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Here are the ways you can make sure you don’t miss anything that is added between, or missing from, the Evangel:

1) An Awesome New Website!

2) Our Weekly E-Newsletter. Sign Up On Our New Website!

3) Weekly Watermarks Available At Sunday Services And At The Front Desk During The Week.

4) Slides That Display In The Entryway During The Week On Our Tv Screen.

5) The Bethesda Calendar On Our New Website!

6) Our Facebook Page! All Events And Goings On Are Announced There!

Thank You For Your Patience. May’s Evangel Was Especially Challenging For Us As We Were Waiting For Info. We Will Be Putting Out A Summer Evangel That Covers June/July/August…Look For It In Late May Or Early June.

What’s Inside

$10 Challenge! page 3

Upcoming youth Activitiespage 4

Special Outdoor Event page 6

Bethel Boutique Updatepage 8

Calendar page 10

Bethesda Lutheran Evangel May 2017

Vacation Bible School & Day Camps Are Coming. Register Now!

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Vacation Bible School is Coming! Join us for Maker Fun Factory July 10-15 for kids going in to K-4th Grade 9-12 Mon-Thurs; 9-2 on Fri (water day), $35 A world where curious kids become hands-on inventors who discover they're lovingly crafted by God.

We will spark your child’s creativity with interactive decoration and experiences. Maker Fun Factory Vacation Bible School will transform our church into a place buzzing with excitement!

More information and Online Registration is coming soon and you can pick up a registration packet in the entryway of the church! Tell your friends! Share our Facebook event!

WildKids Day Camp is Coming! Join us for fun day trips Monday-Thursday, July 10-14, 9-4pm for kids going in to K-4th Grade Each day is a new adventure to Camp Lutherwood, Honeyman, and three other locations! Join us Friday after Camp for a BBQ and Movie in the Park!

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$10 Challenge “Everything is $10.” This was a simple conversation shared between two people at the grocery store. If you want more TV channels, the next package is $10 a month. If you want more internet speed, $10 a month. Want an additional feature for your cellphone, $10 a month. What some realize and others don’t seem to realize is that those $10 add-ons add up. $10 x 12 months = $120 That’s real money.

National Public Radio and other non-profit organizations also talk about $10 a month. This is the amount that makes you a sustaining member. That can be exciting and appealing. And, like an add-on, doesn’t seem like a lot of money. I can be a sustaining member for $10 a month! But what the non-profit knows is that those gifts are essential and they really add up.

As God’s people, $10 a month means a lot as well. But it isn’t about additional features or becoming a sustaining member. It’s about recognition of a simple truth: “All that we have and all that we are comes from God.” To hear it another way we can turn to a traditional prayer that is prayed after the offering is received in worship:

Merciful Father, we offer with joy and thanksgiving what you have first given us—ourselves, our time, and our possessions, signs of your gracious love. Receive them for the sake of him who offered himself

for us, Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen The CPC issued a $10 challenge to the congregation this year. The challenge is for 200 families at Bethesda to give $10 a month for the final 10 months of 2017.

There are so many amazing things happening at Bethesda. We have partnerships around the world through the missionaries we support; we are a beacon of light in our community because we support our community through the Bethel Boutique, the Bethel Food Pantry, the Monthly Neighborhood Gatherings, the Little Sprouts

Program and by having an open building where so many people gather like Al-anon, AA, Boy & Girl Scouts, Pita Brigade, and many other community

groups and organizations.

Despite all the amazing things that are happening, we face another reality. In 2015, we ended the year with roughly a $16,000 deficit. In 2016, the deficit was closer to $20,000. 200 families giving

$10 or $10 more a month for ten months = $20,000. Gap closed, deficit avoided. But it isn’t really about the money. It’s about our relationship with God and our belief in the many ways that God is active in the many things happening at Bethesda.

If you accept this challenge, you might consider automating your giving through the church website, your bank or by filling out a form with the church office. If you are hip to technology, you might consider downloading the Give+ App by Vanco to give via your phone. If you are old school, then the offering plate with a check or cash is your best bet. If an additional $100 isn’t too hard for you or your family to give, consider making that donation as a one time gift during the summer months when attendance and giving tends to be a little lighter. Finally, if $10 a month isn’t possible right now, we are blessed by the ways that you give already.

If you accept the challenge, pledge cards can be found in the entryway and returned to the church via the offering plate on Sunday or via mail. We believe that together this challenge can become a reality and that together, we can follow where God is leading us this year and beyond. Thank you.

