Bethlehem United Methodist Church
Saturday, May 19, 2012
Growing as Christians...Reaching Out to Others
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Our Mission
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 Bethlehem United Methodist Church, Franklin, TNBethlehem United Methodist Church is a historical congregation located in the heart of the Grassland community on the northern side of Franklin. We would love to have you come visit us for worship. On Sunday mornings, we offer two distinct worship services, with Sunday school classes for all ages at 9:30 AM. Our 8:15 AM service is a traditional, liturgical service and features the music of our Chancel choir. Our 10:45 AM service is a contemporary service that is led by a praise band.
TW@B Notes (This Week at Bethlehem) (click here for all the TW@B Notes)
I am so blown away by what I saw happen Sunday! That was an incredible day for Bethlehem as we sought to serve God! We sure lived into our motto of “growing as Christians and reaching out to others.” It was so cool to see how all of us, working together, cold make a difference in our community in such a short time. I have heard from many of the places where we served and all of them just wanted me to know how overwhelming our acts of love and service were. Way to go Bethlehem! I can’t wait to see what God does to bring even more fruit to the efforts we offered.
One of the things we do as a staff after a big event like this is to have an “autopsy without blame.” In essence, we want to pick apart the event to see what worked, what didn’t and how we can do it better in the future. I hope you will help me with this. In the next week or so please email, call, or write me a note and let me know what you thought of this event. Should we make this a recurring event? What was the best part of it? Where do we need to improve? What other suggestions do you have? This will be helpful as we seek to be all God wants us to be! Thanks again for being willing to be a part of such a different sort of a day! Days like this one remind me of why Bethlehem is such a special place! Blessings, Ryan This Sunday we have some special things at both services that will really help us as we worship God. First, we will have a slide show of pictures from all of our projects this past Sunday. Again, it was such a great day. Second, we will have a special song that I am excited to hear. It will be sung by our Ladies Ensemble and will be backed by the handbell choir and a three piece brass section. They have worked hard on this, and I know it will be spectacular. The sermon is on the parable Jesus told at the end of monologue we often refer to as The Sermon on the Mount. At the end of Matthew 7 (24-29) Jesus gives a parable concerning carpenters building houses: one on a solid rock foundation and the other on sand. It is appropriate that Jesus, being the son of a carpenter and a carpenter himself, would tell such a parable. The message is clear, though: what we build our lives on is important. What is your foundation built on? When the storms of life come (and they come in all of our lives), how will our foundation hold us? What is still shaky in your life? By reflecting on those questions, it helps us to know where we need to put in our work and grow and build a more sturdy structure. This not only applies to each of us as individuals, but also to us as a church. We have to be building on the rock that is Christ Jesus in order for us to be successful. I feel really good about the structure we are building here at Bethlehem and the foundation it is built on!
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Vacation Bible School is June 18-22, 2012 in the mornings.
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