First Sunday After Easter
April 27, 2025
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Easter Season
Eastertide
Ascension of Jesus
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Bethel Hymn Sing Services
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"Online Version" of the Original Hymn Sing service on 10/30/2016
"Mini Gospel Sing"
A Hymn-Sing that was part of the 10/30/2022 church service
5th Sunday Gospel Sing
This was held on the evening of 05/29/22 with 41 attending
It was actually a performance program rather than a 'sing-a-long'
Christmas Carol Sing
This was an advent evening service/dinner held on 12/4/2022 with 31 attending
Christmas Carol Sing
This was an evening service held on 12/22/2024 with 18 attending
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Bethel Worship Planning Documents
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Guidance from UMC Discipleship Ministries
Weekly Worship Planning Series
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Worship Series: "Believing into Christ"
from umcdiscipleship.org
Throughout this season, we explore themes from Revelation and the Gospel of John about what is possible when we believe. The book by Natalya A. Cherry, Believing into Christ, may be a helpful accompaniment to the series as we learn more about the power of our belief in Christ, how belief is not only an intellectual endeavor and assent to the power of God to transform, but also a process that helps us use our hands and feet in ways similar to how Jesus used his hands and feet to seek out and address the hurting ones, including our planet and its most vulnerable people and beyond-human creatures.
This is the First service of a 6 service Worship Series from the Discipleship Ministries.
The graphics at the top of this page list topics for other services of the Series.
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This Service's Theme: "Embodied Believing"The graphics at the top of this page list topics for other services of the Series.
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Liturgical Resources
Our beliefs connect us to Christ, in whom we believe and into whom we grow, by embodying the assents we make. See if worship this week can be an embodied, participatory experience.
Worship Planning Notes
Preaching Notes
Lectionary Scriptures:
Psalm 118:14-29; Acts 5:27-32; Revelation 1:4-8; John 20:19-31;
Suggested Hymns . Music Notes . DM Accompaniments Sources of Music for the following hymns are:
- UM CD.....UDM - DM Accompaniment.....
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Hymns Selected For this service: .
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"Live Divine, All Loves Excelling"
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"Blessed Assurance"
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"Hymn of Promise"
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"Christ Has Risen"
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"We Walk By Faith"