Bethlehem Lutheran Church

News from the Middle East 

Help kids get started for a successful school year!

The next meeting to discuss the no-cost legal services ministry has been set.  We will meet on July 28, 6:30 pm in Langemo.  All are invited to join us as we continue this discussion.

Remember the shed that took shape in the Bethlehem parking lot? It now has a new home in St. Paul. The new owners were excited when it arrived and gathered friends and neighbors to help with the unloading. Check out the pictures.

On June 20 a team of Bethlehem members and friends traveled to Sao Paolo, Brazil to help families fulfill their dream of having a home with running water and electricity. As they live out God's call to "serve with the strength God provides" (1 Peter 4) and to put our faith into action, we ask for your prayers for the families and the Bethlehem team.
 

bom día, we arrived safely in Brazil, the 11 of us, exhausted, full of anticipation. It is the 20^th of June 2008.  Each of us brings along our own expectations or no expectations at all. 

Although we don't all know one another we share a common goal: to build sturdy, straight, dry, dignified, simple brick homes for our brothers and sisters in the land of the Southern Cross.

July 26-August 3, 2008

In El Salvador, 50% of the population lives in shacks built from plastic, scrap lumber and corrugated sheet metal or in overcrowded apartments.

On June 20 a team of Bethlehem members and friends traveled to Sao Paolo, Brazil to help families fulfill their dream of having a home with running water and electricity. As they live out God's call to "serve with the strength God provides" (1 Peter 4) and to put our faith into action, we ask for your prayers for the families and the Bethlehem team.