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October 2012
Issue 359
Treasure at the Manger
“On entering the house, they saw the child with Mary his mother; and they knelt down and paid
him homage. Then, opening their treasure-chests, they offered him gifts of gold, frankincense, and
myrrh” (Matthew 2:10).
April 2013
Issue 365
December 2013
Issue 372
We don’t know how many wise men vis-
ited the baby Jesus, but we know exactly what
they gave him. The Bible records their generos-
ity like a baby book records every stuffed giraffe
and box of Pampers at a baby shower. The magi
knelt before the baby Jesus with Christmas gifts
of gold, frankincense, and myrrh. Those are
strange and valuable gifts for a newborn.
We know the value of gold. An ounce of
gold bullion costs $1,275. It’s been forty-two
years since the United States totally abandoned
the gold standard, but Americans are still daz-
zled by the glitter of gold. Since the days of an-
tiquity gold has symbolized wealth. Gold is
treasure fit for a king. No one asks for a gift re-
ceipt when they receive gold. But why would the
magi offer frankincense and myrrh to such a tiny
baby?
Frankincense and myrrh were fragrant
perfumes worth their weight in gold. Both frank-
incense and myrrh come from tree sap. Frankin-
cense is from a small tree called Boswellia sacra
that thrives in Oman, Somalia, and Yemen.
Myrrh comes from Commiphora myrrha, a tree
that grows in Ethiopia, Saudi Arabia, and Kenya.
Harvesters cut into these trees until they slowly
weep teardrops of sap that harden on the trunk.
Frankincense and myrrh were exported as far
away as India and China.
In a time when people did not bathe regu-
larly, frankincense and myrrh made people smell
presentable. People were willing to pay a hefty
price to get their hands on these perfumes. Gold
may well have been the cheapest gift the magi
presented to Jesus.
The wise men were quite generous to the
baby Jesus. They didn’t bring Jesus a cozy blan-
ket or a stuffed lamb. The fortune-tellers never
dreamed of wrapping up a new baseball mitt or
an Xbox One consul. They gave Jesus the very
best they had to offer. The magi presented Christ
the Lord with their finest treasure.
What is your treasure? Is it money? Is it
time? Is it your talent? What is the very best that
you have to offer? This Christmas offer Jesus
whatever it is that you value most. Trust Imman-
uel with your wallet, calendar, and every other
gift you have to offer. Jesus can take your treas-
ure and use it to bring about his purposes on
earth. Years later the babe from the manger
would grow up to say: “For where your treasure
is, there your heart will be also” (Matthew 6:21).
This Christmas let us kneel before Jesus and ac-
knowledge that he is our king with the very best
gift that we have to offer. God can use all your
gifts in spectacular ways.
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A Word from your Leaders
Becky Ramgren – president
Dick Sundberg – vice president
I recently read a devotional in the Covenant Home
Altar. The author grew up in Colorado and lived
much of her life in the shadows of a majestic
mountain range. She realized after leaving Colo-
rado that she often didn’t even realize God’s handi-
work in those mountains – to her, it was just home.
And this got me thinking, are there places in our
lives that we may be missing God’s handiwork?
During this busy Advent season, as we prepare for
the coming of Jesus, God Incarnate, God With Us,
let’s take time to look for the majesty of God all
around us.
Is it in a sunrise or a sunset over our city? Have
you seen God’s handiwork in the waves on a lake,
or the leaves on a tree? Have you seen him in the
smile of stranger…felt him in the hug of a child...
heard him in the prayers of godly person?
God is all around us. He is here in our city. He is
here in our neighborhood. He is here at Bethlehem
Covenant Church. His majesty is all around us.
His creation is here and now.
Stop. Look. Listen. It is our prayer that we will
see God and hear God and feel God in our lives.
Psalm 145: 4-5
One generation will declare Your works to the next
and will proclaim Your mighty acts. I will speak of
Your splendor and glorious majesty and Your won-
derful works.
