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Kids with a MISSION! 2008-04-15 08:34:31 What happens when you give over 300 children 7,000 beads and 1,100 pieces of rope with a MISSION? It creates a purpose, a challenge, and an opportunity to share a little bit of love with other children in the world. Sunday, April 13th was our 2nd “Kids In Motion” Mission Focus program for [...]
Student mission trips to Ecuador 2008-04-18 09:37:12 Hola!
Mt Bethel’s Student
Ministries has had the fortunate opportunity and privilege to take 2 teams of students to Ecuador
between March and April. Our mission was to share the love of Jesus Christ while helping to serve the people of Quito, Ecuador. Our service included a week of VBS classes for over 200 students and [...] Read more:trips
Video of 11Alive Service Awards Ceremony 2008-04-23 08:46:04 As we told you last month, our Rev. Diane Parrish was selected for an 11Alive
Community Service
Award for her work with Camp Hope / Kidz2Leaders. The awards show can be seen below: Read more:Awards
, Ceremony
Porter Academy Art Show 2008-04-22 09:20:58 The Special Needs Ministry at Mt Bethel is blessed to host the PorterAcademy
Student Art Show. Porter Academy is located in Roswell, and serves pre-k through 5th grade students with language based learning disabilities and mild to moderate learning-style differences. All the art has been created by the students, and will be [...]
Vote on the 2008 LILy Awards! 2008-04-25 10:49:06 It’s time to vote for the 2008 LILy Awards
, showcasing the best of Live it Live over the past year.
The 2007 winners were:
The Professor - “Professor and the Exploding Coke”
Almost Life Theater - “Peter Fishing”
Miss Deone - “Deone and the Sprinkler”
Best Game - “Shaving Cream and Water Gun Race”
Favorite Song - “I’m A Believer”
Go watch [...]
Randy’s message from Kenya 2008-04-24 15:57:19 I bet you’ve been wondering what all the fuss is about “Where’s Randy
?” Well, where is he? If you came to church on Sunday, you know where he is AND what he’s doing. Didn’t make it? That’s ok - we’ve got you covered.
During last Sunday’s service, the congregation was surprised with [...] Read more:Kenya
Get in the Boat 2008-05-02 11:25:24 I went to Kenya with great trepidation. I thought that we would all be better served if we simply sent money to the people of Kwambekenya. No personal involvement for this boy. HOW WRONG I WAS!
It didn’t take me long to realize that what we are trying to do in Kwambykenya is for the long [...]
CHARGE Retreat Updates 2008-05-02 09:57:10 This weekend (May 2-4), 120 4th and 5th graders and 30+ adult leaders will be at Camp Winfield for CHARGE Retreat. CHARGE stands for Christians Having Awesome Recreation and Godly Encounters. Your prayers are appreciated. The kids will check in at Mt. Bethel Friday beginning at 3:30 p.m. in the Narthex. They’ll load buses and [...]
A post-CHARGE interview with Thomas (9 years old) 2008-05-06 08:15:04 A quick look at the recent CHARGE retreat through the eyes of a nine year old:
How was the bus ride?
The buses are great! They were very comfortable! It was loud on the way to camp but it was quiet on the way home. I think it was because we were tired.
How was the cabin?
Some of [...] Read more:interview
, Thomas
CHARGE! 2008-05-05 14:21:10 I am so CHARGED!!! What a great weekend of SPLATitude….the kids really learned about “serving, praying, loving and teaching.” While having fun in the rain, sleeping in a cabin with no working lights or hot water, my 10 girls and the other adult chaperone were still able to see God in all we did. Our [...]
Art show at Mt. Bethel raises $1200 for Porter Academy 2008-05-07 10:36:55 What an amazing night! The PorterAcademy
Art show and sale opened with a flurry of excitement over the young student’s art pieces. Parents, grandparents, Porter Academy Staff and Mt Bethel
members enjoyed refreshments as they viewed the gallery in the B hall.
Barbara Ramer, principal of Porter Academy, was very grateful to Mt Bethel for [...]
Seventeen Foster Families 2008-05-07 08:05:18 In June, Mt Bethel’s Foster
Care Ministry will be one year old. Seventeen
families have been trained and are serving as foster parents; and 35 children have spent time in the homes of these foster parents. Mt Bethel families, by turning their Compassion into Action, have significantly changed the lives and destinies of these children.
The [...] Read more:Families
General Conference Report 2008-05-06 10:17:02 Every four years, representatives from each Annual Conference (we are in the North Georgia Conference) meet to chart the course of the denomination for the next four years. Social stances taken by the church are revisited and debated during each General
Conference.
The 2008 General Conference met in Fort Worth, Texas in the spring for ten [...]
The Shack 2008-05-08 15:48:18 What are you doing right now? GET UP, drive to Mt. Bethel bookstore, Borders or Sweet Spirit and get a copy of THE SHACK. You will not be sorry!
In this story you will come face to face with heartache, reeling anger and pain and how one father, Mack, embraces a myriad of questions loss causes [...] Read more:Shack
Go? Go! 2008-05-08 13:28:43 Jesus said, “Therefore go and make disciples…” Any questions? To me it’s a simple directive. We who have sat at the feet of Jesus, allowing Him to fill our brains, senses, spirits… we who have sat and have been made full are then to do this… “GO, and NOW MAKE DISCIPLES.” Our responses? Which ones [...]
