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Bethlehem Market Place has been an annual project that Beth Eden UMC has humbly undertaken for many years. This year we are unfortunately not having Bethlehem Market Place due to complications with the pandemic. However, we look forward to bringing the experience back to life next year.

2 Chronicles 7:1414 if my people, who are called by my name, will humble themselves and pray and seek my face and turn from their wicked ways, then I will hear from heaven, and I will forgive their sin and will heal their land. I humbly ask that you would join in a time ofContinue reading “Call for Prayer for the Nation”

Greetings to Everyone, I hope that this letter finds you well. Our church has gone back to just “Online Worship.” With the recent announcement on Nov. 17th by Governor Pritzker that Illinois is going back to Tier 3, we will only do online worship until further notice. The office will remain open on the regularContinue reading “Return to Online Worship”

Greetings Everyone, I’m writing to inform everyone about the news that we will start holding in-person worship once more. However, this news might come as both good and hard to take. Let’s start with the “Hard to take” part. The news will be hard to take for some because in-person worship will not, and IContinue reading “In-Person Worship Starting July 26,2020”

(Message from the Bishop Sally) We’re starting our second week of “sheltering in place.” Most churches have had at least two if not three Sundays of only online worship or some other means to reach out spiritually to our congregations. We’ve got this week to prepare for Holy Week and then…Easter! Let me just say, given the rapidContinue reading “Holy Week & Easter In-Person Services Suspended”

Hello everyone, Although we are all shut in, thank God for technology, because we can still stay connected. We are streaming live every Sunday morning on Facebook Live at 9:30 am. As we near Easter Sunday, we will also stream on Maundy Thursday (April 9th) and Good Friday (April 10th) at 7 pm. As aContinue reading “Sermons on Facebook Live”

Dear Northern Illinois Conference, Today, the President issued new guidelines to help stop the spread of the coronavirus in our nation asking that people avoid social gatherings of more than 10 people for the next 15 days. On March 15, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention issued its guidelines that for the next eightContinue reading “Bishop Dyck Suspends in-person Worship”