WELCOME TO WORSHIP! Large print bulletins and personal hearing devices are available from the ushers. An unattended nursery is located downstairs. Please sign a worship/communion card. (Take one from the pew rack.)
CHILDREN’S BULLETINS are available for two age groups: 3 – 6 and 7 – 12.
ACTIVITY BAGS (paper, toys, etc.) are available in the narthex for younger worshippers. Please do not use the communion cards.
COMMUNION PRACTICE at Bethany: We offer bread or gluten-free wafers and either wine or white grape juice. All the baptized are welcome at the Lord’s Table. If you are a guest and commune in your home church, we invite you to share in the Lord’s Supper with us. If you do not yet commune, please come forward to receive a blessing.
PRAYER CONCERNS: Marge Semchenko, Mabel Dahl, Bill Niemann, Edna Brothen, Gloria Call, Noma Rian. Delores Selfors, Jake Daren Walker, Tami Hauge, Opal Hegle.
PRAYER CONCERN POLICY: Names will be carried for up to two months. After two months, you may call to re-enroll a name for another two months.
FAITH & CARE
Coordinator: Shelley Duchscherer
Ushers (8:15): Russ Kress, Robert Fix, Ken Williams,
Shane Morlang
(10:45): Terry Peterson, Bob Fougner, Donna Erickson, Scott Hodenfield
Greeter (8:15): Donna Kress
(10:45): Donald & Teresa Erie
Altar (8:15): Sharon Grondahl
(9:15):
(11:45):
Lector (8:15):
(10:45):
Communion Assistants (8:15): Donna & Ken Hegle,
Ardis Johnson
(10:45): Shirley Frost, Colleen & McKenna Hodenfield,
Offering Counters (9:15): Denise Messmer
(11:45): Denise Messmer, Shirley Frost
Altar Guild: Marian Miller, Carol Holje
FAITH & CARE sign-up sheets for October are in the narthex. Please sign up to help.
DEVOTIONAL BOOKLETS are available in the narthex.
CAUSE OF THE MONTH: Our cause of the month is Missionary Support for Willie & Anne Langdji. Use the global mission envelope in your offering box to support this cause.
BETHANY’S WEBSITE: bethanylutheranminot.org
Bulletin & Newsletter Deadlines
The deadline for input and articles in the Messenger newsletter is the 20th of each month, unless otherwise noted. The deadline for bulletin items is 5:00pm on Wednesdays for that following weekend. Thank you!
A SIGN-UP SHEET is in the narthex for bringing cookies for Fellowship Hour.
ADULT FORUMS
TodayConrad Davidson’s Trip to Nairobi, Kenya
With refreshments provided by the LYO’s Chocolate Bar and contest
Oct. 26Reformation Fun
LUTHERAN BOOKS OF WORSHIP are available in the narthex. Please take one.
MAGAZINES WANTED: Please bring your used magazines to the church narthex. Sue Taft will collect and take them to the train station for travelers. Thank you for
OPPORTUNITY TO SEW AT HOME: The sewing group has laid out the quilts: simply sew the (8) blocks together into rows and sew the (8) rows together. Average time is about two hours. The quilts can be sewn at home. Please pick up the quilt blocks in the conference room.
MINISTRY IN OUR MIDST: who’s there for the family who has more month than pay check, hungry children and empty cupboards? Who’s there when a senior, isolated and alone, needs companionship? Who helps a compulsive gambler gain control when their family is on the brink of financial and emotional ruin? Who mentors new parents on ways to nurture and care for their new baby?
The answer – Lutheran Social Services of North Dakota.
Today, during worship Bethany will host Will Bachmeier, a nationally certified Gambling Counselor with Lutheran Social Services of North Dakota. Mr. Bachmeier will tell us about people who have received help, healing and hope through our support of Lutheran Social Services and share ways we can continue to make a difference in the lives of people, close to home and across the state.
Organ Spectacular
World's Largest Organ Concert
The International Celebration of the Pipe Organ
Sunday, October 19, 2008-4:00pm
First Lutheran Church
Minot, ND
You are invited to an organ concert that will feature a variety of great music along with a finale of "The Phantom of the Opera" for organ, choir and brass ensemble, arranged by Kari Files and Marcy Witteman. Performers will include budding organists from grades 6 - 9, singers, MSU students and community organists playing traditional sacred, patriotic, secular and commissioned works.
Minot joins the rest of the world on October 19th to celebrate this magnificent instrument!
A free-will offering will be taken to start a new scholarship for an organ students at Minot State University.
LYO ANNOUNCEMENTS:
Everything Chocolate Dessert Bar & Contest is today. This event will help fund our New Orleans trip next summer.
WND Youth Gathering is in Minot this year on Oct. 23-25. The theme is ‘I’Mpossible’. All students in 9th-12th grade can participate.
For future reference: Turkey dinner Nov. 23rd.
MERCI! TAKK! GRAIAS! DANKE! to all who have contributed to the LWR projects. 364 school kits, 132 layettes, two boxes of soap and 37 quilts were sent via Midwest Motor Express to the LWR warehouse in Minneapolis. Delores and Rodney Selfors put together and packed 233 school kits, plus gave us materials for 30 more. Lois Behrens, Betty Frantsvog and Mary Jordahl, plus some anonymous sewers, made the school kit bags. Thanks, too, to all who helped pack the kits, and to those who gave money which enabled us to fill the gaps in some kits. The BLCW purchased 40 dozen diapers and all were used, along with extras we bought. Thanks to Larry Roth and Charles Taft for taking all the boxes to Midwest, and also to the trucking company for transporting everything to the LWR warehouse, free. That saved us so much shipping cost.
If anyone would still like to take part in the Lutheran World Relief projects, you can donate money to help pay the cost of shipping the materials from Minneapolis. Put the money in an envelope marked LWR and place in the offering plate.
Again, many thanks to all! Sue Taft
WND LYO Gathering Friday and Saturday at the Grand International, Minot.
Bethany’s twin Cities Bus Trip is Wednesday through Saturday.
ANNOUNCEMENTS FOR THE WEEK OF OCT. 19
TODAY8:00amGrace Matters on KEYZ (660AM)
8:15amWorship
9:15amFellowship
9:30amForum & Chocolate Contest
9:30amSunday School
10:45amWorship
12:30pmGrace Matters on KHRT (1320AM)
5:00pmSNAP
MON9:30amBible Study
TUES9:30amMary Circle
10:00amStaff Meeting
WED5:15pmCarol Choir
5:30pmConfirmation 4
6:30pmChapel Choir
7:00pmLYO Planet Pizza
7:00pmWorship
7:30pmSanctuary Choir
THURS9:30amCoffee with the Boys
10:30amBrentmoor
10:30amSoup Kitchen
6:00pmBoy Scouts
SAT7:15amBreakfast with the boys!
8:30amMen’s Bible Study
4:00pmPeterson/Fyllesvold Wedding
SUNDAY8:00amGrace Matters on KEYZ (660AM)
8:15amWorship
9:15amFellowship
9:30amAdult Forum
9:30amSunday School
10:45amWorship
12:30pmGrace Matters on KHRT (1320AM)
