SCRIPTURE READING: Hebrews 11
MESSAGE: “By Faith”
SERVING IN WORSHIP TODAY…
GREETERS: Hugh Laughner Family (8:30)
Chuck & Margaret Ulmer
Cathi and Nicholas Keys (11:00)
MUSIC: Praise Team
NURSERY TODAY: Janice, Jacob & Natalie Grim
NEXT WEEK: Maggie Hairhoger
TRUSTEE LOCKING UP TODAY: Dave Meyer
NEXT WEEK: Jim Bredl
TODAY
The poinsettia in silver basket is in memory of Leroy Kuhn given by Shirley Kuhn.
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.
CALENDAR OF EVENTS………….
Sunday……………Dec 27 WORSHIP 8:30AM
Sunday School 9:45AM
WORSHIP 11:00AM
Sunday……………Jan 3 WORSHIP 8:30AM
Sunday School 9:45AM
WORSHIP 11:00AM
Youth Auxiliary 5:30PM
CHAOS 6:30PM
One Year New Testament Reading Schedule:
Dec 27 Revelation 11:1-19
Dec 28 Revelation 12:1-18
Dec 29 Revelation 13:1-18
Dec 30 Revelation 14:1-20
Dec 31 Revelation 15:1-8
ANNOUNCEMENTS
Bulletins will be done on Wednesday 12/30. Any announcements need to be in office by Tuesday morning.
Pastor Mark will be out of the office from December 25 through January 2, returning January 3. If there is a pastoral emergency contact Jeremy.
Praying wives will meet January 5, 7:15PM at the home of Diane H.
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.
APPROACHING DEADLINE…………….
REGISTRATION FORMS DUE BY JANUARY 31, 2010!!!!!!!
Bethel Women’s Retreat April 16-17, 2010
Turn in registrations before and after each Sunday services.
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
Bethel’s session is pleased to announce that at our meeting last Tuesday night, the board unanimously approved a plan to proceed to find God’s building plan. This is a step by step recipe that will put the decision process in motion. It begins by taking a fresh look at all the possibilities, asking the important questions, evaluating the answers, and culminating, Lord willing, in a building plan that session will offer to the congregation for your approval. All of this, as we continue to do the most important part, seek God’s guidance and wisdom.
We ask that you continue to pray. At the January meeting a list of building related questions will be compiled. If you have any that you would like to have on that list, please write them on a piece of paper and give them to a session member, place in the offering plate, leave them in the church office, or submit them to Pastor Mark.
2010 OFFERING ENVELOPES
If you currently do not use offering envelopes and would like them for 2010 please call the church office.
ATTENTION COMMITTEES!!!!!!
ANNUAL WRITTEN REPORTS may be turned into the office any time.
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
BABY BOTTLE DRIVE
The Pregnancy Resource Center is a Christian non-profit organization in New Castle that assists those facing an unplanned pregnancy. A few of the services offered are free pregnancy testing, education on pregnancy options, parenting classes, free maternity and baby items, and pregnancy loss counseling. We are supported by local grants, churches, and individuals. To maintain, and hopefully increase, our services we are holding a Baby Bottle Drive. We are asking church members to take a bottle home and fill it with change. The bottles are located in the Overflow Room. Further directions are with the bottles. Please have the bottles returned to the church by Jan. 17th. If you have any questions you may see Lindsay Y. or call the PRC at 658-6329. Thank you so much for your participation!
