Spain Mission Team

If you’re looking for the latest videos of our Spain Mission Team here is the link for all the videos:

http://www.aierdi.org/bethel-bc-youth-team.html

 

 

50th Anniversary Summer Series

Speakers and dates for the 50th Anniversary Summer Series for June:

• June 5 – Scott Davis, Slate Belt Nazareth Baptist Church
• June 12 – Dan Steward, Lighthouse Baptist Church
• June 19 – Rick Dobrowolski, Allentown Bible Church
• June 26 – Doug Finkbeiner, Calvary Baptist Church

Childcare is provided for infants -3 yrs old. Children’s program will be available for 4yrs old – 6th grade.

ABF Summer Electives 2012

For the months of June and July we will be offering five different Adult Bible Fellowship electives. If you haven’t signed up yet, please do so this Sunday, May 27. Please sign-up at the Info Center or in your current ABF.

Foundations: Millions of Christians have decided that the Bible is out of date. They’ve decided that the words of Jesus aren’t always true. The Foundations—Ken Ham’s signature DVD series based on 30 years of ministry—reveals the alarming state of Christianity today. Today, possibly more than at any time in America’s history, a culture detached from God and willingly ignorant of His hand in creation and world events needs Jesus. But the church is not nearly as effective in reaching the lost as it was only a generation ago. Sessions cover: Relevance of Genesis; Revealing the Unknown God; One Blood, One Race; Defending the Faith; In Six Days; Death the Enemy.

Work Matters: connecting Sunday worship to Monday work. For some this word represents drudgery and the mundane. For others work is an idol to be served. If you find yourself anywhere on the spectrum from workaholic to weekend warrior, it’s time to bridge the gap between Sunday worship and Monday work.

This ABF outlines God’s purposes for work in a way that helps us to make the most of our vocation and to join God in his work in the world. Discover a new perspective on work that will transform your workday and make the majority of your waking hours matter, not only now, but for eternity.

Give Them Grace. All of us want to raise good kids. And we want to be good parents. But what exactly do we mean by “good?” And is “being good” really the point?

We must tell our kids of the grace-giving God who freely adopts rebels and transforms them into loving sons and daughters. If this is not the message your children hear, if you are just telling them to “be good,” then the gospel needs to transform your parenting too.

Give Them Grace is a biblical perspective on parenting that shows us how to receive the gospel afresh and give grace in abundance, helping our children know the dazzling love of Jesus and respond with heartfelt obedience.

Galatians Book Study. The apostle Paul’s letter to the believers in Galatia nurtures trust and assurance in Christ. The themes of this book continue to energize and enlighten Christians today.

When God Weeps: Why Our Suffering Matters to the Almighty (Ladies Only ABF).  If God is loving, why is there suffering? What’s the difference between permitting something and ordaining it? When suffering touches our lives, questions like these suddenly demand an answer.

Good Friday Service 2012

The Look

Sunday night we began to learn a new song. You will find the text below. Here’s a recording of the song as well.

I saw one hanging on a tree
In agony and blood
Who fixed his loving eyes on me
As near his cross I stood
And never till my dying breath
Will I forget that look
It seemed to charge me with his death
Though not a word he spoke

My conscience felt and owned the guilt
And plunged me in despair
I saw my sins his blood had spilt
And helped to nail him there
But with a second look he said
“I freely all forgive
This blood is for your ransom paid
I died that you might live”

Forever etched upon my mind
Is the look of Him who died
The Lamb I crucified
And now my life will sing the praise
Of pure atoning grace
That looked on me and
Gladly took my place

Thus while his death my sin displays
For all the world to view
Such is the mystery of grace
It seals my pardon too
With pleasing grief and mournful joy
My spirit now is filled
That I should such a life destroy
Yet live by Him I killed

Easter Events

Palm Sunday, April 1 @ 10:30am

Good Friday, April 6 @ 7pm

Easter Sunday, April 8

9:30am – Easter Brunch (gymnasium)

10:30am – Easter Musical

no evening service

The Peacemaking Church: Overcome evil with good.

Our final week of The Peacemaking Church was taught yesterday in our Adult Bible Fellowships. The key principle taught was overcome evil with good. Below are the main principles we covered:

1. We have divine weapons (2 Cor 10.3-5).
2. Control your tongue (Rom 12.14).
3. Seek godly advisors—and listen to them (Rom 12.15-16)!
4. Keep doing what is right (Rom 12.17).
5. Recognize your limits (Rom 12.18-19)
6. The ultimate weapon: deliberate, focused love (Rom 12.20-21).

• protects you from your own bitterness and resentment
• may help to bring the other person to repentance

Ethiopian Bible Project

On Sunday we will be taking an offering for the Ethiopian Bible Project that is being spear-headed by Frontline Missions. Pastor has challenged each individual to give $5 which will cover the cost of printing one Bible to the Ethiopians.

The Peacemaking Church: Our forgiveness shows what we think of God’s forgiveness.

Is it really true that our forgiveness (or lack thereof) demonstrates what we think of God’s forgiveness?

Here are five principles on forgiveness from this past weeks lesson from The Peacemaking Church:

1. You cannot forgive in your own strength.
2. Forgiveness is neither a feeling, nor forgetting, nor excusing.
3. Sin creates a debt that must be paid (1 Peter 2.24; Matt 6.12)
4. Forgiveness is a decision modeled after God’s forgiveness.
5. God’s forgiveness inspires our forgiveness. (Matt 18.32-33)

Four promises of forgiveness:

• I promise I will not dwell on this incident.
• I promise I will not bring up this incident and use it against you.
• I promise I will not talk to others about this incident.
• I promise I will not allow this incident to stand between us or hinder our personal relationship.

Upper Bucks Christian School Serves (3 of 3)

When Miss Marlowe’s eighth grade homeroom decided to make a difference in the lives of the children of Faith Children’s Village in Zambia, they never dreamed their vision would encompass the entire school. “It all started when Mr. Crockett (pictured with family) shared a video in chapel about the village,” says Miss Marlowe. “My students wanted to help the orphans. We began the project, and the Lord did the rest.”

When the elementary heard about the effort, they also got behind the Zambia project. The students showed great enthusiasm and compassion by bringing in gum and donations everyday. One elementary student donated all that she had and said, “I really wanted a Nintendo DS that I had been saving for, but the orphans needed the money more than I did.” Donating thirty-five pounds of bubble gum and almost $1000 to Faith Children’s Village helped the orphans have a very merry Christmas.