Good Shepherd United Methodist Church

04/05/2026

Dear Beloveds,

May God grant us everything we need to get back up again each time we get knocked down, trusting nothing will ever keep us
down! Wishing you and your loveds ones a joyous Easter season. 🦋🌷🐣🐇

Love,
Pastor Chet, Darian, and Ollie 🐾

04/05/2026

Tomorrow, on Easter Sunday, we celebrate that the good news is alive in the world! Join us at 10 a.m. as we sing together, proclaim the good news of resurrection, receive poetry, and experience our sanctuary beautifully adorned with flowers. Pastor Chet will preach a sermon titled, “The Good News Is … Alive In The World.” ASL interpretation will be provided as well as a Children’s Message and Children’s Church (an activity and a snack with our Safe Sanctuaries trained adult leaders in the St. John’s Room during the sermon). Join us on the journey! 🌷🦋🐣 You are welcome here! 🌈

Join us in person or online via livestream at 10 a.m.:

https://www.youtube.com/live/Sd-tOvY6dl4?si=WRMB5LqnA1VW9B9i

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04/03/2026

Sacred moments shared with our sibling congregation, Hampden United Methodist Church, during Holy Week.

03/31/2026

Trans beloveds are made in God’s image and likeness. 🏳️‍⚧️✨

Today is Transgender Day of Visibility.

In a world that is working hard to erase you — you are still here. Still beloved. Still made in the image of God.

No legislation changes that. No headline changes that. No amount of fear changes that.

You are seen. You are sacred. You belong.

Happy Transgender Day of Visibility from Reconciling Ministries Network. 🏳️‍⚧️

03/31/2026

Prepare to be swept up in the drama and tragic beauty of it all. It is not just a story we remember, but a way of life we rehearse. We cry out, in both plea and protest, to be saved. We kneel. We wash feet. We serve. We break bread and share the cup. We become what we eat. We sit at the foot of the cross. We weep. We offer our lives. And we love until the day we die. Journey with Jesus through worship on these holiest days.

03/26/2026

You’re invited, Hampden! ☀️ Gather with your friends, family, and neighbors for a Community Breakfast at Good Shepherd United Methodist Church on Saturday, April 11 from 8-10 a.m. 🥞🍳☕️

Weather permitting, there will be tables set up outside — as well as on the first floor, which has a ramp entrance on the Roland Ave. side of the building.

There’s no cost for you to belong and be fed. Simply come, connect with your neighbors, and share a meal. Any donations received will go back into the community through our Emergency Mission Fund. You are welcome here! 🌈

03/26/2026

We are grateful for our partnership with our sibling congregation, Hampden United Methodist Church! These concerts and lunches are always a highlight of the Lenten season.

03/05/2026

The Lenten Lunch and Concert Series is back this year with two performances by Tea and Lace and The Larks! Join us Wednesdays March 18 and 25 at noon at Hampden United Methodist Church (3451 Falls Rd. Baltimore, MD 21211) for a free concert with lunch to follow. Bring your own lunch or purchase one for $12. RSVP today by calling 410-235-0679. ☘️🌷🎶

03/03/2026

Last week, Pastor Chet joined faith leaders from around the country – mostly United Methodist – in a public witness for immigration justice. They began the day with a dynamic worship service at Capitol Hill United Methodist Church, with two additional overflow locations filled to capacity! Our bishop, LaTrelle Miller Easterling, preached the sermon and she was accompanied by numerous other United Methodist bishops who either led various components of the service or were simply in attendance to show their support.

They then marched as a group to the grounds of the U.S. Capitol where a public rally followed. But they did more than worship and bear public witness. They then met with members of Congress and their staff. In these congressional meetings, they shared that as people of faith shaped by our United Methodist tradition and its Social Principles, every person bears the image of God and is worthy of dignity, safety, and care.

🔗➡️ Read more: https://www.bwcumc.org/news-and-views/faithful-resistance-spreads-across-the-northeast/

02/22/2026

The rain didn’t stop these Girl Scouts from opening their cookie booth this morning! 🍪 Thanks to everyone from our church and community who showed support to Troop #2439!

02/22/2026

Our Lenten Bible Study begins today! Join us every Sunday in Lent at 8:45 a.m. in the St. Johns Room as we read and discuss Adam Hamilton’s “The Message of Jesus.” A limited number of books are available for purchase.

02/21/2026

As the season of Lent begins, we are embarking on a new worship series titled, “Tell Me Something Good: Grounding Ourselves in the Good News this Lent.” On Ash Wednesday, we received the prophet Joel’s plea to “return to God.” It pulses through our being with every beat of our heart. This Lent, we are invited to a journey of sacred return by grounding ourselves in the good news.

Thankfully, the gospel really is good news! It is abundant. And it brings us back to our roots. Following Jesus and living out his teachings grounds us in who God created us to be. In a world too often burdened by bad news, we are called to be a good news people.

We begin this sacred season holding fast to the reminders that will bolster us for the journey ahead. Lenten worship will weave art, poetry, preaching, and song. Join us on the journey every Sunday at 10 a.m. - you are welcome here! 🌈

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