Wednesday, November 30, 2022

Feature ‘Immerse Without Drowning’ : The importance of vicarage on pastoral formation

“It’s not really a question of need,” Vicar Mark Gaschler said. “It’s a question of great joy, of the great opportunity that we have, that God has called men to go out and to bring out His Gospel.” Gaschler, a student at Concordia Theological Seminary, Fort Wayne, was the 32nd vicar to serve at Trinity Lutheran Church in Norman, Okla., under the supervision of the Rev. David Nehrenz, newly elected district president in the LCMS Oklahoma District.

A vicar is a pastor in training. These men are assigned by the Synod’s Council of Presidents, acting as the Board of Assignments, into congregations around the country for a year of hands-on learning under the supervision and mentorship of an experienced pastor. They are not assistant pastors, noted Nehrenz. Instead, they are learning the craft.

Read more, here.

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1011 Ulatis Drive
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(707) 451-6675
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Sunday, November 27, 2022

September 2022 - Life Together Digest with President Harrison


In this Life Together Digest, the Rev. Dr. Matthew C. Harrison, president of The Lutheran Church—Missouri Synod (LCMS), highlights the importance of Christian education, and he gives thanks for the schools and teachers across the Synod.

He also encourages the church to pray for and thank teachers and all other church workers during October, when the LCMS celebrates Church Worker Appreciation Month.

“We thank God for teachers and all church workers, and encourage children to think about church work, too,” said Harrison.

Bethany Lutheran Church
1011 Ulatis Drive
Vacaville, CA
(707) 451-6675
mychurch@gobethany.com
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Thursday, November 24, 2022

Happy Thanksgiving.

Happy Thanksgiving from Us to You.

Bethany Lutheran Church
1011 Ulatis Drive
Vacaville, CA
(707) 451-6675
mychurch@gobethany.com
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Monday, November 21, 2022

Enjoy Your Thanksgiving Break!

Nov. 21—Nov. 25
Thanksgiving Break

1011 Ulatis Drive
Vacaville, CA 95687
Phone: 707.451.6683
Preschool Email: preschool@gobethany.com
(TK-8) Email: myschool@gobethany.com
Website

Friday, November 18, 2022

October 2022 Life Together Digest with President Harrison


In this Life Together Digest, the Rev. Dr. Matthew C. Harrison, president of The Lutheran Church—Missouri Synod (LCMS), discusses Church Worker Appreciation Month.

Harrison introduces the Set Apart to Serve church work recruitment initiative, which is examining the struggles with church worker shortages in the Synod and providing resources for pastors, teachers and other influencers to encourage children to pursue church work. 

He encourages us to pray and give thanks for our current church workers, and to pray to the Lord for new pastors, teachers and other church workers (Matt. 9:36–38). 

"It's His harvest, they're His workers, and He'll send them. He bids us to pray," says Harrison.

Bethany Lutheran Church
1011 Ulatis Drive
Vacaville, CA
(707) 451-6675
mychurch@gobethany.com
Website

Tuesday, November 15, 2022

Spirit Week : November 14 through November 18

November 14 through November 18

Monday - Athletes vs Mathletes—Google It...
Tuesday - Twin Day—you and a friend dress like twins
Wednesday - Chapel Ware
Thursday - Throwback Day—dress like people from days
gone by...60’s, 70’s, 80’s, 90’s...
Friday - PJ Day & D.E.A.R. Day— you may wear PJs and please wear appropriate shoes. It is also Drop Everything and Read Day—bring your favorite book and a blanket to read and be comfy in.

1011 Ulatis Drive
Vacaville, CA 95687
Phone: 707.451.6683
Preschool Email: preschool@gobethany.com
(TK-8) Email: myschool@gobethany.com

Saturday, November 12, 2022

Pie Distribution—Wed. November 16

PLEASE MAKE YOUR ARRANGEMENTS

We cannot store your pies

We are planning on distributing pies from 2:35pm – 6pm
Each year this is a HUGE LOGISTICAL UNDERTAKING and we ask for your
Patience and Grace as our volunteers will be here to help you.

