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Episcopal Church of the Good Shepherd
715 Kirkman Street
Lake Charles, Louisiana 70601
Voice 337.433.5244 Fax 337.439.8728
Email [email protected]
Web www.goodshepherd-lc.com
Monday: 8 a.m.– Episcopal Day School-Chapel
Holy Eucharist
Thursday: 8 a.m. –Episcopal Day School
Sunday: 8:30 a.m., 10:30 a.m. and 5:00 p.m. in the Church
Holy Eucharist & Healing Service
Wednesday: 12:05 p.m. With unction in the Church
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BISHOP OF WESTERN LOUISIANA
The Right Rev. Jacob W. Owensby, Ph.D.
ASSISTANT PRIEST-The Rev. Jim Lueckenhoff
ASSISTANT PRIEST EMERITA
The Rev. Petroula Ruehlen
ASSISTANT PRIEST & HEAD OF SCHOOL
Bishop Noland Episcopal Day School
The Rev. Frances “Boo” Kay
PARISH SECRETARY- Margie Collins
FINANCIAL SECRETARY/
OFFICE MANAGER- Ann Lindsay
MUSIC MINISTRY-Pam LeBlanc
CHOIR DIRECTOR– Jordy Stanley
The Episcopal Church of the Good Shepherd
The Good News
September 2021
Visit our Facebook page: Good Shepherd Episcopal Church
for virtual 10:30 a.m. service on
Sundays and 8 p.m. service of
Compline nightly.
CHURCH OFFICE CLOSED
FOR
LABOR DAY HOLIDAY
Growing in Christ together through worship,
fellowship, ministry and steward-
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Episcopal Church of the Good Shepherd
Regular Vestry Meeting
July 26, 2021
Call to Order and Opening Prayer: The meeting was
called to order by the Senior Warden. Susan Ardoin
gave the opening prayer.
Certification of Quorum: Eight (8) voting members
present: Susan Ardoin, Charles Dalgleish, Martha
Hoskins, Amy Allen, Sarah Harmon, Denise Mor-
rell, Randy King, Dave McCarty
Also present: Tad Martin, Senior Warden; Mason
Lindsay, Plant Manager; and Stuart Weatherford,
Treasurer
Absent: Luke Saucier and Mother Boo Kay, Head of
School
Approval of Minutes: Motion by Charles Dalgleish,
seconded by Susan Ardoin, minutes approved..
Senior Warden’s Report: Tad Martin
The church should receive payment for the Elaine
Cameron house within the next month. This
money will be applied to repair bills.
The plaque in memory of Milda Gordon Fontenot is
on or der. Will get photo. Dedication will be
scheduled in concert with her family.
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Denise Morrell is helping Ann Lindsay with the checkbook reconciliation. McElroy, Quirk
will do the audit required by the diocese.
Discussion of funding for building repairs to cover deductible and also delays until the in-
surance claim/lawsuit is resolved. Need to amend Foundation by-laws to allow the
church to (temporarily) tap into GS Foundation funds to make initial payments to con-
tractors repairing the church. On a motion by Tad Martin, seconded by Dave McCarty,
the Vestry voted to amend the Foundation by-laws for the purpose of paying for re-
pairs necessary after hurricanes Laura and Delta, and the subsequent freeze and
flood, to allow the Vestry to remove money from the principal allowing one-time
access to these funds, leaving at least the minimum allowed to keep the account
open, and repaying the funds on a priority basis if and when the insurance is paid.
The Foundation Board membership needs to be updated to allow for a more active board.
On a motion by Tad Martin, seconded by Charles Dalgleish, the Vestry voted to amend
the Foundation Board membership to include the Senior Warden, Junior Warden,
Treasurer (now Stuart Weatherford), one at-large Vestry member (now Dave
McCarty) and one at-large member of the congregation (now David Painter) with
the Rector and Plant Manager as ex-officios.
Kyle Duplantis with First Federal Bank discussed options for temporary loans for further
construction financing if needed. We will also consult with Merchants and Farmers, JD
Bank, and First Horizon (Iberia). We may also do a fund drive among our parishioners.