Congregational Meeting Sunday, December 1st at 9:30am
We will be approving our 2014 Budget and
voting on the applications for church mem-
bership. (There is no Adult Sunday School
this morning.)
A Wedding at Bethlehem
Laura Ehrlich and Daniel Sanka were married
on Saturday, November 9th at Bethlehem.
Congratulations and Best Wishes to the new-
lyweds.
Married Here:
Bordeau, France
May 25, 2013
At Home Here:
Amsterdam,
Holland
Celebrating Here:
Bethlehem Covenant Church
Sanctuary
Friday, December 20, 7pm.
A Blessing Ceremony is being planned for
Nicholas and Elizabeth Nelson-White.
A reception will follow the ceremony.
Please join them as they celebrate with stateside
friends and family!
There is a gift envelope in the office.
(Liz is the daughter of Joan Nelson.)
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Wonderful Wednesdays
Invite a guest. A free-will donation is requested to
help with our costs.
December 4 Serving Group B
December 11 Serving Group C
December 18 Serving Group D
Next Wonderful Wednesday will be on January 8
Lucia Singers’ Calendar
Clear your calendar (and throats) on
Monday December 2 and again on December 9
Gather in the sanctuary at 7pm
It has always been a pleasure to welcome singers that
are not available for regular practices or choir on
Sunday mornings so if these dates work out and you
can carry a tune, please plan to participate. Jerry
Erickson is helping with the preparations and can an-
swer any questions that you may have. We will re-
hearse until we sound like professional Swedes; our
grand performance will be on Saturday morning, De-
cember 14th.
New-comers will be properly initiated!
(Our building will be quite full both Monday eve-
nings while other community groups also gather.)
Adult Commission
SPECIAL SUNDAY MORNING
ADVENT PROGRAM!
Back by popular demand: Charles Dick-
ens’ A Christmas Carol. Presented by our
own Clyde Lund and Joanne Hansen, this
series will prove to be every bit as good
as the last time—no, even better! Clyde
and Joanne have added new material!
This inspiring not-to-be-missed series is
also a great opportunity to invite a friend
or neighbor to join you at church.
(Session #1~ November 24)
Sunday Mornings
(In the Community Room)
A Christmas Carol
Clyde Lund and Joanne Hansen
December 8 at 9:50am ~ session #2
December 15 at 9:50am ~ session #3
December 22 at 9:30 am~ session #4
Class will meet 20 minutes earlier to ad-
journ in time for the Christmas Pageant
which begins at 10:30am
December 29—No Adult Sunday School
Scripture References for
December Worship
December 1 Daniel 3:1, 8-30
December 8 Ezekiel 37:1-14
December 15 Isaiah 55:1-11
December 22 John 1:1-18
December 24 Luke 2:1-20
December 29 John 1:19-34
Hot Food in Cold Weather
December 16—20
Meals-On-Wheels delivers
(even when it snows!)
Contact Steve Lindquist if you’d
like to help with this very worth-
while task. Gather outside Bethle-
hem at 11:15am.
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STAR Articles for January Please submit to the office by
Monday, December 16th
Articles for the Longfellow Messenger
are due the same day.
Prayer for our Children
The next meeting: will be
Saturday, January 18th
(We will not meet in December)
December Birthdays
1 Henrik Laudon
3 Joanne Hansen
4 Arne Christiansen
Jackie Kingsley (Karbowski)
Gloria Tamte
5 Al Anderson
Deanna Carlson
6 Vanji Bratt
11 Philip Stenberg
13 Jim Clausen
14 Gordon Andersson
18 Charlotte Sjoberg
Nancy Nordenson
20 Emma Johnson
Ansel Ridenour
21 Meta Swanson
Eleanor Fong
22 Debra Brinkman
Bert Schipper
27 Vanessa Johnson
28 Charlie Sokolski
30 Peter Kerl
Jeni Bergstrom
31 Finn Christiansen
Marshall Smith
Youth Calendar—From David
Johnson, Director of Youth
Ministries (Postcards, phone calls and emails to the youth
will follow-up as the dates approach.)
