Because of your help thousands of Cambodians will be fed.
During the week-long pledge drive in November, enough money was pledged to purchase over 496 tons of rice! That’s enough rice to feed everyone in Yakima for a month!
As a way to express our thanks, Positive Life Radio and the Musicianaries Organization invite you […]
Bethel’s Pastors/Directors met for a vision retreat in mid-January, starting with prayer and then by doing a gap analysis of our current discipleship offerings at the church. Following this time of assessment, the group went into a brainstorming session to see how we could forge ahead with an effective discipleship plan. Here are some raw […]
It’s great if you can lead a discussion with your small group about what you’d like to accomplish together for God for the 2nd half of the small group year, along the discipleship road. Keith Wright has some possibilities if you assess a group need in one of these categories:
Scripture memory. Set up a system […]
L Listen more than you speak
James 1:19-20
E Engage in ongoing care and development
1 Peter 5:2-4; James 1:27; Galatians 6:2
A Actively reach out to those beyond your group
2 Corinthians 5:18; 1 Corinthians 9:19
D Develop a healthy and balanced group
James 3:18
E Encourage every member to share a group […]
Evaluate your small group leadership throughout the year against these priorities.
KNOW God and yourself
How regularly and intimately am I spending my time with the Lord in His Word and in talking with Him?
How well am I preparing for my small […]
For the Thanksgiving and Christmas holidays, Bethel gave out 235 baskets.
Both the elderly and women’s jail ministry are becoming regular outreaches. The McCann’s will head the outreach to the elderly and Windy Hancock will head up the jail ministry.
Tom McClelland is working with the Union Gospel Mission to help them fix up their current building. […]
Does your group provide…?
1. Acceptance: Do I fit here?
2. Friendship: Does anyone want to know me?
3. Value: Am I needed?
4. Benefit: What’s the advantage of joining/participating in this group?
5. Expectation: What’s required for joining/participating in this group?
bible-study-method.pdf
Here’s a great form to pass out to your group either as homework once a passage of scripture is assigned for next time, or once the group (who has just read the passage) convenes. You’ll see that the assignment is to read the passage five times before answering the questions, begins with writing a […]
3rd Week of January, 2007
Elder Life: A chat with Scott Chambers
What are the primary roles of elders at Bethel?
In no particular order….. (1) provide overall leadership and direction in all areas of church life, (2) shepherd the flock, and encourage and pray for our co-shepherds (staff, ministry leads, and small group leaders), (3) pray for […]
….And this year we’re connecting disconnected Bethel attenders to small groups, as well as reaching out to our community! So…we’ll be working in small groups, with one or more small groups assigned to each Sharefest project. This will be something of an organizational drill (last year 950 Bethel people showed up for Sharefest…..!), […]
