The stack of boxes in the center of the Rotunda represents the fifty tons of food we are raising for fifty local food pantries during our Feed the Need drive.  Each level represents 10 tons of food. When we fulfill 10 tons, we paint the boxes on that level yellow.

We’re getting closer all of the time!

4-4-40 Daily Prayer

• If you are not receiving 40 Days daily prayer requests, it could be that we don’t have your current email address. Please stop by the CommUNITY center in the Rotunda to fill out a card with your current email address.
• Prayer is and has been an essential part of 40 Days of Community. Anyone is welcome to join us in prayer as we meet every Monday at 4:00 PM in Room 100.

40 Days of Community Study Guide

The “Better Together” Study Guide contains everything you’ll need for your small group sessions. Cost is $10. Books are available in the church office during the week.

“Better Together” Fair – Sunday, March 2 and 9

Take action and use your skills, knowledge, background, or experience to help someone else—you grow, give back to our church family, and glorify God. Don’t miss this great opportunity to start using your talents and time to offer a helping hand here at Bethany Church. Challenge yourself to find one new area where you can serve our church. More information will be coming in the following weeks.

“Feed the Need” Food Drive News

Details will be announced in your small group this week.

• Please refrain from purchasing or gathering food for the 40 DOC food drive.
• Each small group will be a part of this fun community-building experience with a combination of time, talent and treasure.

FOR HOSTS:

• All hosts must attend an informational meeting February 3 at 10:30 AM and 12:30 PM in the Village. Packets of Food Drive information for your small group will handed out.

Believing that we are Better Together, we at Bethany Church feel called by God to provide 50 tons of food to 50 food pantries within our area.  This will require us to raise $200,000 by Palm Sunday, above and beyond our normal giving.

Realizing that “From the one who has been entrusted with much, much more will be asked” (Luke 12:48), we ask everyone to consider prayerfully what they might give toward this effort. Remembering as well that “this poor widow has put more into the treasury than all the others,” we are aware that God regards the size of the sacrifice more than the size of the gift. (Mark 12:43) 

The chart below illustrates how we might achieve this goal together as we each give what we can. 

Take a minute to check out the NHPR program that Bruce mentioned in his sermon this morning. 

Click on the link below to hear Laura Knoy discuss what’s being done differently by organizations in New Hampshire to meet the demands of the hungry - from taking a more business-like approach, to reexamining the system as a whole from how food is gathered to how it is delivered.

Feeding the Hungry – Laura Knoy