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Saturday, January 29, 2022
Thursday, January 27, 2022
Bethany Lutheran, a Sacramental Church.
Our church is a sacramental church. We teach and practice two sacraments, or sacred acts: Baptism and the Lord’s Supper. In the Lutheran church these, along with God’s Word, are called “Means of Grace.” In other words, the Word, Baptism, and the Lord’s Supper are “vehicles” or means of God giving his grace to his people.
- We believe that baptism is first and foremost God’s work, where he forgives sins, rescues from death and the devil, and gives eternal salvation to all who believe this. See Matthew 28:18-20; Mark 16:16; 1 Peter 3:20-21; Titus 3:5-7; Acts 2:38 etc. Because the Bible teaches that Baptism begins with God’s action of grace, we baptize children and infants as well as adults.
- We believe that in the Lord’s Supper, along with the bread and wine, the true body and blood of our Lord Jesus Christ is actually given and received by those who eat and drink. Jesus himself declares, “This is my body…This is my blood.” See Matthew 26:26-28. The Bible teaches also that our sins are forgiven, for Jesus says in Matthew 26:28, “This is my blood of the covenant, which is poured out for many for the forgiveness of sins.” Because 1 Corinthians 11:28 says that we are to examine ourselves before we eat and drink, a period of instruction is appropriate before communing at the altar.
Read about us on our website.
Tuesday, January 25, 2022
School Happenings
Upcoming Events:
Tues. Jan. 25 2nd—8th Grade: DEADLINE—for iFLY permission slip PLEASE turn your student’s permission slip into teacher ASAP.
Jan. 28 Minimum Day, Dismissal at Noon
Extended Care Offered—your child must have a lunch & snack
Jan. 28 D.E.A.R. DAY—Drop Everything and Read Day PJ Day
Feb. 2-4 iFLY Field Trip—2nd-8th graders
Look to our website in the Eagle News Newsletter for further details.
FREE COVID TESTS FOR FAMILIES
Four free COVID test per household can be ordered. Here is a link to order:
https://special.usps.com/testkit
You can also go to the government website direct:
https://www.covidtests.gov/
Saturday, January 22, 2022
January 16, 2022 Sunday Worship Service
Sunday Worship Service - January 16, 2022
Note our new church service and bible study times:
10 am - Adult Bible Study Ulatis Campus
11 am - Ulatis Campus inside and drive-in Worship Service
Bethany Lutheran Church
1011 Ulatis Drive
Vacaville, CA
(707) 451-6675
mychurch@gobethany.com
Pastor - Phil Pledger
Bethany School Principal/Vicar - Dr. Chris Smith
Reader - Ruth Endsley
Live Stream Videographer - Katy Green
Sound - Jim Witt
Projectionist - Jim Witt
Projection Design - Natalie Hart
Service Coordinator - Jim Witt
Thursday, January 20, 2022
Join Us
To become a member of Bethany Lutheran Church you will need to:
Attend the FAITH FOUNDATION classes which can be scheduled through the church office bethanychurch@gobethany.com
Complete an APPLICATION FOR MEMBERSHIP.
Commit to be a faithful member through regular worship, study of God’s Word, daily prayer, and giving your time, talents, and God-given resources (finances).
Commit your life to God in serving Him and loving one another as God has loved you.
For more information, explore our website.
Tuesday, January 18, 2022
We Believe
Bethany Lutheran Church is a Christian church, part of the worldwide Christian Church.
*We believe that there is only one true God, who reveals himself in the Bible as being three persons in one God– the Father, who created and sustains the world; the Son, who became and lived as a man, died, rose from the dead and returned to heaven, taking up again His full glory and power; and the Holy Spirit, who brings people to faith in Jesus Christ and imparts to them the blessings of faith. Each is fully God, and yet there is only one God, not three.
*We believe that the Bible is the Word of God, spoken through human authors. It is trustworthy and without error. Its main message is the gift of eternal life found in Jesus, the only Son of God.
*We believe that all people are born in sin (original sin) and that we sin against God everyday and are in need of His forgiveness.
*We believe that Jesus Christ is our Lord and Savior and that He is true God and true man and that He died on the cross to atone for the sins of all mankind. But the Good News is that Jesus rose from the dead on the third day and opened the gates of heaven to all who believe in Him.
*We believe that we are saved by grace through faith in Jesus Christ even though there is no merit or worthiness in us.
Bethany Lutheran Church is also a fellowship of Lutheran Christians. We are affiliated with the Lutheran Church-Missouri Synod, a Biblically conservative church body. The LC-MS is called a “confessional” church body because we publicly confess our faith. We believe that the three ecumenical creeds are faithful declarations of the Christian faith. These include the Apostles’ Creed, the Nicene Creed, and the Athanasian Creed.
