Services with Northside Baptist Church

Sunday evening Bethel moved our services over to Northside Baptist in Mt. Vernon! Bro. Kenny was preaching both services and we had a wonderful time worshipping with our fellow family in Christ! Here are a few pictures from our evening:

Bro. Randy welcoming everyone.

Our Jr. Youth group performed a song interpretation to "Lord I Lift Your Name on High."

Our Pre-Teen group

The Pre-Teen did a skit to the "More Beautiful You" song.

Their hard work showed and glorified God!

The Youth performed their "Set Me Free" drama. Very powerful and everyone was very touched by the message! When the sins and temptations of this world drag us down and we don't feel like there is any hope left we need to turn to Jesus! Our ONLY Hope!!!

The choir blessed us with some great songs also!

It was a great service and Northside blessed us tremondously with our fellowship meal afterwards! We are looking forward to having their church family be a part of our Sunday April 11th evening service! Come out and join us!

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!

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":

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.)