Welcome to
The Episcopal Church of the Good Samaritan

Come visit us on The Original Main Street!

good sam in winter OUR MISSION
We are called to be
- a presence of God's love and grace in this area,
- a church that honors the diversity of all persons,
- a church that offers unity through the liturgy and sacraments,
- a church that welcomes all people in their search for a closer relationship with God.

We are a Welcoming and Affirming Church
supportive of GLBT Ministries of the Diocese of Minnesota
and hosting The Living Waters .
Absolutely everyone is invited to celebrate with us.
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Pastor's Message: "Missing Children"
PAT IVY Click on the Rector's picture to visit Pat's Home Page with pictures & links.
Read about God's Web Site
Check out our Sermons.
Find out about Good Sam's CHURCH HISTORY-- Just click on historian Ivy Hildebrand's picture. Ivy is a 95-year-old teacher, storyteller, & preacher who is known for writing the history of Sauk Centre and for driving fast red cars.
How to find us:
529 South Main Street
P.O. Box 205
Sauk Centre, MN 56378
320-352-6882

Look at a MAP .

Sunday Worship at 11:00 am.

The Reverend Patricia A. Gillespie, Priest in Charge
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"Whoever welcomes this child in my name, welcomes me" (Luke 9:48)

Most of us would like more children at Good Samaritan. So I adopted some for us. They need us. I found them on the internet and they are now part of our youth group. Visit our web site's youth page and you can meet them -- they are missing and exploited children of all ages. It's not our money they need, it's our prayers.

There's music on our youth page too, a popular song from a few years back. I watch the kids pictures go by and suddenly there are tears because I remember the words to the music.

If God had a face, what would it look like
and would you want to see
if seeing meant that you would have to believe
in things like heaven and Jesus and the saints
and all the prophets?

What if God was one of us, just a slob like one of us,
just a stranger on the bus tryin' to make his way home?

"What if God was one of us?" It happened, you know -- when Jesus was born. God had a child's face. Perhaps God still has a child's face -- "what would it look like?" -- just like one of those missing kids? And if we really see the lostness and pain of this world, do we want to believe? Can we bear to believe in God who includes in God's own self the lostness and pain and "slob-like-us" parts of our world?

We are all God's missing children, at times lost and hurting -- just strangers on the bus tryin' to make our way home . And in Jesus God came to be one of us to show us the way home.

Pray for the missing children, that they find their way home. "Adopt" a missing child from our youth page and pray in particular for that child this week. In prayer, this child may be the stranger on the bus that leads you home.

"And a little child shall lead them . . . " (Isaiah 11:6)

Blessings!

Pat +

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