August 6, 2023

Summer Worship

Worship at 9:30 am

Presiding Minister: Rev. Bryan Leone

Preacher: Calli Micale

Assisting Minister: Eleanor Lee

Lectors: Rachelle Goto & Marietta Meyer

Altar Guild: Clarissa Youngberg

Livestream: Nora Lee

Tellers: Rachelle Goto & Elaine Ramshaw

Ushers: Greta & Chris Lee

Bread Baker: Tyler Fair

Coffee Set-Up: Leah Snavely

Organ: Maria Coffin

Cantor: Michaela Natal

Worship Livestream

We stream Sunday worship services live on Bethesda’s YouTube Channel. Join us live at 9:30 am every Sunday or watch the recording afterward.

Click here to access this Sunday's bulletin.

Coming Up at Bethesda

You Scream, I Scream, We All Scream For...

The annual Ice Cream Social is this Sunday, August 27th at 4:00 pm.

We need your help -

scooping ice cream, setting up and tearing down, and helping out with other activities.

We also could use some delicious home-baked treats to go along with the ice cream. And or course, plan on enjoying a delicious cool treat!

Former Vicar, Kurt, Is Getting Ordained at BLC!

Good News and Save the Date!

Kurt Saenger-Heyl (former Vicar) will be ordained at Bethesda on Saturday, September 2, 10:00 am

Message from Kurt:

It is with great joy and excitement that I announce that yesterday, Sunday, July 30, Trinity Lutheran Church in Centerbrook, Connecticut voted to call me as their next pastor! It has been a long but incredible call process and I am so excited to begin my professional ministry career with all the folks at Trinity!

We will need some BLC volunteers to make his ordination service possible--look forward to those requests in the eNews!

Ann Louise Onton is Headed to Japan!! Help Donate

Dear Friends, Family, Colleagues, and Fellow Athletes,

It’s summer again, and I’m up to my usual midsummer madness! This year, instead of an open water swim, I will be competing in the 2023 World Aquatics Masters Championships in Kyushu, Japan, on Aug. 5-7. I will be swimming the 800 free, the 100 breast, the 400 IM. and the 50 fly. Why am I swimming those crazy events, you ask? Because those are the ones I qualified in! I will be competing in the 80-84 age group, although I will not be quite 80, because the rules say that age for competition goes by age as of Dec. 31. So, as the baby in the age group, my chances for success couldn’t be better! I am still swimming for St. Vincent’s Foundation Swim Across the Sound., which benefits patients and their families impacted by cancer, as well as sponsoring cancer prevention programs, diagnostic clinics, recovery programs, and more.

To donate go to https://swimacrossthesound.org/checkout/donate?donatePageId=607db216018b1c01da9969b7

When making your donation please add the following in the "Additional Information" section: Ann Louise Onton 2023 World Aquatics Masters Championships

For paper donations, make check out and mail to St. Vincent’s Foundation, 2800 Main Street, Bridgeport, CT 06606, with 2023 SAS in the Memo. (Any amount is accepted; however, the Foundation acknowledges all donations over $25.)

Lastly, remember that the true competitors are those suffering from cancer and other serious illnesses. So, please give generously.

Thanking you for your kind generosity,

Ann Louise

We Need Volunteers for August

Email administrative assistant, Tyler Fair ([email protected]) to volunteer for needed roles!

The following roles need filled for August 13th: one teller, one livestream, one coffee setup.

Christian Community Action (CCA) Announcements

Speaking of CCA, the following types of food items are most needed right now: shelf-stable milk, rice, juice, canned fruit.

CCA Director of Administration and Planning, Chairmain Yun, said that our last couple donations hit the mark exactly! Let's keep it going.

The Partnership with Literacy Volunteers of Greater New Haven is looking for volunteers!

They are experiencing an uptick in interested students and need volunteer literacy tutors to teach. The serve both native English speakers with low literacy levels and speakers of other languages who need to speak, read, write, and understand English.

In addition to volunteering, if you know anyone who could benefit from their services, don't hesitate to refer them.

You can contact the partnership via phone at (203) 776-5899 or by visiting their website at https://lvagnh.org/

"I Wage Peace" Interfaith Service Day, August 6^th

Interfaith Service Day brings a diversity of people from religious, non-religious and spiritual groups together in fellowship and service to others. As service project volunteers, we will work side by side with others from different traditions in support of worthy community service projects.

Please join us! Admission is free and open to all ages. Remember to sign up here to let us know you're coming.

Interfaith Service Day

Sunday August 6th

8:30 am to 4:00 pm

At the New Haven Green

(under shade of trees at College & Elm)

Bethesda Bible Study Details

The Bethesda Bible study meets every other Wednesday from 8AM to 9AM.

We will be meeting on Wednesday, August 16, 2023 at 8 AM to finish discussing Act of the Apostles  along with NT Wright's Acts.

After that, we will be studying Paul's Letter to the Romans, along with the associated chapters in N.T. Wright's Romans.

Weekly Zoom link for meeting: https://yale.zoom.us/j/96108886279

Mission Investment Fund (MIF) Loan Update

Look for the Chimney in the Narthex - there you will find a QR code to give online. Let’s see how quickly we can pay back this loan!

Remember, for the cost of one fancy cup of coffee a week, together we can buy down this ten year loan!

You can choose to contribute online here or by notation in the comment line of a check. Thank you for your generosity!

Ministry at Bethesda

For pastoral care, please reach out to Elaine Ramshaw, congregation council president [email protected], (203)747-1343

Deacon Jeff Hazewinkel will also be available after July 16th at (219)929-8684.

For other needs, reach out to Bethesda's administrator, Leigh Cromey [email protected] or (203)787-2346.

Prayer Requests

For healing and strength: Rebecca Lerud; Jack Hayward, family member of Miles Kirschner, who recently had neck surgery; John Ferreira, nephew of Chris Couture; George Arndt, father of Lynn Arezzini; Marie Gray; Sonja Krummrey; Maureen Anderson; Shirley Farm; Anne and Lee Keck; Kay Leone; Molly Dinneen; Matthew H., cousin of Tyler Fair

Prayers of gratitude for former vicar, Kurt Saenger-Heyl, who was called on July 30^th to be the pastor of Trinity Lutheran Church in Centerbrook, Connecticut.  

For our partners in the Gospel: the congregations and schools of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in Jordan and the Holy Land (ELCJHL) and LuMin Campus Ministry; for Bethesda House and Yale Divinity School students.

For our Ecumenical Partners Worldwide: We pray for Cameroon, Central African Republic, Equatorial Guinea. The Ecumenical Prayer Cycle takes us through every region of the world over the course of a year.

For Bethesda New Haven: that God continues to guide us into the future with ministries of witness, service, hospitality, and care while building up our community in all its diversity.

For those in candidacy or seeking candidacy for rostered leadership in the ELCA: Natalie Benson, Tyler Fair, Calli Micale, Tim Bergeland

For Pastor Tim and Pastor Kari Henkelmann Keyl on sabbatical May 22-August 21, that they may be renewed.

For Bethesda members traveling over the summer: Maggie Astrup and Max Marmor spending time in Minnesota and Austria through August; the Franz Family in Alaska early August; Dianne Witte and Richard Ford traveling West for triathlon related travel through August; Ann Louise Onton headed to Japan in early August; Ike Harijanto who will be in Germany until the end of 2023.