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!

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.)

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!

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!

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

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!

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!

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.

The Fruits of Vacation Bible School!

We had 6 to give their hearts to Jesus during VBS this year and tonight two of them were baptized. All glory to God!!!

Upcoming Events in June and July!

Our youth went on a mission trip to Pascagoula, Mississippi in June! They were able to particiapte in several ministries!

You can find out more information about our youth on their blog!

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We had our VBS from July 13-17, 2009 and we had a very blessed week with lots of precious children attending each night. We had a total of 6 to accept Jesus as their Savior!!!

Brotherhood Project June 2009

Rally Against Expanded Gambling

On Tuesday, June 16th we attended the Rally Against Expanded Gambling that the Family Foundation held at the Capitol. For more information please visit the Family Foundation's website HERE.

You can also call 1-800-372-7181 and leave your Representative a message that you oppose any expansion of gambling in our state.

Commission Service for Youth Mission Team

Acts 1:8

"But you shall receive power when the Holy Spirit has come upon you; and you shall be witnesses to Me in Jerusalem, and in all Judea and Samaria, and to the end of the earth.”

Our youth group is heading to Mississippi next week for a mission trip. During our evening service we as a church were able to watch the skits and dramas that they are going to be performing while on their trip. It was a very special service as we worshiped a Savior and commissioned this group of youth to go and be a witness!

Bro. Hamp Valentine, our Director of Missions for TCBA, spoke at the beginning of the service.

Our choir sang, "Touch Through Me."


Interpretation for "Stand in the Rain"

Mission Team