: $275.

Question or to register contact Emily at Emily.Christine.Boyer@gmail.com

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Post-Service Fellowship and Catechism
Mar
29

Post-Service Fellowship and Catechism

After service, join us for a time of fellowship, catechism/Christian education, and lunch at our pastor’s home.

Due to our current building arrangements, we’re unable to host post-service fellowship and education at the same building that we worship in. This is a minor inconvenience, but if you’re visiting, please don’t let this scare you away. We hope you can join us for lunch and the time of fellowship and education.

Location: Boyer Homestead

Questions: Pastor Tom, Tom@ChurchoftheGoodShepherd.com

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Maundy Thursday
Apr
2

Maundy Thursday

Location: The Rice Lake Center (6900 137th St. N.)

Concerning Maundy Thursday (from the Book of Common Prayer, ACNA, 2019): The Paschal mystery—the death and resurrection of Jesus Christ—is at the heart of the Christian Gospel. The evening of Maundy Thursday begins the Triduum (the sacred three days). This service, together with Good Friday, Holy Saturday, and The Great Vigil of Easter, form a single liturgy; thus, the final blessing and dismissal is reserved for the conclusion of the Great Vigil.

Maundy Thursday receives its name from the mandatum (commandment) given by our Lord: “A new commandment I give to you, that you love one another: just as I have loved you, you also are to love one another” (john 13:34). At the Last Supper, Jesus washed his disciples’ feet and commanded them to love and serve one another as he had done. This day commemorates the Lord’s example of servant ministry, the institution of the Eucharist, the agony in the Garden of Gethsemane, and the betrayal leading to the crucifixion.

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Good Friday
Apr
3

Good Friday

Location: The Rice Lake Center (6900 137th St. N.)

Concerning Good Friday (from the Book of Common Prayer, ACNA, 2019): The Good Friday liturgy is the second part of the Triduum (the sacred three days). This most somber of all days is appropriately marked by fasting, abstinence, and penitence, leading us to focus on Jesus and the meaning of his Cross. Some churches do not use musical instruments or bells on this day. The church is often darkened. The bare, stark appearance of the church serves as a reminder of the solemnity and the sorrow of the day. The Lord of Life was rejected, mocked, scourged, and then put to death on the Cross. The faithful are reminded of the role which their own sin played in this suffering and agony, as Christ took all sin upon himself, in obedience to his Father’s will. By the Cross we are redeemed, set free from bondage to sin and death. The Cross is a sign of God’s never-ending love for us. It is a sign of life, in the midst of death.

In addition to the liturgies for the Triduum, there are many other edifying devotions appropriate for this day, including The Way of the Cross, Tenebrae, and The Seven Last Words.

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Post-Service Fellowship and Catechism
Mar
1

Post-Service Fellowship and Catechism

After service, join us for a time of fellowship, catechism/Christian education, and lunch at our pastor’s home.

Due to our current building arrangements, we’re unable to host post-service fellowship and education at the same building that we worship in. This is a minor inconvenience, but if you’re visiting, please don’t let this scare you away. We hope you can join us for lunch and the time of fellowship and education.

Location: Boyer Homestead

Questions: Pastor Tom, Tom@ChurchoftheGoodShepherd.com

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Post-Service Fellowship and Catechism
Feb
22

Post-Service Fellowship and Catechism

After service, join us for a time of fellowship, catechism/Christian education, and lunch at our pastor’s home.

Due to our current building arrangements, we’re unable to host post-service fellowship and education at the same building that we worship in. This is a minor inconvenience, but if you’re visiting, please don’t let this scare you away. We hope you can join us for lunch and the time of fellowship and education.

Location: Boyer Homestead

Questions: Pastor Tom, Tom@ChurchoftheGoodShepherd.com

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Ash Wednesday
Feb
18

Ash Wednesday

Location: Peder Pederson Building, 5524 Upper 146th St N, Hugo, MN 55038 (located in Lion’s Volunteer Park).

What Is Ash Wednesday? Ash Wednesday marks the beginning of the season of Lent: a time of penitence, fasting, and prayer, in preparation for the great feast of the resurrection.

The season of Lent began in the early days of the Church as a time of preparation for those seeking to be baptized at the Easter Vigil. The forty days refer to our Lord’s time of fasting in the wilderness; and since Sundays are never fast days, Ash Wednesday is the beginning of the Lenten Fast.

Throughout the Old Testament, ashes are used as a sign of sorrow and repentance, and Christians have traditionally used ashes to indicate sorrow for our own sin, and as a reminder that the wages of sin is death (romans 6:23). Like Adam and Eve, we have disobeyed and rebelled against God, and are under the same judgment, “you are dust, and to dust you shall return” (Genesis 3:19). But as we are marked with ashes in the same manner that we were signed with the Cross in Baptism, we are also reminded of the life we share in Jesus Christ, the second Adam (Romans 5:17, 6:4). It is in this sure hope that we begin the journey of these forty days, that by hearing and answering our Savior’s call to repent, we may enter fully into the joyful celebration of his resurrection (from the Book of Common Prayer, ACNA, 2019, p. 542).

But What Will Service Actually Look Like? The Ash Wednesday service is marked by a somber tone or reflection, confession, repentance, and brokenness over sinfulness. However, that somber tone is met with the mercy, love, and hope of God. This is an honest service! Sin and brokenness are real and their fruits are death and destruction. However, this is also a hope-filled service. In love, Christ has come and trampled sin and death on the cross.

Want to Read More? A Primer on Ash Wednesday

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Post-Service Fellowship and Catechism
Feb
15

Post-Service Fellowship and Catechism

After service, join us for a time of fellowship, catechism/Christian education, and lunch at our pastor’s home.

Due to our current building arrangements, we’re unable to host post-service fellowship and education at the same building that we worship in. This is a minor inconvenience, but if you’re visiting, please don’t let this scare you away. We hope you can join us for lunch and the time of fellowship and education.

Location: Boyer Homestead

Questions: Pastor Tom, Tom@ChurchoftheGoodShepherd.com

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Epiphany Party
Jan
10

Epiphany Party

Jesus Christ, the Light of the World, has shown his glory to the Gentiles! Come, let us adore him.

Let’s celebrate in response to Christ’s revelation to the world. Dress warm. Bring your old Christmas tree to throw on the fire. And enjoy fellowship.

Location: Boyer Homestead

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