Bethlehem Lutheran Ministries
A Safe Place for All

Bethelehem's cross
Our Weekly Newsletter is revised each week by Friday. This page was updated on August 7, 2008



Join us this weekend as Pastor Glenn Lucas continues the "be attitudes" series with a message titled "be pure" based on Matthew 5:8.
 "be attitudes" - Jesus flips things upside down as He begins the Sermon on the Mount. He challenges the conventional wisdom of His day as he calls blessed those who have no reason to believe they are. In this sermon series participants will be invited to choose their attitudes and be the attitudes they choose based on the Beattitudes in Matthew 5:3-10.


Readings for the The Thirteenth Sunday after Pentecost are:
First : Job 38:4-18; Second : Romans 10:5-17 and the Gospel is from Matthew 14:22-33.



GREAT TASTES OF THE WORLD - Follow the Star fundraiser. August 16th @ 7:00pm. 
Raffle Tickets are available for some items for just $1.00 each! - stop by the table in the courtyard! Tickets for the event are available in the courtyard between services!
Some new items available at the Silent Auction are: Hank Aaron signed Baseball hat and Mini Helmet, 3 Night Package at Mammoth Condo, 2 Months Free Tuition at Bethlehem Lutheran Preschool, 4 Tickets to Pasadena Pops.

If you have a service or item you would like to donate to the silent auction or if you would like to volunteer to help at the wine tasting, please contact John & Rochelle Egan.

The Call Committee and Elder Team has given us information about their latest meetings on July 19th. Please see the Leadership Teams page for all information.

 If you would like to have your business listed on our Christian Network page, please send the church office a brief description, contact info including your website etc. blcs@followthestar.com  Please put Christian Network in the subject line.

Make iSearchiGive.com or goodsearch.com your home page! Every time you search or shop, Bethlehem earns money! 

Follow the Star Fundraiser - Mark your calendar!
Saturday, October 11th - Follow the Star Car Rally and Barbeque. 9:00am-2:00pm

Visit the Kids of the Kingdom page (from Ministries on the left) for a link to the JCPlayZone website, which is offered by Lutheran Hour Ministries as a safe online play space for children ages 2-6 and their parents.

Please email the office with your grocery loyalty card numbers to support Bethlehem. We would like to verify all numbers that we have, in addition to registering new supporters! Remember to send Albertsons, Vons/Safeway, Ralphs and Macy's cards.
If you need a Food 4 Less card, please let us know!


2008 Flower Chart is posted in the entrance of the Worship Center. Please sign up for a date!

ATTENDANCE/ PRAYER CARDS
We are asking everyone (one per family), both members and guests to fill out an attendance card and place it in the offering plate each week. Please help us by completing the attendance cards!
Make it simple! Bring in return address labels and put one on the card, then just fill out the date and time! It makes it very simple and leaves time to write your prayer requests on the other side!

Hunger Defense
Needs: plastic and/or paper grocery bags and empty egg cartons. Please bring them to church and place in the collection basket in the Worship Center, along with any food donations you would like to make.

Please consider bringing in non-perishable food and personal care items for the collection basket located in the entrance to the Worship Center. Items collected will be dropped off at Hunger Defense Fund on Wednesdays. If you would like to volunteer to help at Hunger Defense Fund on a Saturday, please contact Nancy Tiegs to sign up. Bethlehem has been asked to fill volunteer positions the 1st Saturday of each month.

GIVING NEWS
eScrip Recycling Program! We now accept ipods and laptops!
This program is FREE and provides convenient collections of laser, inkjet cartridges,used cell phones, ipods and laptops while raising funds for Bethlehem! Please contact the office for more info at blcs@followthestar.com or 252-0622.
This is put into a separate Scrip account, not in the general fund. Please contact the office to register your cards! In addition to your grocery cards, did you know you can have your Macy's card linked to Bethlehem? Please contact the church office at blcs@followthestar.com to link your card! Visit our new GIVING page (link on the navigation menu) for all the ways you can support Bethlehem!

If you are reading this newsletter, but didn't receive an email reminder that the page has been updated , please contact the chuch office! All members and regular attenders that have provided us with a working email address should be receiving a newsletter email on Friday!



Please click on the "Calendar" link on the left side of this page for detailed information about everything happening at Bethlehem this week!



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