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Progressive-Our Outreach
Saturday Lunch for the Homeless! Each Saturday from 10 am to 12 pm. Fellowship Hall in the Church basement. Helping hands are always welcome. Contact: Donna Stahr [240-483-7470] Bethesda Cares [301-907-9244]
Umbrella Initiatives! A mission agency founded by a church couple -- Yenny Delgado and Rob Rivers -- promoting the transformation of poverty-stricken communities in rural Peru, as well as the development of children, families and communities in overcoming injustice.
Presbyterian Women! Day Circle meets First Thursday of each month at 10:30 am and Evening Circle meets Second Wednesday of each month at 6:30 pm. The women support over a dozen local charities in various ways. Come for a meal, Bible Study and fellowship. Contact: Donna Stahr [240-483-7470]
Friday Dinner for Cordell Avenue Men’s Shelter! Second Friday of each month. Preparation and delivery of supper for 15 persons by 6 pm. You can help individually or as part of a team. Contact: Mika Marumoto [301-830-3659]
Rebuilding Together! In late April each year, BPC members and friends work with Rebuilding Together Montgomery County to repair, in one day, the home of a person or family in need.
Contact: Kurt Tong [301-830-3658]
More Light Presbyterians! In October 2010, our congregation formally affiliated with this network of roughly 150 congregations nationwide seeking the full participation of lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender people of faith in the life, ministry and witness of the Presbyterian Church (USA).
M’Ekorani Church! BPC aids this church in Kenya. We have helped build a kitchen, send a nursing student through school, and helped establish a banana grove and chicken business for the women.
Contact our BPC Social Action Ministry Chair -- Kurt Tong [301-830-3658] –
or call the Church Office to get connected!
Last updated by Chuck Booker-Hirsch Jul 8, 2011.
Blog Posts
This Sunday at BPC (2/12)
... at our 11 am Worship, we conclude a three-Sunday focus, "Our Healing Church", with the healing of two lepers: Naaman the Aramean warrior in 2 Kings 5 and an unnamed gentleman in Mark 1. The two-way flow of God's compassion signified by the phrase "healing church" -- the church spreads healing *and* is itself healed -- will be featured in the message, "The River of Healing: From 'Them' to Us". Click here for our colorful bulletin.
Art work on our Sanctuary Big Screen again will "signpost" the sermon -- as well as the Prelude at 10:50, an abbreviated version of an African-American History Month celebration featuring music by Sweet Honey in the Rock and Mahalia Jackson. This special month will also be celebrated in our hymns and other music this Sunday.
Oh, and don't forget our new-and-improved Valentine's Day quiz following Worship, in the Fellowship Hall! Hope to see you Sunday.
Posted by Bethesda Presbyterian on February 10, 2012 at 7:30pm
This Sunday at BPC (2/5) ...
A Lieutenant's Healing Journey! In keeping with Our Healing Church three-part series and the second of three successive healing stories from Mark 1, Marine Lt. James Byerly, who lost both his legs in an IED explosion during combat operations in Afghanistan, will join us in sharing a bit about his healing journey -- with a challenge to our church to be wounded healers, as well. Several of us have met James in his visits to our congregation, as he nears the end of a year-long recuperation at Walter Reed.
Visuals Galore this Sunday! In honor of African-American Month, I invite all to come to the Sanctuary a little early -- 10:45a -- to enjoy a Big Screen slide/song extravaganza celebrating our civil rights pioneers! Featured: Mahalia Jackson ("Precious Lord"), Sweet Honey in the Rock ("Where Are the Keys to the Kingdom?"), speech excerpts from Martin Luther King, Jr. Also, for the very first time, the sermon -- "Action Into Faith" -- will be highlighted by Big Screen visuals.
Sunday's Bulletin is attached. The first sermon of our three-part Our Healing Church series, "Jesus the Healer: A Threat to Order?", can be found here -- along with so much else through our website.
Our Healing Church: a deliberate double entendre. May our discipleship always prove such a two-way street. Come along for the journey!
Posted by Bethesda Presbyterian on February 3, 2012 at 1:00pm
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