Chosen
2024-11-11 18:00 - 20:00, 2024-11-25 18:00 - 20:00, 2024-12-02 18:00 - 20:00 (America/Chicago) | Madison Peterson Hall
Eric Holmer, eholmer@gslcwi.com

Watch The Chosen | Season 4 Episode 6
2024-11-18 18:00 - 20:00 | Madison Peterson Hall
Synopsis
Jesus and the disciples celebrate Hanukkah. Matthew confronts Judas about irregularities, and the festival turns into a fight, then flight. The disciples escape with their lives, but learn a friend hasn’t been so lucky.
Watch the Episode Online
https://watch.thechosen.tv/video/184683596188?language=en

Join the Zoom Discussion
Topic: The Chosen | Season 4 Episode 6
Time: Nov 18, 2024 06:00 PM Central Time (US and Canada)
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Thanksgiving Eve Worship & Pie Social
2024-11-27 20:00 - 21:00 | Madison Peterson Hall
Rick Thomas

The Gathering
2024-12-03 11:00 - 13:30 | Madison Peterson Hall
All are invited to a special gathering filled with the sounds of the season, where we will enjoy beautiful Advent music performed by Director of Worship and Music, Jared Stellmacher. Following music, we will share lunch together! Good Shepherd will provide homemade soup. Please bring a side dish or dessert to share and enjoy fellowship as we wait in the hope and joy of Advent. Friends and family are welcome—let’s gather, sing, and share in this blessed time of year.

Drawn to the Word
2024-12-04 18:30 - 20:00 | Madison Sanctuary; Madison Lobby; Madison Peterson Hall
Experience a Drawn to the Word worship and artistic experience where Artist and Pastor Paul Oman will paint a larger-than-life sized mural before your eyes. This story will unfold artistically, musically, narratively and Scripturally during the event. All are welcome. Come and see!

Gingerbread House Decorating & Family Dinner
2024-12-06 17:00 - 20:00 | Verona Lobby; Verona Sanctuary
Enjoy a meal, Advent crafts and gingerbread house decorating. Bring a gingerbread house and we’ll provide the candy to decorate.

Congregational Life Conversations with Pastor Craig | December 2024
2024-12-08 10:00 - 11:30
Get details for December’s conversation here.
Upcoming Conversation Dates:
Madison – December 8, January 19, February 16
Verona – December 15, January 26, February 23

A Night of Caroling, Cabernet & Cookies
2024-12-08 19:00 - 21:00
Get ready to kick off the Advent and Christmas season with holiday cheer! Join us on Sunday, December 8, at Toot and Kate’s Wine Bar (109 S. Main St., Verona) for our beloved annual “Caroling, Cabernet & Cookies” night! Sing your heart out or simply relax and enjoy the festive music and good company. Everyone is welcome for an evening filled with Christmas songs, holiday spirits, and cheer! Feel free to bring a plate of cookies or snacks to share. See you there!

Advent By Candlelight
2024-12-12 18:30 - 19:30 | Verona Lobby; Verona Sanctuary
Advent by Candlelight invites the congregation to an evening of reflection, scripture, storytelling, and song with Pastor Greg Meyer. Bring desserts or host a table, filling it with friends old or new. RSVP here.

Christmas Camp
2024-12-13 17:30 - 20:00 | Verona Campus; Verona Gym; Verona Lobby; Verona Sanctuary; Verona Room 6
Kids Age 3-5th grade are welcome for a drop-off night of Christmas fun!
Pizza dinner, Christmas crafts, carols and games hosted by Good Shepherd High School Ministry & Youth and Children’s Ministry staff. All are welcome to wear Christmas pajamas.
This is a fundraiser to benefit High School Ministry trips and travels. Parents can pay/donate whatever they’d like for kids to attend.
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Christmas Concert
2024-12-16 19:00 - 20:30 | Madison Lobby; Madison Sanctuary
Celebrate the season with us at a Music Monday Christmas Concert like no other! Experience Joel Raney’s cantata, The Promise of Light, brought to life by over 50 musicians, including Good Shepherd’s Choir, Handbell Choir, Children’s Choir, two pianos, organ, synthesizer, bass, and a dazzling array of percussion. With scripture readings, meditations, and treasured Christmas carols woven throughout, this evening promises joy and inspiration for all. Bring family, friends, and neighbors to share in this spirited tradition! Admission is free and open to everyone, with a free-will offering supporting Good Shepherd’s Music Ministry. Come feel the warmth and wonder of the season as we celebrate the true meaning of Christmas through music!

