We are launching our CORE Crew Christmas Sale starting TODAY through Friday, December 18th. Check out the catalog listed below to see what we’re offering. Orders must be placed by Friday, December 18th at the latest. You can either come up to the church to pick up your order (Date: TBD) or you can have your order will be mailed to you. You can pay by cash or check. Checks need to be made out to the church “Bethany United Methodist Church” with “Youth” in the memo line. Use this order form (https://forms.gle/yXVLgoXAtxYMKthQA) to place your order. Forms will also be available on the Youth Bulletin Board (in the office wing) if you would like to place your order in-person. You can come up to place your order Mondays, Wednesdays, and Thursday from (10am – 1pm). Any questions, let us know.
Watch Worship Online – Prepare Ye – Advent Week 2 – Pray 12/6/2020
Join us for our Advent worship series, Prepare Ye. Each week we will contemplate the many ways we prepare ourselves for the coming of the Christ Child on Christmas.
Come & worship with us online this Advent. We gather in the comments section at 10:25am and worship together from our…
Posted by Bethany United Methodist Church on Saturday, December 5, 2020
ANNOUNCEMENTS & COUNTDOWN
WELCOME & CANDLE LIGHTING
PRAYERS OF PRAISE
OPENING HYMN “O Little Town of Bethlehem” #230, verses 1 and 3
PRAYERS OF THANKSGIVING
SCRIPTURE READING Luke 1: 5 – 25
TIME WITH THE CHILDREN Marc MIddleton
PRAYERS OF THE PEOPLE with Psalm 69: 13
SERMON “Prayer in the Midst of Barrenness”
HYMN “Sweet Hour of Prayer” verses 1 and 3 (with Mavis)
PRAYER OF CONFESSION
THE GREAT THANKSGIVING
SHARING OF THE BREAD AND CUP
THE BLESSING OF THE OFFERING
CLOSING HYMN “It Came Upon the Midnight Clear” verses 1 and 4
LIGHTING OF THE ADVENT WREATH CANDLES “Hope and Love”
BENEDICTION
Pastor Cathi Huvaere Preaching
Lay Reader – Diane Weaver
Pianist: Mavis Miller
Announcements for Sunday 12/5/2020
Youth & Children December Updates
Opportunities to Give Back
There are a number of opportunities even amid this time of socially distancing for you to give back to our community. Here’s a few, please share additional opportunities.
Clio Human Services Fund and other community organizations are working to provide 200 boxes of necessities to local families this holiday season.
These necessities boxes include basic day to day needs. They are in need of financial assistance for the boxes.
Each box costs $50 to produce.
Any donation – Big or Small will help!
Drop your donations off to Independent Bank in Clio to Kathy Blok
Thank you for your generosity!
Watch Online Worship Prepare Ye – Advent Week 1 – Ponder 11/29/2020
Join us for our Advent worship series, Prepare Ye. Each week we will contemplate the many ways we prepare ourselves for the coming of the Christ Child on Christmas. In our worship for the first week in Advent we will consider ways in which we can ponder the meaning of the birth of our Savior through the reading of Scripture and through reflection. Mary serves as a model for us in this pondering.
Advent looks a little different this year, but that's okay. We are STILL the church. Cozy up with your loved ones and…
Posted by Bethany United Methodist Church on Saturday, November 28, 2020
November 29 — “Ponder”
ANNOUNCEMENTS & COUNTDOWN
WELCOME & CANDLE LIGHTING
CALL TO WORSHIP based on Joshua 1: 7 – 9
OPENING HYMN “Come, Thou Long-Expected Jesus” #196
TIME WITH THE CHILDREN Marc Middleton
PRAYERS OF THE PEOPLE
SCRIPTURE READING Luke 1: 26 – 38, and 2: 19 CEB
SERMON “Pondering the Impossible”
RESPONSIVE READING Affirming Our Faith
THE BLESSING OF THE OFFERING
CLOSING HYMN “O Come, O Come, Emmanuel”
LIGHTING OF THE ADVENT WREATH CANDLE “Hope”
BENEDICTION
ANNOUNCEMENTS & POSTLUDE
Read the Announcements for Sunday, November 29th here