Some hurricane repair donations have already been received in the amounts of $12,000,
$500, and $200. Once all financial institutions have been consulted, the Senior Warden
and Treasurer will negotiate if necessary.
Junior Warden’s and Plant Manager’s Reports: Randy King and Mason Lindsay
Repairs continue. Discussed getting a building consultant to deal with Church Mutual In-
surance. Cox, Cox, Filo are still awaiting an appraisal from Jeffrey Majors of Skyline
Adjusters. Have not yet come to an agreement with Yeah Trees over their excessive bill.
Treasurer’s Report and Stewardship Report: Stuart Weatherford and Dave McCarty
Treasurer: There will be an audit once the check reconciliation is done.
Stewardship: No new report. Hoping to get the Stewardship Campaign underway sooner
this year.
Almighty God, we ask your guidance and blessing as we seek a Rector for Good Shepherd; be pre-sent in our deliberations and make us aware of your will for us. Guide us and our parish in the days ahead. Prepare that person that you have in mind for us to receive your call. And keep us all mindful of our calling to serve your purpose and to witness to your love, through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen.
EDS Report: no report
Search Committee: Charles Dalgleish, Chairman
Have done what we can do to this point.
Ministries Reports:
Tend My Lambs
Shepherd’s Staff has met with chair, Deb Fontenot
Evening Compline: Continues online.
Book Sale: Amy Painter. Meeting most Mondays and sometimes other days. Trying to reor-
ganize books stored on second floor. Have not yet touched books in storage. The sale is
planned for March. Volunteers needed.
Small Groups and Ministries that have restarted:
Monday Study Group, Ellie Marquez, Coordinator
Wednesday Night Study Group, Jamie Whelan, Coordinator
Men’s Breakfast, meets first Wednesday of the month at Big Daddy’s
Other groups and ministries are on hold, being reorganized, or being reimagined.
Outreach Committee Report: Planning to have a “Blessing of the Backpacks” at the 10:30
service on August 15th .
Old Business: We need better system for providing pastoral care for the bereaved and for those in
crisis. We are still planning to do training for LEMs, Lay Eucharistic Visitors, and Acolytes.
New Business:
Susan Ardoin reported that she is trying to visit or contact three different parishioners each
week. She began with Mother Petroula and Jerry.
Debbie Howrey and Virginia Webb will assist in filling the My Little Pantry with church dona-
tions.
Closing Prayer, Next Meeting Date, and Motion to Adjourn: After a closing prayer by Randy
King, the next meeting date was set for Monday, August 23rd. The meeting was adjourned.
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The Chancel Choir is looking for new singers!
If you love to sing, come join us for rehearsals on Thursdays from 6pm
– 7pm and on Sunday mornings for the 10:30am service. No experi-
ence needed! For more information email Jordy Stanley:
Deaths: We pray for those who have died: Flora Doucet, and Christy
Ragusa King, May they rise in Glory and rest in peace and may
light perpetual shine upon them.
Milestones
Reading, Writing and Arithmetic
.
Fr. Luke
Prayer for Schools: O Eternal God, bless all schools, public and private, Grant that they may be lively centers for sound learning, new discovery and the pursuit of wisdom; grant, also, that those who teach our children, and our children whose duty it is to learn, may find it their sacred call and duty through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen.
COVID UPDATE: MASK MANDATE AND SOCIAL DISTANCING
WE ARE UNDER AN ORDER BY THE GOVERNOR TO WEAR OUR MASKS AND DISTANCE OUR-
SELVES FROM THOSE OUTSIDE OUR IMMEDIATE FAMILIES. PLEASE TAKE THESE PRECAU-
TIONS WHEN WE GATHER TOGETHER. VACCINATION SITES CAN BE FOUND AT
LDH.LA.GOV/COVIDVACCINE-LOCATIONS/
September Highlights Healing Service and Holy Eucharist are held in the
church on Wednesdays at 12:05 p.m.