Christmas Eve Services
2024-12-24

Mortgage Burning
2025-01-19 11:00 - 11:30 | Good Shepherd Verona Campus, 7291 County Road PD, Verona, WI, 53593, United States
Thanks to the incredible generosity of the members of the congregation, Good Shepherd Lutheran Church in Madison and Verona has successfully made their final payment on their mortgage after more than five years of work.
Join us following the 10 a.m. service outside the Verona Campus Sunday, Jan. 19 as we hold a special ceremony to celebrate being debt free. The Holy C.O.W. will provide refreshments.

Bonhoeffer Class Week 1 | Dietrich Bonhoeffer's Life
2025-01-21 18:30 - 20:00 | Madison Peterson Hall
Dietrich Bonhoeffer’s Life: Ten Key Turning Points
By engaging in this session, participants will learn (more) about Dietrich Bonhoeffer, and will recognize that his life choices were shaped by his faith commitments, family values, life experiences, deep reflection, and a particular historical context. They will consider the ways their own choices are shaped in the same way, paying particular attention to their own historical and political context.
Week 1 Zoom Details
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Topic: Good Shepherd | Bonhoeffer Class 1
Time: Jan 21, 2025 06:30 PM Central Time (US and Canada)
https://duke.zoom.us/j/92105856777
Meeting ID: 921 0585 6777

Food Pantry 20th Anniversary
2025-01-26 09:00 - 10:30
Join us in celebrating the 20th anniversary of the Good Shepherd Food Pantry with a special combined worship service on Sunday, January 26, at 9 a.m. at our Madison Campus. Pastor Brent Campbell will return to the pulpit to preach. Please note: there will be no services at the Verona campus that day. After the service, we’ll host a reception with cake, a Food Pantry Open House, and a mini Outreach Fair. To mark this milestone, we’re aiming to collect 2,025 food items in honor of the occasion! Please bring your food donations to worship that day—but no soup! Save your soup for our Souper Bowl event in February. Come celebrate 20 years of feeding our neighbors and help us look ahead to continuing this vital ministry together!

Bonhoeffer Class Week 2 | It's About the Neighbor
2025-01-28 18:30 - 20:00 | Madison Peterson Hall
It’s all about the neighbor: Theological and Ethical ideas
By engaging in this session, participants will be introduced to Bonhoeffer’s theological and ethical thinking about the “neighbor,” starting in his earliest writing in his dissertation to his latest work in his letters and papers from prison. They will begin to think about the relevance of Bonhoeffer’s thought for our politically fraught and divisive times.
Zoom Meeting Details
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Topic: Good Shepherd | Bonhoeffer Class 2
Time: Jan 28, 2025 06:30 PM Central Time (US and Canada)
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Meeting ID: 915 6787 5743

Little Blessings Preschool 25th Anniversary
2025-02-02 13:00 - 15:00 | Good Shepherd Madison Campus, 5701 Raymond Road, Madison, WI, 53711, United States
Come and celebrate with us! Little Blessings Preschool is having its 25th Anniversary celebration on February 2 from 1 p.m. to 3 p.m. We will have a short family worship service, light refreshments, and fellowship.

Bonhoeffer Class Week 3 | Faith is Worldly
2025-02-04 18:30 - 20:00 | Madison Peterson Hall
Bonhoeffer and “This-Worldliness”
By attending this session, participants will continue to consider Bonhoeffer’s theological and ethical themes, but now in light of his thinking about justice. They will continue to think about the relevance of Bonhoeffer’s thought for our politically fraught and divisive times.
Zoom Meeting Details
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Topic: Good Shepherd | Bonhoeffer Class 3
Time: Feb 4, 2025 06:30 PM Central Time (US and Canada)
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Meeting ID: 986 2114 3192

Souper Bowl XXIV
2025-02-09
It’s Time to Play in Souper Bowl XXIV – You Can Help Tackle Hunger
February 2 is the Kick-off to Souper Bowl XXIV at the 6 p.m. service.
Play continues during the week at AMPED and the Little Blessings Pre-schools and Verona 4K.
Souper Bowl Sunday is February 9th at the 9:00 and 10:00 a.m. services.

You are welcome to bring your soup during Souper Bowl Week
Building hours at Madison are Monday through Thursday 8:30 a.m.– 12:30 p.m. and 1:30 p.m. –
3:30 p.m; Verona – Monday through Thursday 8:30 a.m. – 4:30 p.m. AND Friday 8:30 a.m. – Noon, both campuses.

Preferred soups include ramen noodles, chicken noodle, chicken with rice, cream of mushroom, cream of chicken & any chunky style soups. No tomato soup, please. All the soup goes to the three Food Pantries supported by Good Shepherd: The Good Shepherd, Allied and Badger Prairie Needs Network.

