BETHLEHEM EVANGELICAL LUTHERAN CHURCH
549 E Mt. Hope Avenue, Lansing MI 48910-9194
Phone: 517.482.3225 / Fax: 517.482.2458
Office hours: 9:00 a.m. - 3:00 p.m. Monday - Friday
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Quick Notes...
Softball starts again on May 7. All games are played at Gier Park. Please come out to support your team. Click to view the complete schedule. May Thank You Envelopes will help our Summer Day Camp. Annual Congregational Meeting - Sunday, June 9, after the 9:30 service of worship. Tornado Disaster Response.... Make checks payable to the church and designate for U.S. Tornadoes. Your designated gift will be used to help those whose lives and livelihoods have been impacted by this disaster. Summer Worship Schedule begins Sunday, May 26. Worship at 9:30 am. No Sunday School. “Love the Sinner? Hate the Cliché?” - Worship Series – June 2-July 7. Check the June newsletter for details. Members from our congregation recently traveled to Indiana to assist a family whose home was destroyed during the 2012 tornados. Please click to see them at work. Cookies and drinks are needed for the fellowship hour in the summer time. Sign up in the social hall. Summer Day Camp is coming the week of July 7-12 ! Contact Debbie Quinn or Pastor Matt if you can help The Quilting Group needs material. See Kelly Carpenter Group Returns from the Holy Land. From Jan. 7-16 ten members and friends of Bethlehem traveled to the Holy Land. They had a great experience. Check out this link to our Facebook page to see more pictures and to learn more about the trip! http://www.facebook.com/pages/Bethlehem-Evangelical-Lutheran-Church/150526751671191 Food Bank Sunday is the first Sunday of the month. Our church serves as a distribution center for the Greater Lansing Food Bank. Because of budget constraints, we are no longer able to get some items through the GLFB. It will be helpful if our members will keep the following items in mind as they shop for Food Bank Sunday donations:
Help is needed to assist members and guests at the front entrance on Sunday mornings. See Rick Wyble. |
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The Old Testament Reading Plan Continues Currently there are some members of the congregation reading through many parts of the Old Testament. Even if you did not start the plan last fall, you can still join in on the rest of the journey. The idea is for us to get a good picture about the story of the Old Testament and how the different stories and the books fit together. Basically we will read a chapter a day and a psalm on most Sundays. Hopefully, through this reading plan you will gain a better understanding of God's love for his people and that his love kept coming to them again and again, culminating in the coming of Jesus, the Christ. Please click to see a more detailed explanation of the program and a schedule for reading the Old Testament.
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| Valet Parking is now offered on Sunday mornings. If you want the Valet service, drive up under the overhang. They will then escort you to the door, park your car and return the keys to you. After church they will get the keys from you and retrieve your vehicle. Watch for the vests marked with "Valet Parking" to identify them. |
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| This website contains a page on the history of our church. A committee has put together a site which contains much more information on our church history. Please go to Link to Bethlehem history to view this interesting collection of events of our past. |
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| Bethlehem now has a group on Facebook which is an online networking site. Please consider joining the Bethlehem Group. |
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| Fair Trade Coffee sales. We are selling LWR/Equal Exchange Fair Trade Coffee in the Social Hall after the 8:15 service of worship and during the Sunday School hour. Sales will take place on the second Sunday of each month. Products include regular and decaf drip grind coffee and hot chocolate. Prices range from $5.25 to $6.50 for a 12 oz. package. The coffee and hot chocolate are being sold at cost plus the cost of shipping. |
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| Children's bulletins are available each Sunday from the ushers. These special bulletins help our children better understand God's Word in today's lessons. |
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 Food Bank substitutes are
needed! If you can work in the food bank 3 hours per week, please call
Jack and Sandy Midgley. If you can work on a Monday, Wednesday or
Friday, we would sure like to have your help. |
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 Recordings of recent worship services are now available on this website. If you have missed a Sunday or simply want to hear your favorite hymn or sermon again, please click here. |
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| Large print available. On Sunday mornings, we have both the bulletin and Daily Walk available in large print. Please see an usher if you need a copy. |
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 Bring your pop cans to the church and place them in the cardboard box located in the Social Hall. Money collected will benefit our ministry. |
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