Church of the Good Shepherd

This wiki documents the Church of the Good Shepherd in Galax, Virginia (good-shepherd-galax), a shared Lutheran (ELCA, Virginia Synod) and Episcopal (Diocese of Southwestern Virginia) congregation at 9441 Grayson Parkway, in the Baywood area between Galax and Independence. It is built mainly from the parish website pages and a large set of calendar events running from August through December 2026.

The website pages cover the basics of parish life: the page-1000149 home page (Mark 12:31, Zoom attendance, the sanctuary and the food-forest-garden), page-1000482 for driving directions, page-1000487 for visitor logistics such as parking, communion, dress, nursery, Zoom and dog-friendly policies, and page-1000488 for the staff, Vestry Council, officers and committee chairs.

The calendar sources show a rhythm of Sunday worship that alternates between Episcopal and Lutheran liturgies and is led by a rotation of supply clergy and lay leaders (for example event-3190554, event-3190556, event-3190559, event-3190570 and event-3190659 for Christmas Eve). Around worship are governance meetings (Vestry Council, Building & Grounds, Hospitality, Outreach, Care & Concerns), sexton maintenance days, Bible study, formation events, outreach and mission activities (Water Mission Trip, God's Work Our Hands, Fall Mission Day), and community events such as Yoga at COGS, Oktoberfest, Blessing of the Animals and Love the Church Day.

Note: the catalog supplied for this regeneration was truncated, so some pages are not listed individually in the index.