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Lent

Main Announcements (Please announce on Sunday morning)

If you have questions, comments, or can help out with any of the announcements, please text Elisabeth at (360) 329-4300.

Timely Requests

• New?  Text the word Guest to Elisabeth @ (360) 329-4300.  The church staff will connect to you. 
• Women’s Gathering (IF:Gathering) on March 6th from 10-3 in the Covenant Church Coffeehouse room.  Talking about God on the Move; lunch provided; no childcare please arrange your own.  Coffee cart will be available, donations only.  In person gathering, mini retreat to worship and learn with other women.  Register and learn more here.  
• 8:30 AM service resuming in person on March 7th, tentatively
• 11 AM service resuming in person on April 25th, tentatively
• There will be no 8:30 service on April 25th or after that (we are returning to one service)
• Want to help on Sunday mornings?  We need people to help change lyric slides, set up, and monitor the sound board.  Training provided, where I’m sure Mike will give way more details than Elisabeth’s summary here 🙂 Let us know if you are interested.
• Bethel Winter House is looking for meals.  Sign up here.

Recovery Group

• Alaska Statewide AA (Alcoholics Anonymous) MeetingsMondays from 5:30 – 6:30 PMCall:  (515) 604-9546; Passcode: 350333
  For anyone looking for help to recover from addictions and poor habits.

Board Meeting Info

• March 22nd – 6:30 PM – Board meeting

Additional Announcements (Announce depending on time)

Life Groups:

• Family Friendly – Sundays @ 5 PM with the Jaskowiaks
• Parenting – Sundays @ 8-9 PM with Fishers and Londons, Zoom only
• AWANA (K-12th grade) – Tuesdays @ 7 PM, Zoom only
• Women’s – Wednesdays @ 6:30 PM with Shirleen London, Zoom only
• Men’s – Thursdays @ 7:30 PM with Fred Broerman

Facebook Groups:

BECC Online Campus:

• Connect and get to know each other
• Learn about the church and its ministries
• Dive into your Bible with a Bible in a Year plan and monthly/daily devotionals

BECC Volunteer Choir: 

• Keep track of which songs are coming up
• Join in the weekly songs 🙂 

Giving:

• Text – any amount to 84321
• Online – https://becc.churchcenter.com/giving
• Cash or check?
  • Mail to PO Box 828, Bethel, AK 99559
  • Drop off at the church
  • Call for a pick up (907) 543-3225

One Pure and Holy Passion

Verse 1

Give me one pure and holy passion
Give me one magnificent obsession
Jesus give me one glorious ambition for my life
To know and follow hard after You

Chorus 1

To know and follow hard after You
To grow as Your disciple in the truth
This world is empty pale and poor
Compared to knowing You my Lord
Lead me on and I will run after You

Misc 1

(Ending)
Lead me on and I will run after You
Lead me on and I will run after You

Sermon Notes – Lent 2B (Sunday, 2/28/2020)

1. Jesus rebuked Peter, “Get behind me S_____!  For you are not setting your mind on things of God, but on the things of man.”  Peter did not want the L_____ fulfilled in sending Jesus to the C_____.  (Mark 8:31-33)

REFLECT: What is the relationship between your faith and God’s Law in your life?  (Romans 4:13-15)

2. God wants us to have faith that God will multiply your “D_____.” (Romans 4:20-25)

REFLECT: Do you have any Spiritual children?  If not, might God be leading you to reach out to disciple anyone around you this week?

3. Jesus invites us to take up our C_____ daily and F_____ Him.  We identify in the sufferings of Jesus, just as He identified in the sufferings of God’s people, I_____.  (Psalm 22).

REFLECT: How is Lent going?  Have you chosen to give anything up?  If so, what have you replaced it with?  If you haven’t given anything up for Lent, ask God is He might want you to.

Please check out our resources page for more resources, including our Sunday School notes.

Psalm 22:23-31 Responsive Reading

Leader: You who fear the Lord, praise him!
All you offspring of Jacob, glorify him,
and stand in awe of him, all you offspring of Israel!

People: For he has not despised or abhorred
the affliction of the afflicted,
and he has not hidden his face from him,
but has heard, when he cried to him.

Leader: From you comes my praise in the great congregation;
my vows I will perform before those who fear him.

People: The afflicted shall eat and be satisfied;
those who seek him shall praise the Lord!
May your hearts live forever!

Leader: All the ends of the earth shall remember
and turn to the Lord,
and all the families of the nations
shall worship before you.

People: For kingship belongs to the Lord,
and he rules over the nations.

Leader: All the prosperous of the earth eat and worship;
before him shall bow all who go down to the dust,
even the one who could not keep himself alive.

People: Posterity shall serve him;
it shall be told of the Lord to the coming generation;

All: they shall come and proclaim his righteousness to a people yet unborn,
that he has done it.

Just as I am 

Verse 1

Just as I am without one plea
But that Thy blood was shed for me
And that Thou bidds’t me come to Thee
O Lamb of God I come I come

Verse 2

Just as I am and waiting not
To rid my soul of one dark blot
To Thee whose blood can cleanse each spot
O Lamb of God I come I come

Verse 3

Just as I am Thou wilt receive
Wilt welcome pardon cleanse relieve
Because Thy promise I believe
O Lamb of God I come I come

Verse 4

Just as I am Thy love unknown
Has broken ev’ry barrier down
Now to be Thine yea Thine alone
O Lamb of God I come I come

There are a few different ways you can present offerings to the Lord through our church:

1. Online Giving
2. Mail donations to BECC, PO Box 828, Bethel, AK 99559
3. Use the Facebook Donate button
4. Text your amount to 84321

Thank you!

A video tutorial of how to use the online giving website