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You do not need a green card to leave the U.S., only your passport and the white I-94 card that will be attached to your passport when you enter the country. When you enter the U.S., the immigration officer at the airport will put in your passport a stamp identifying you as a lawful permanent resident. If, for whatever reason, it does not happen, you can go online to the USCIS.gov and get an InfoPass to the local USCIS office, go there, explain your problem, and the officer who will receive you will stamp your passport. Getting the stamp into your passport might be a good idea just in case if the green card gets lost in the mail.

You could not have had any notice because your priority date has not yet become current. Right now, the National Visa Center is working on the petitions with priority dates in October 2008 (April 1995 - for citizens of Mexico, May 2004 - for Filipinos) It means that, if you are not from Mexico or the Philippines, your priority date will become current in about 6 months. When it happens, the NVC will send your father the necessary paperwork.