BETHEL BAPTIST CHURCH

We invite you to go deeper still in our relationship with God in our 6 week Bible Study for Women at Bethel Baptist Church starting the week of May 9th.

Kay Arthur teaches from basically, the entire book of Hebrews! Hebrews is both an example of God’s faithfulness and a challenge to believers to be faithful in difficult times.
Priscilla Shirer teaches from Ephesians 3:20-21 on God’s abundance. A fundamental basis for every believer is the absolute reality that God can do whatever He chooses to do. God’s ability empowers our faithfulness.
Beth Moore teaches on the topic of discernment. In these difficult days it is absolutely essential that we learn to trust the Holy Spirit to enable us to determine what is true and what is false.

While these three women each speak on the distinctive topic the Holy Spirit had lead them to teach, the messages result in a marvelous blend. Kay challenges us to faithfulness in difficult days. Priscilla points to the essential of trust in God’s ability, and Beth teaches on how to discern truth from error in these difficult days.

Each teacher provides two weeks of study in a brief format that will take most women 15 to 30 minutes daily.

Cost is $15.

If you are interested contact Christina Monafu- cmonafu@gmail.com

Here is a video preview of the study.

http://lifeway.promos.s3.amazonaws.com/Faithful_Abundant_True_Promo_QuicktimeH264.mov

Deeper Still Promo Video

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This Friday, December 10th at 7 pm we will be hosting our annual Christmas Fest at Bethel. It will be a night of Christmas Carols in several different languages followed by yummy Romanian desserts and refreshments.

Everyone is invited. Get there early to find parking space and seats inside.

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The following people from our congregation need special prayers for health related reasons:

Brother Stoian
Mioara Romanu’s mother
Sister Dumitrascu

Please keep them in your prayers this week. May God grand them healing!

A son was born to Gabriel and Marta Budean yesterday, November 30th 2010. His name is Elias Abner Budean. He was born at 3:02 pm weighing in at 7 pounds 4 ounces and 21 inches. Mother and Baby and Father are doing great! Praise God!

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Sister Magdalena Nastase went to be with the Lord. The funeral took place Saturday, November 27th. We pray God’s love and comfort upon her family.

Brother Stoian Serban is in a convalescent home. Please pray for him.

Sora Elena Campeanu is undergoing medical investigation and will have another test this week. Please pray for her.

The weekend of December 12th we will have guests from the Romanian Baptist Church in San Fransisco Bay Area. Please be prepared to be a good host for our brothers and sisters! Sunday December 12th we will have a special schedule, there will be a lunch at church followed immediately by a second church service.

Christmas Fest is coming up on Friday, December 10th at 7 pm at Bethel. It will be a night of Christmas music, fellowship, and delicious Romanian desserts served after the service.

Mark this date on your calendars and invite your friends!

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We now have a blog that is dedicated to our church’s AWANA clubs.

You will find it at the following address:

http://bethelawana.wordpress.com

This Thursday we are starting a 10 week Bible study in the book of Esther. This bible study was written by Beth Moore. All women are invited! Here is some more information about the study:

The subtitle of the study is: “It’s Tough Being a Woman”. I think that every single one of us can agree with that statement. Beth Moore introduces 7 reasons why it’s hard being a woman in the first 5 weeks, and then gives us God’s answer to each one of those reasons in the second 5 weeks.

Here is a list of the topics:

1. It’s tough being a woman in another woman’s shadow ( talking about Esther in Queen Vashti’s shadow)

2. It’s tough being a woman where beauty is a treatment ( talking about Esther’s experience in the beauty contest search for a new queen)

3. It’s tough being a woman in a mean world ( talking about Haman’s hatred for the Jews)

4. It’s tough being a woman thrown a giant sized weight ( talking about Mordecai’s command to Esther to approach the king)

5. It’s tough being a woman in the tight fist of fear ( talking about Esther’s response to Mordecai’s command to approach king)

6. It’s tough being a woman who can balance passion with patience (talking about Esther’ waiting for the right time to expose Haman to the king)

7. It’s tough being a woman who feels responsible for the “HOW” ( talking about How God will save the Jews from Haman’s edict of annihilation)

Ladies, God’s Word is so beautiful! It is amazing how a story about the Jews that happened centuries ago can be so current and applicable to us today! Give God an hour of your week every Thursday night to take thie journey with us and you will NEVER regret you did. I can promise you that!

Here is a video for you:

The cost for the study is $25.

For any questions call me at (714)388-8942 or email me at cmonafu@gmail.com

This past weekend a group of young people from Bethel and Bethany Romanian Baptist Churches visited the Church in San Leandro with the occassion of their 33rd Anniversary. It was a blessed weekend with fellowship, worship and good preaching. Praise God for His blessings and HIs protection while travelling.

Saturday Evening there was a special program for the Youth, with worship songs and messages from Codin Barbumanea, Valer Monafu and Daniel Branzai.

Sunday Morning and Evening there were services of celebration for what God has done in that church for the past 33 years and will continue for many more years.

We wish to thank the church for their wonderful organization and care for us visitors. We felt very welcome and we wish to repay your kindnesses when you visit us in Los Angeles!

We want to welcome for the first time in our church the brother of Lucian and Steve Galev with his family – Corneliu and Fenya, Andrei, Adelina and Rebeca. May God bless you. We hope that you will feel welcome among us.
Spunem un bun venit familiei fratelui lui Lucian și Steve Galev – Corneliu si Fenya Galev, împreună cu copiii lor, Andrei, Adelina și Rebeca. Domnul să vă binecuvânteze. Sperăm să vă simțiți bine între noi.

The youth group from our church together with our pastor are in San Francisco this weekend to celebrate the 33rd Anniversary of the Romanian Baptist Church of the Bay Area.
Tinerii bisericii, împreună cu Daniel și Daniela Branzai sunt în San Francisco weekendul acesta pentru întâlnirea tinerilor de pe coasta de vest si pentru cea de-a 33-a aniversare a bisericii baptiste din Bay Area.

AWANA classes will be starting THIS COMING Friday, September 17th at 7 pm here at Bethel. Tell all your friends!
Clasele de AWANA vor începe vineri 17 septembrie la orele 19.

We will be starting a new Bible Study for Women THIS WEEK ON THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 16th , about the book of ESTHER. This is a study by Beth Moore. The cost is $25. Please bring the money on Thursday so that you can receive your workbook as soon as possible.