This story was in the Sunday morning edition of the Charlotte Observer, courtesy of correspondent Marty Minchin:Good Shepherd Church’s Latino ministry has progressed far from the days of Latino parishioners listening to sermons translated to Spanish through special...

Here's where we are going over the next 10 days at Good Shepherd:Sunday, December 21 at 8:30, 10, and 11:30Jingle Jam, a multi-media, multi-sensory, and multi-generational Christmas experience.  Includes a compelling Gospel invitation.  You will not want to...

Those who comment on the state of religion in America often remark how truth is relative for emerging generations.  You can read about that here, here, and here.Yet in contrast to that cultural assumption -- which most of us accept as gospel without much...

As a lot of you know, Good Shepherd opened a different sort of multi-site in the Twin Lakes Mobile Home Community this fall.Serving a primarily Latino population, our staff and volunteers provide after-school tutoring, snacks, and love.Anyway, a crew of high impact...

If you can trace the history of your life through Christmas presents you have received -- the ones that catch you completely by surprise and fill you with wonder and gratitude -- then I have been blessed indeed.This list is front-loaded a bit . . . but isn't that when...

What a fun day.I saw people I hadn't seen in fifteen years.I met people for the very first time.I got to throw diapers around on the platform.I was able to celebrate a new baby with the gathered congregation.My new friend who is an atheist returned -- and brought his...

Jesus wasn't invited.He invaded.He wasn't expected.He appeared.And someone who invades without an invitation and who appears without an expectation invariably adds some inconvenience to your life. In the case of Jesus, many of the inconveniences land in Joseph's...

In my experience, when God speaks, he tends to repeat what he has already said.(Or, to be more precise, he repeats what he inspired biblical authors to say.)That's why, for example, when I was looking through some resumes in 2010 for a job we had open here, I quite...

Here I am with Latino Ministries Pastor Sammy Gonzalez at last weekend's Two Year Anniversary of our Spanish-speaking worship service.I was able to murmur a few words in espanol before turning the program back over to Sammy who is blessedly and thankfully...

If you attended Good Shepherd on Sunday, you knew something was up with my voice.As in going, going, GONE!So Monday was laryngitis, doctors, Augmentin, and Prednisone. And being home alone.These don't happen very often, but what takeaways emerge from a sick day?Here...