BETHANY NEWS
Holy Week Service Schedule:
Maundy Thursday – April 17 – 4:30 & 6PM – Parkway Campus
Good Friday – April 18 – 4:30 & 6PM – Parkway Campus
Easter Sunday – April 20
7AM & 9AM – Parkway Campus, Easter Breakfast served between
11AM – Lynndale Campus
There is NO church on Saturday or Monday the weekend of Easter.
Bethany’s Sunday School children and children from Our Shepherd Childcare will process in with palm branches and sing for Palm Sunday on Sunday, April 13.
There is a Voters’ Meeting on Sunday (4/6) after our worship service.
FVL's Annual Electronics Recycling Drive is coming April 25-26. Check fvlhs.org/recycle for a list of recyclable items and potential fees.
FVL's International Program offers your family the opportunity to make global connections without leaving home! Consider hosting an international student so they can get a Christ-centered education at FVL. Contact Monica Uhlenbrauck (muhlenbrauck@fvlhs.org).
Registration for Our Shepherd’s Summer Camp (ages 5-10) is up and running! We currently still have room for 5 more children. If you know of someone who may be interested, go to www.ourshepherdchildcare.com/enroll and have them fill out the information requested.
Following this weekend’s family forum, we will have a Voters’ Meeting next week, April 6, after the Sunday morning worship service. Please make plans to attend.
The next playgroup gathering will take place April 5 @ 11am. Join us with your little ones in Discovery Cove at Heckrodt Nature Center for a chance to connect with other young families!
All age and faith levels are welcome to a family-friendly walkthrough of familiar, easy-to-read Bible stories. Join us Saturdays after the 4:30 worship service in the Lynndale Campus praise center. This is a new 45-minute multi-generational Bible Study led by Jeremy Erdmann. Each session will begin 5 minutes after the service.
Our Shepherd is seeking out volunteers to assist at the center. Duties could be quite varied depending upon the volunteer’s interests and availability. Any volunteers will need to complete a background check. If you would like more information, please contact Emily Suedmeier at churchoffice@bethanyappleton.org.
Bethany is looking for someone to lead the Financial Oversight Team. This individual will help coordinate the annual budget, review monthly financial statements, prepare financial updates for the congregation, and provide recommendations to the Leadership Team.
Interested in our Sunday School program? You are invited to attend our Sunday School Open House on Sunday, March 23rd at 10:15 AM in the Sunday School room. You will get a glimpse into what our Sunday School classes look like by learning a Bible Story, completing activities, and singing songs! This event is open for all children who will be going into 4-year-old Preschool through 5th grade for next school year and their parents. Our church's nursery is open during this hour to watch any younger siblings. Contact Sammi Stegman (sammipk13@yahoo.com or 920-428-2033) with any questions.
All are invited to attend the FVL Choirs Sacred Concert on Sunday, April 6, at 2:00 PM in the Auditorium.
WELS United is a group of 21 congregations located in the Fox Valley Area. We have joined together to be able to accomplish things that we could not do on our own. Our prayer is that, through this cooperation, we can better serve the people of our congregations and our community. Please visit our website www.welsunited.org or facebook.com/WELSUnited to learn more about our ministry.
Make plans to attend a Family Forum on March 30, 2025 after the Sunday morning worship service with further updates and discussion regarding Our Shepherd Childcare and Family Ministry.
Join us for midweek Lenten services on Wednesdays at 4:30PM & 6PM at the Parkway Campus. We also typically have a group from church that serves a meal between those services. We do NOT have anyone signed up to serve for March 12 or 19. Without someone hosting, there will be no dinner. If you would like to assemble a group for one of the openings, please contact churchoffice@bethanyappleton.org.
The door offering being collected this weekend will support the Lutheran Women’s Missionary Society (LWMS) as they support two missions: vicars in mission settings and new world mission fields in Senegal, Dubai, New Zealand, Native American trives, and Australia. Your gifts will support these missions!
We currently have room for 5 children ages 2.5+ at Our Shepherd. Please help us spread the word for this, and encourage anyone with children ages 5-10 to register for our summer camp, which currently has 5 more openings! They can go to www.ourshepherdchildcare.com/enroll and have them fill out the information requested!
All age and faith levels are welcome to a family-friendly walk through of familiar, easy-to-read Bible stories. Join us Saturdays after the 4:30 worship service in the Lynndale Campus praise center. This is a new 45-minute multi-generational Bible Study led by Jeremy Erdmann. Session 1 will begin 5 minutes after service.
The New Testament book entitled Hebrews is a letter to early Jewish believers in Jesus. Drawing heavily on Old Testament references, the book points to the truth that Jesus was indeed the long-awaited Messiah. But the author makes his point by explicitly saying how Jesus is better than any other option. Thirteen times in the book it is stated that Jesus is "better," "superior," or "more excellent." He is so in comparison to the sacrificial system of the Old Testament, to angels, to Moses, better than any way the book’s readers thought they could approach God. And the lesson for us today is Jesus is still better and superior than any other way we might try to approach God; that we might try to be saved. A new study of this book starts March 5 at our Midweek Oasis. Come learn with us the significance of the Letter to the Hebrews, and see our Superior Savior!
Bethany Lutheran Church
920.733.9561
Parkway Campus - 530 W. Parkway Blvd. Appleton, WI 54911
Lynndale Campus - 3335 N. Lynndale Dr. Appleton, WI 54914