~The Pastors and the Church Planning Council

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Youth-for-hire: Yard work, housework, you name it! Suggested donation $10/hr/person paid directly to Bethesda for trip fees. If you need help, but $10/hr is unfeasible, please call us anyway.

FUNDRAISER FOR YOUTH

WEEKLY YOUTH ACTIVITIES PAUSING FOR SUMMER SOON From Cradle to Commencement, A Great Place To Be A Kid!


WaterWorks

WaterWorks has ended. Please join us for VBS in July!

Middle School Youth Group/Confirmation

• Regular Schedule (Wednesdays at 5:30 for dinner/6:30 for meeting) through May 24.

• Finale May 24. Carpool from Bethesda at 6:00. Jumping or watching at Get Air! Pizza dinner provided there. Pick-up from Get Air between 8:00-8:30. $15 includes everything. Click here to fill out the online waiver form.

• Limited space remaining for Young Life’s Creekside Camp, August 6-10.

High School Youth Group

• Final Meeting of the spring, Sunday, May 21, after the second service. We will carpool from Bethesda to picnic at Alton Baker Park and play games. If the weather is poor, there will be a backup plan.

• Spots remaining for San Francisco Trip, June 25-July 2

YOUTH CAR WASH JUNE 17th, 10-2

Support our youth and get your car washed! West parking lot at Bethesda.

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Family Camping: July 21-23 at Sutton Lake in Florence! We reserve a whole loop!

SAVE THE DATE

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This article begins a series that will focus on the whys of worship.

Over the next several months I will focus on the big question: why do we worship? as well as examining the why’s of the various parts of the worship service (i.e. why sharing of the peace, why communion, why the benediction, etc.).

However, before I begin with my own theology of worship, I’d like to invite you into the conversation (now we’ll discover how many of you read the evangel!). Would you please in the next couple of weeks send me your thoughts pertaining to the following questions? I truly want to know what stirs your heart, how God is moving in your life, what your soul is longing for. I will not use names, but will use your own thoughts and questions to guide this conversation.

Answer all or one of the following and send your thoughts to [email protected].

Please be honest and open; I’m hoping for a wide variety of your thoughts and questions (ask your kids their opinion, too!).

Thank you in advance for your help in cultivating a deeper understanding of worship among us.

The Whys of Worship

1. Why do you worship?

2. On days you don’t worship, what keeps you away?

3. What during worship feeds your soul?

4. What creates tension in you/what do you dislike?

5. How might you enhance or add to worship?

6. How does (or does not) worship connect to your daily life?

7. List any questions you might have for me pertaining to worship.

Thank you! Thank you! Thank you!Pastor Sarah

Monthly Neighborhood Gathering Coming Back for the Summer with Movies in Our Park - Free Fun! The Bethesda park is an awesome resource, but so many of our neighbors don’t realize that it is open for their use, that there are picnic tables, and that we love when it is used for everything from birthday parties to family reunions. So let’s invite our neighbors in and show them! Invite everyone you know with the flyer on page 8.

Our first screening is June 16: Finding Dory! Check out page 6 for details! That is the last day of VBS and Day Camps, too! What a great end to a great week!

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5/14 Camp Lutherwood Visits

5/14 Fair Trade

5/14 Mother’s Day

5/16 Altar Guild

5/20 Spring Women’s Day in Brownsville

5/21 Last Day of Sunday School

5/21 High School Event

5/24 Middle School Finale

5/29 Memorial Day, Office Closed

M AYCalendar of Events

Look Online For The Full Calendar of Events and on Page 13 for a printable calendar.

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How to Talk Out of Both Sides of Your Mouth While speaking truthfully…

Martin Luther was a media mogul for the late medieval age. He would have made a phenomenal blogger or columnist today. Andrew Pettegree notes, “In an age that valued prolonged and detailed exposition, complexity, and repetition it was astonishing that Luther should have instinctively discerned the value of brevity.” (Brand Luther: How an Unheralded Monk Turned his Small Town into a Center of Publishing, Made Himself the Most Famous Man in Europe - and Started the Protestant Reformation, page 5).

In The Freedom of a Christian, Luther summarizes the entire Christian faith in just two lines:

A Christian is a perfectly free lord of all, subject to none.

A Christian is a perfectly dutiful servant of all, subject to all.

You might notice a big difference between this statement and the punditry of our day. Contemporary media personalities (political or religious) gain an audience by speaking as strongly as possible out of one side of their mouth, whether the left or the right. There is only one way to see things as they are. On which side of the pendulum’s swing will you get off and take your stand?

