Please
remember our church family in your daily prayers, at mealtimes and during your
personal devotions. Continue to remember those young and old with ongoing
physical, spiritual, and emotional struggles.
Do remember those
who are unable to worship regularly with us: please keep Jenny Bajema, Klaas Boskers, Lea Dykstra and Ernie Stebner in
your prayers.
Pray for our
missionaries around the world.
Bethel News
Greeters
& Coffee Servers:
Many members of our congregation are part of the hospitality
ministry of our church by serving as greeters and coffee servers on Sunday
mornings. If you are not part of this
ministry, please consider adding your name to schedule. We would like to have enough people on the
schedule so that each couple or family would be greeters and/or coffee servers
once every 3 months. Please contact the
secretaries at 403-782-6400 (leave a message if we are not in) or email at bchurch2@shaw.ca
by TODAY if you can help out. Thanks so
much!
Safe
Church, Criminal Record Check Request:
It’s that time again! Time to update the Police Check Files and handout
cover letters to those who are in need of getting theirs done. Your cover letter will state that you do Children/Youth
ministry here; if you don’t, and do other ministries please don’t worry. I simply stated this as to make sure that all
ministries are covered in the cost that Lacombe Police Department would charge
for the service. Any one 16 years and
older will need to have the checks done. (Some letters were given to students
who will turn 16 in the fall, please hold onto the letter until after your
birthday.) Please note if you do not live in the city of Lacombe you are required
to visit a RCMP detachment in your area. If you are called back to get finger
prints, please have them done, the church will reimburse you for all costs.
Anyone I may have missed or anyone who
is thinking of future ministry work, request a cover letter. If you have any questions or concerns please
contact Dana van Gyssel at 403-704-9032 in the evenings or at the Church on
Wednesdays from 8:00 a.m. till 3:30 p.m.
Pastor
Search Committee:
Thank you everyone for handing in your Pastor
Questionnaires. We enjoyed reading them
(especially the children’s.) Jen has compiled them into simple and clear
graphs. We spent some time discussing
them. The Church Profile will be going
to council for approval and then it will be posted to the CRCNA website. Now we are working on our advertisement for
the Pastor Search website.
Are
you going on holidays this summer and interested in having responsible house
sitters?
Mark and Selina Patterson are able to help you
out! They will be here from July 1st
through August 19th. Please
contact Cora Stol at 403-885-5712 for more info.
ANNOUNCEMENTS
I am looking for a female roommate for a bright two
bedroom fourplex suite in Lacombe. Available
July 1st. Please contact Lisa
Boonstra for further details at 403-783-0045.
PERSECUTED
CHURCH
Egypt
On May 25th,
armed gunmen opened fire, killing at least 28 Christians and wounding more than
20 others. The victimized believers were travelling on buses to attend services
at the Monastery of St. Samuel in Minya, southern Egypt. The militants ordered
all the Christians to convert to Islam. When the victims refused, stating, "We are Christians," the
attackers opened fire. A number of
children were confirmed among the dead. "This is a very sad time for
Egyptian Christians and for our nation," explains one of VOM's in-country
ministry partners. Please pray for God's comfort for the families of those who
died and are injured.
