We recently added a new feature to our website called "Impact Community."

It details some of the mission trips we have planned in 2011.

And if there's one thing I've learned about the people of Good Shepherd it's this: when you give them an opportunity to make a difference, they jump at the chance.

To find out how, click here.

Perhaps you remember Credence Clearwater Revival's Bad Moon Rising.

If not -- or if so -- here it is:




Well, this Sunday at Good Shepherd is not about a Bad Moon Rising.

It's about a Good Smell Rising as we move to Week 2 of "My Life Stinks."

It's a good smell that involves prayer, worship, bowls, silence, and an intercessor. If you must anticipate, check out Revelation 5 and Revelation 8.

Then come live that Scripture with us in a most unusual GS experience.

Sunday.

8:30. 10. 11:30.

We've gotten some nice -- and unsolicited -- publicity for our What Child Is This effort in the battle against human trafficking.

Just last night, the local Fox News affiliate ran this piece on our project:



Why was Fox News even aware of What Child Is This? Because of a piece in last week's Charlotte Observer.

You can read that article here.

I'm most grateful that in an era in which churches and pastors make news for all the wrong reasons, the people of Good Shepherd provide some salt and light in the world.

Here's our new series at Good Shepherd:



As Paul says in 2 Corinthians 2:14-16:

But thanks be to God, who always leads us in triumphal procession in Christ and through us spreads everywhere the fragrance of the knowledge of him. For we are to God the aroma of Christ among those who are beings saved and to those who are perishing. To the one we are the smell of death; to the other, the fragrance of life.

This week the series starts with a message called Backward Christian Soldiers.

Sunday.

8:30. 10. 11:30.