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SUMMARY:All Saints Service
DESCRIPTION:At our All Saints service\, we remember and honor those who have died.  You are invited to submit the names of your loved ones through the link below no later than October 24th\, 2025. Submitted names will be read aloud during the service. \nThis year\, in addition to names\, we are offering the opportunity to upload photographs of your loved ones for display in our chapel following the service. \nSubmit names here: https://goodshepherdnorfolk.org/all-saints-prayer/ \n 
URL:https://goodshepherdnorfolk.org/event/all-saints-service/
LOCATION:VA
CATEGORIES:Featured,Sundays
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20251026T160000
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SUMMARY:Trunk or Treat
DESCRIPTION:There is still time to sign up and decorate a trunk at this year’s Trunk or Treat event! Participants can arrive to the church parking lot at 3:30 PM to start setting up. You can decorate based on a theme of your choosing and goodies will be provided to pass out to the trunk-or-treaters. Remember that this is a family-friendly event\, so bring your friends and family to join in the fun!\n\n\nBe Advised: The Church Parking Lot will be reserved for Trunk or Treat participants and pedestrians ONLY.\nAll additional parking can be found at the lot of Second Presbyterian.
URL:https://goodshepherdnorfolk.org/event/trunk-or-treat-2/
LOCATION:VA
CATEGORIES:Children's Events,Community Events,Featured,Homepage
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SUMMARY:Young Families:  Stay and Play
DESCRIPTION:Calling all parents of young children! \nThe Third Sunday of each month we welcome parents of young children to join us for rotating monthly activities following the 9 a.m. service.  This month we will be hosting our Young Families Stay and Play event.  This is a fun way for your kids to hang out together on the playground while you get to know other parents and enjoy some light snacks outside.  We look forward to seeing you there! \nNew to Good Shepherd? This is a great way to meet and connect with other parents and learn more about our great kids’ programs. \nIf you’re interested in joining us\, contact Ben Blanchard.
URL:https://goodshepherdnorfolk.org/event/young-families-stay-and-play-8/
LOCATION:Good Shepherd\, 7400 Hampton Blvd.\, Norfolk\, VA\, 23505\, United States
CATEGORIES:Children's Events
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20251012T101500
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SUMMARY:Parish Report
DESCRIPTION:Join us as we gather in Memorial Hall immediately following the service on Sunday. Hear the latest updates on how we are doing as a church and what lies ahead for Good Shepherd! Everyone is encouraged to attend the meeting. A light breakfast will be provided.
URL:https://goodshepherdnorfolk.org/event/parish-report-3/
LOCATION:VA
CATEGORIES:Member Events
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20251005T090000
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SUMMARY:Blessing of the Animals
DESCRIPTION:With this year’s Blessing of the Animals quickly approaching this\, we are hopeful the weather will be looking purrrrrfect for a sunny outdoor service alongside our favorite furry friends. Be sure to meet us out on the lawn for the annual St. Francis service\, starting at 9am. If you join us remotely\, please note that the service will NOT be live streamed this Sunday due to the service being held outside!
URL:https://goodshepherdnorfolk.org/event/blessing-of-the-animals-2/
LOCATION:VA
CATEGORIES:Community Events,Featured,Homepage,Worship
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SUMMARY:Harvest for Hope Food Drive
DESCRIPTION:In this time of division and conflict\, faith communities of all kinds across Norfolk are joining together to do good! During the month of October\, we are collecting much-needed resources for the Food Bank of Southeastern Virginia. Whether or not you belong to a church or synagogue or mosque\, we invite you to join us!  We’ll stack the donated food in our windows so you can see the progress we’re making together. \nThe fact is 1 in 4 children in Norfolk experience food insecurity. Let’s fill our windows with donated food and feed the hungry…together! \nBins will be placed at church entrances on Hampton Blvd and on North Shore. \nCollection ends October 31st. Click here for shopping list examples. 
