Religion / Spirituality & Worship

New Bedford, Massachusetts - The Inter-Church Council of Greater New Bedford and Mayor Scott W. Lang invite the community to attend the 11th Annual Community Interfaith Worship Service. It will be held on New Year’s Eve, December 31, 2010 at 5:00PM at the Seamen’s Bethel, located on 15 Johnny Cake Hill in downtown New Bedford.

Leaders of the Faith Community will be leading a Neighborhood Prayer Walk on Sunday May 30th at 3:00 PM. Beginning and ending at Monte’s Park at the corner of Acushnet Ave. and Russell St., this will be the first of a series of prayer walks throughout the city in areas that have been affected by violence in the past. Everyone is invited to come out and join together to pray and encourage each other to make a difference in our community.

“We have had prayer walks in the past but they usually have been in response to an event, a murder or period of violence,” said Rev. David Lima, Executive Minister of the Inter-Church Council of Greater New Bedford. “This year we decided to be proactive and not reactive, to reach out into the community in faith with prayers and fellowship.”

New Bedford, Massachusetts - The Inter-Church Council of Greater New Bedford and Mayor Scott W. Lang invite the community to attend the 10th Annual Community Interfaith Worship Service. It will be held on New Year’s Eve, December 31, 2009 at 5 PM at the Seamen’s Bethel, located on 15 Johnny Cake Hill in downtown New Bedford.

NORTH DARTMOUTH, Mass. — Southcoast Home Care, Hospice & Palliative Care & Home Infusion Services will be holding its Annual Interfaith Memorial Service on Wednesday, December 9, at 6:30 p.m. at the St. Julie Billiart Church, 494 Slocum Rd., North Dartmouth.

NORTH DARTMOUTH, Mass. — Southcoast Home Care, Hospice & Palliative Care & Home Infusion Services will be holding its Annual Interfaith Memorial Service on Wednesday, December 9, at 6:30 p.m. at the St. Julie Billiart Church, 494 Slocum Rd., North Dartmouth.

New Bedford, Massachusetts - The City of New Bedford and the Inter-Church Council of Greater New Bedford extend an open invitation to all citizens of the New Bedford area community to the 2009Annual New Year’s Eve Community Inter-faith Worship Service. Again this year, the interfaith service will be held at the Seamen’s Bethel, located on 15 Johnny Cake Hill in historic Downtown New Bedford and will begin at 5 o’clock.

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A fundamental tenet of this country was religious freedom.. I believe the Founding Fathers understood some practical realities about this great experiment in diversity we call America.. They knew people with differing faiths and cultures wouldn’t always share the same virtue and value systems, each unto themselves as it were.. What we now collectively understand as the “separation of church and state” emerged from that realization..

The Spirit is moving at Good Shepherd to bring wonderful things to our church as well as the surrounding community.  Church services are Sundays at 10:00AM, with Sunday School starting in the beginning of September.