Cell 952 994-2213 ~ Email
Youth Combined Activities
(Middle School and High School)
Wednesday December 4th
(starting at 3:30pm)
Help with Christmas Decorating
Friday, December 20th
(6-8:30pm)
1-Horsepower Open Sleigh
CrossRoads (6th, 7th and 8th grades)
Confirmation meets Wednesdays
December 4, 11 and 18 at 6:15pm
For 7th and 8th graders
Wednesdays for 6th graders at 6:15pm
WYLDLIFE on Fri, Dec. 13
Christmas Club at Minnehaha Academy
Lower campus 7 to 8:30pm
SixTwelve (9th-12th grades )
Wednesdays at 6:15pm —
Dec 4, 11, 18
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Thanks,
Bethlehem Friends!
The coffee hour celebration of
my 80th birthday on Sunday,
November 10 was truly memo-
rable and a wonderful experi-
ence for me. Thanks to the band
of good friends who planned and
offered it, and to all who wished
me well, some welcoming me to
the other side of the gate to my
“ninth decade” and assuring me
that it’s just fine there. It was a
fun, colorful, beautifully deco-
rated occasion, with abundant
fall flowers and a very tasty cake
and coffee. Receiving so many
greetings, cards, kind wishes and
thoughts reminded me, as one
who lives alone, of the statement
in Psalm 68.6, “God settles the
solitary in a home.” I’m grateful
that the people of Bethlehem
have become for me a family in
which I can play a part as a
brother in Christ. Thank you, all
of you my brothers and sisters.
I’m glad to be part of our big,
loving family.
Jim Johnson
Dear Bethlehem, Words are insufficient to express
my sincere appreciation of your
gift and support! I am a M. Div.
student at North Park. I plan to
pastor a church upon graduation.
Thank you again,
Kevin Brown
Baltimore, MD
A Word About the 2013 Advent Devotional
By the time you read this the production of the 2013 Advent De-
votional will have been completed and the booklets distributed.
This could not have happened without the help of many willing
participants. Every volunteer who wrote a devotional entry for
each of the 37 days of Advent this year were given assigned
scripture texts from the Psalms, an Old Testament prophecy, a
New Testament text and a Gospel text. They were instructed to
read their assigned texts in several different versions of the Bible
and ponder them for a few days, looking for a theme or a word
that stands out or something new they’d not noticed before. It’s
amazing what blessing can come from time spent meditating on
God’s words in that way. They will be twice blessed….in the
process of writing their own entry and then as they read the en-
tries submitted by others. I want to thank each of the writers for
their inspired devotional entries.
I want to thank Claire Howland for her lovely drawing on the
cover of this year’s booklet. I also want to thank Karen Kar-
penko for teaching a lesson to the Sunday School children on the
seasons of the church year, specifically Advent, and the symbols
associated with them. Pastor Derek and Karen then provided a
chance for these children to make drawings of what they learned
about and readied those drawings for inclusion in the Advent
Devotional booklet.
Once all of the content had been submitted, edited and the book-
let formatted with appropriate clip art, it was ready for print-
ing—thank you, Mary Jones-Morris. Then it was collated, sta-
pled and distributed by a willing crew of cheerful volunteers
which included Joyce Hanson, Jim Johnson, Bev and Howard
Hinseth, Kaarina Kotkavuori, Joanne Hall, Mattie Widen,
Theresa Lund, Dave Johnson and Mary Ann Smith.
Lastly, I want to thank Jan and Bennie in the church office for
all of their help in ordering supplies and sharing their office
space on the days the printing and folding was taking place. This
booklet was a community effort and I pray it blesses our Bethle-
hem community in many ways.
With gratitude and praise,
Deb Shold, Advent Devotional editor
Additional copies are available by calling the church office.
Copies have been placed in the atrium mailboxes. If you would
like to have one mailed to you, please notify the office.
