Our Purpose
PURPOSES of BETHEL BAPTIST CHURCH
To spread the WORD of the triune God to all peoples,
for the conversion of the lost,
for the maturity of believers,
for the eternal honor of the Lord.
This may be achieved by involvement in some of the following:
. . . Worship. . . . Instruction. . . . Fellowship. . . . Evangelism
WORSHIP
• Sunday morning and evening worship
• Mid-week prayer meeting
• Saturday morning men’s prayer meeting
• Youth meetings and Children’s Church
• Annual Week of Prayer and Annual Day of Prayer
• Monthly day of prayer and fasting
• Periodic musical concerts
• Choir (including Easter and Christmas Cantatas)
• Ladies’ and men’s ensembles
• Handbell Choir
• Prayer Chain
INSTRUCTION
• Sunday School Classes
• Sunday sermons
• Mid-week Bible study
• Youth meetings and Children’s Church
• Youth and children camp programs
• Bible reading program
• Bible memory program
• Adult Catechism and Children’s Catechism booklets
• Church Library
• Ladies Bible Study Fellowship
• Discipleship (one-on-one)
• Monthly Men’s Study
• Monthly women’s study
• Youth meetings and children’s church
• Awana program
• Summer children’s Wednesday study
• Summer children’s catechism classes
FELLOWSHIP (including areas of service)
• Periodic dinners and after church fellowships
• Suppers for six (whole church)
• Young Adult socials (age specific)
• Teen sctivities
• Women’s Ministry Fellowship
• Women and Girl’s Banquet
• Men and Boy’s Banquet
• Harvest Home Dinner
• Ladies’ Missionary Circles
• All-Church picnic
EVANGELISM (including general outreach)
• Door-to-door distribution of Gospels of John
• Vacation Bible School (and follow-up to parents)
• Awana (events and follow-up to parents)
• Friendship Sunday (involvement of Bethel family and friends)
• Missionary Christmas (to encourage folks concerning missions)
• NAB Missions Conference (to encourage folks concerning missions)
• Youth missions trips
• Collection of food for Lighthouse Mission
• Monthly visitation of visitors
• Evangelism seminars
• Ladies’ Missionary Circles
• Adult Missions trip
• Beechwood Manor ministry
