Missions
Praise God, the Crates Were Full!
During the past two weeks, you, Church, have brought medicine and food to help those requiring emergency relief in Venezuela. Not just some donations–4,450 pounds of donations! On the past two Sundays, you have given your time to sort and pack these donations for those who desperately need them. We had middle school boys carrying boxes to…
Romania 2018
And now these three remain: faith, hope, and love. But the greatest of these is love. 1 Corinthians 13:13 Recently, I had the overwhelming joy of traveling with our student ministries to Romania. The team consisted of 11 senior girls, as well as four chaperones. When Jono approached me about going on this trip, I was…
Help Venezuela Now
Venezuela is in the worst humanitarian crisis in this Hemisphere. People are starving and medical care is almost non-existent. It wasn’t always like this. Venezuela was once the wealthiest country in South America and has the greatest natural resources, including the largest oil reserves in the world. But due to massive government corruption, a failed…
Camp Hope: Healing Heartbreak
Every summer, dozens and dozens of smiling, selfless Mt. Bethel volunteers give up their Sunday and meet at our church to ensure our Camp Hope campers, all children with an incarcerated parent, are safely checked in for their bus ride to camp. Eight-year-old Kennedy waited four years for her chance to get on the bus.…
Spotlight on Project 82 in Kenya
What does the face of poverty look like? Poverty is that thing you have when you don’t have anything else. Project 82, our missions partner in Kenya, reaches far beyond poverty and into the depths of human suffering. It is easy to imagine that the people in the worst possible situation are those who have…
What Does God Do?
What does God do? It’s kind of a funny question. You might say, “He does whatever He wants to do.” And that would be true. In scripture, however, we find some very specific things that God does that are at the core of who He is. We begin every Missions Committee meeting with prayer and…
Ribbons & Holly Vendor Information
The Ribbons & Holly 2018 Craft Show will be on Saturday, November 10, 2018. If you make hand-made crafts, please print off a copy of the 2018 application. If you have any questions, please contact Sandra Skinner at 770.552.2660 or Sharon Volk at 770.578.1505. We are looking forward to another great show in November 2018!…
It’s Hard to Believe What God is Doing in South Asia
I was blessed to have the opportunity to travel to South Asia twice this year to share in ministry with one of our strategic ministry partners, Hope for Today. What a joy it was to walk and work alongside some amazing Christian leaders doing more ministry with fewer resources than I could even imagine if…