URL:https://goodshepherdnorfolk.org/event/harvest-for-hope-food-drive/
LOCATION:VA
CATEGORIES:Featured
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20250930T080000
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SUMMARY:Poetry Contest Deadlines for 15 and Under
DESCRIPTION:KIDS AGES 15 AND UNDER:\nDo you write poetry? You’re invited to enter our Poetry Contest! \n\nPrizes will be awarded. Your poem may be chosen for a public reading or publication.\n\nThe theme of the contest is “the rhythm of life.”\n\nSubmission Information \n\nPlease submit your poem using the form below.\nContest is open to poets age 15 and under. (A separate contest is available for those 16 and up. See goodshepherdnorfolk.org for details)\nWe welcome all forms and styles but do not accept previously published work or work that has been created in any part with the assistance of AI tools.\n\nDeadline\nPoems must be received by September 30\, 2025.\nAll contest winners and honorable mentions will be announced by November 1\, 2025.\n\n\nThere is no entry fee. Good luck! \n\nLink to Submit: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSdf22ld2hHdWCErQ2r-RaOvKym9U_dAZMBi5rCBEutjOBsUeQ/viewform
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20250922T080000
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SUMMARY:Poetry Contest Deadline
DESCRIPTION:Church of the Good Shepherd Launches “The Rhythm of Life” Poetry Contest\n\nThe Church of the Good Shepherd is excited to announce the launching of their first ever poetry contest to wrap up their creative summer series\, Food for Body and Soul! We invite members of our community\, as well as the poetry world at large\, writers of any or no religious affiliation\, to participate.\n\nContest Information\nThis year’s theme\, “The Rhythm of Life”\, evokes thoughts of the natural world as well as the spiritual\, and provides rich opportunities to reflect on what it is to be human and to be alive.\n\nSubmission Information\n\n\nEach entrant may submit up to three (3) poems.\n\n\nPlease submit a single document in a single email to poetry@goodshepherdnorfolk.org\n\n\nAttach poems to the email as a .doc\, .docx or .pdf attachment with your name in the subject line\, but not in the attachment. In the body of the email\, list poem title(s).\n\n\nAll submissions will be read anonymously. Please remove your name and contact information from your document and file name. File name should instead give title of first poem in submission (for example: TheWind.docx.)\n\n\nContest is open to poets 16 and up.  A separate contest is available for those under 16.\n\n\nWe welcome all forms and styles but do not accept previously published work or work that has been created in any part with the assistance of AI tools.\n\n\nWe do accept simultaneous submissions. Please notify us promptly if your work is accepted elsewhere.\n\n\nWhile the poetry contest is not an explicitly religious event\, the guidelines used derive from a fundamental commitment our members make\, using words from our Book of Common Prayer: “Will you strive for justice and peace among all people\, and respect the dignity of every human being?” We answer\, “I will\, with God’s help.” We will not consider submissions that endorse prejudice\, racism\, xenophobia\, classism\, sexism\, homophobia or gratuitous violence.\n\n\n\nDeadline\nPoems must be received by September 22\, 2025\nAll contest winners and honorable mentions will be announced by November 1\, 2025.\n\nEntry fees\nThere is no entry fee.\n\nPrizes and Judges\nAll entries will be judged by Angier Brock\, Emily Pease\, and Beth Williams\, poets who\, as part of the 2025 Food for Body and Soul series\, led our poetry collaboration in June.\nWinners and entrants may be invited to a public reading.\n\n1st prize: $250\n2nd prize: $100\n3rd prize: $50\n\nDepending upon submission response\, Church of the Good Shepherd may choose to publish a small anthology of winning and notable poems.  Good Shepherd requests first serial rights. All rights revert back to the author upon publication\, although we will preserve your work online in our archives. We also request the right to republish your work in future anthologies and/or as promotional broadsides with author permission.\n\nSelection Committee Bios:\nAngier Brock retired from more than thirty years of teaching\, Angier lives in Yorktown\, VA. Over two dozen of her hymn and anthem texts\, set to music by various British and American composers\, have been sung at worship services and concerts in the US and the UK. Several have been recorded and are available on Spotify. She also writes reflective prose and offers small\, private writing classes. She has been a keynote speaker at the Tri-Diocesan Fall Camp at Shrine Mont on the topic of the connections between spirituality and writing. She holds an MA in Christian Education from Union Presbyterian Seminary and an M.F.A. in Creative Writing (Poetry) from Virginia Commonwealth University.\n\nEmily Pease is a fiction writer and poet. Her short stories have been published in The Missouri Review (Editor’s Prize\, 1999)\, The Georgia Review\, Witness\, The Alaska Quarterly Review\, Shenandoah (Bevel Summers Prize)\, Kenyon Review online\, and elsewhere. Her collection\, Let Me Out Here\, won the C. Michael Curtis Short Story Book Prize at Hub City Press in 2018\, judged by Lee K. Abbott. Her poetry appears in One\, Florida Review\, Rattle (Ekphrastic Challenge winner\, June\, 2021)\, Litmosphere\, and Juniper. Her poem\, “Lone Pony On the Last Farm In the City” was recently chosen as the winner of the William Matthews Poetry Prize at Asheville Poetry Review\, selected by Nickole Brown. She earned an MFA in Fiction from the Warren Wilson MFA Program for Writers and taught creative writing for many years at William & Mary. She continues to call Williamsburg home.\n\nBeth Oast Williams is the author of the chapbook Riding Horses in the Harbor (Finishing Line Press\, 2020). Her poetry has been accepted for publication in Nimrod\, Salamander\, EcoTheo Review\, Leon Literary Review\, SWWIM\, One Art\, and Rattle’s Poets Respond\, among others\, and nominated twice for the Pushcart Prize.
URL:https://goodshepherdnorfolk.org/event/poetry-contest-deadline/
LOCATION:VA
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SUMMARY:Parish Picnic
DESCRIPTION:We are looking forward to seeing you on September 14th for our Annual Parish Picnic. \nThe picnic will take place immediately following the 9:00 Sunday service in the Shirland Lot\, weather permitting. \nWe can’t wait to enjoy this special day with you! \nPurchase Tickets Here: https://www.zeffy.com/en-US/ticketing/2025-parish-picnic-2
URL:https://goodshepherdnorfolk.org/event/parish-picnic-2/
LOCATION:VA
CATEGORIES:Featured,Homepage,Member Events
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