Church of the Good Shepherd

We bring elementary students into our facilities on early-release days for fun, food, Christian formation and a meal with their parents/guardians.

We send people to Honduras every year (including our Rector) with Honduras Good Works to do medical, educational support and community development work in a poor area of this country.  (hondurasgoodworks.org)

We have an active Brotherhood that helps around the Church and with needy people in the community.

We have an active chapter of the DOK, in fact, this IS the women's ministry in the parish.

Our choir includes a hand-bell choir and leads us in uplifting music in our worship.

Our concert series draws people from the whole community for high quality music events.

We are going to be reaching out to children with music.

We are involved with an advocacy group in town that works for a compassionate response to undocumented immigrants coming into our country.

Our rector is also chair of the Diocesan Rio Grande Borderland Ministries that attends to border issues along 800 miles of border with Mexico.

Our rector, fluent in Spanish, is a primary communications link with the Anglican Church of Mexico immediately to the south of us.

We work with an orphanage and a related community assistance program across the border in Palomas, Chihuahua, Mexico.

We have a sister-congregation relationship with a Pentecostal church in the same city.

Our assisting priest is also the mental health officer at Western New Mexico University.  She is also the advisor for the Student Interfaith Alliance that promotes interfaith sharing and caring among the WNMU community.

Coats for the Cold collects cold-weather clothing and blankets for the cold during the colder months of the year.

Our food collection program benefits the local Gospel Mission and students at WNMU.

Eucharistic Visitors take the Sacrament to shut-ins after church on Sundays.

Our assisting priest works with our youth on Sunday afternoons once a month.

Two EfM groups meet weekly for a total of 12 participants, including 3 mentors.  This year we will celebrate our first graduates.

Our ongoing garage sale on first Saturdays provides basic home necessities at extremely low prices to the community.  It is a long-standing ministry for which we are well-known in the community

The Rector's Discretionary Fund assists needy people from around the community and within the parish with financial needs, and meets other humanitarian expenses not otherwise budgeted.

The parish leads the religious community in a Blessing of the Animals on the Saturday nearest to October 4th.

The parish provides the Blessing of the Bikes at the begining and chaplaincy services throughout the world-class Tour of the Gila every Spring.

One of our members offers Blessings to Go in a park every week.

We host an Easter Sunrise Service for the community at large at a little public chapel every year.

In conjunction with other churches we host a Community Ecumenical Good Friday Service every year.

On Ash Wednesday we offer Ashes to the World at WNMU, the local hospital and in the largest city park.

Our facilities are used by a host of organizations around town:

LGBTQ Thanksgiving Meal

AA

Silver City Sufi Circle

Town and Country Garden Club

Yoga

Pilates

Daughters of the American Revolution

Compassionate Friends Support Group

Community Education classes for WNMU

We work with a neighboring elementary school, providing supplies for the School Nurse and support for needy student families in the form of food over School breaks, clothing for cold months, Christmas presents and Easter Baskets, and basic toiletries.