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Easter April 2021, can it change everything of mind to enjoy the moment we need to be doing
nothing but enjoying time with Him. Sitting quiet is
What are your plans for Easter? For our families and something we have lost the ability to appreciate.
as a church this has been the question for weeks.
How will we be able to gather with Covid 19 still a Or we might even have the opposite problem. Covid
reality? Will we have fresh flowers like we use to do? has stopped our world and we are searching for our
Will our families gather for family celebrations? How way forward. We have far too much quiet time without
many worshippers can we fit into our services? How the activities we love. How important for us to
can we get excited with so many questions? Will understand God can be present in all our times and is
Easter be as special as before? Great questions, but not restricted to certain places and times. The Key is
maybe the wrong place to focus on. A better for us to be aware of His presence. Do we take the
question is: What are your plans for after Easter? time to listen to God, talk with him, and understand
that most often he uses those around us to be his
Will our celebration of Easter impact how we live in a presence? Do we take time to notice where God is
post Easter world? Will it make any difference in our and what he is up to?
day-to-day world as we anticipate summer and
returning to more normal activities post Covid 19? While visiting with some friends the other day, they
asked me how they could get more done, feeling like
In a recent devotion from Jesus Calling by Sarah they were just spinning their wheels. With all the
Young for March 9th she shared wise words for us to uncertainties of the past year when we all felt like our
ponder when we reflect on, what now? She writes, world stopped, it is a common experience for so
“Rest in My radiant presence. The world around you many. Now as we move forward into a new time, how
seems to spin faster and faster, till everything is a might we help one another feel good about what we
blur. Yet there is a cushion of calm at the center of can accomplish in getting life back to normal? Might
your life, where you live in union with Me. Return to we make a check list of little things that we are able to
this soothing Center as often as you can, for this is check off. We do so at the grocery store, why not in
where you are energized: filled with My love, joy, and our daily life. As humans we need to feel a sense of
peace.” This sounds wonderful, is it our experience? accomplishment, direction and purpose. Is it our list
Most of us have ridden on a fast moving merry go of to do’s, or is it a list God would like our help with?
round, we have tried to hang on as it goes around and There is a huge difference. Our list most often
around, yet did you know that if we get to the center focuses inward, God’s list most often focuses outward
of that merry go round, we can even stand because it toward others.
is never turning as fast. Or what about the eye of the May our post Easter journey be one of expressing
hurricane or storm? It is always very quiet at the gratefulness and gratitude, living into the
center. So, it is in our lives, when we try and find our promises and presence of Christ. May we focus on
completeness in things, activities or the needs of others, helping us make a difference in
accomplishments, we’re on a fast-moving world going their lives and in ours. Let us move the focus off
faster and faster with us less in control. But the good ourselves to be God’s presence to others.
news of Easter is that Jesus offers us a “cushion of
calm” when we place him at the center of our lives. I’m not sure where the following list came from, but it
This doesn’t mean that our lives will not have is one I read daily on the wall by my desk. As a
interesting and challenging things happening, but our Christian trusting in God’s love, “Lord help me be the
response to these events changes dramatically. It following”:
does require an intentional desire on our part to be 1. Be spontaneous in Spirit
resting in the presence of Christ. 2. Be open minded, value others thoughts and ideas
How do we slow down the world and find the time or 3. Live with hopeful attitudes, seeing the best in
space? We’ve heard and experienced a quite time others
can also be problematic as the minute we get 4. Make sure our actions match our words
ourselves to slow down, we fall asleep. Might that be 5. Always express an appreciation of God’s World
the devotional time we have received from God? In
our workaholic overcharged minds, we have trouble Notice where your post Easter Journey is filled with
finding the center of the merry-go round. The calm God’s presence,
and peaceful space is where God desires us to sit Pastor Gerald
next to him. Sometimes, we punish ourselves with
expectations rather than thanking God for the peace
March Offering Bethany LYO weekly schedule will be decided
03/07 $5753 week by week in April. We are sending up
03/14 $4963 prayers that we will be able to do some in-
03/21 $3725 person time as weather permits. We will be
03/28 $ continuing social distancing, and these in
Online Giving $10154 person gatherings will be outside where we
Lent $595 can do so without causing any extra work as
far as sanitizing. If the weather does not
cooperate, we will do something via zoom like
APRIL CAUSE OF THE MONTH
we have been. Our teens have some favorite
things that they like to do, and they always
have a plan. We will be in contact with those
teens that would like to participate via text
messages. If you are not in the group chat that
is going on now, but would like to be in on that,
let Donna Randash know.
Anne and Willie Langdji
Currently Anne and her husband Willie
Langdji continue to serve in Cameroon as
Pastor Janet’s Joke of the Month
the regional representatives for
A little girl came home from church school
Madagascar, and West and Central Africa.
during Holy Week and announced: “Jesus died
They maintain relationships with the
on the cross. But he’s getting better now, and
Lutheran Churches and people in Senegal,
he’ll be all right by Sunday.”
Sierra Leone, Liberia, Ghana, Nigeria,
**
Cameroon, Central African Republic, and
Another little girl was overwhelmed by the large
Madagascar. As regional representatives,
attendance on Easter. She whispered to her
they help the Global Mission office in
mom, “Are some of these people in the wrong
Chicago to be wise and faithful stewards of
church?”
our global mission vision, relationships,
**
and resources. Anne and Willie see
During the children’s sermon a pastor asked
firsthand the many challenges facing the
the kids, “What just happened to Jesus that we
people, whether it be economic crisis, civil
all want to remember?” The kids answered,
strife, and now the coronavirus pandemic.
