SCRIPTURE READING: Malachi 3:1-4
MESSAGE: “Jesus the Refiner”
DECEMBER MEMORY VERSE: Isaiah 9:6
“For to us a child is born, to us a son is given, and the government will be on is shoulders. And he will be called Wonderful Counselor, Mighty God, Everlasting Father, Prince of Peace.”
TODAY
BETHEL’S BUSY BAGS!!!!
Busy Bag Totes are available to Pre-school & younger children that are no longer in the nursery, but are still very active. Please feel free to take a Busy Bag Tote to your seat during the service, then after the service, return it to the hook in the coat room. If your child would like to take home the book that’s in the bag, please sign the card found on the book and place it in the card box found on the stand.
YOUTH AUXILIARY TONIGHT AT 5:30PM
CALENDAR OF EVENTS………….
Sunday……………Dec 6 WORSHIP 8:30AM
Sunday School 9:45AM
WORSHIP 11:00AM
Youth Auxiliary 5:30PM
CHAOS 6:30PM
Tuesday……..……Dec 8 Moms in Touch 9:00AM
Ladies Bible Study 10:00AM
Staff Meeting 11:00AM
Wednesday……….Dec 9 Library Open 9:00AM~2:30PM
Cantata 7:00PM
Choir 8:00PM
Saturday………..…Dec 12 Cross Trainers Dress Rehearsal
10:00AM ~ 11:30AM
Sunday……………Dec 13 WORSHIP 8:30AM
Sunday School 9:45AM
WORSHIP 11:00AM
Cross Trainers Program 3:00PM
CHAOS Christmas Party 5:30PM
MISSIONS OF THE MONTH
Denise Scuito – Local representative for Presbyterian Frontier Fellowship
Denise says: I thank God for churches like Bethel with whom I am partnering and for God’s work among the unreached children. I am thankful that schools have reopened in Darfur. I ask for guidance to show how to serve our partners in Darfur.
PRESBYTERIAN FRONTIER FELLOWSHIP….
For Every People: An Indigenous Church
For Every Church: A Mission Vision
That is the motto of PFF. Pray for Rev. Bill Young, Executive Director, at the home office in Minnesota, as he encourages and directs the PFF Staff throughout the US. One of his many Responsibilities is keeping frontier mission a priority within the PC(USA). May we, the people of Bethel, pray diligently for the many people groups of the world that have not yet been told about Jesus. Pray that our mission budget will be met so the pledge we made to PFF will not be shorted.
JOHN & GWEN HASPELS…..The Haspels have returned to Ethiopia for 7 months before home assignment starts in July 2010. Between now and then, they have their evaluation and impact assessment. They know their planning for the next three years will require quite a bit of downsizing. God has encouraged in so many ways with three partner churches and gifts used to increase the available medical help. They ask for prayers for wisdom and peace for the coming months. That God will help them stand on the Word already given so they can hear the next step to take. “God is not done with us yet and certainly not done with the Suri. Blessed be His name!”
One Year New Testament Reading Schedule:
Dec 6 2 John 1:1-13
Dec 7 3 John 1:1-15
Dec 8 Jude 1:1-25
Dec 9 Revelation 1:1-20
Dec 10 Revelation 2:1-17
Dec 11 Revelation 2:18-3:6
Dec 12 Revelation 3:7-22
ANNOUNCEMENTS
Mission Committee meeting for December 10 has been canceled!
SAY CHEESE, PLEASE!!
We are in the process of creating a new picture directory and guess what we need? We need you!!
We invite everyone to stop in the coatroom off the sanctuary to smile pretty at the camera that Angelo Sun has agreed to have ready! We will repeat this for a number of Sundays until we’ve gotten everyone’s picture taken.
Times: 9:30 ~ 9:45AM
10:30 ~ 10:55AM
NEW STUDY WITH PASTOR TIPPIN
J.I. PACKERS BOOK ~ KNOWING GOD
From Amazon.com review.
“In 1973 Knowing God has become a contemporary classic by creating “small studies out of great subjects”. Each chapter is so specific in focus (covering topics such as the trinity, election, God’s wrath, and God’s sovereignty), that each succeeding chapter’s theology seems to rival the next, until one’s mind is so expanded that one’s entire view of God has changed”.
Knowing God is an introduction to theology aimed at the average Christian. Packer uses a study of the attributes of God as the central approach to help his readers know who God is. The study will meet on Sunday evenings at 6:30 at the manse for 11 weeks beginning on February 7. There will be required reading and workbook assignments that need to be completed before each group study. This is a small group study and the size of the group is limited to twelve. Please call the church secretary if attending by January 10, 2010.
Bethel Women’s Retreat April 16-17, 2010
Turn in registrations before and after each Sunday services.
If you haven’t filled out a membership information sheet for our Data Base please do so and place in offering plate or in church office door. We are working on a new Address Directory and these sheets will make sure everything is up to date.
Nursery worker needed for Dec. 27.
See Diane Harman today!
Articles for January/February newsletter are due by Sunday,
December 13. Please leave in tray on office door
HELP STOCK H.O.P.E. FOOD BANK
For the month of December, January & February Bethel has been asked to donate the following: Pasta, sauce, macaroni & cheese, rice,
cake mixes, frosting, pudding and jello
Cross Trainer’s Christmas Practice Schedule
Cross Trainer’s will be hosting a Christmas program at Bethel Church on Sunday, Dec. 13th at 3 pm. Here is the schedule leading up to the Christmas program.
December 10 (Thurs.) 7 – 8 pm
December 12 (Sat.) 10 – 11:30 am Dress Rehearsal
December 13 (Sun.) 3 – 5 pm Christmas Program & Refreshments
- Children and helpers please be there by 2:15 pm.
Cross Trainers cordially invites the congregation to attend their Christmas Program on Sunday December 13 at 3PM.
Refreshments immediately after.
“The Bethlehem Experience”
(A walk through dramatization)
Saturday, December 12 2-4 and 6-8PM
Sunday, December 13 2-5PM
Wampum Presbyterian Church
“O Come, All Ye Faithful”
A Musical Celebration of Christmas
Sunday, December 20, 2009 7:00PM
First Presbyterian Church, New Castle
