Have you seen the signs?  They are all over the church!  The news has been in The Beth Page, announced from the lectern in worship, on our Facebook page and received by e-mail.  What has your response been?  Is Vision 2015:  God's Future in Focus on your calendar?  Are you coming to share in Bethpage's vision for the future?  If you cannot be there, are you in conversation with your session shepherd about your sense of God's vision for Bethpage?

       The Apostle Paul spent the last years of his life writing letters to the churches, all over Asia Minor, he helped to start.  These letters included warm greetings, advice and calls for Christ's Gospel to be lived out in their ministries each day.  Nothing has changed.  In the modern church we are still being called to prayerfully discern Christ's vision for today, still looking to scripture and Paul's letters for advice and still discerning how it is that we will live out Christ's call today in our ministry.

       So, how did the early church know what God was calling them to do in their day, in their time?  They prayed!  They fasted!  They made room for God to speak in their lives.  Can we really do any less?  I would like to ask you, as you read The Beth Page this week, to take some time to pray for our church, for our discernment process, for a large attendance at Vision 2015:  God's Future in Focus this Saturday, May 16th from 9:00 AM through 12:00 PM in Bethpage's Fellowship Hall.

       Thanking you for your prayers and your participation in advance. . .

Blessings, Rev. Ellen  

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The American Red Cross and Bethpage Presbyterian Church are having a community blood drive this Monday, May 18th from 4:00 until 8:00 PM in the BPC Fellowship Hall.  To schedule your life-saving appointment, please contact Chris Ferguson at 704-680-2783 or visit www.redcrossblood.org and enter Sponsor Code:  Bethpage Presbyterian.  Your ONE donation could help save the lives of THREE people!

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The Pentecost Offering provides a direct way to meet the needs of children at risk, youth, and young adults. Forty percent of this offering collected at our 9:55 AM worship service on Sunday, May 24^th, will be sent to Barium Springs Campus of Children's Hope Alliance. The remaining 60 percent will go to the General Assembly to provide leadership development opportunities for Presbyterian youth and young adults and support children-at-risk programs at the national level.  Please give prayerful consideration to your contribution and place your envelope in the offering plate on Sunday, May 24^th.  To find out more about this offering, click the logo below.

The new Special Offerings logos highlight the connectional nature of our work.  We are individually strong, but can do more when we work together.  You will see the symbol repeated for each offering, as well as in our general Special Offerings materials.

--- from the PC(U.S.A.) web site 

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1. We have a "giving tree" (located in the church sanctuary) with pictures and prices for the items we need.  (much like an Angel tree . . . you choose what you would like to purchase and then donate.)
2. You could give monetarily to the Christian Education fund.
3. You could give of your time.  This summer we will be doing some painting and other projects.
4. You could donate used items that could be put in these spaces.

Bethpage Presbyterian Church will sponsor the CCM Mobile Food Pantry on Thursday, June 4^th, 9:00 AM until 12:00 Noon in the BPC parking lot. Cooperative Christian Ministry conducts Mobile Food Pantries on a monthly basis in neighborhoods of high need. These highly effective food distribution programs overcome the absence of transportation for many struggling families, and provide supplemental groceries at a very efficient cost to CCM. Bethpage needs to provide volunteers to help that day from 8:00 AM until 1:00 PM. If you are interested, please contact Chris Ferguson at 704-680-2783.

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Dear Bethpage Church Congregation,

We would like to express our appreciation for all the wonderful and sweet gifts we have received for our newborn baby daughter, all the love and prayers and thoughtful gifts and cards.  It has been overwhelming the amount of love this baby has received and we would just like to say thank you and GOD BLESS YOU BETHPAGE!

Sincerely, Rev. Sergio and Carla Schmidt and Family

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