Bethesda Presbyterian Church

Personal — Passionate — Progressive


Important Dates

Confirmation Youth
  • 3/20 - Dinner for Confirmands and family
  • 3/21 - Youth to be confirmed during the service
Easter Service
  • 10:00 - Intergenerational Continental Breakfast
  • 10:30 - Easter Egg Hunt for children and youth
Sunday School
  • 6/13 - Last day of Sunday School
  • 6/13 - Church picnic

Christian Education

Each Sunday

  • Child Care infant-4yrs 9:30-12:30pm: Room 208 with Rosie Nowak
  • Children K-6 9:45-10:45am: Room 207 with Carol Hall
  • Youth Jr/Sr Highs 9:45-10:45am: Room 109 with Rev. Booker-Hirsch Confirmation Class -- visitors welcomed!
  • Adults 9:45-10:45am: Feb 28-Mar 21 Room 203 with Leta Kopp: "Where Is God When Disaster Strikes?"

During the Week

  • 1st & 3rd Wednesdays: "Jesus on Tap": Food & Food-for-Thought 6:30pm (food), 7:30pm (thought), La Madeleine French Cafe & Bakery, downtown Bethesda (corner of Old Georgetown & Woodmont).
  • Saturdays 10-11:30 am: "Listen to Your Life!" Meditative Scripture Reading using Lectio Divina --an ancient spiritual practice. Reflections: "Text in Context" and "The Word in Our World". Church House Living Room -- 7611 Clarendon Road, free parking on the street.


Some Guiding Christian Education Principles at BPC ...

 

At Bethesda Presbyterian Church, we are interested, first and foremost, in who -- not what -- you are. And we believe that in the safety of sharing who we are, we can together discover whose we are. 

 

At Bethesda Presbyterian Church, we do not provide coffee-break answers to your complex faith questions and struggles. We assist and support you in living into your questions and struggles, that our God of grace and the Spirit of empowerment may be made manifest in all you are and do.

 

At Bethesda Presbyterian Church, we do not offer you statements of beliefs for you to base your relationships. We offer you relationship-based learning for you to develop your beliefs.

 

Christian Education Ministry Team:

Carol Hall, Fran Bisselle, Leta Kopp, Amy Booker-Hirsch, Mira Hoover, Byron Sipe

Last updated by Chuck Booker-Hirsch Mar 7.

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Chuck Booker-Hirsch

11 am Worship 3/7: "Listening for God: Why *Not* Me?"

This Sunday's gospel scripture -- heard the world 'round that very day by disciples and seekers of every tongue and land -- is a difficult one for many to understand. Luke 13:1-9 seems to cast a judgmental eye on those who do not repent of their ways. But this scripture is not a promise of punishment. It's a needed Lenten dose of reality, to wit: Instead of asking God, "Why me?" when bad times befall us, we can best listen for God's desire in our lives by asking, "Why not me?" Instea

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Posted by Chuck Booker-Hirsch on March 5, 2010 at 11:00pm

Chuck Booker-Hirsch

February 28 Sermon: "Listening for God: The Power of Sanctuary"

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Posted by Chuck Booker-Hirsch on March 1, 2010 at 1:00am — 1 Comment

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