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

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!