Sunday, September 5
Services at 8:30 a.m. & 10:30 a.m. & 5:00 p.m.
Sunday, September 12
Services at 8:30 a.m., 10:30 a.m. & 5 p.m.
Sunday, September 19
Services at 8:30 a.m., 10:30 a.m. & 5 p.m.
Sunday, September 26
Services at 8:30 a.m., 10:30 a.m., & 5 p.m.
The Monday Study Group has resumed in Hardtner Hall on Mondays at 11:30 a.m.
(Women of the Church) Ellie Marquez is the
facilitator.
Wednesday Study Group meets at 6:30 p.m.
Jamie Whelan is the facilitator.
Men’s Breakfast at Big Daddy’s Sports
Grill, 1st Wednesday of the month, 7:30 a.m.
September Birthday & Prayer
Calendar
1 John Mills 3 Christopher Solari 5 Pam Spears, Laura Gaar 6 Sarah King 7 Kathy Hanudel, Matilda Khoury 9 Corinne Grubb, Eleanore Sadie Khoury 10 John F. Raggio, Phil Earhart, Clayton Hebert, King Stream 11 William Fastabend 13 Laura Leach 15 Janey Barham, Charles Dalgleish, Trey Patureau, Marcy Hanudel 16 Kevin Collins 18 Peter Stevens, Isabelle Martel 19 Jeff Cole, Kelly Spence, Keegan Garrison 20 Flora Girard, Taryn Allured 21 Benjamin Solari 22 Linda Dalgleish, Virginia Webb 23 Jackie Carleton, Jana Price, Laura Carleton 24 Ellie Lemoine, George Paret, Judy Wag staff, Matt Hanudel 25 Victoria Cole 26 Annette Sole, Maggie Lund 28 Ellie Marquez, Jerry Roberts, Darren Martel 29 Brenda Hebert 30 Randy Langlois, Adam Paris
Deadline for the October newsletter will be
September 15th. You can find the newslet-
ter on-line at www.goodshepherd-lc.com.
St. Cecilia’s Guild will resume meeting on Sep-
tember 13th in Hardtner Hall. Check with Ellie
Marquez or Sandra Leder for more details.
Mark your Calendars for September 19th, 10:30 a.m.—one morning service.
“Back to Church Sunday,”
Sunday School and Ministries sign-up
New Ministry Opportunities
Thank you to Ann Lindsay, Sarah Harmon, Sharon Allured and John Richards for working the
camera on Sundays to televise our 10:30 a.m. service on Facebook. If you would like to help
out, please get in touch with Ann. This new ministry could use a few more hands.
Donate to the Little Food Pantry. Volunteer to help stock the Little Food Pantry on Sundays
and mid-week. Call Sarah Harmon at 515-7504.
Prayer List
Prayers are asked for: people suffering due to hurricanes, drought, flooding, tornados, fires, earthquakes, and from the coronavirus all over our
world, and for protection for all doctors and health care workers, first responders, and all those who provide for our needs.
Prayers for healing: COVID-19 Delta: Ann Foster, Austin Burk, Bronson Cole, Bryan Gaar, Dan Weaver, Randy Fruge . Shoulder
surgery: Joe Richardson, Knee surgery- Pam Spears.