Brother Martin, by contrast, often gave his arguments in the form of a paradox. The truth is to be discerned by holding seemingly contradictory observations in tension. Are you a saint or a sinner? Both. Entirely both. Is this meal bread or the body of Christ? Both. Inseparably both. Are we free in Christ or slaves of Christ? Both. Blessedly both.

Our Reformation Book Club will be reading The Freedom of a Christian for our June 10, 9am meeting.

This treatise is a brief (30 pages) and powerful introduction to the theology and writings of Martin Luther. Consider joining us or reading along on your own. Fortress Press offers a fine annotated version for $10 on amazon.com and we have a few copies for sale as well.

Easter blessings to you, fellow lords and servants in Christ!

Peace,Pastor Tom

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Spring Reformation Classes SUNDAYS: “We Have to Confess: How the Reformers Defined the Gospel” at 9:45.

Thursdays: Daytimers Bible Study, Thursdays at 11am: “Paul’s Letter to the Romans.”

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Free, fun, and fashionable clothing is the #1 goal of the Bethel Boutique. As we finish the school year, 247 shoppers have benefited from our clothing ministry located on the lower level at Bethesda. We’ve helped babies attending the Headstart program to high school students at Kalapuya and Willamette. We’ve also helped families experiencing dire emergencies, Food for Lane County clients, and just recently a family who found themselves homeless.

Thank you for ALL the support we’ve received this year! Super shoppers you’re terrific! You’ve allowed us to supplement our gently used items with more and more brand new clothing. This summer be on the look out for deals on our most popular items: athletic shorts, leggings, skinny jeans, and socks and underwear.

Recently we received three pairs of new socks. The donor decided they really weren’t what she was looking for. If this has happened to you, consider donating them to the Bethel Boutique. We will take open packages of unused underwear and socks.

Food for Lane County We need volunteers for helping to set-up and distribute food two Saturdays a Month. This month the dates are: May 13 & 27. Set up is the day before at 2:00pm and distribution begins at 9:30am.

Fair Trade Fair Trade items will be available Sunday, May 14, 9:30am.

Pray For Our Missionaries Tim & Naomi Cowley, in Portland; Keith & Laura Jensen, overseas; Jerry & Kathy Liebersbach, Stateside & planning; Aaron, Liz and Mia Kalms, in Germany; Scot & Vicki McCracken, in Portland.

Garage Sale August 3-4 Save your stuff for this year’s sale. Collection will take place July 23-30. Call Allen Stutheit with questions.

Family Living In West Parking Lot There is a family living/camping in our west parking lot location, beginning immediately - Elizabeth and her middle school aged daughter (Ariana). They have a small lap dog. This is coordinated through St. Vincent de Paul and they will be with us for up to 90 days. They will have their own facilities. Please help them to feel welcome.

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Women’s Ministry Team Meeting Our next meeting is May 18 at 3pm! All Bethesda women (and friends) are welcome! The more the merrier.

Mission Sewing Circle Mission Sewing Circle will be Wednesday, May 17 at 12:30pm in the Fireside room.

Thursday Night Quilt Group The Thursday Night Quilt Group will be meeting May 18. Join us in the Fireside Room from 6:30-8:30 pm.

Circle Meetings Ruth Circle meets June 5 at 9:30am. Naomi, Rebekah and Lydia Circles meet June 7 at 10am.


THANK YOU! 83 people signed up to run or walk and 70 brave souls participated in the cold, wind and rain at Alton Baker Park on March 18th for the Sage Bounds Medical Fun Run. Thanks to all who participated.

We had 5 people register runners and walkers and also help at the finish line. 8 people were "Race Marshalls", making sure participants went the correct direction. Thank you for your hard work.

11 businesses sponsored this event by either donating money or a product. We appreciate your support. A number of people helped set up or clean up and it was greatly appreciated. We were able to raise $2,493.52 from the race, plus another $200.00 in donations.

Please continue to pray for Sage and her family, that she may be one of God's miracles and be free of this disease.

Thank you, Ardelle Howell.

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SPRING WOMEN’S DAY Brownsville Christian Church women have invited Bethesda women & friends to their Spring Women's Day on May 20th beginning at 10am. The theme this year is "Your Beautiful Purpose". Registration is $10.00 for lunch and they would like to know today how many are coming. A sign up sheet is on the Connect wall in the entryway. We will carpool from the church. It is usually over by 1pm. Questions? Contact Carol Lodl.


May 14-31, 2017 Get the Full Calendar Online

ALTAR GUILD Tuesday, May 16 at 1:00pm, the Altar Guild will meet at the Toftemark and Olesen Conference Room, 555B Commercial St., near Cash and Carry. New members are welcome. "Many hands make light work." and we are a fun group besides. Please join us.

