Serving others:

Adult Mission Trips: Join the list for those wanting to travel nationally and internationally to perform mission work/assist people in need.

Comfort Makers: Meets the 1st, 3rd, and 5th, Tuesday mornings in the Christ Center at 9:00am. Join us as we make quilts for worldwide distribution through Lutheran World Relief.

Family Promise: Bethel serves as a host church for 2-3 weeks per year to provide support for 3-4 transitional families with children by providing meals and overnight lodging. Serve as an:

  • Evening Host: Greet guests, din with families, and provide fellowship from 5:30-8:30pm.

  • Meal Provider: Help cook main course, side dishes, and/or desserts and bring to church.

  • Overnight Host: Completes meal clean-up, visits with guests and stays overnight at church from 8:30pm to 7:00am.

  • Setup & Take Down Crew: Prepare guest rooms and assist with cleanup.

Feed My starving Children: Annual event to help pack food to send to people in developing nations.

Fostering Hope: Be part of a team that supports local families who foster children.

Gifts from the Heart: Donate and make items for gift bags and Christmas stockings (i.e., baby gifts for newborns, lunches & toiletries for homeless), recycling stuffed animals for foster children, collecting occasional household items for displaced veterans & new stuffed animals and toiletries for survivors of human trafficking).

Habitat for Humanity / Faith Builds: Work to construct new homes in the Colorado Springs area.

Hope Kids: Help with events that support kids with debilitating illnesses and their families.

Lutheran Family Service:

  • Backpack and School Supply Drive: Collect and deliver school supplies for Lutheran Family Services.

  • Foster Care and Safe Angel Trees: Collect gifts for needy foster care and safe care children at Christmas.

Mercy’s Gate: Prepare breakfast & lunch at Bethel once a month for Mercy’s Gate clients and/or serve the meals at Mercy’s Gate.

Operation Christmas Child: Help plan, coordinate, and oversee annual shoebox ministry to send supplies and toys to children overseas.

Outreach Leadership Team: Help manage Bethel’s outreach funds. Attend quarterly meetings and update the group on the programs and needs we support.

Prayer Shawl Ministry: Join the team of knitters and crocheters making prayer shawls or lap robes for those in need. Yarn and patterns available.

Stitched with Love: Crochet, knit, or sew items at your leisure (baby afghans, quilts, booties, & layettes, winter scarves, baptismal afghans, etc.) to donate to foster children, pregnancy centers, and newborns.

Thanksgiving & Christmas Baskets: Be part of a team to plan, coordinate, and oversee distribution of holiday food baskets.

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