Monday, January 18, 2010

Haiti Response Fund

More than 2 million people in Haiti’s capital, Port-au-Prince, and many more throughout the country are in desperate need of water, food, shelter and medical care following the catastrophic earthquake Jan. 12.

To help with Southern Baptist Haiti relief efforts please visit the IMB webpage by clicking on the picture below.

100% of the money received will go towards Haiti Response Fund and zero dollars will go toward administrative costs.

If you would rather give by check or money order, make it payable to IMB and reference the Haiti Response Fund in the memo section.
Send to:
Office of Finance
International Mission Board
3806 Monument Ave
PO Box 6767
Richmond, VA 23230-0767

Tuesday, January 5, 2010

WMU Ornament Exchange

On December 11, the WMU had our annual Christmas Ornament Exchange. These pictures will tell you how much fun we had! There were 21 of us, counting baby girls, young girls, young women, and oldER women! The way it works is, everyone brings an ornament, wrapped or in a gift bag, and puts it under the tree. We draw numbers from 1 to ever how many girls are there. Number 1 goes first and picks whichever ornament she wants...number 2 can take number 1's gift or pick one from under the tree. There is always one or two that everyone wants, so they get "taken" several times. It is all done in love and fun! In the picture below, Kaitlyn is trying to make up her mind whether or not to take Gladys' ornament.


We also had an amazing spread of "finger food"...

Bethany checking out all the ornaments...



Everyone really liked the ornament that Madelyn got but no one had the heart to take it away from her :-)...She loved it! It made music...


We are always so thankful to God for our sisters in Christ and for all the good fellowship we share during our Ornament Exchange!









Lottie Moon Christmas Offering

We held a very special service on December 20th where we took up a love offering for our Lottie Moon Christmas offering. This offering goes to support over 5000 southern baptist missionaries that are all over the world sharing the Good News of Jesus Christ.
Our goal for this years offering was $12,200 and the numbers got mixed up and $12,500 was put on our banner. Bro. Kenny announced last Sunday that we had met the $12,500 goal! Praise the LORD for allowing this offering to be given!
God is good ~ All the time!

Children in Action!

Our Children in Action group a couple of weeks before Christmas worked very hard on some beautiful CHRISTmas cards.



They made around 200 cards that were going to be given out to our sweet local nursing home residents. They were truly children in action for JESUS! Missionaries right in our own town.

Riding in the bus on the way to one of the nursing homes. One of the nursing homes were still concerned over illnesses so we dropped those cards off on Friday and let the nurses aids hand them out.
Our CiA group and special helpers at The Terrace Nursing Home.

The children loved going from room to room wishing these precious residents a merry CHRISTmas!

Next stop lunch!

We are very blessed at Bethel to have such a willing group of youth that loves to share the love of CHRIST!

Sunday, December 13, 2009

The Perfect Story

We had our Christmas play during tonight's worship service and were very blessed! Everyone involved did a tremendous job glorifying God with their parts and their dedication. All of the audience definitely heard the story that truly matters this Christmas and that is "The Perfect Story" of how our Savior came into this world to give us the gift of Eternal Life!
Here are a few pictures from "The Perfect Story":

























Monday, November 23, 2009

Pie Social

Sunday night after our evening worship service we headed down to our fellowship hall for an ol' fashioned pie/dessert social! We had two tables full of delicious sweets!


Yummy desserts!

After everyone had finished eating the Brotherhood presented Bro. Jimmy with a gift.

The WMU presented Sheila with a gift as well!
They are both dedicated servants of our Lord and bless our church family tremondously!
Thank you for all that you do!
The Brotherhood had gotten Jimmy a new Bible with a very nice leather holder.

The WMU had gotten Sheila a broach made by Ivy Helms from our Ladies Night Out and also a digital camera!

Sunday, November 15, 2009

Tates Creek Baptist Association - Clear Creek Day

On Sunday November 15th our association held a Clear Creek Baptist Bible College Day. During the morning worship services eight current students from the college would be speaking in different churches in our association. For our Sunday morning worship service Evan Eckler brought us an encouraging word and a wonderful message. Please join us in praying for the students and staff at this college.

Sunday evening Bro. Kenny Queener, a graduate from CCBBC and Pastor at Calvary Baptist Church in Harrodsburg, KY, brought us a wonderful message as well.

Bro. Kenny and Holly Queener

Samaritan's Purse - Operation Christmas Child

On Friday night Bethel's WMU got together, like they do every year, to put together shoeboxes for Samaritan's Purse Operation Christmas Child.
These shoeboxes filled with small gifts, necessities, and covered in prayer will go to children all around the world. They will not only get these shoeboxes, but they'll get to hear about the best thing they could ever possibly hear about - and that is how much Jesus loves them!