IMPORTANT DATES

Activities for kids of all-ages will be available on June 4 and June 11 during Sunday School hours.

Summer office hours, 10am to 2pm, begin June 12.

Worship times change to 8:30 and 10am on June 18.

May 2017Sunday Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday Saturday

308:30 AM Traditional Wor-ship9:45 AM Roots of the Ref-ormation Class9:45 AM Sunday School and Fellowship11:00 AM Contemporary Worship11:30 AM Destiny, karly 12:00 PM High School 12:00 PM High School

19:30 AM WIPG9:30 AM Ruth Circle5:45 PM Girl Scouts 203116:00 PM Girl Scout CPR Training6:15 PM Girl Scout Troop 202487:00 PM Boy Scouts Troop 22

25:30 AM Exercise Class9:15 AM Exercise Class9:30 AM WIPG12:40 PM Bethel Cooking Class5:30 PM Girl Scouts Troop 203416:00 PM Pack 22 Leader's Meeting6:30 PM Cub Scout Pack 227:00 PM Boy Scouts-PLC

39:30 AM WIPG10:00 AM Lydia Circle10:00 AM Rebekah Circle10:00 AM Naomi Circle5:30 PM Sign Language Dancing5:30 PM Confirmation Din-ner6:15 PM Choir Practice6:30 PM Confirmation

45:30 AM Exercise Class9:30 AM WIPG11:00 AM Daytimers Bible Study12:40 PM Bethel Cooking Class6:00 PM Carol Lodl - Women's Ministry6:30 PM Active Bethel Citi-zens

59:15 AM Exercise Class9:30 AM WIPG

69:00 AM Alanon Beginners Group9:00 AM Burrito Brigade Prep9:00 AM Al-Anon9:00 AM Bethel Boutique Open

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8:30 AM Traditional Wor-ship9:45 AM Roots of the Ref-ormation Class9:45 AM Sunday School and Fellowship11:00 AM Contemporary Worship

89:30 AM WIPG9:45 AM Women's Bible Study1:00 PM Oregon Old Time Fiddlers5:45 PM Girl Scouts 203116:15 PM Girl Scout Troop 202487:00 PM Boy Scouts Troop 227:00 PM Boy Scouts Troop

95:30 AM Exercise Class9:15 AM Exercise Class9:30 AM WIPG1:00 PM Bethel Boutique Open6:30 PM Cub Scout Pack 226:45 PM WIPG Board Meet-ing

109:30 AM WIPG5:30 PM Sign Language Dancing5:30 PM Confirmation Din-ner6:15 PM Choir Practice6:30 PM Confirmation7:00 PM Boy Scouts-ASM; Conference Room

115:30 AM Exercise Class9:30 AM WIPG10:00 AM Alzheimer's Caregiver Support Group--10:00 AM Alzheimer's Sup-port Group--Narnia Room11:00 AM Daytimers Bible Study1:00 PM Solvang Lunch 6:30 PM Lymphedema Sup-6:30 PM Parents Without

129:30 AM WIPG2:30 PM Food Pantry Set-up

138:00 AM Men's Breakfast9:00 AM Alanon Beginners Group9:00 AM Reformation Book9:00 AM Burrito Brigade Prep9:00 AM Al-Anon9:30 AM Food Pantry Dis-tribution5:30 PM AA Speaker Meet-ing

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8:30 AM Traditional Wor-ship9:30 AM Fair Trade Items Available9:45 AM Roots of the Ref-ormation Class9:45 AM Sunday School and 11:00 AM Baptism of Fawn 11:00 AM Contemporary

159:30 AM WIPG10:00 AM Hiring Event1:30 PM Cooking for Hosea House5:45 PM Girl Scouts 203116:15 PM Girl Scout Troop 202487:00 PM Boy Scouts Troop 227:00 PM Boy Scouts Troop 22

165:30 AM Exercise Class9:00 AM New Event9:15 AM Exercise Class9:30 AM WIPG12:40 PM Bethel Cooking 1:00 PM Altar Guild5:30 PM Girl Scouts Troop 6:30 PM Church Planning 6:30 PM Cub Scout Pack 227:00 PM Bethesda Lutheran Foundation Board (as need-

179:30 AM WIPG12:30 PM Mission Sewing Circle5:30 PM Sign Language Dancing5:30 PM Confirmation Din-ner6:15 PM Choir Practice6:30 PM Confirmation7:00 PM Boy Scouts - Com-mittee

