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Bethlehem Lutheran Church
1050 Peninsula Drive
Traverse City, MI 49686-2799
Phone: 231.947.9880
Fax: 231.947.5637

Worship Services:
Saturday 5:00pm
Sunday 8:00am, 10:30am
Education Hour: 9:15am

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Welcome to the website of Bethlehem Lutheran Church in Traverse City, Michigan. We are the largest ELCA church in the Northwestern Michigan area and welcome members and visitors at each of our three weekend services. If you are looking for a church home we hope you will sign up in our "visitors" section, and we look forward to meeting you at worship with us very soon.

Announcements

There are many Volunteer and Ministry opportunities at Bethlehem. To see a list of these opportunities, click here.

Nurturing the Endowment Fund For more information on the Endowment Fund,click here.

Small Group Ministry - A new page has been added for this program, click here

Click for other important dates on our online calendar and Parish News announcements from this weekend's bulletin

Message from our Pastor

From the Pastoral perspective

Dear People of God!

Thanksgiving - I wonder what images and thoughts that word brings to your mind. Fall? Family? Football? Food? Fun? Funerals?

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From the President of our Congregation

The church council is using a book for devotions titled, "Called by God to Serve". We are currently in Chapter 14, titled, "Faithful Leadership Hurts". In the study one paragraph reads, "Most of the decisions church councils make go unnoticed. But every so often, leaders are called by God to make decisions in the life of the congregation that will not please everyone. Some decisions might even cause hurt feelings and pain in the life of the congregation"...

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Last Updated: December 13, 2009