Whitney and Bruce Matte, Jeff Allain, Don Anderson, Tracey Barbe, Alexandra Battestin, Canon John Bedingfield, Kay Blake,
Bobby, Holly Boudreaux, Lois Bradley, Demar Briscoe, Daniel Brownfield, Mike Bullen, Frances Charles, Sheila Chisholm, Chris,
Joyce Clark, Cole Cormier, Ethel Coulter, Lynn Cox, Nancy Czejkowski, James Dellarossa, Claudia Dille, Allie, Wayne & Maverick
Dixon, Laura Miller Drews, Lucie Earhart, Erika Evans, Celeste Bland Eddy, Bob Edwards, Jim & Aidyn Gayle, Ruth Gayle, Steven
Gauthreaux, Gene Gintz, Dorothy Gurley, Johnny Haas, Melody Luff Hannon, Daryl Harper, James Hayes, Jackie & Bob Hellman,
Laura Henry, Julie Hess, Jack, Adeline Jackson, Carlene Jessen, Sarah Johns, Robert Johnston, Melanie F. Koonce, Colleen Lam-
bert, Donald Landry, Laura Leach, Greg LeBlanc, Debbie, Marcie, Bryan McKinley, Jennifer Katie McLean, Laura Meche, Lucas
Merrill, Ethan Morris, Victor Muse, Sidney Baker Musser, Eliza Obenchain, Libby Patterson, Bobby Phillips, Fletcher Pierson, Ste-
ve Portwood, John Poche, Doug Ragusa, John Randall, Jody Reed, Eddy Robinson, Rosemary, Jerry Ruehlen, Fred Sahlmann,
Dorothy Smith, Pam Spears, Ike Stanfield, Frank Storozyszyn, Laurie Straub, Ben Terry, Bob Theaux, Jerry Trahan, Mickie
Twomey, Ginger Walker, Lanny Wallace, Charles Ware, Marie White, Canon Rowena White, Louis Whittington, Brayleigh Woodall,
Angell Wright.
Our continuing prayers are offered for: Scott Anderson, Rocky Cormier, David Crowe, Marjorie Dempsey, Cliff DeRousselle, Ever-
ett, Lindy George, Jean George, Jenilyn Gibson, Katie Hoffman, Caroline Hollins, Charmaine Hufstedler, Emily Judice, John Land-
ry, Hannah Linowski, Patricia Reeves, Gabby Saucier, Sylvia Seals, Riley Soder, Sara Starke, Bobby Thomas, Josephine Thweatt,
Carolyn Earhart Whittington.
Traumatic brain injury: Michael Barrett, Luke Burnham, Conner Gezell, Ty Griffen, Damani James, and Jason Trahan.
We pray for those serving in our armed forces: Sergeant First Class John Dalgleish, US ARMY, son of Linda & Charles Dalgleish;
Danasia London, NAVY; Kyandra London, NAVY; Ethan Myers, US Air Force; Tucker Matte, US Marine Corp, son of Bruce & Whit-
ney Matte, grandson of Ed & Nancy Khoury; Senior Chief Petty Officer Justin Phillips, NAVY, nephew of Margie Collins; Captain
Jonathan Primeaux, US Air force pilot, brother of Emily Williams and Lt. Gabe Emerson, Pilot US Air Force, grandson of Betty Em-
erson, Abigail Ponder, US Navy, granddaughter of Penny & Louis Haxthausen, daughter of Katherine and Brian Ponder.
Back to Church Sunday– September 19, 2021
Because of COVID, our plans to eat together will have to be postponed.
Worship: It takes many volunteers to prepare for Sunday and
Wednesday worship services.
Ladies, the Altar Guild prepares the altar for 4 services and could
use your help.
Additional lectors, oblationers, are needed as
well.
Sign up to be an acolyte, Security usher or videographer.
Additional Eucharistic ministers are also needed at all services. (Training will be
offered soon.) We also need LEM’s or Altar Guild members to help with the EDS
service weekly on Thursday mornings at 8 a.m. (help the children put on vest-
ments, light candles, assist the priest)
Christian Education: Adults and children alike benefit
from the study of scripture. When we are COVID–
CLEAR, we would like to offer in-person classes be-
fore the 10:30 a.m. service. In the meantime, we would like for people to come
forward to record Sunday School videos for the children to watch. (We can upload
them to our Facebook page.) If it is your dream to be “on camera” please contact
the church office to help with this ministry.
Outreach: Sign up to help with the used Book Sale to be held in the spring, bring
food for the Little Pantry and for Faith and Friends Food Pantry (repairs are being
made to the building at Chennault,) donate to Tend My Lambs to send children in
Haiti to school or to pay teachers salaries. Help spruce up
the grounds by participating in Holy Weeders Grounds &
Gardens. Practice Sunday Hospitality by sharing the respon-
sibility of the TLC table in Hardtner Hall. Join Shepherd’s
Staff to help disperse funds to those charities in need, Par-
ticipate in Rosewood Nursing Home Ministry.