185:30 AM Exercise Class9:30 AM WIPG11:00 AM Daytimers Bible Study3:00 PM Women's Ministry Team mtg6:30 PM Quilt Group


209:00 AM Alanon Beginners Group9:00 AM Burrito Brigade Prep9:00 AM Al-Anon2:00 PM Bethel Boutique Meeting

218:30 AM Traditional Wor-ship9:45 AM Roots of the Ref-ormation Class9:45 AM Fellowship9:45 AM Last Day of Sun-day School11:00 AM Contemporary Worship12:00 PM Youth group pic-1:00 PM Girl Scout Troop

229:30 AM WIPG9:45 AM Women's Bible Study5:45 PM Girl Scouts 203116:15 PM Girl Scout Troop 202487:00 PM Boy Scouts Troop 22

235:30 AM Exercise Class9:30 AM WIPG12:40 PM Bethel Cooking Class1:00 PM Bethel Boutique Open6:30 PM Cub Scout Pack 22

249:30 AM WIPG5:30 PM Sign Language Dancing5:30 PM Confirmation Din-ner6:15 PM Choir Practice6:30 PM Confirmation6:30 PM Boyscouts

259:30 AM WIPG11:00 AM Daytimers Bible Study

269:15 AM Exercise Class9:30 AM WIPG2:30 PM Food Pantry Set Up

279:00 AM Alanon Beginners Group9:00 AM Burrito Brigade Prep9:00 AM Al-Anon9:30 AM Food Pantry Dis-tribution

288:30 AM Traditional Wor-ship9:45 AM Fellowship11:00 AM Baptism of des-tiny, Karleigh and Allison.

11:00 AM Contemporary Worship

295:45 PM Girl Scouts 203116:15 PM Girl Scout Troop 202487:00 PM Boy Scouts Troop 22

305:30 AM Exercise Class9:15 AM Exercise Class9:30 AM WIPG6:30 PM Cub Scout Pack 22

315:30 PM Sign Language Dancing6:15 PM Choir Practice6:30 PM Confirmation

15:30 AM Exercise Class9:30 AM WIPG11:00 AM Daytimers Bible Study12:40 PM Bethel Cooking Class6:30 PM Active Bethel Citi-zens

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Upcoming Dates: June 15th, Sept 21st, and Dec 7th. Sign-ups will be on the four Sundays prior to each donation.

GIVE BLOOD

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May 7Greg & Sandi

Henley23 years

May 12Clatys & Roy

Montoya 27 years

May 12Renee & Johan

Forrer16 years

May 19Poul & Benedikte

Olesen 16 years

May 30Kenneth & Debra

Tellez 25 years

May 30Chris & Diana

Taekker 25 years

May 31Jeff & Linda

Spero 31 years

June 1Jerry & Kathy Liebersbach

53 years

June 3Don & Mim

Baker 50 years

June 4Dave & Linda

Dover 57 years

May 12Joyce

Ganung

May 15Robert Bounds

May 19 Marjorie Hislop

May 26Hanne

Taekker

May 26Arthur Stolt

May 29 Beverly Henshen


80 and Over Birthdays

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Happy Anniversary!

“Marked with the Cross of Christ forever, we are claimed, gathered and sent for the sake of the world.”

~Mission of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America

Toftemark Scholarship Applications for the Capt. Lars E. Toftemark USAF JAG Memorial Scholarship Fund are now available. Qualified applicants are high school seniors or current university students who have attended Bethesda Lutheran Church for at least one full year or is a member of or has a parent or grandparent affiliated with Danish Brotherhood Lodge #348. Priority is given to applicants who have been accepted to a Lutheran college or university.

Members On Call If your name appears here, you may be called to volunteer during the month.

Renn, Tom & Diana, (541)654-4525

Rhodes, Bob & Carol, (541)688-8828

Rhodes, Sharon, (541)514-1902

Rivera, Emmanuel & Deanna, (541)514-3226

Roxberg, Dale, (541)684-9818

Sather, Eric & Stephanie, (541)521-9496

Sather, Nick & Charmaine, (541)688-7060

April Worship Attendance 8:30 11:00 Total

Week 1 119 117 236

Palm Sunday 124 134 258

Week 4 108 105 213

Week 5 109 108 217

Total 460 464 924

Average 115 116 231

Maundy Thursday 118

Good Friday (solvang) 58

Good Friday 103

Easter 8am 123

Easter 9:30am 189

Easter 11am 210

(Total Easter) (522)

Lucille Crowell Memorial 80

Bethesda Evangel A monthly publication of Bethesda Lutheran Church. Submit items by 20th of each month.

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