Groups and Functions

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Groups, Functions and Projects

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Ministry Sunday, September 13th, marks the beginning of our fall programs. Plan to spend some time, between services, exploring the diverse ministries, groups and activities available at Bethlehem; a perfect time to discover opportunities to deepen your involvement and your faith. Check out the Volunteer pages.

Sunday Adult Bible Class Meets in Family Center Kitchen 9:00 A.M. each Sunday morning.

All are welcome. Bring your Bible, a cup of coffee and join us in the study of God’s Word.

TACO needs your help. This is an on-going volunteer function which requires no special skills. It involves serving food at the First Lutheran Church soup kitchen in downtown San Diego, every 3rd Monday of the month. Our supportive efforts assist the Bethlehem Women of the ELCA missions challenges. For an opportunity to serve and maybe a car-pool ride, Call Lori Cook at 760 918-2401.

Fair Trade Coffee, Tea & Chocolate. Please click here to read about Equal Exchange and Fair Trade and why we support these products

Bethlehem Community Library is a free lending library for children. It is located right on the campus and is open Tuesday 2:30 ~ 5:00PM and on Friday 1:00 ~ 4:00PM, all year and during school holidays and summer. Volunteers are needed for one afternoon a month. Please call Nancy Harig 760.931.5823 or Nancy Mullane 760.505.6922.

Lending Library

Lending Library

Christmas 2009 Pajama Sewing Project

Scraps and Prayers. Bethlehem's Quilting group.

Quilts for Lutheran World Relief. Lutheran World Relief sends the quilts made by Scraps & Prayers (Bethlehem’s quilting group) to people in need around the world. Our quilts will be displayed on the pews on the first 2 Sundays in October. We need HELP tying the quilts, so if you can thread a needle and tie a knot, please consider joining us in the Multi-Use Room on Wednesday mornings for any amount of time between 8:30 and 11:30 a.m. You are also invited to join us for devotions and refreshments around 10:30 a.m. Thank you from Scraps & Prayers (a ministry of the Bethlehem Women of the ELCA).

LWR Who got Quilts in 2008?

Scraps and Prayers.
Comfort Wounded Warriors. The Bethlehem Women of the ELCA need your help cutting, sewing and tying quilts for patients at Balboa Navy Hospital. Please join us each Wednesday morning in the Family Center. Even just one hour of your time would be greatly appreciated. Thank you to Kim Oswald for delivering quilts made by Scraps and Prayers to the Wounded Warrior Center at Camp Pendleton

Volunteer Opportunities:

Join us in an adventure in ministry! Quality of life, which begins with quality relationships with God and others, is our ministry goal.
Worship is central to our congregational life. Quality caring for children and families of our community takes place daily in our Early Childhood Center. Sharing with those in need extends our worship as we feed the hungry, house the homeless, engage seniors and others in need. Our parish nurse ministry provides a focus on health and well being for our congregation and community. Quality youth ministry is the calling of our full time youth director. There is a place for you at Bethlehem as you seek quality of life.
Join us for worship and service as we announce boldly God’s love in Christ.
The Staff and Members of Bethlehem

Each year, Bethlehem hosts the Interfaith Homeless Shelter , usually in January. These families benefit greatly as they transition to more self-sustaining circumstances. This is a Volunteer Opportunity once a year.
A Big Thank You! in 2009 to Jean Keller and Mike Ontiveros for their outstanding job of organizing and maintaining the Interfaith Shelter at Bethlehem from January 14-28. A big thank you also to everyone who helped in any way, but none of us would have known what to do without Jean and Mike's guidance and direction. It takes far more planning, set-up, day to day attention and tear down than any of us realize and they're the ones who kept it going. Job well done volunteers!

Ushers, Readers and Coffee Service
  We need volunteers during the Church service. Please inquire here jgfoland@blcenc.org

Stephen Ministry
Be a caregiver to someone who is experiencing a difficult change in their life.

Literacy Program
  Teaching others to read.
Contact Audrey Murphy 760-630-7763 for details.

Ongoing Collection for Cancelled Postage Stamps. A small village in Germany called Bethel, is made up of people that are handicapped in many different ways along with their caretakers. One job these residents do is to separate cancelled postage stamps from around the world. They then package these "collections" into plastic bags which are shipped to stamp stores around the world who then sell them. We send our collected cancelled stamps to the collection point in Washington D.C. where they are forwarded on to Bethel, Germany. Thank you for your faithful saving of these cancelled stamps and depositing them into the cylinder marked "Stamps" which are then mailed on by Mary Hartzell.

Prayer Shawl Ministry - a new ministry of Bethlehem. If you know how to knit or would like to learn how, here is your chance. Reach out to comfort those in need by knitting (or crocheting for those who do so) them a shawl that is made prayerfully and with love. The first meeting is set for Sunday, March 1st @ 11:30 am in the Multi Use Center. For more information contact Hala Behymer @ 858-350-4462 or hbehymer@pacbell.net

The Bethlehem Men's Group is for the men members of the Church. The group meets monthly at 7 pm in the Family Center. The activities include community service projects, support of in-Church programs and social gatherings. For spiritual enlightenment we use “Opening the Book of Faith."

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