Parish Life: Altar Flower delivery, Sunday Morning Breakfast Chefs, Connecting Our
Roots, Donut Delivery, Dinners for Eight, Volunteer Desk Receptionist, Stewardship
Committee, Sunday Offering counters, the Search Committee, Communica-
tions/marketing, St. Cecilia’s Guild for women.
Pastoral Care: Food Militia for shut-ins, the sick or be-
reaved, Caring callers to check on parishioners, visitors
to offer communion or to tend to the sick or elderly.
Prayer Groups: Labyrinth, Daughters of the King, Moms in Touch
(school) Sunday prayer list (all parishioners are needed to pray)
Birthday Calendar (pray for parishioners and their families on
their birthdays)
Yours are the eyes through which he looks compassion on this
world. Yours are the feet with which he walks to do good. Yours are
the hands through which he blesses all the world. Yours are the
hands, yours are the feet, yours are the eyes, you are his body.
Christ has no body now on earth but yours.” ~ St. Teresa of Avila.
LC Turning to FEMA for reimbursement
Mayor Nic Hunter says that the estimated cost to demolish all the homes in Lake Charles
that are damaged by Hurricanes Laura and Delta is upwards of $10 million and the city
can’t afford that kind of clean-up. Because of that, the city is turning to a FEMA-run program
that offers reimbursement for the demolition and removal of certain storm-damaged homes,
along with removing related debris from private property that meets specific guidelines.
Within the Lake Charles city limits, you may qualify for this help. In order for the debris to be
declared eligible, it must be the direct result of Hurricanes Laura or Delta and be located
within the city. HG& A (Hunt, Guillot and Associates) will assess which debris and homes are
potentially eligible to take part in the program and it will prepare an application to send to
FEMA. Eligible debris may include hazardous tree stumps, leaning trees or hanging tree
limbs, construction debris, white goods, household appliances and household hazardous
waste. Eligible homes for demolition must be in imminent danger of collapse, have been oc-
cupied before the hurricanes and damaged by the hurricanes. Residents can call or email
to take part in the program: [email protected] or 337-443-7129.
Article by John Guidroz, American Press August 11, 2021
United Way of Southwest Louisiana and the
City of Lake Charles Challenge Community to Repay Compassion
United Way of Southwest Louisiana and the City of Lake Charles announced two community
challenges to benefit Terrebonne Parish following Hurricane Ida. The $50K Ida Challenge en-
courages 50 individuals, businesses or organizations to each give $1000 toward a gift to
United Way of South Louisiana. Mayor Nic Hunter has pledged to be the in the first 50. A
cleaning drive will take place from Wednesday, September 1 through the 10th. Volunteers are
being sought for the supply drive. New, unused cleaning supplies( mops, brooms, buckets,
bleach, 409 heavy-duty gloves, shovels, rakes, gas cans, generators, chain saws, heavy duty
trash bags, or bottled water may be dropped off in a drive-through donation center set up at
the Lake Charles Civic Center. The drive-through will be open on weekdays beginning Septem-
ber 1 from 9 a.m. until 5 p.m. and on Saturday, September 4 from 8 a.m. until noon.
United Way of South Louisiana serves Assumption, Lafourche, St. Mary and Terrebonne par-
ishes.
To donate text IDACHALLENGE TO 40403 or visit unitedwayswla.org/Ida. Donors will be con-
tacted following gift to schedule PR.
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Phone: 337-433-5244
Fax: 337-439-8728
Email: [email protected]
Web: www.goodshepherd-lc.com
Non-Profit Org.
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Permit No. 87
Return Address Requested
The South Campus of EDS has a
added a new wharf on Lake Vio-
let.
Three new trees were donated
by St. Michael & All Angels to en-
hance the grounds. They were
dedicated in August and are
named in honor of three archan-
gels: St. Michael, St. Gabriel,
and St. Raphael.