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Bethlehem
Greets
and
Eats
Christmas Caroling
(for our homebound friends)
Sunday, December 8th
Gather at church at 3:30pm.
We will be travelling by car in small
groups. Children are welcome and appreci-
ated!
Afterwards
We will return to church to enjoy a pizza
supper together. Please RSVP (sign-up in
the office) so we are sure to have enough
pizza on hand for all the hungry carolers.
Loaves and Fishes It’s Our Turn…
Monday, December 30th
We serve a free meal at River of Life
Church in north Minneapolis each month of
the year that has a fifth Monday. This is a
hands-on, personal ministry to those who
struggle with their grocery bill; it falls when
money is tightest at the end of the month.
We’d like to encourage anyone who has
time available between about 5:15 and 7pm
to sign up in the narthex. Extra help for
clean-up is always needed and appreciated.
Carpooling can be arranged. Contributions
are always appreciated also.
Speak to Jenny Hokanson for more infor-
mation or call the church office.
An IMPORTANT Little Yellow Card
Have you misplaced yours?
Did you forget about it completely?
Are you having a difficult time predicting your
cash flow for 2014?
Is this something you’ve never done before and
you’re just not sure if you want to start?
We’d like to encourage you to follow through
with a tithe to Bethlehem. Please know that any
amount promised is appreciated and needed. It is
one of the most rewarding disciplines that our
church family offers. The yellow tithe cards are
available in the office. Can you promise even $5
a week? If you can, that might be a nice place to
start. We’d like to see every regular attendee
complete a card. We are nowhere near 100%
participation which is something that we’d
REALLY like to see. Please...please...find a
card, fill it out and turn it in to the Finance Com-
mission! (Their mailbox is in the church office.)
Not happening…temporarily Gathering for Prayer The group which prays to-
gether on Tuesday evenings at 6:30pm will be
taking a two week hiatus at year end, December
24th and 31st.
Bible Encounter: The adult study group which
meets with Pastor Ryan on Thursday mornings
will not meet on December 26th or January 2nd.
Wonderful Wednesdays: No activities on
December 25th or January 1st. We will resume
regular programming on January 8th.
Scheduled for January...for sure! Sunday, January 12th: We will worship offsite at
Minnehaha Academy (north campus) to allow the
painters to finish working in our sanctuary. It’s
going to be fresh and beautiful!!!
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Sunday Nursery Schedule Our nursery staff will be present at each
service with the volunteer.
Contemporary Worship—arrive at 8:15am
Dec. 1 Grace/Anna Bergstrom
Dec. 8 Mary Ann Smith
Dec. 15 Kelly Laudon
Sunday School—arrive at 9:30 am
Dec. 1 Lori Frasch
Dec. 8 Sara Christiansen
Dec. 15 Pageant Rehearsal
Classic Worship—arrive at 10:45am
Dec. 1 Linda Larson
Dec. 8 Jan Norman
Dec. 15 Karen Lilla
December 22: Christmas Pageant at 10:30am
Aunie Benson and Meta Swanson
December 29: One service at 10:30am
Aunie Benson and Meta Swanson
Sunday Refreshments
Dec. 1 9:30am Karen Karpenko
Noon Cheryl/Bill Hunstock
Dec. 8 9:30am Deb Shold
Noon Stephanie Wright-Blado
Dec. 15 9:30am Mary Jones-Morris
Noon Linda/George Larson
Dec. 22 One Service (10:30am)
11:30am Lynette Clausen
Dec. 29 One Service (10:30am)
11:30am A volunteer is needed!
Thinking of Volunteering? www.bethlehemcov.org
Please use the spread sheet online to vol-
unteer. Choose “Glimpse” and scroll
down to “Volunteering”. The dates are in
the left column. We’d like to see some
new names.
Training is available.
