Be a shepherd to your people, LORD, the people you have chosen. Although they live apart in the wilderness, there is fertile land around them. Let them go and feed in the rich pastures of Bashan and Gilead, as they did long ago. To prevent confusion, the word "Switch" now appears in batch entry over the button that toggles between the “totals” and “free entry” methods, identifying what the button does without having to hover the mouse cursor over it to read the button’s tooltip. When upgrading Shepherd’s Staff to the new version, the following warning now appears at the top of the update window, in red: “NOTICE: This update changes the database structure. If you use Shepherd's Staff on a network, be sure to also update the software on each workstation.” On the print preview window, LibreOffice has been added to the Export options in the lower right. We support both the 32-bit and 64-bit LibreOffice 7.

That’s what it means for a church to take on the ministry of the shepherd in the community where they serve. That’s what it means for the church to be God’s steadying, protecting, and correcting staff. On the Giving Ranges analysis report, the heading read “Who: Who” instead of the option you had selected in the Who choice list. Metaphorically, the term "shepherd" is used for God, especially in the Judeo-Christian tradition (e.g. Psalm 23, Ezekiel 34), and in Christianity especially for Jesus, who called himself the Good Shepherd. [1] The Ancient Israelites were a pastoral people and there were many shepherds among them. It may also be worth noting that many biblical figures were shepherds, among them the patriarchs Abraham and Jacob, the twelve tribes, the prophet Moses, King David, and the Old Testament prophet Amos, who was a shepherd in the rugged area around Tekoa. [14] In the New Testament, angels announced the birth of Jesus to shepherds. [15]Mat 15:24 [Jesus] answered and said, “I was not sent except to the lost sheep of the house of Israel.” The Sheep and the Shepherd Kramer, Samuel Noah (1961). Sumerian Mythology: A Study of Spiritual and Literary Achievement in the Third Millennium B.C.: Revised Edition. Philadelphia, Pennsylvania: University of Pennsylvania Press. p.101. ISBN 0-8122-1047-6. If you cleared a data field via Unite and then received the change and accepted it into Shepherd’s Staff, it was putting a space into that field instead of setting it to null. This could cause odd results in reports and other screens because the space was treated as data to print (whereas a null is ignored). In the “Mass update Membership information” utility, a new field has been added: “Show in Church360° Unite”. Thalia, Muse of comedy in Greek mythology, was usually portrayed holding a shepherd's crook. [ citation needed]

An error was corrected that was occurring when non-supervisor users with only rights to enter offering batches logged in.Johnson, Lynn Staley (2010). The Shepheardes Calender: An Introduction. University Park: Penn State Press. p.63. ISBN 978-0271041001. Questions 1 and 3 had “as of ” at the end of them; this is not needed (it is presupposed that the report is as of the year selected on the Church Info tab. Wolkstein, Diane; Kramer, Samuel Noah (1983). Inanna: Queen of Heaven and Earth: Her Stories and Hymns from Sumer. New York City, New York: Harper&Row Publishers. pp.30–49. ISBN 0-06-090854-8. Church Directory printing for a subgroup has been corrected where it could sometimes include household entries for people not in that subgroup. Editing a Pledge to change the Fund will now ask you to verify that you really want to make the change, and will update all previous offerings attached to that pledge to the new fund.