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  Retiring pastor delivers final sermon at Oswego churches, This
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  Everlett. After 39 years of service five United Methodist churches, Reverend Steve
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  Good concluded his pastoral ministry on Sunday, September 27. Good preached at
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  a 9 a.m. Combined worship service at Church of the Good Shepherd
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  United Methodist in Oswego, where he has served for 10
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  years: A reception in his honor followed the worship service. He was
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  the 61st pastor at Good Shepherd since the church was founded in
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  1861, according to a news release from the church. So much has
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  happened in ten years births and deaths, illnesses, and miraculous comebacks. So
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  many of your have shared your stories with me and allowed me
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  and the church to be part of that story. For that I
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  am so grateful, good said.
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  In the release. I know you will continue to thrive as it
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  as a church, partnered with your new shepherd, Pastor Unbe Do. He
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  will work with our other church leaders to continue to create a
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  beloved community of faith where you already call home, he said. Good
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  grew up in Downer's Grove. He earned his undergraduate degree at Goshen
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  College in Indiana and his Master of Divinity degree at Garrett Evangelical
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  Theological Seminary in Evanston, according to the release. After a 2-year student
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  ministry experience assisting at Broadway UMC in Chicago, he was ordained in
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  the Northern Illinois Conference in 1987 according to the release. Since then
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  he has served full-time at Geneva UMC, First UMC Elgin, Sugar Grove
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  UMC, Chanahan UMC and Church of the Good Shepherd Oswego.