Ushers and Greeters in December
Dec. 1 8:30 Greeter Diane/Haley Hutchinson
8:30 Usher Greg Alm
10:30 Greeter
10:30 Ushers Sue Holt
Dec. 8
8:30 Greeter
8:30 Usher Greg Alm
10:30 Greeter
10:30 Ushers Sue Holt, Pete Lundstrom
Dec. 15 8:30 Greeter
8:30 Ushers Greg Alm
10:30 Greeter
10:30 Ushers
We also need usher and greeter
volunteers for the following
services
Dec. 22nd at 10:30am only
Dec. 24th at 4pm
Dec. 24th at 10pm
Dec. 29th at 10:30am only
Please sign up online
(instructions are above) or call
the church office if you can
help. (612) 721-5768.
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It’s Lucia time again! In which Swedish province or
city will you celebrate Lucia this year? Have you no-
ticed the name on your ticket?
Your hostess will want to know where to seat you so
keep your ticket with you until you are seated at your
reserved table. Our “callers” will remind you when it
is time to go to Fellowship Hall. You may go down
either stairway near the back of the sanctuary. Until
called for your seating, you may wait in the Boutique,
the narthex, the atrium or the sanctuary.
(If our performances are sold out, you can usually
view the festivities if you are a part of the kitchen vol-
unteer crew or a host or hostess—a good reason to
sign up to help right away. New to Bethlehem?...You
will receive on-the-job training.)
We need 200 dozen cookies!
That sounds like a lot but nearly 700 people walk
through our doors on Lucia, counting our guests, pro-
gram participants and all our workers. If there are any
extras, they will be sold in the Gift Room.
Consignment Items
If you would like to consign your handwork or other
handcrafted items to sell on Lucia Morning here is the
procedure:
Please mark each item with your name and a sug-
gested price. Be sure that you deliver your creations
to the church office by Friday, December 13th when
you will be assigned an ID Consignment number as
the room is being set-up. If you have any questions
about this endeavor please speak with either Beth
Dahl or Rhonda Isaacs.
Set-Up Volunteers Needed, Friday, Dec. 13th
At 9 a.m. we will begin to decorate Fellowship Hall
and the Community Room in our Lucia tradition.
Come and experience the transformation with us!
Sign-up sheets are on the table in the atrium.
Men and women are needed.
Help Needed for Lucia Day
A sign-up sheet on the table in the atrium awaits your
name and your choice of a designated job—in the gift
room, the kitchen or the dining room. Men, women,
junior and senior high students all are needed!
Choose a time slot between 7 a.m. and 1 p.m. Volun-
teers for the 12-1 p.m. clean-up are especially appreci-
ated. We are all tired at that point and many hands
make for quick work.
Lucia Singers
Rehearsals are scheduled for
Monday, December 2 and
Monday, December 9 at 7 p.m.
Decorative Items
Scandinavian (or otherwise
suitable) tablecloths, runners,
squares, wall hangings, candle-
holders and centerpiece items
should be brought to Fellow-
ship Hall by 9 a.m. on Friday.
Please put your name on them.
Other Items for the Gift
Room
Food items, donated crafts
and “older treasures” may
be left in the church office
prior to December 13 la-
beled for Beth Dahl.
Lucia Fest
Saturday, December 14, 2013
(Don’t Forget...In keeping with the spirit of Lucia,
please note that your ticket requests that you bring
along a non-perishable item for the food shelf. )
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WOW!!! Children’s Ministry In December
Sunday, December 1st
8:30am Lucia Rehearsals for Tomte (K to 3rd grade) and
Dancers (4th -6th grade)
9:30am Rehearsals for Christmas Pageant
11:00am Alleluia Choir sings (arrive at 10:40am)
Wednesday, December 4
3:30-5:45pm Children’s Choirs with Cindy Bergstrom
5:45pm Wonderful Wednesday Activities
Friday, December 6
5:30pm Pizza for the family!
