Well, this looks a little different than your usual Village Voice, doesn’t it? Your pastors and I have been looking at ways to effectively communicate the most important information regarding Bethany and its ministries to you in a timely fashion. Especially in these crazy pandemic times when many are still worshiping from home on their computers, some don’t have access to computers or the internet, and health and safety regulations limit some of what we doing in person—we want to keep all of you informed and spiritually fed.

ENTER OUR NEW COMMUNICATION PLAN!

We have broken our communication plan into three sections: weekly, ongoing, and quarterly.

Weekly

Each week you can expect to learn about the “top 3” things going on at Bethany in a variety of ways!

Weekly Update via Facebook Live on Monday with Pastors Brown, Gebert, or Staff Minister Suedmeier.
Friday email “A Peek at Your Week”
When we return to using bulletin announcements at in-person worship services, we will highlight only the top 3.
Various Facebook posts throughout the week highlighting the top 3.

Ongoing

Those top 3 things will be added to an on-going list on our website—bethanyappleton.org/news and can be accessed anytime.
This list will be printed once per month and sent to those who do not have access to a computer/internet to keep them informed of our “happenings” here at Bethany.
A monthly calendar will be made available online (with paper copies available as well), and sent with the list of announcements from our website to those without technology.

Quarterly

Your Village Voice newsletter will come out quarterly and highlight upcoming events and sermon series, as well as include more devotional materials, pictures, and stories from within our congregation.

We hope and pray that you will be patient as we all make this change in how we stay up-to-date on all things Bethany and Our Shepherd.