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November Annoucements

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THANKSGIVING EVE WORSHIP will be held here at 6:30 PM on Wednesday, November 25. PLEASE NOTE THE CHANGE IN TIME.
We hope that this will be an ecumenical service; Bethany youth will be actively involved in leading the service.

ANGEL TREE TAGS are available on the table in the upper narthex. Please be sure to write your name on the sheet next to the number of any tags you take. All gifts need to be returned to the church by Sunday, December 6.

OUR DAILY BREAD DEVOTIONAL BOOKLETS for December, January, February, are available on the table in the narthex.

THE NOVEMBER/DECEMBER ISSUE OF CONNECTIONS MAGAZINE is available on the table in the narthex. It contains a number of articles related to living in the Kingdom of God.

THE LUTHER LEAGUE WILL BE SENDING CARE PACKAGES TO OUR COLLEGE STUDENTS later this month. They invite the congregation to donate snack items to go in the boxes. They also welcome your notes of encouragement to students, perhaps with the inclusion of a Bible verse. Please talk to Chris Barten for more information.

ORDERS FOR CHRISTMAS GREENERY are now being accepted. Order forms were included in the New Light and are also available on the table in the narthex. Order deadline is November 18.

PRAYER CHAIN: If you are not receiving our email requests, please send Pastor Kathy an email at and ask to be added.

If you do not use email, but would like to receive prayer updates, please also talk to Pastor Kathy. We will try to organize another prayer chain to keep you informed.

SUNDAY MORNING BIBLE STUDY has resumed. Everyone is invited to join us at 8:00 am as we study Paul’s first letter to the Corinthian church.

PLEASE JOIN US FOR BIBLE STUDY ON THURSDAY MORNINGS AT 10:00 AM.  

BREAD MINISTRY CONTINUES from 10:30 AM – 3:30 PM every Wednesday.

PORTALS OF PRAYER FOR OCTOBER-DECEMBER are available on the table in the narthex. Please help yourself.

CHILDREN’S ACTIVITY BAGS ARE ONCE AGAIN AVAILABLE in the narthex. Bags hanging up have been sanitized. When you return bags that have been used, please place them in the box.

WE CONTINUE TO POST Sunday worship on our church website, our Facebook page, and our YouTube channel.

IF YOU WOULD LIKE PASTOR KATHY to make an indoor or outdoor visit, please call the church office.

PLEASE PLACE OFFERING and loose coin in the plate on the table in the narthex.

Monday, November 16

6:00 pm   Trustee Meeting

7:00 pm   Church Council Meeting

Wednesday, November 18

10:30 – 3:30 Bread Ministry

5:30 pm   Confirmation

7:00 pm   Luther League

Thursday, November 19

9:00 am    New Light

10:00 am  Women’s Bible Study

Sermon – The Only Way Part 2

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SCRIPTURE READINGS

 

ISAIAH 43:1-2, 4-7

But now thus says the Lord, …”Fear not, for I have redeemed you; I have called you by name, you are mine. When you pass through the waters, I will be with you; and through the rivers, they shall not overwhelm you; when you walk through fire you shall not be burned, and the flame shall not consume you. For I am the Lord your God, the Holy One of Israel, your Savior.

Because you are precious in my eyes, and honored, and I love you. … Fear not, for I am with you; I will bring your offspring from the east, and from the west I shall gather you. I will say to the north, Give up, and to the south, Do not withhold; bring my sons from afar and my daughters from the end of the earth, everyone who is called by my name, whom I created for my glory, whom I formed and made.”

 

REVELATION 3:14-22

“And to the angel of the church in Laodicea write: ‘The words of the Amen, the faithful and true witness, the beginning of God’s creation. I know your works: you are neither cold nor hot. Would that you were either cold or hot! So, because you are lukewarm, and neither hot nor cold, I will spit you out of my mouth. For you say, I am rich, I have prospered, and I need nothing, not realizing that you are wretched, pitiable, poor, blind, and naked. I counsel you to buy from me gold refined by fire, so that you may be rich, and white garments so that you may clothe yourself and the shame of your nakedness may not be seen, and salve to anoint your eyes, so that you may see. Those whom I love, I reprove and discipline, so be zealous and repent. Behold, I stand at the door and knock. If anyone hears my voice and opens the door, I will come in to him and eat with him, and he with me. The one who conquers, I will grant him to sit with me on my throne, as I also conquered and sat down with my Father on his throne. He who has an ear, let him hear what the Spirit says to the churches.’” 

 

JOHN 15:18-21

“If the world hates you, know that it has hated me before it hated you. if you were of the world, the world would love you as its own; but because you are not of the world, but I chose you out of the world, therefore the world hates you. remember the word that I said to you: ‘A servant is not greater than his master.’ If they persecuted me, they will also persecute you. if they kept my work, they will also keep yours. But all these things they will do to you on account of my name, because they do not know him who sent me.”