A better way to find what you want 2008-05-08 12:53:32 The search feature our main website has always been pretty solid, but it was a separate tool from the blog search engine. This week, those tools have been combined into one big search engine that can help you find whatever you’re looking for. You can use either the search box in the top right corner [...] Read more:better
Special Honor for a Vietnam Vet 2008-05-07 14:26:43 As a long time member of Mt. Bethel UMC, I’d like to share information about a very important event coming up for our family.
As stated on the AVVBA website, “Each year the Atlanta Vietnam
Veterans Business Association erects a permanent memorial in various locations in the greater Atlanta metropolitan area in honor of one of [...] Read more:Special
Compassion into Action kids-style is SPLATitude 2008-05-07 13:39:43 Children’s Ministry has adopted a mission that’s easy to remember, fun for kids, and directed to help us be good Disciples. SPLAT stands for Serve, Pray, Love and Teach. We want to be like Jesus.
We have a growing number of opportunities to learn about SPLAT such as SPLAT University on Wednesday nights (during [...] Read more:Compassion
, Action
God’s Zoo Coloring Book 2008-05-11 18:50:00 Comfortability and familiarity are the keys to most relationships. We listen to our quiet inner voice when it sends us a message about the person to whom we are speaking: either “Danger - retreat!” or “Welcome them in - everything is OK.” Or how many of us go to the same restaurants because they know [...] Read more:Zoo
, Coloring
May is Foster Care Month 2008-05-12 15:36:59 Georgia has over 13,000 foster children - some fortunate to have loving foster parents and some older youth residing in foster group homes. If statistics remain the same, only 2000 of these children will graduate from high school. The result of that is generational foster care and poverty.
These least & lost are in need of [...] Read more:Foster
, Month
Thompson-Sheffield Softball Tournament 2008-05-12 13:43:37 Let me start off by saying the Thompson
Fellowship SoftballTournament
was a great success. Seeing people of all different ages playing together was a great reminder that we can all have a good time together in God’s glory. The morning started off early with people slowly rolling in, lacing up their cleats, and putting [...] Read more:Sheffield
The Heart of Missions 2008-05-14 13:44:52 About a year ago I took on the responsibility of missions at Mt. Bethel and what a year it has been. So many mission trips, so many missions ministries transforming lives and making a difference around the world. Many new mission opportunities have been added such as our missional outreach to St. Philip church and [...] Read more:Heart
, Missions
The Gratitude Campaign 2008-05-14 10:00:27 This is pretty neat…
Have you ever seen one of our military walking past you and wanted to convey to them your thanks, but weren’t sure how or it felt awkward?
Recently, a gentleman from Seattle created a gesture which could be used and has started a massive movement to get the word out. Please everybody [...] Read more:Campaign
Thank you Sunday School teachers! 2008-05-13 14:03:44 This past school year we have been blessed to have 125 teachers
from 85 families share their time and talents to Serve, Pray, Love and Teach our precious children ages 2 – 5th grade in SundaySchool
. These families have been committed to faithfully share God’s stories. What a blessing these teachers have been to [...] Read more:Thank
Any Soldier packing party 2008-05-15 14:31:43 Ok, so some of the staff drive well and some of the staff pack boxes well…
This morning 18 members of the Mt. Bethel staff went on a field trip and a good time was had by all. We had a fantastic time packing
boxes at Mary and Ed Ettel’s home for the Any Soldier [...]
A Lasting Impact 2008-05-15 07:45:54 As a kid I loved pal gum and bubble machines. The only problem was that the gum, while a sugar blast on the first chew, lost its flavor within ten seconds and the bubbles were so fragile that they popped as soon as you touched them. I dreamed of summers that never ended and trips [...]
Mt. Bethel’s 2008 High School Graduates 2008-05-15 07:41:10 This Sunday, May 18, is Baccalaureate Sunday. We will recognize these high school graduates at the 9:30 & 11:00 Sanctuary services. We are proud of you. We love you and hope to see you on Sunday.
Ansley Aertker
Courtney Armstrong
Hunter Astor
Jessica Barnes
Sarah Baxter
Brandon Bearden
Matt Bernson
Julianne Biddle
Sarah Bissell
Alexandria Blalock
Rae Ann Boswell
Hannah Bradley
Channing Broderi Read more:Bethel
, School
, Graduates
, High School
Kids On A Mission - Kids In Motion 2008-05-19 09:21:05 This spring the children at Mt. Bethel UMC have put their “compassion into action” during children’s Sunday School programs to support both local and global mission projects. Children are sharing an attitude of SPLATitude (serving, praying, loving and teaching the word of God) through age appropriate mission projects and sharing the love of Jesus with [...] Read more:Mission
, Motion
Ancient Texts at Mt. Bethel 2008-05-20 14:44:50 As you may have seen this past Sunday, the church had some ancient books available for viewing this weekend. Some of the Academy classes got a chance to see them, and here are their thoughts:
Robin Chiang - 5th grade
My class visited the ancient books display yesterday and found it very interesting. The gentleman in charge [...] Read more:Ancient
, Bethel
College Intern Retreat 2008-05-20 14:03:57 Great Success!!! The summer interns of 2008 arrived Friday the 15th armed with bibles and sleeping bags, unaware of the location for their retreat! As weather worsened, our plans for camping quickly changed to shacking at Gaylyn’s lake house.
Along with paperwork and logistics, the team quickly set off on a mission to bond. Relations grew [...] Read more:College
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