6:00pm Movie: Veggie Tales Premier
Sunday, December 8
8:30am Tomte/Dancers Lucia rehearsal
9:30am Rehearsals for Christmas Pageant
11:00am Alleluia Choir sings (arrive at 10:40am)
3:30pm Christmas Caroling for the entire family
Wednesday, December 11
3:30-5:45pm Children’s Choirs with Cindy Bergstrom
5:45pm Wonderful Wednesday Activities
Saturday, December 14
8:00am Tomtes and Dancers arrive for Lucia!!!
Sunday, December 15
9:30am Rehearsal for Christmas Pageant
11:00am Alleluia Choir Sings. Please arrive by 10:40am
Wednesday, December 18
3:30-5:45pm Children’s Choirs with Cindy Bergstrom
5:45pm Wonderful Wednesday Activities
Saturday, December 21
9:30am Christmas Pageant Rehearsal—2 hours
Sunday, December 22
10:30am Christmas Pageant—Children’s Choirs participate
Tuesday, December 24
4:30pm Family Christmas Eve Worship with
Nursery Care available
10:00pm Worship with Choir and Organ
Nursery Care not assigned.
Wednesday, December 25
Celebrate a very MERRY CHRISTMAS!!!
Sunday, December 29
10:30am (No Sunday School) Worship ~ Traditional Christmas Carols!
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Banana Shenanigans on Saturday, December 7th
Peel, cut and smash with high spirits!
We’re making some gifts and wrapping them twice—not naughty,
just nice—with prayer that they will be a blessing to the Child Care
Center families and the 2013 visitors which came to be with us dur-
ing the year.
The banana breads will include a greeting and an invitation to wor-
ship with us as we anticipate Christmas and begin a new year to-
gether. Help to mix the ingredients, pour the batter, wrap the breads
and deliver a few of the loaves to our visitors. Older children may enjoy participating in this activity
too. Lots of helpers are needed. Speak to Phil Swanson if you have questions.
Come to the kitchen around 9am, long hair secured, aprons tied and hands to work!
Way back in my youth pastor days, I used to take high school kids to a highway underpass in down-
town Tacoma, Washington to participate in a ministry called “The Friday Night Feed”. Churches
and other organizations would gather together to have a late night cookout for hundreds of needy
people in Tacoma. We had committed to serve the fourth Friday of every month. One year, the
fourth Friday of December happed to fall on Christmas night. When I asked our church families if
any of the students would be able to participate, the unanimous answer was, “sorry, but Christmas is
a time for family.” I sympathized with their sentiment and even had those strong feelings myself, but
I couldn’t help but feel like this was an adventure in missing the point of Christmas.
Isn’t it ironic that in this so-called “season of giving” the holidays can often bring out in us so much
self-centeredness? Sure, we may like to give gifts to our families and throw nice parties for friends,
but so much of our activity really ends up revolving around us and those closest to us. The very first
Christmas certainly wasn’t a gathering of close friends and family. Instead, the guests at Jesus’ birth
were strangers! Scripture makes clear again and again that the gift of Jesus isn’t something for us to
keep to ourselves, but good news is meant to be shared with our neighbors—and that can be anyone!
Many of our friends and neighbors who rarely attend church will at least consider finding a place to
worship this Christmas. Why not help them along by inviting them to one of our Christmas Eve ser-
vices here at Bethlehem? This year we’ll have two wonderful worship gatherings at 4:30pm and
10pm to celebrate the greatest gift of all. Both services will include treasured traditions of carols,
candlelight and the retelling of Christ’s birth. Your invitation might be the spark that rekindles
someone’s relationship with Jesus. Ultimately, this is what church is really all about. It’s not about
us and our families, but seeing neighbors and even strangers join an ever growing family of God.
The refrain of one of our most beloved carols is itself this invitation to worship: Come, Let Us Adore
Him.
Peace, Pastor Matt
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Contact Information Telephone 612-721-2290
Website www.bethlehemkids.org
Thanksgiving is a time when most of us spend more time thinking about our blessings. Some of them
that I thought of in relation to the children and families at the center are: thankful for giggles, twinkles
in eyes, smiles half hidden behind a mitten and rosy red cheeks bursting out from under warm hats.
