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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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Christian Formation Committee

Committee function

This committee, in association with the pastors and associates in ministry, shall oversee, conduct and promote educational activities within the congregation.  It shall encourage the use of teaching and worship materials published or approved by the ELCA and seek to introduce the church’s periodicals and books of family devotion into the homes of the congregation.  The committee should encourage, promote and bring the pastoral ministry and other full-time church vocations to the attention of qualified youth of the congregation.

2007-2008 Co-chairs:  Judy Griffin (Council liaison), Jane Fred

The Christian Formation Committee has two major activities:

Sunday School

Classes are held from September to May. Students leave from the 9:15 Service to go to their classes. There are at least two teachers for each class.

Classes are pre-school, kindergarden, 1st, 2nd, 3rd, 4th, 5th, 6th and High School.

Vacation Bible School   August 6 to August 10

Help for VBS is welcomed in several areas. An entire week commitment is NOT necessary. Just a few hours or several days or one or two mornings. Help ias needed in different areas. Are you artistic? Would you help with decorations? Perhaps register students? Be a group leader? Call the church office or send an email asking how you can help!

From September 2007 Bethlehem Star:

Will you who witness this Baptism do all in your power to support these persons in their life in Christ?"

 

Several times a year, most people answer this question with a resounding, "yes!" But what does it really mean to fulfill the baptismal covenant and keep the promise we make to each new member of Christ's flock?

 

Christian Formation is the ongoing step-by-step instruction and practice of life with Christ spanning the time fro cradle to grave. It is living out Christ's life everyday. This process changes constantly, seeks continually, and draws mainly from the three-Iegged stool: Scripture tradition and reason.

 

We want to invite people into God's house, to provide programs founded in Biblical literacy and aim at growing disciples who work not far away, but here at home in our own communities reflecting God's power in their lives.

 

In today's fast paced world, it is too easy for Christ to become of irrelevant, out-dated, and hopelessly out of touch. The future of the church, depends upon reaching out to those hungering for a spiritual base who have no idea where to find it. Support from must be provided for the values g developed that no longer seems to happen in schools and in which many families struggle

with knowing how to provide.

 

Support must be provided for everyone -.parents and married couples, families in transition, questing teens, doubting believers and everyone in between -no matter whether they are just beginning their spiritual journey or have been walking Christ's way for many years. There must be reaching out to local communities to provide a means for each person to find his own unique way to Christ, to own that faith, and in turn to make Christ known to others.

 

WE ARE COMMITTED to provide opportunities for you to grow spiritually, to fuse faith and life. Join us on a journey of Faith!!!

 



Last Updated: September 3, 2008