New Communication Plan

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.

Discipleship.101 to Begin

Discipleship.101 is a study from the Bible on some of the main teachings of what the Bible says about humans and God and the relationship between us and God.

This class is a good way for you to see what the Bible teaches, and it can also be a next step for someone to become a more formal part of the Bethany church family. So, if you're curious about what the Bible or our church teaches, if you have questions about God and salvation and life on earth, or if you're interested in making Bethany your church home, then please consider joining us for this nine-week class.

The class begins the week of September 6. We'll have 2 times each week for the class:

Tuesday 6 pm - socially distanced in-person class (masks required)
Wednesday 6 pm - live virtual Zoom class

Expect each session to run 60-75 minutes. There's no charge for the class,.


If you're interested, you can find more information and register online at www.bethanyappleton.org/d101 and email (zagebert@bethanyappleton.org) or call/text (920-860-2497) me if you'd like to chat about it first.

August 30 Family Forum & Voters' Meeting

Our Family Forum & Voter's Meeting, which focus especially on the 2020-2021 Fiscal Year Budget, will be held in-person at the Praise Center on our Lynndale Campus at 11:40AM, after the 10:30 worship service. We hope that many of you will be able to join us in-person for this important meeting, where masks will be required and social distancing will be observed. There will also be the option to participate in the meeting via "Zoom". A Zoom meeting invitation with a link to the meeting will be sent out this afternoon. Though our congregational president will be focused on presenting to those who are attending in-person, we will have a moderator at the computer to make sure that the voices of our virtual attendees can be heard as well. 

Bethany members will receive information regarding this meeting via email later today or go to bethanyappleton.org/votersmeeting on Sunday for more information.