Our congregation is called “Lutheran” because we follow the Bible based teachings of Martin Luther, which were the driving force for the Reformation of the Church in the 16th century. God used Luther to proclaim again the Biblical truth that in Jesus Christ, God is loving and merciful. Forgiveness and eternal life are gifts that God wants to give people through faith in Jesus. During the time of the Reformation, much of the church was reformed and revitalized and brought back to its Biblical roots. The teachings of the Lutherans were gathered together in the Book of Concord of 1580, and are used as a confession of faith by our church body.
Saturday, January 15, 2022
Bethany Lutheran School - Vacaville CA
Bethany Lutheran School is:
- Dually accredited with Western Association of School & Colleges (WASC) & National Lutheran School Accreditation (NLSA)
- Christ-centered education
- Meeting the needs of the community
- Qualified teaching staff
- Family-oriented, child-focused learning
- An environment that is conducive to learning
- Quality programs and individualized opportunities
- Centrally located in Vacaville, minutes from I-80
- Before and after school care programs available
See more about Bethany Lutheran School at https://www.gobethany.com/k-8-school/
Wednesday, January 12, 2022
Our Philosophy | Bethany Lutheran
WE BELIEVE…that our program should meet the needs of the whole child (spiritual, physical, emotional, social, creative, and cognitive) in a safe, nurturing positive environment.
…that a child learns best by having opportunities to explore, create, and discover; so we maintain a child-oriented classroom, keeping an appropriate balance between child-initiated and teacher-directed activities.
…and that the learning environment should foster a positive self-concept in each child, and that our staff should be sensitive to the individual differences and developmental stages of each child.
OUR GOALS:
To grow in understanding of God and His loving care.
To develop a positive self-concept; thinking as an individual; expanding perspective.
To develop social skills to include the communication skills needed to solve problems peacefully; working and cooperating together in small and large groups; respecting the property of others; helping, sharing, and caring for others.
To encourage children to think, reason, question, and experiment; developing language and early literacy skills, to include letter recognition, letter-sound correspondences, concepts of print, early writing skills, and oral and listening skills; developing number sense and mathematical reasoning skills.
To develop an awareness of beauty and appreciation of aesthetic experiences, including art, music, poems, and books. Experiencing the artistic process.
To participate through play, singing, creative experiences, rhythmic activities and dramatic play.
To promote physical development and well-being; to include activities geared to develop large and small muscle coordination, and activities designed to foster good habits of health and safety.
To respect cultural diversity, to include books, pictures, foods, props, visitors, and cultural resources available in the community.
Sunday, January 9, 2022
Bethany Lutheran Vacaville and Our Heritage
On October 26, 1952, Lutheran church services were first held in Vacaville by Pastor T. B. Gohlke, then pastor of Trinity, Fairfield. The services were held in the Legion Hall and attendance was 52 for the first service. From that beginning, Sunday School was organized, services continued and an initial group of dedicated people worked hard to promote the Lutheran church. As attendance increased, the congregation formally organized on July 27, 1953, under the name of Bethany Lutheran Church and affiliated with the California-Nevada District of The Lutheran Church – Missouri Synod. It soon became evident that the Legion Hall would not be satisfactory for the congregation, so in 1954, ten members donated enough money for a down payment to purchase the land where Bethany is now located. The church was a mission church where the District assisted financially. The original church construction was started in 1955 with volunteer labor and was completed in 1956.
Throughout the years that followed, many milestones were reached as Vacaville and the church grew. In 1961, Bethany members voted to become self-sustaining and dropped the mission church designation. An education building was completed in 1965, a pre-school was started in 1974, and the present church building was completed in 1977. In 1988, adjoining property was purchased and an extended daycare program was added to the Early Childhood Education program. In 1994, Bethany initiated plans to rebuild the fellowship hall to further meet the needs of the congregation and that was completed in 1996. As completion of the parish hall was nearing, further plans continued to begin expanding the school to provide kindergarten through eighth-grade Christian education in Vacaville. This has now become a reality with our additional site on Ulatis Drive for Bethany Lutheran School. Bethany Lutheran School is entering its eighth year of operation on the Ulatis site. The opportunities continue as the school now can provide quality education with Christian values to over 230 students to the Vacaville and surrounding community.
As Bethany meets the challenges of today and plans for the future, the focus should not be on our accomplishments but what our obligations are as Christians – to bring the Good News of the Gospel to all people – here in Vacaville and around the world.
See more at https://www.gobethany.com/
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