Attleboro Church Hosts Super Bowl with Green Bay Packers Cheerleader

Following Sunday morning church service at located on May Street in South Attleboro, church members, friends and a former Green Bay Packer Cheerleader paused for an abbreviated and fun filled Green Bay Packer church tailgate party celebrating Super Bowl Sunday.

 Good Shepherd is a Wisconsin Evangelical Lutheran Synod (WELS) congregation. A number of members of the South Attleboro church are transplanted Wisconsin area natives who find their way to New England for various reasons – many families and individuals arrive because of job commitments, some as itinerant military personal while others live here temporarily as educators or students.

Good Shepherd Lutheran Church was organized in 1973 in Rumford, RI and when the congregation outgrew its building, a new church facility was constructed in 1991 at 60 May St. in South Attleboro. Present pastor, Jeffrey Wegner, has overseen this transition. Pastor Wegner himself is a Wisconsin farming community native and admitted cheese head.

 So as we see…with the Green Bay Packers participating in this year’s Super Bowl, it only seemed natural that the South Attleboro Cheese Heads of Good Shepherd wished to party and though small in number and easterly contained in southern New England, it is only fitting that this spontaneous combustion of celebration (win or lose) broke out at Good Shepherd today.

One church member, Debbie Giovinazzo, a former Green Bay Packer cheerleader – to say the least, her husband Paul and her four children are Packer fans right along with mom.

The cheese heads spread a festive noontime table with Packer green and yellow as the main color theme and Green Bay Packer T-shirts and memorabilia were quite evident. 

Although some attendees held different team preferences, all existed harmoniously in good will and good cheer. For one day in South Attleboro, an entire church family co-existed as cheese head Green Bay Packer fans.