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Welcome to Bethany! Bethany is a community of Christ’s faithful followers gathering around Jesus to believe, belong and bless. Whether you are just exploring your faith or have a vibrant relationship with Christ, we invite you to be a part of our faith community. Bethany has a rich mix of both a deeply rooted traditional worship and contemporary praise worship. We welcome all people, regardless of where you are in your faith journey. Bethany is a community where we grow in faith, a safe place to exploring coming back to a faith community, or simply to learn what faith is all about.

The Bethany faith family seeks to follow Christ’s command to love our neighbors as ourselves.  Bethany strives to be an active and engaged member in our greater community of Western Douglas County by sharing with and serving those in our community.  Bethany also has a deep commitment to global mission, primarily through a partnership with Kaya Children International serving children of the streets in La Paz, Bolivia.

Worship at Bethany is family friendly with Biblically based messages relevant to daily life.  Explore what worship on Sundays and Wednesdays is like at Bethany and learn more about our current worship series.

Regardless of where you are in your faith journey you are welcome here at Bethany.  We hope to see you soon as we share together in our faith journey, worshipping our Lord and serving our community.

 

What good is your faith?  James, Jesus' own brother, started out as a skeptic. See how one glimpse of the resurrected Savior turned an unbeliever into a disciple.  Please join us at  Bethany on Wednesday evenings OR Thursday mornings to be...

There are lots of ways you can share the gift of hospitality. Greeting, making coffee, collecting offering, serving communion, etc. Hospitality teams rotate and serve one month at a time. If you are interested in serving on a hospitality team...

Exercise Your Faith includes an opening devotion, full body toning exercises, stretching and prayer.

Meets Tuesdays and Thursdays at 9:00 a.m. in the Wellness Center.

Contact Deb Gray for more information. dgray@figurebyfaith.com...

Run for God is part bible study, part training program.  The primary goal of this program is to learn to spread the gospel of Jesus Christ while understanding the parallels of running and faith.  It is designed for all ages and all levels of...

Every minute of every day, someone needs blood.  That blood can only come from a volunteer donor, a person like you who make the choice to donate.  There is no substitute for your donation.  Bethany works in cooperation with other area churches...

VBS July 9-13 / 9 a.m. - noon

We’re on an Amazing Desert Journey this summer in VBS! Registration is open for children 3 years old through 5th grade (grade completed Spring 2012). Kids meet friends, explore Bible stories, do activities, sing...

Through the dedication of our members and friends who volunteer at VBS, we share the Gospel of Jesus with our children each summer.  If you aren’t part of VBS yet, why not call today? If you can help full or part time we have many levels of...

Bethany's Hands and Feet Ministry will be doing a small service project at the home of one of our Bethany friends the weekend of June 2-3.  Indoor and outdoor painters are needed.  Drywall help is also requested to repair a wall prior to painting...

Prayer requests received by the church are shared with the Prayer Network though email or by telephone so that immediate concerns can be lifted up in prayer as quickly as possible.  Prayer teams also form to regularly pray for a specific person...

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Preschool through 5th grade

Keep your kids conneced Wednesdays at The Oasis!  Connected to you, connected to their buddies and connected with God. Kids will have fun, stretch their creativity and grow closer to Jesus.  There will be age...

2 year old Pre Sunday School

As part of the Noah's Ark Nursery on Sundays, little ones are encouraged to move up to the Pink room as they turn two. This is a transitional class designed to prepare children to enter into a more “classroom” style...

Music with Mrs. M

Your children will love this time to learn songs and present musical offerings in worship.

Directed by Mrs. M (Julie Miskowiec)

Wednesdays at 7:00 p.m.

Rainbow Kids:  K-3rd grade and God Rods:  4th & 5th...

“Faith Lens, a topical Bible Study “

Sundays at 9:15 in the Conference Room

Faith Lens connects the Bible, faith and community life.  Join us in the Conference room to be a part of this timely study.  Led by Dan Hoffman

6:30 in the Wellness Center

Mission Trips 2012 Middle School Mission Trip to Joplin, MO

June 3-9, 2012.  Grades 6,7,8 will travel in the Bethany Bus and work and worship with the community.

Middle School trip brochure

High School Mission Trip to Joplin, MO 

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Care and the love of knitting (and crochet) have been combined into a prayerful ministry that reaches out to those in need of comfort and solace. Many blessings are knitted into every shawl.  The knitter begins each shawl with prayers for the...

Every Sunday at 9:15 kindergarten through 5th grade begins together in the Praise Theater for their own celebration with music, prayer and story time before breaking into their age groups.

Located in Elkhorn, Nebraska and also serving the adjacent communities of Waterloo, Valley and Gretna, COPE offers support to anyone regardless of religious, cultural, or ethnic background. More information on COPE can be found at www.copeinfo....

We are on a journey together and as your partner in growing the faith of your child we offer “Faith Steps”.  The steps we take throughout this journey have significance. As we guide our children on this journey of life-long travel shaping lives...

The WELCA Bible Study for the coming year (September 2011 - May 2012) will be To Follow and To Serve: The Gospel of Mark. The Bible Study is found in the monthly magazine Gather. We invite all women of Bethany to attend a Circle of their choice...

The nursery is open from 9:00AM-11:45AM every Sunday morning and 6:00-7:30 every Wednesday during The Oasis. The nursery is for infants through 36 months and is located in the pink room of the preschool wing. We have responsible, caring...

Confirmation

Confirmation, or Affirmation of Faith, provides an opportunity for the individual Christian, relying on God's promise given in Baptism, to make a personal public profession of the faith and a lifelong pledge of faithfulness to Christ...

June 22-30, 2012: Bethany has a long standing partnership with Kaya Children and its ministry in La Paz, Bolivia. There is no better way to experience the breadth and depth of this ministry and our partnership than through first-hand experience...

Bethany’s Faith Community Nurse provides the congregation and the community with the tools to facilitate the integration of faith and health.  Support groups, education, screening and volunteer coordination are some of the functions. 

January 28-February 12, 2013 : The Tanzania vision team will travel with the Nebraska Synod vision trip. The team will spend time visiting ministry partners in the Northern Diocese of Tanzania, exploring future congregational partnerships and...

Lay people with spiritual gifts of healing, intercession and mercy are equipped to visit family and friends of Bethany who are in the hospital or recovering at home to offer prayer and Holy Communion.

There are many opportunities to serve in the Music and Worship Arts at Bethany.   Worship Band

The Worship Band consists of piano, bass guitar, acoustic guitar, lead guitar and drums with occasional brass or woodwind instruments added in.  This...

National Youth Gathering in New Orleans, LA. July 16-23

The ELCA is going back to New Orleans with 39,000 youth. We were there in 2009 and experienced an incredible community of people who cared and loved us more than we could give back to them....

Altar Ministry is looking for individuals that love to serve behind the scenes.  Time commitment is approximately one hour once-a-month.  Day to serve is flexible – typically any time on Friday or Saturday morning/early afternoon.  If you are...

Children’s Church is a time where your child can learn about and experience God through age-appropriate stories and games.  It is designed to be a time where your child can interact with other children and with caring adults while still...

Sundays from 6-8 p.m. in the Youth Garage

BLYNG is a rotating event for high school students including fun and fellowship, worship, service projects and speaker videos.