VBS Missions Project
Date Posted: July 25, 2010
Filed under Serving Opportunities
Each year we do our best to bless needy local children by collecting school supplies during VBS. These supplies, which are dropped off each day in the Lighthouse foyer or at the Hospitality Counter, are then distributed through CityLight Ministry and Annie’s Corner. Will you please consider supporting this project with your donations? Items needed are pencils, pens, rulers, binders, paper, notebooks, crayons, markers, etc., and many are “on sale” at this time of year. Thank you in advance for your support.
Christmas Stocking Project
Date Posted: July 25, 2010
Filed under Serving Opportunities
Every year we help CityLight Ministry Center’s Christmas Outreach to the inner-city by providing Christmas Stockings for the children. A list of wanted items is available at the Hospitality Counter.
Wanted: small toys, school supplies, personal items, individually wrapped candy, etc…
When: Through the month of July
Where: Bring your donations to the Hospitality Table.
Thank you in advance for your generosity!
Spaghetti Luncheon Fundraiser
Date Posted: May 6, 2010
Filed under Serving Opportunities
Our youth are heading to Alaska for a missions trip at the end of June and we need your help to get them there. Sunday, May 16, immediately following second service there will be a spaghetti luncheon for all to attend. Tickets are $10 per person ($30 maximum per family) in the Book Store. You will be served by our students and will enjoy a fine dining experience in the Fireplace Room.
Letter Carriers’ Food Drive
Date Posted: April 20, 2010
Filed under Serving Opportunities
The annual Agawam Letter Carriers’ Food Drive will take place Saturday, May 8. Fifty volunteers are needed for two shifts to unload the mail trucks and to sort the contributions. Keep in mind that lunch is provided. Please sign up at the Hospitality Counter. If you have questions, Ron DeMatteo (Book Store) is the answer-man.
Sound Tech’s Needed
Date Posted: March 25, 2010
Filed under Serving Opportunities
Sound tech’s are needed to join our present team to give more coverage on Saturdays, Sundays, and/or Wednesdays. Training is available, and you will be scheduled into the rotation for sound reinforcement (FOH) and recording. A sign-up sheet is at the Hospitality Counter, or you may contact Sam Adams for further information.
Reach (413)
Date Posted: March 24, 2010
Filed under Outreach, Serving Opportunities, Youth
This spring vacation, April 19-24, we will be doing a home missions trip to the Pioneer Valley for all Jr. and Sr. High students. We will be working with Springfield Rescue Mission, Lion’s Den, Habitat for Humanity, and the Springfield Homeless Ministry as well as doing street ministry with adults and children. This is a crucial opportunity for students to exercise the Biblical mandate of social justice and giving to others when everything we hear from society is to take for ourselves.
The cost for the week is only $130 and this includes registration for “The Launch,” Southern New England’s District Youth Convention. Pick up your application at the hospitality counter and sign up in the bookstore.
Worship Auditions
Date Posted: March 24, 2010
Filed under Music, Serving Opportunities
Bethany’s expanding Worship Teams on Saturday, Sunday, and Wednesday are looking for additional musicians to join in this ministry. Guitars, Keyboards, Drums, Vocalists (Worship Teams), Brass, Woodwinds, and Strings are some of the areas needed. If you desire to be part of any of Bethany’s Worship Teams, please sign up at the Hospitality Counter. Auditions will be scheduled after the Easter holidays.
True Fast: A Week of Serving
Date Posted: March 10, 2010
Filed under Nightlife, Outreach, Serving Opportunities
“Is this not the fast which I choose, to loosen the bonds of wickedness, to undo the bands of the yoke, and to let the oppressed go free And break every yoke…” Is. 58:6
If you are like most people, fasting can seem a daunting proposition. No one likes to go without food, and why should we anyway? Many claim that fasting “gets God’s attention” as if He stopped caring because you were eating. Really, fasting is more for our benefit than for God’s. It reminds us that we should be relying on God all the time. But if you abstain from eating thinking that God will be obligated to answer your prayer, you are in for a big surprise. Fasting is about having a right heart before God and if you don’t have a right heart, it doesn’t matter how long you go without pizza, it won’t make a bit of difference.
TrueFast is about making sure that your heart is right before God. It is about making sure that your heart is True. TrueFast does not mean that abstaining from food is a “FalseFast,” it simply means that abstaining from food while treating others with contempt is a “FalseFast” and gives false hope for answers to prayer. We want to make certain that our hearts are in the right place. If we want God to work through us and help us, we have to make sure that our hearts are aligned with His, that they are True.
Join us March 29, 30, and April 1 as we make sure our hearts are True by foregoing some of our normal evening activities to help those in need.
“…then your light will break out like the dawn, and your recovery will speedily spring forth; and your righteousness will go before you; The glory of the Lord will be your rear guard.”
(For more information, e-mail Pastor Stephen Thee at sthee@bethany-ag.org or come to our Saturday evening Contemporary Service and find out for yourself.)
Bake Sale for Clean Water
Date Posted: March 8, 2010
Filed under Children, Outreach, Serving Opportunities
Our Third-grade Sunday School class has taken on the challenge of raising funds for a “KHLORGEN 3000” water purification system. Many children and adults around the world suffer from diseases due to a lack of clean drinking water, something that we take for granted. This system will be placed in an orphanage in Tanzania. The orphanage feeds 2,000 meals per day to street children. The cost of the system is approximately $250. Our Sunday School children are making a difference! They are willing to tackle hard things for God. They will be having a BAKE SALE in the gymnasium between services next Sunday, March 14. Please support their efforts. You will enjoy their tasty treats and many orphans in Tanzania will enjoy clean water!
Easter Egg Hunt
Date Posted: March 8, 2010
Filed under Children, Serving Opportunities
Can you believe it? In less than one month Easter will be here! Saturday, April 3 (the day before Easter), we have scheduled our annual Easter Egg Hunt, with an opportunity to minister to hundreds of children. Please be praying for this event and for the TNT Puppet Team as they prepare their message. Also, volunteers and prizes are needed. God has blessed us with candy, but we do give away over 100 prizes and your help would be very much appreciated in this area. There are Easter Crosses on the white lattice in the main foyer with suggestions for prizes that you could donate. You can have a part in sharing the Good News of the eternal prize of everlasting life through faith in our “Risen Savior.”
