Consider yourself invited!!! Plan on coming to our final day of Prepare for Life bible study for this year (Tuesday, May 7). We are meeting from 9:30 - 11:30 at Sandy Keeney's home (6035 Park Circle Drive). It will be an incredible blessing so mark your calendar and don't miss it!!!

Note: Parking is limited around the home. Please carpool from Bethel.

For those with children, childcare is available until 12:30 pm at Bethel that day.

Come as you are and join us for a 9-week book study this summer at Bethel as we read Calm my Anxious Heart by Linda Dillow, a woman’s guide to finding contentment.

This is a unique time for the women of Bethel to come together to encourage one another to be content and trust God, even when we feel overwhelmed with worry and fear.

The study will meet on Tuesdays, June 4 - July 30, 9:30 - 11 am. Childcare is extended to 12:30 pm to allow time for lunch and fellowship with one another. Please let us know you're coming by filling out the registration from here.

Acts 28

Today, we come to the close of our story. As we’ve peered into the life of the early church through the eyes of Luke, we have been challenged and puzzled and encouraged. I have grown admittedly attached to some of these characters, and Luke was not particularly concerned with tying up loose ends. Acts 28 ends with no fanfare. There is no finality, no closure. It hardly seems fair to have drawn us into the narrative and then shut the book in the middle of the action.

What will we do with what we have seen? What will we do with our stories in response to theirs?

There is a temptation, I think, to write these men off as heroic, to see their stories as unique and almost other-worldly. That is to have missed the entire point. These men and their circumstances were not fables or fairytales. God didn’t give us His Word to show us how things used to be. He hasn’t changed! The same purpose and power that were available to those early apostles are available to us. Looking to Peter and Paul and James and John, might we be encouraged to live lives of purpose for the honor and glory of Jesus Christ? Looking to the Holy Spirit, might we find the same grace and power that was available to the early church? When it’s His power and His grace that changes us, well, that changes everything.

May the twenty-eight chapters of Acts stir in us a hunger for the Lord who still writes stories for His glory in the lives of those who seek Him.