Sunday schools and other programs are starting up again at Bethlehem in a couple of weeks, which means volunteers are being recruited and trained for all that’s happening. Brenda Fischer, our disability ministry coordinator, and her site leaders are working with more than 50 volunteers (so far)! Most are working with individual children as one-to-one [...]
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Pray for our disability ministry programs – we all need it!
Posted in Prayer Requests on September 4, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
The horrors of sin and the greatness of God
Posted in News, Prayer Requests on July 24, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
The horrors of 163,000,000 girls being aborted, as Pastor John reported yesterday, are beyond human comprehension. At least beyond my comprehension – I can’t begin to understand a number that large. But God does. He has perfect knowledge of more than 6.9 billion people. And he knows every one of us more intimately than we [...]
Pray for Pastors Experiencing Disability
Posted in Prayer Requests on June 8, 2011 | 2 Comments »
Several times in the past week I’ve either interacted with or heard about pastors who are experiencing disability in their families. Whether experiencing disability in themselves or in a family member, those pastors live in even more of a fish-bowl than most people. My struggles, discouragement and disappointment related to disability happen in the relative [...]
Reaching out beyond our borders – please pray
Posted in Prayer Requests on May 17, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
This past Sunday, Pastor John closed his sermon, You Will Never See Death, with this exhortation (emphasis mine): (E)ven when we don’t realize it, fear is haunting our choices, making us cautious, wary, restrained, confined, narrow, tight, robbing us of risk and adventure and dreams for the sake of Christ and his kingdom and the [...]
Please pray for the CDG Conference this week
Posted in Prayer Requests, Special Events on March 8, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
On Thursday more than 800 people will be gathering for the 2011 Children Desiring God Conference in Bloomington. I think nearly 100 are coming from outside the United States! Please be in prayer for this conference. We know the enemy of our faith hates the theme of this conference, Holding Fast to the Word of [...]
How will we prepare the young people?
Posted in commentary, Prayer Requests on February 20, 2011 | 1 Comment »
As I write this I’m sitting about 200 yards away from more than 200 junior- and senior-high aged young people at a retreat in northern Minnesota. Next to me is a book, Prenatal Testing and Disability Rights, that just makes me want to weep in frustration. It is full of illogical conclusions from some very [...]
Please Pray for the Children Desiring God Conference
Posted in News, Prayer Requests on February 8, 2011 | 2 Comments »
Please pray for the Children Desiring God Conference, which is coming up March 10-12. So much of what we love about Bethlehem has been related to the children and family ministries; our disability ministry is overseen by Family Discipleship. We know that churches that take this responsibility to the next generations seriously are frequently open [...]
“That light is eternal, it will last from now until the end of time.” Pastor Siud
Posted in News, Prayer Requests on January 30, 2011 | 2 Comments »
This video isn’t directly related to disability, but it is so wonderful I couldn’t keep it myself. The Kimyal Tribe of Papua, Indonesia received the New Testament in their own language in 2010. This video documents when that Bible was delivered to them. To see such passion for the Word is humbling – and wonderfully [...]
Pastors are gathering next week. Please pray!
Posted in News, Prayer Requests on January 28, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
On Monday the Desiring God Conference for Pastors begins. You can get more information about this conference and the speakers here. The theme: The Powerful Life of the Praying Pastor: In His Room, with the Family, Among the People of God. When pastors have a really big view of God as sovereign over all things, [...]
Registration open for Desiring God’s Conference The Works of God: God’s Good Design in Disability on November 8
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Thank you to our volunteers!
Posted in commentary, Prayer Requests on June 5, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
Pastor John rightfully mentioned Brenda Fischer, the Disability Ministry Coordinator at Bethlehem, during his sermon on John 9:1-4. She is a tremendous gift to Bethlehem and to dozens of families like ours! And she is the first to say that the only reason it happens is because God gives her strength and God gives her [...]
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