Church of the Good Shepherd
3700 Rutherford Street
Harrisburg, Pennsylvania 17111-1940
The Reverend Kathleen J. Baker, Pastor
All the People of Good
Shepherd
Our frontline ministers are All the People of Good Shepherd. We
are average Americans, living in suburban
Paxtang and surrounding areas, and are proud of our church home. Our
membership numbers nearly 500 baptized adults and children. We live our
baptism as government workers, corporation managers, educators,
and health care professionals. We represent service occupations,
serve on the police or fire departments, drive trucks or work in
factories. Some of us have young families, as well as "empty nests" or
retired life
styles. Our parish includes students, athletes, artists, and musicians.
Wherever we are, we try to live out our calling to the "priesthood of
all believers."
A
few of our
members share their reasons for being attracted to Good Shepherd:
Ethel Billington is a retired nurse and volunteers in the church office.
- I have lived in Paxtang for 53 years, before there was a Lutheran Church here. I became a Lutheran because my husband was a Lutheran. We watched the first church being built. My son was confirmed here, and my grandsons and great-grandchildren were baptized here. My best friends are members here, and we all feel this place is our church home.
- I recently heard an anthem called Love Spoken Here. Those words best express why I am an active member of Good Shepherd. Love is spoken at Good Shepherd, in the care with which the weekly liturgy is planned and implemented, in the music, in the participation of the members, in the sermon, in the greetings to one another, in the Christian Education program, in the Youth Program, in the attention to paraments and vestments, in the beauty of the chapel and sanctuary, and in the worshiping, studying and working together. Yes, God's love is spoken here.
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