We are also asking for your help with monetary donations. The Pantry Coordinators can use the money to purchase needed food and other items given at the Food Pantries. Checks can be made to Good Shepherd with Souper Bowl in the memo line. You can also donate online at gslcwi.com/SouperBowl. Select 30-Souper Bowl from the drop-down selections under General Fund.

Our goal is 2,052 cans of soup, more than the 2,051 cans of soup donated during Souper Bowl XXIII.

Share the Love Camp
2025-02-14 17:30 - 20:00 | Verona Campus, 7291 County Rd PD, Verona, WI, 53593, United States
Kids age 3-5th grade are invited to a night of Valentine games, crafts and taco dinner. This is a drop-off event at Verona campus, hosted by high school youth and children’s ministry staff. This is a fundraiser for High School Ministry summer travel, parents pay what you’d like for kids to attend.

Congregational Life Conversations with Pastor Craig
2025-02-16 10:00 - 10:30
There will be updates from our lead pastor call committee and from our interim task force. Our main topic will be the recent decision of the Board of Directors to launch a call process for a site pastor in Verona.

A Time for Burning - Film Screening and Discussion
2025-02-19 18:15 - 20:00 | Verona Coffee Bar
Watch and Discuss with the Good Shepherd Community
A Time for Burning is a 1966 American documentary film that explores the attempts of the minister of Augustana Lutheran Church in Omaha, Nebraska, to persuade his all-white congregation to reach out to “Negro” Lutherans in the city’s north side. The film was directed by Bill Jersey and was nominated for Best Documentary Feature in the 1967 Academy Awards. The film was commissioned by Lutheran Film Associates (LFA).
The film was remastered by the Academy Film Archive and premiered at the Oscars Museum in Los Angeles on December 17, 2023. The film is shot in “cinéma vérité” style. It chronicles the relationship between the minister, L. William Youngdahl, and white and black Lutheran parishioners. The film includes a meeting between Youngdahl and a black barber, Ernie Chambers, who tells Youngdahl that his Jesus is “contaminated.” At one point another Omaha Lutheran minister, Walter E. Rowoldt of Luther Memorial Lutheran Church, says, “This one lady said to me, ‘pastor’, she said, ‘I want them to have everything I have, I want God to bless them as much as he blesses me, but’, she says, ‘pastor, I just can’t be in the same room with them, it just bothers me’.” Rowoldt and other ministers also discuss the concern that blacks moving into white neighborhoods will decrease property values. The attempt to reach out does not succeed and Youngdahl resigns as minister of the church.
In 2005, A Time for Burning was selected for preservation in the United States National Film Registry by the Library of Congress as “culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant”. Chambers completed law school and was elected to the Nebraska Legislature in 1970. Senator Chambers is the longest-serving state senator in Nebraska history.

Congregational Life Conversations with Pastor Craig
2025-02-23 11:00 - 11:30

Bonhoeffer Class - Part Five
2025-02-25 18:30 - 20:00 | Madison Kitchen; Madison Peterson Hall

Shrove Tuesday Pancake Dinner
2025-03-04 17:00 - 19:00 | Madison Peterson Hall
Join us in Madison on Tuesday, March 4 at 5:00 p.m. for a fun and delicious Shrove Tuesday Pancake dinner! Enjoy a hearty meal and great fellowship as we prepare for the season of Lent. All are welcome!

Women's Book Study | Lent in Plain Sight
2025-03-06 18:30 - 19:30 | Verona Chapel
Join us beginning on Thursday, March 6th in the Verona chapel at 6:30 p.m. as we gather to ground ourselves in the season of lent by gathering together around Lent in Plain Sight by Jill J. Duffield. This is a devotional book with short daily devotionals and the readings begin on Ash Wednesday. You’ll need to purchase your own copy of the book. Please join us when you can. If you have to miss a week, no problem. We’ll meet on Thursdays in Lent for 6 weeks, 3/6/25-4/10/25. Reach out to Ronda Beggs with any questions at rbeggs@gslcwi.com

Exploring Forgiveness
2025-03-11 18:30 - 20:00 | Madison Peterson Hall
What does it mean to forgive? How do we do it?
In this weekly conversation we will look at themes in scripture and in society that point to our existing understandings of forgiveness and reconciliation.
We will also work through concrete ways to put forgiveness and reconciliation into practice.
Zoom Meeting Details
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Meeting ID: 977 6358 7714
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Lenten Soup Lunch & Worship
2025-03-12 11:00 - 13:00
This contemplative worship service will feature Marty Haugen’s “Holden Evening Prayer” while we explore our theme: “Forgive, as we have been Forgiven” through music, psalms, reflections and prayer. Lunch is served at 11:00 a.m. – 11:45 a.m., Worship at noon. Stream available at gslcwi.com. Join us March 12, 19, 26, April 2 and 9.
