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Bethel members reach out to help people around our world.
Lutheran World Relief
Christian Sojourn Haiti
Camp Noah
Support of Missionaries
World Hunger-Crop Walk
Lutheran World Relief
Global Ministry is supported as our church ministers to others through regular offerings and through special projects and special offerings such as Lutheran World Relief. The whole congregation is encouraged to participate by donating money or items for Health Kits, Layettes, School Kits, and Sewing Kits.
Christian Sojourn Haiti
Christian Sojourn Haiti, Inc. is a non-profit established in 1984. At this time CSH has 3 missionaries in Haiti and manages health clinics, builds schools, drills wells, and provides a medical surgical team to Haiti each year. CSH has partnered with Bethel Lutheran on many project during the last 25 years. The last project was a youth construction team to Haiti in August 2007.
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| Front row: Byron Thompson, Alec Frisell, James Kessler, Dan Lippstrue, Second row: Sally, Lippstrue, Anita Sites, Karen Daffer, Caroline Erickson, Jessica Upthagrove, Connie Jacobson, Third row: Pat Ludeke, Mary Norman, Jill Harvey, Kylie Gabriel |
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Camp Noah
CAMP NOAH 2007
Camp Noah is a program developed by Lutheran Disaster Response to help children who have gone through a recent disaster such as hurricanes, tornadoes, floods, earthquakes, etc. Its emphasis is on God's relationship with Noah and how it provides hope for survivors of today's disasters.
Bethel Lutheran Church organized a group of volunteers headed by Connie Jacobson to present this five-day Bible program to children in Irvington, Alabama. The group of fourteen left early Saturday, June 13th, for the 1200 plus mile trip. A fifteenth member, Gwen Johnson from Pennsylvania, joined the team in Alabama. The group of Holdrege arrived at St. Paul's Lutheran Church in Mobile, Alabama, on Sunday. This church provides facilities for teams to live at during the mission workweek. Two other groups, one from Minnesota and the other from Indiana, doing reconstruction work shared the facilities with the Bethel team.
Later that evening, the Bethel group journeyed on to the Bayou le Batre Wesleyan Church at Irvington to unload and prepare classrooms for the arrival of 43 students on Monday morning. The students were survivors of Hurricanes Katrina and Rita.
The five days went quickly with Bible studies, crafts, skits, games, music, and meals. The activities and studies reinforce the warnings, preparedness, storms, promise, and hope of the Noah story. The week ended with a celebration with God's promise to be with us always.
This was the second year that Bethel has sent a team to this area. In 2006 many of the same people and others went to Baton Rouge, Louisiana. At this time, a third mission is being planned for August of this year to work with tornado survivors at Greensburg, Kansas.
The Camp Noah Team expresses their thanks to all persons who have contributed through prayers and financial support to these outreach missions. The spiritual growth experienced by the team members and those that attended the camps is immeasurable.
Support of Missionaries
Click on the link to read a recent letter from the missionary that we support, Sister Ruth Ellen Rebelein in Papua, New Guinea. Your computer will need Adobe Acrobat to download and open the pdf file.
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| Everyone, young and old, is welcome to join in the Crop Walk. |
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World Hunger-Crop Walk
The annual CROP Walk was held on October 7, 2007 and again Bethel did a great job. The two confirmation classes raised $533.25, plus various individuals raised $1,070. The CROP Walk committee together with the choir members raised $1,149 which brought Bethel's total to $2,752.25. Joining Bethel was Bethany Lutheran Chruch in Axtell, Fridmen Lutheran Chruch in Funk, First Presbyterian Church in Axtell and St. Elizabeth's Episcopal Church in Holdrege. Toghether we met out goal of $5,200 plus we received $400 from Thrivent Financial for Lutherans. Coordinators for this year's walk were Mary Norman and Intern Nathan Metzger.
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