“He died on the cross.” “Then what did God
Our ongoing support helps to continue this
do?” asked the pastor. And one child piped up,
shared ministry and assure our companion
“God recycled him!”
churches of our commitment to walk
together with them at all times.
March Ministerial Acts
Funerals: Donald Larson, Linda Siebert
Last call for Health Kits!
Please bring any items for the LWR Health Kits
to Bethany, or give any money to Sue. We will
be packing the kits after Easter, to ship out in
May. Many thanks to those who have already
responded. I’ll have numbers after we pack.
LYO Sue TaftFeb/Mar 2021 Memorials:
In Memory of Lorraine Grondahl
MOC from family.
Music from Sharyl Roth.
In Memory of Judy Johnson
Undesignated from Pat Julson, Vickie
Phippins, Robert & Lonna Jo Browne,
Bethany Birthdays! James & Dawn Evans.
Music/Choir from Rodger & Mary Zurcher,
April: Bill & Bev Jensen, Lolly Rostad, Erna
1st – Karen Davidson, Bryan Holmly, Pederson, Charles & Sue Taft, Craig
Donna Randash Elton, Kelly Grigsby, Bernard & Cathie Ann
2nd – Betty Niemann, Jarrett Schlag, Weise, Alma Lee, Phillip & Sandra Busch,
Todd Westmeyer Bryan & Nadine Holmly, Steve & Cyndi Beutler,
3rd – Jocelyn Lucy, Ethan Permentier, Cleo Berven, Mary Ann Lafontaine, Mary Carlson,
Carisa Reinholdt Jane Welstad, Jeff & Barbara Mayer, William &
4th – Kim Colbenson, Rodney Guderjahn, Susan Peterson, Mary Jordahl, Sharyl Roth.
Amanda Murphy, Sage Richter,
In Memory of Don Sandvold
Carolyn Stair
th Undesignated from Lee & Yvonne Sorenson,
5 – Valerie Lehner
Time & Penny Chole.
6th – Shane Christiansen, Cody Hodenfield,
Christopher Klimpel, Amy Olson
In Memory of Larry Roth
7th – Rodney Arnold, Sonja Lee, Bram Smith MOC from Bill & Bev Jensen.
8th –Bethany Hoff, Trenton Howard, Lynn Meine, Undesignated from Dale & June Neumiller,
Claire Larson, Sharon Grondahl, Tony & Jean
Matthew Meine, Jon Nissen,
Norman Paskowsky, Hanna Ullrich Meiers, Jim & Cathy DeGree, Vickie Phippins, Pat
th Julson,Richard & Barbara Solberg.
9 – Susan Jensen, Roger Larson
Music from Charles & Sue Taft,
10th – Paul Seibert
Mary Sather.
11th – Ed Nush, Harleigh Reimche, Esther Rose
12th – Ryne Bachmeier, Gordon Opstad In Memory of Linda Siebert
13th – Robert Knorr, Michael Larson, Michelle Wolf Music from Sharyl Roth.
14th – Claire Larson
15th – Kristin Anderson, Breanna Mindt
16th – Susan Coffin
17th – Karen Brunner Wright, Timothy Johnson
18th – Karla Bredahl, Niki Brose,
Richard Hodnefield
Friday, May 21- Sunday, May 23, 2021
19th – Robert Anderson, Rebecca Breitkreutz Camp of the Cross Ministries
21st – Daryl Anderson, Duane Olson “A men’s fishing weekend and event to encourage
22nd – Darla Freyholtz Ballard, men of all ages to grow in faith as they spend time
Audriana Henderson, Heather Nelson fishing, telling stories and feasting in God’s big
23rd – Sutton Bourquin, Mike Lucy outdoors.”
24th – Layton Clark, Logan Fisher, Bailey Gantzer, Registration cost is $85 (all meals, t-shirt &
Jaxon Guillory, Rylan Otto, Kianna Parisien events)
th
25 –Kenleigh Hanson, Donna Kress, April Mindt Additonal cost- housing options:
26th – Pastor Janet Mathistad, Troy Westmeyer Retreat Center (first come-first served)
27th – Chloe Alexander, Stephen Egeberg, Private Room (single occupancy) $35 per night
Danielle Heinze, Gianna Malachowski Total Cost is $155.00
29th – Reece Pederson, Gabriel Scharmer For more information, please contact Pastor
30th – Kelsey Howard, Bev Jensen, Ayden Williams Intern Dave.
Also, Happy Birthday to anyone whose name is not
on the list. If your name is not on the list then we
don’t have it, so please call the office with it. Thank
you!Bethany Church Directory! Bethany Foundation Feb/Mar 2021:
One of the best tools in our tool box as a Memory of Judy Johnson
Bethany Member! By Greg Simonson, Wally & Cookie Berning.
You can now have the directory on your Memory of Val Swenson
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and errors in your information, relax, call the Dusty Gray Family, Nathan Kitchens Family,
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Easter Sunday Services:
printed copies will be printed in the future, but not
April 4, 2021
until more pictures are taken and information
6:30am, 8:30am & 10:30am
updated, post covid.
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