There’s always something happening at Good Shepherd.

March is Women’s History Month. To help us start observing this important time, our Adult Forum will welcome Sarah Trone Garriott. She will join us via Zoom in the Good Shepherd Classroom. Sarah is an ELCA pastor, mom, Iowa state senator, and good friend of Pastor Scott. She will reflect on how her faith has shaped her path into public service and informs engagement in our public life.

Join us for a meaningful Adult Education panel in honor of International Women’s Day as women leaders from our community share their faith stories and reflect on how their work and callings are shaped by their beliefs. Panelists include Nancy Mannion, Kendra Frazier, Jennifer Troupe Rummel, and Stephanie Lower, representing a variety of vocational paths and Christian traditions. Moderated by Kelly Lowery, this conversation invites us to listen, learn, and celebrate the diverse ways women live out their faith while influencing the world around them. All are welcome. Curiosity is encouraged.

Three Sisters Chicken, 1025 S State Street in Ephrata. This is part of the monthly Community Lunch series hosted by the Towards Racial Justice Small Group. We share lunch together the 3rd Sunday of every month at a Black or minority-owned restaurant in Lancaster. Mark your calendars and join us for fellowship, great food, and support of our neighbors!

Mark your calendar and plan to join the Towards Racial Justice small group each month for a new movie and engaging discussion! The March movie is "I Am Not Your Negro", (2018) Raoul Beck, director. "I Am Not Your Negro"envisions the book James Baldwin never finished. Using Baldwin’s original words, as read by actor Samuel L. Jackson alongside a flood of rich archival material, the film draws upon Baldwin’s notes on the lives and assassinations of Medgar Evers, Malcolm X, and Martin Luther King Jr. to explore and bring a fresh and radical perspective to the current racial narrative in America.

Join Senior Shepherds in All Saints Hall as we welcome Linda Rineer from The United Disabilities Services in Lancaster County. Linda will do a presentation with a service dog and show how service dogs are dedicated companions, and how these amazing animals change lives.

Join the “Feeding The Spirit” small group in the kitchen as we host a special cooking class to make yummy Easter treats. Good Shepherd’s very own candy expert, Katie Smith, will teach us the fine art of making chocolate peanut butter eggs. Katie will focus on how to dip the homemade eggs in the chocolate so that they turn out perfect every time! More class details will come your way in the coming weeks. The signup sheet can be found on the “Feeding The Spirit” bulletin board in the hallway. Reserve your spot now!

This April we are excited and proud to host the Mennonite Children’s Choir of Lancaster. This exceptionally talented group of young people rehearses weekly throughout the school year, performs locally each season, and travels on summer tours across the United States and around the globe.

Founded in 1998, the choir began with 31 singers under the direction of artistic director Patricia Strong Myers. Since then, the program has grown to include auditioned and non-auditioned choral opportunities for over 150 children and youth in kindergarten through grade 12. With the choir representing nearly 55 congregations, 45 schools, and 12 denominations, singers evoke a rich musical repertoire from around the world and across time while being equipped for a lifetime of service to the church and community. They honor and celebrate music as a gift from God by creating exceptional choral music, fostering community, and nurturing character.

Be sure to join us for this fun and inspiring afternoon.

Join us in All Saints Hall as we welcome Dr. Greg Carey, BA, MDiv, MA, PhD, and Professor of the New Testament from Lancaster Theological Seminary for this first in a four-part Reconciling in Christ series. Dr. Carey will discuss the diversity of the LGBTQIA+ community and what the Bible has to say about accepting, welcoming, and loving those we might identify as different than ourselves.

Join us in All Saints Hall for this second in a four-part Reconciling in Christ series as we welcome Garrett Book, MDiv, CTP and Patient Experience Coordinator and Patient Advocate at Lancaster Behavioral Health. Garrett will share stories involving some of the many painful and emotional scars members of the LGBTQIA+ community experience due to rejection and alienation, often requiring professional help and intervention.

Join us for lunch at Southern Market Center, 100 S Queen St in Lancaster.This is part of the monthly Community Lunch series hosted by the Towards Racial Justice Small Group. We share lunch together the 3rd Sunday of every month at a Black or minority-owned restaurant in Lancaster. Mark your calendars and join us for fellowship, great food, and support of our neighbors!

You're invited to a covered-dish pot luck lunch. Brad Peterson from the Power Packs Project will give a presentation about how Power Packs provides nutritious meals and skills to teach families how to stretch their food dollars and so much more. In partnership with school districts in Lancaster County Power Packs works with each school to help meet the need of kids and their families. Good Shepherd members are part of this Project.

Join us in All Saints Hall for this third of our four-part Reconciling in Christ series. We will welcome The Rev. Angela Hammer, MDiv, and Pastor at St. Paul Lutheran Church in Penryn as well as St. Luke in Schaefferstown. In 2019 St. Paul became the first Lutheran church in Lancaster County to declare itself inclusive. As leader of an RIC congregation, Pastor Hammer will share her perspective regarding her own congregation’s discernment process, the struggles they had and the joy they found along the way.

Join us in All Saints Hall for this final part of our Reconciling in Christ series. We will welcome several members of the gay and lesbian community as they share their own personal stories of faith, challenge and triumph. Moderated by the Rev. Tom Karge, they will discuss how acceptance, welcome and love in their own faith communities had affected and enriched each of their lives. Come prepared to ask questions.

Celebrating their 22nd season, the Lancaster British Brass Band and conductor, Dr. Tina DiMeglio, continue to “wow” audiences wherever they perform. Next May we are again in for a treat.

This popular ensemble follows the path first laid down in the smoky mill and mining towns of mid-nineteenth century Britain. Gradually evolving into a fixed instrumentation of 28 players (and 1 conductor), the brass band flourished under the sponsorship of mill and mine owners bent on “moral and spiritual uplift,” thus laying the ground- work for a later time when the Salvation Army began capitalizing on the success of the bands by establishing brass bands as part of their outreach through music.

The varied selections of the Lancaster British Brass Band are sure to please a wide range of tastes and interests. A typical program consists of transcriptions of the classics, marches, hymns, popular music arrangements, solos and, last but not least, original compositions written for the medium.

Their unique sound, being composed entirely of brass winds and percussion instruments, has been compared to “one big, magnificent pipe organ.” COME AND EXPERIENCE IT FOR YOURSELF!

Join us for this "musical journey across the pond" as we begin our 2026-27 concert series by welcoming Rizetta's Tones. This Celtic Americana band is comprised of two hammer dulcimers, silver flute, high and low whistles, guitar, plus alto and bass melodions. Their repertoire includes music from Ireland, Scotland, and the USA, also drawing from the traditions of many other lands. Forging new arrangements and writing their own material, they present audiences with a pleasing twist while respecting musical traditions.