Share, Serve, Grow

Bethel provides many ways for you to grow.

Worship is the first and best way to be involved.  We worship on Sunday at 11:00 a.m.

Faith Formation

We learn about God and grow faith through Sunday School and other opportunities.  Sunday School meets at 10:00 a.m., with classes for children and two adult groups.  One looks into what the Bible has to say about different subjects.  The other is walking through the Bible, book by book (we’re reading through Romans, currently).  Join in at any time.

We also have special learning opportunities.  At the end of 2023, we got better acquainted with the background of some of our favorite Christmas carols.  Last summer, the pastor led a group through Right Thinking for a Culture in Chaos.  Leading up to Easter last year, we read and discussed Max Lucado’s How Happiness Happens.  We have viewed and discussed The Seven Churches of Revelation, hosted by former Cornerstone University president Joe Stowell.  We have read Stephen Lawson’s Made in Our Image as well as books by Tim Keller and Rosaria Butterfield.

Our women’s group meets for Bible study the second Wednesday of each month (September through June), at 10 a.m. (includes lunch, after!).

A men’s Bible study group meets first and third Wednesdays, at 9:00 a.m., in our Old Fellowship Hall.  You don’t have to attend Sunday worship to participate!

What about Children?

Do Good for Neighbors, Do Good for the World

We have several “hands-on” service ministries, including Vacation Bible School (June), Thanksgiving food baskets (in cooperation with Columbia Methodist Church), Christmas food baskets, Operation Christmas Child boxes, and a Christmas Angel Tree ministry for Presbyterian Children’s Homes and Services.

Our Care & Share team has a ministry of kindness and compassion to our members in times of special need.  Our Care & Share team has expanded its reach by bringing donated food to one of our local food pantries.

If your gifts are repair and maintenance, our Building & Grounds team might be for you.

We also have other, short-term and one-time opportunities for service: we have gathered school supplies and shoes for local schoolchildren, put together spring cleaning baskets for clients of the family support programs offered through Presbyterian Children’s Homes and Services, and collected gently used men’s clothing for the Texas Port Ministry.

Through our financial gifts, we help ministries locally and globally (examples include the Pregnancy Help Center, Texas Port Ministry, and the Haiti Education Foundation).  Our giving also supports the work of missionaries in Madagascar.

After worship on third Sundays, we gather for a meal, conversation, and friendship.  We enjoy a special Fall Festival towards the end of October/start of November, with games, music, and food.  We value spending time with each other and getting to know one another better.

Come discover how you fit in with what God is doing at Bethel.  Come share with us.  Come serve with us.  Come grow with us!