Summer Worship

Summer Worship: 10:00am

In July and August, there will be NO Sunday School, and Worship will be at 10:00am!

Funeral and Burial Planning Workshop

Give your loved ones a gift.

Join us this Sunday, June 26

for a

Funeral and Burial Planning Workshop

Light breakfast at 9:30am, Workshop begins at 10:00am

Pictured: Our new urn pall (donated by Lois and Charlie Walker) and urn stand (made by Leroy Coffey - see stewardship definition below!) that are available to be used for funerals with cremated remains.

At this workshop, we will learn about the beauty and significance of the funeral service itself, some things to consider when planning for your funeral, and other end-of-life matters.

Then you will have the chance to begin making plans for your funeral, if you are ready.

You will also have the opportunity to fill out paperwork for the church to make your burial wishes known (where you want to be buried, or if you want to reserve a spot in the Columbarium).

There will be information to take home, as well as forms that will greatly help your family and loved ones at the time of your death.

Whatever your age, you will be doing your loved ones a favor by starting to think and plan for these things.  This is especially true if you are young and have never thought or talked much about these things.  It will truly be a gift to your family.

Stewardship looks like a new banner storage system

"Stewardship" is defined on Wikipedia as "an ethic that embodies the responsible planning and management of resources."

Recently, we've been wanting to make better use of our space, and take better care of the things we have, in this case, our banners - all of which have been hand-made.  We have dreams of making more banners in the future, but just didn't have the space to store them.

A quick search on the internet showed that someone has invented a very nifty and space-efficient storage system for church banners, but the price was out of reach for a congregation this size.

BUT, we have MANY resources here, other than money!

With only a picture, a rough diagram, and verbal description to go by, thanks to the faithful stewards of Bethany, we now have the simply beautiful and functional storage system for our banners that we needed - at no cost to the church!  Check it out:

Bars swing out for easy access

Bars swing flat against the wall for maximum space efficiency - with no wrinkles!

A huge thank you to Cody Townsend for making this piece,

to our boys over at Triplett and Coffey Welding for donating the materials,

and to the History Committee for the idea and design!

We have a wealth of resources!  We are richly blessed.

Summer Online Bible Study on Luke

This year's lectionary uses the Gospel of Luke.

We'll be spending a lot of time in the Gospel of Luke from now through the end of the church year - the end of November.

Why not dive a little deeper?

Pastors and Lay Leaders from all over the NC Synod worked together to write an online Bible Study on the Gospel of Luke.  It's designed to be used this summer.  You'll be reading a Chapter of Luke each day, and there is a short devotional to go along with it.

Click here to find the devotional.

It begins Sunday, June 12.

Let's Learn Luke together!