Thankful for children who love to run through the playground playing tag and soccer, building forts
with sticks, biking around the track and swinging from the monkey bars. Thankful for parents and
grandparents who spend time snuggling with children, imagining stuffed animals have come to life,
reading stories over and over, and taking time to make healthy lunches day after day. Thankful for
families who take time off of work to stay home with their children who are not feeling well and for
families who come to read or volunteer in our rooms. Also, I’m thankful for BCC’s commitment to
support our center through prayers for our families and staff. Finally, I’m thankful for our staff and
their caring hearts that nurture these tender children as well as the staff’s commitment to lessons that
engage and spark curiosity.
This year we again shared with the church families in the joy of preparing Operation Christmas Child
boxes. The families from BCCC donated many items for us to pack and we tried to ensure that all of
the children took part in the packing process with their classmates. This year we packed 31 boxes!
Besides packing the boxes we are looking forward to decorating the rooms with Christmas and winter
crafts as well as using the opportunity to share more of the facts surrounding Jesus’ birthday.
The Beginner and Pre-K children are in the beginning stages of preparing for their Christmas Program,
to be held in the sanctuary December 19 at 7:00 p.m. It is lovely to hear the voices drifting down the
hallway to the office carrying the familiar Christmas tunes. You are welcome to join us for the pro-
gram and share some “Happy Birthday Jesus” cake after the performance.
The school age staff is beginning to talk about what activities they will participate in with the children
this Christmas Break. Some of the ideas they have: ice skating, cookie baking (my personal vote as I
know they’ll need a taste tester and I’m highly qualified), movie at the Riverview, glow in the dark
party, acting workshop, Children’s Theater, sledding, Roller Garden, hip hop dance class, bakery tour,
Humane Society guest, p.j. party, bowling, Christmas Caroling, karaoke, a tour of Excel Center. The
staff is very good at planning unique field trips and the children enjoy the variety so I’m sure that this
will be another fun break for everyone.
May each of you have an abundance of peace and joy in your hearts!
Jill and the BCCC Staff
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NON-PROFIT
US POSTAGE
PAID
TWIN CITIES
MN
PERMIT NO. 386
Bethlehem Covenant Church
3141 43rd Avenue South
Minneapolis, MN 55406
Rev. Ryan Eikenbary-Barber
David Johnson, Dir. of Youth Ministry
Derek VanderMolen, Dir. of Children’s Ministry
Rev. Matthew Kennedy, Pastor of Worship
Tesfa Wondemagegnehu, Adult Choir Director
Contact the church at:
Telephone: 612-721-5768
Web Address: www.bethlehemcov.org
Email: [email protected]
Dated Material: Return Service Requested
**Schedules and Times change during Advent —carefully check the enclosed information!** SUNDAY 8:30 a.m. Contemporary Worship* 9:45 a.m. Sunday School* 11:00 a.m. Classic Worship* MONDAY 7:00 p.m. Community activities evening TUESDAY 8:00 a.m. Breakfast at Bridgeman’s—2nd and 4th Tuesday of the month 9:00 a.m. Properties Work Day at church* 6:30 p.m. Gathering for Prayer—Church Community Invited* WEDNESDAY 9:30 a.m. Women’s Bible Study—no study 12/25 or 1/1 12:30 p.m. Staff Meeting 3:30 p.m. Hosanna Choir, Pre-K * 4:00 p.m. Hosanna Choir, K-1st grade* 4:45 p.m. Alleluia Choir, Grade 2 and up* 5:45 p.m. Wonderful Wednesday Meal* 6:15 p.m. Kids Club* 6:30 p.m. Confirmation* 6:30 p.m. Adult Choir rehearsal* 6:30 p.m. Sr. High Six12* THURSDAY 9:45 a.m. Bible Encounter* FRIDAY 6:30 a.m. Men’s Breakfast and Bible Study 9:00 a.m. Walk and coffee at Mall of America