Bethlehem Summer of Service

June 14 - July 1, 2012

Bethlehem Summer of Service, an innovative program that provides an opportunity for you to walk where Jesus walked, and more importantly, to do as Jesus did. The content of the program emphasizes service, prayer, peacemaking, healing, reconciliation, and fellowship with the local Christian community.
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Feasting on the Word

the complete twelve-volume set of Feasting on the Word is now available in electronic form through Logos Bible Software.
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Continue the Journey

re:form Ancestors is a youth Bible study that explores the ancestors of our faith by exposing the real, unpolished and unexpected personalities of Old and New Testament Bible characters. With re:form Ancestors, youth discover similarities between themselves and the many unlikely people selected by God to do extraordinary things.
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Helping Youth Have a Faith of Their Own

The fact that youth participate in church less as they get older and often are not present in church as young adults can lead church leaders to assume they lack religious interest. A new book growing out of the National Study of Youth and Religion challenges that assumption. Sociologists Lisa Pearce and Melinda Lundquist Denton found that older teens and young adults see great significance in religion though not always in institutional forms of religious life. In their book "A Faith of Their Own: Stability and Change in the Religiosity of America's Adolescents" (Oxford University Press, 2011), the authors follow up with 2,530 young people, age 16 to 21, surveyed about their faith and religious practices at two points in time. The authors identified five types of religious identity among these young persons. Read more

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