Bethel Church Service
Twenty-Third Sunday after Pentecost
All-Saints Day
November 1, 2026
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Prelude ...Slides Gathering
Bethel's fellowship hall serves as a voting precinct for Tuesday's Election
A "Table of Remembrance" is set up for this All Saints Day
Pastor Ellie Fox welcomes the gathered...
...and Janie Zody announces...
...Tuesday is voting day...our fellowship hall is a voting precinct...Saturday will be a clean-up day for the Sunday School rooms...Bible study continues on Thursdays at 1:00 and 6:00 pm...this week's lesson was written by former Bethel pastor Magrey DeVega...next Sunday our Fellowship dinner will follow the service...our food ministry will be focusing on canned vegetables this month....we've officially collected over 56 lbs of food for Second Harvest so far.....we'll be trying something new on Saturday November 21st from 1:00-4:00....we will be having a "craft day" in our fellowship hall....other plans...
Janie introduces a UMC Video explaining All Saints Day
Celebrations - Birthday of Avery Brown...
...Betty's grand-daughter will be 13...
Sandra speaks of contact with friend whose son, Jordan, has recently passed...
...pastor Ellie offers words of assurance
Call to Worship
Hymn: "Thy Word is a Lamp"
Affirmation of Faith and Gloria PatriaPrayer Concerns
Prayer Concerns
...Janie speaks of response to prayer from last week....Craig reports his mother has returned home from rehab...Sandra asks safe travels for Jessica, Tony and girls returning from N.Carolina...
...pastor Ellie reports on her medical treatments...
...and Janie reports hearing from Rebecca who will be returning soon from her travels...
...Craig asks travel mercies for all those traveling...
...Ellie asks that we take a moment of quiet
Pastoral Prayer, the Lord's Prayer and Passing the Peace
Hymn: "For All the Saints"Littany of Remembrance
Acts of Remembrance
Names Spoken:
...Sandra's mother: Laura Fox, and best friend: Jill Casey; Phill Brown's parents: Ed and Mary Brown; Donnie's wife: Patsy White; Craig's grandparents: Howard Boyd and Pearl Bond(?) Zody; Betty's parents: Betty and Albert Goater and brother Joe Goater; Janie: Nathan Sweet;...
...from Linda Cisne: parents Carl and Mildred Plate, brother David Plate, Nephew: Matthew Plate; Andrew Shayler?; Mother in law: Margaret Watson; brother-in-law Ted Goreau; and pastor Ellie's grandmother: Rose Helen Corning?; and Sandra's friend Jordan
Littany of Remembrance - continued
The Message
Prayer for Illumination
read by Betty Brown
1 Thessalonians 2:9-13
Message: Witness
Communion Service
Service of Communion
The Offering
Offering and Doxology
Hymn: "Because He Lives"
Gather in center aisle...join hands...and sing: Bind Us Together
Receive the benedictionThere were 7 here for the service today.