*Between 2:35pm – 3:00pm – DO NOT USE THE CARPOOL LANE FOR PIE
PICK UP. Please leave this window of time for our regular student pick up. Park
your car in the lot and come get your pies during this window.

*Please – if you have a wagon, bring it to help you with your pie order. Many families
have a lot of pies to pick up so planning is key.

Thank you and enjoy your wonderful pies!

1011 Ulatis Drive
Vacaville, CA 95687
Phone: 707.451.6683
Preschool Email: preschool@gobethany.com
(TK-8) Email: myschool@gobethany.com

Wednesday, November 9, 2022

Lutherans respond to Hurricane Ian in Florida


Watch how Lutherans from around the country are working out of Venice and Fort Myers, Fla., to reflect Christ's love by providing resources and aid to those impacted by Hurricane Ian. 

"It was absolute devastation, probably one of the two worst hurricanes in the last decade," says the Rev. Dr. Ross Johnson, director of LCMS Disaster Response. "What we're seeing is Lutherans responding in love in the name of Christ to people that are hurting, to communities that are hurting."

Bethany Lutheran Church
1011 Ulatis Drive
Vacaville, CA
(707) 451-6675
mychurch@gobethany.com
Website


Sunday, November 6, 2022

Hope for the Future

For the last seven years, Erick Davis Kwoba has been able to attend primary and secondary school thanks to a unique collaboration between The Lutheran Church—Missouri Synod (LCMS) and the Evangelical Lutheran Church in Kenya (ELCK). The two church bodies work together on Project 24, a series of eight boarding facilities throughout Kenya that care for about 200 children who come from difficult family situations. Staff also remain in contact with another 163 students who have graduated from primary school, moved out of their Project 24 site, and now live and study at one of Kenya’s many residential secondary schools.

While in the Project 24 program, the children attend a local school and are fed, cared for, and taught important life skills such as how to tend to the site’s crops and livestock. Most importantly, the children learn about their Savior, Jesus Christ.

Read more, here.

Bethany Lutheran Church
1011 Ulatis Drive
Vacaville, CA
(707) 451-6675
mychurch@gobethany.com
Website

Thursday, November 3, 2022

Walking Side by Side in Christ

“Therefore, as you received Christ Jesus the Lord, so walk in him, rooted and built up in him and established in the faith, just as you were taught, abounding in thanksgiving” (Col. 2:6–7).

Every day, the Rev. Alexandre Manoel da Costa shares the Good News on Perfect Love Street in Bauru, São Paolo, Brazil. Da Costa, who has been a pastor for 27 years in the Igreja Evangélica Luterana do Brasil (Evangelical Lutheran Church of Brazil, or IELB), preaches, teaches and gives God’s flock His gifts. He thanks The Lutheran Church—Missouri Synod (LCMS) for sending missionaries to his country in 1900 — leading to the eventual formation of the IELB. Thanks to this work, he was able to hear about Jesus from a pastor evangelizing his indigenous tribe decades later.

“There are so many things to say,” Da Costa said on why he loves being a pastor, “but I will say only this: I want to [work] with the people who don’t know Jesus, like I did not know Him, that they come to know Jesus. … This church has given me Jesus, a wife, a family and a vocation.”

Da Costa was one of 528 pastors and 443 laypeople at the IELB’s 63rd National Convention, held in June in the coastal city of Gaurapari, in the state of Espírito Santo.

When he was merely 4 years old, the Rev. Airton Scheunemann Schroeder, IELB vice-president for mercy ministry, told his parents that he wanted to be a pastor when he grew up. He fondly remembers how pastors visited his grandmother when she was bedridden. He watched while they cared for her and showed her the love of Christ.

Read more, here.

Bethany Lutheran Church
1011 Ulatis Drive
Vacaville, CA
(707) 451-6675
mychurch@gobethany.com
Website