Our WMU ladies getting the items ready to begin packing!



Our Children in Action group was invited to help out with this mission's project and they gladly accepted!

Here are some of the boxes that were put together! Our grand total was 56 shoeboxes!

We had a great time of fellowship putting these precious gifts together!
(If you'd like to learn more about this project please click on the Samaritan's Purse picture at the beginning of this post.)

Saturday, November 7, 2009

4th Annual Ladies Night Out

Bethel Baptist Church held it's 4th annual Ladies Night Out tonight and was graciously hosted by our sister church Westside Baptist. We came together as sisters-in-Christ and had a tremendous time of fellowship and worship!
Bro. Kenny was there at the beginning to welcome all of the ladies.


After the greeting in the sanctuary we all headed to the fellowship hall for dinner.




The food was delicious and the fellowship was very sweet!

Before our service began Sheila handed out door prizes. (a.k.a "Happies")

Sheila introducing Ronica.

Ronica getting ready to bless us in song.

Two of the ladies from Westside also blessed us in song.

Sheila introducing Ivy Helms, our speaker. She did a wonderful job!

Ivy showing me her "good side!"




Thank you to all of the ladies that attended and we pray you were blessed. We also want to thank Westside for their wonderful hospitality and opening up their beautiful building to us!

Friday, October 16, 2009

Youth's Mission Presentation

On Sunday evening September 27th our youth did a presentation about their mission trip to Mississippi in June.

To start the evening off our Pre-Teen Drama Team performed a few song interpretations.

Our Youth Pastor Larry David Freeman

Here are a few of the slides from the presentation.

During the week they held a backyard Bible school, helped serve food in a soup kitchen, did some performances of their skits, and many more wonderful things showing Christ's love.


Bethel's Youth Group

God is good, all the time!!!

They also presented Bro. Hamp Valentine with a picture of him and his wife, Sandra, enjoying the beautiful ocean that God created!

Bro. Hamp also brought a certificate from the International Missionary Board and presented it to our church for being a top per capita donor to the Lottie Moon Christmas Offering from 2008. To God be the glory!

Saturday, September 19, 2009

Spoonbread Festival 2009

For Berea's Spoonbread Festival this year our church had a booth set up where we shared about the activities that our church takes part in and we made salvation bracelets to give away! We also handed out over 500 New Testament Bibles!!!



As we made the bracelets we were able to share the Gospel of Jesus! We were able to hand out over 600 bracelets.
Glory be to God!
Here is what the bead colors for the salvation bracelets represent:

BLACK---Sin
Romans 3: 23 "For all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God."

RED---Blood of Christ
Romans 5:8-9 "While we were yet sinners, Christ died for us..."

BLUE---Baptism
Romans 6:4 "We were therefore buried with him through baptism..."

WHITE---Forgiveness
Psalm 32:1 "Blessed is he whose transgression is forgiven, whose sin is covered."

GREEN---Growing in God
2 Peter 3: 18 “Grow in the grace and knowledge of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ…”

GOLD---Heaven
Revelation 21:21 "...And the street of the city was pure gold, like transparent glass."



We had several members of our Children in Action there to help with the bracelets!

This is some of our youth group with Youth Pastor Larry David Freeman

Monday, September 14, 2009

Weekend 9/12 & 9/13 - Bethel Cookout and Mark Bishop

On Saturday, September 12th our family at Bethel was hosted by our brother Jimmy Fritz down on the Kentucky River for a cookout and fellowship!


There was all sorts of fixin's!!!









We were blessed with a beautiful and glorious day of fellowship and delicious food!


For our evening worship service on September 13th Bro. Mark Bishop worshiped with us in song.


We praise God for the many ways that He blesses us!

Sunday, August 30, 2009

Sweet Fellowship

For our evening worship service on August 30th we joined with our family in Christ at Liberty Avenue Baptist Church. We had a wonderful time of worshiping our Lord and Savior Jesus!

Our choir shared a couple of songs with us.


Bro. Charlie Dean welcoming everyone.

Bro. Charlie Dean and Bro. Kenny Davis Jr.

Some of Liberty Avenue's youth doing a song interpretation of "Behold the Lamb"

Bethel's youth performing a skit, "My Chains are Gone"

After our time of worship we had a time of "sweet" fellowship!!!


It was a great time of worship and fellowship in the Lord!

Sunday, August 23, 2009

Brotherhood Project - Southern Heights Baptist Church August 2009

The Brotherhood at Bethel recently helped build a handicap ramp at
Southern Heights Baptist Church.









Brotherhood Project - Harris Memorial Baptist Church April 2009

In April, Bethel Baptist Church's Brotherhood helped with putting on the new roof at Harris Memorial Baptist Church.