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December 2022 events:
- 12/14 Evening Prayer Service
- 12/18 Bell Appeal Christmas Concert
- Christmas Eve Services
- Christmas Service - online only
- 12/26-27 Interfaith Winter Shelter Meals
Evening Prayer Service: Dec 14th, 7pm
The Christmas season can hold a lot of emotion and busyness. Join us for an evening prayer service, with music, prayer, candlelight and a contemplative time to reset the soul for the season.
Bell Appeal Christmas Concert: Dec 18th, 12:15pm
Following worship, join Bell Appeal, our hand bell ensemble for a Christmas concert with refreshments.
Christmas Eve Services: 4pm & 7pm
We will have two Christmas eve services: family service at 4pm, followed by lessons and carols at 7pm. All are welcome.
Christmas Service: online only
Bethany will gather online only on Sunday, Dec 25th. You can find the worship service on our Facebook page. The worship link will be emailed in advance for our 10:45am worship.
Interfaith Shelter Meals: Dec 26 & 27
We will cook and serve 80 meals for the Interfaith Shelter. If you’d like to volunteer, please let Shannon or Cathy know. We need folks to cook in the Bethany kitchen from 3-5:30pm, transport to St. Mary’s and help serve from 6:30-8pm.
November 2022 events:
This year we saw the overturn of Roe v. Wade in the Supreme Court, leaving in question access to abortion for folks across the country. At the center of that debate, is always religion. Join Pastor Sadie for this important study using Rev. Katey Zeh’s book, A Complicated Choice. Rev. Zeh is a Baptist minister and CEO of the Religious Coalition of Reproductive Choice. Together we’ll look at our faith, abortion, and how to be advocates for reproductive justice, and wrestle with the hard questions that might come up for each of us. We’ll meet on Wednesday evenings via zoom at 7pm, 10/19, 10/26, 11/2, and 11/16. Please let Pastor Sadie know if you’d like to join the study and if you need help obtaining a copy of the book.
Last one of the year! Bethany will be providing bagged lunches to support the night ministry on November 13th at 12pm after service. Help by donating food and assembling the lunches with other Bethany members.
In anticipation of Advent, Bethany will be hosting a potluck and movie screening on November 13th at 12pm, after service. Bring something to share, and we’ll eat and watch the story of Rudolph, the red-nosed reindeer.
September & October 2022 events:
Join Bethany, Friends of Slow Sanchez, and Noe Café at the 2nd Annual Sanchez Street Block Party on Sunday, October 16th. There will be live music, face painting, art making, a succulent planting bar, food vendors, a bounce house, and so much more! It will be an afternoon of family fun from noon to 3pm on Sanchez Street between Clipper and 26th. Check out our Facebook event.
Bring your beloved pet to our 10:45am worship on October 2nd for a special service and blessing where we celebrate our furry (or scaled or feathered) family members. Check out our Facebook event.
The Justice 4 Brandon Lee campaign would like to show appreciation for all the support Bethany has given over the past few years and invite our faith community to continue standing with the oppressed people of the Philippines. Stay after service on Sunday, Sept 25th for some delicious Filipino food and a prayer circle lifting up the concerns of the indigenous people and human rights workers of the Philippines. Check out our Facebook Event page.
JUNE 2022 – Pride Month events:
Join Queer and Trans activists from the Philippines along with SFCHRP on Wednesday, June 8th at 7pm, as we discuss the boiling hot political situation in the Philippines, how queer/trans activists are at the forefront of a movement fighting for national liberation in the midst of dictatorship, and the complexities of being queer and trans organizing for, not only their lives, but for everyone in their homeland. Learn how we, as concerned people in the US can contribute towards their struggle for a just and lasting peace.
Register here: https://tinyurl.com/hotqueerPh
Slow Sanchez and Bethany UMC are beyond excited to host this year’s Pride Stroll. It’ll be a day of family-friendly pride-filled fun! We’ll be gathering at Day and Sanchez at 11 and then continuing the festivities at Bethany following our stroll.
RSVP to the Facebook event!
Pride month is kind of a big deal for us at Bethany. And we’ll be closing out the month with a pride celebration party on June 26th with a hybrid worship service followed by a BBQ! All are welcome!
RSVP on Facebook!
Exciting Volunteer opportunity — with Habitat for Humanity!
Sign-up with Bethany’s work team to assist with construction at Daly City site.
Holy Week and Easter Services at Bethany
Join us for online worship at Bethany while we’re “Sheltering in Place.” Join us during the Lenten Season and during Holy Week.
Ash Wednesday Service, February 17th at 7 pm
Please join us online for our Ash Wednesday Service, at 7 pm, with the start of the Lenten Season. Also available for viewing any time after the service.
National Day of Remembrance — Lives Lost to COVID
On January 19, 2020, Bethany held witness to the over 400,000 lives lost to Covid in our country, by ringing our hand bells in union with other churches across the nation on this day of remembrance.
Homeless Sack Lunch Ministry
During the Pandemic the needs of the unhoused have only increased. Bethany prepares bagged lunches to support the homeless. We need donations: peanut butter, jelly, bread, bottled water & juice, soft fruits, prepackaged desserts, and chips. Donated items are then assembled from Noon to 1:30 pm by a small team and transported to those attending the San Francisco Night Ministry’s open worship service (“Open Cathedral”) in the Civic Center area on Sunday afternoon at 2pm.
Christmas Eve Service, online at 5pm & 7pm
We’ll be having an online Christmas Eve Service at 5 pm and 7 pm. Please join us!
Online Book Study – starting Sept. 9th, Wed’s, at 7pm
New study starting at Bethany on September 9th each Wednesday at 7pm via zoom. I Bring the Voices of My People by Chanequa Walker-Barnes. Bethany has copies of the books available if you need one and all are welcome regardless of geographic location. Thank you power of zoom!
Philippines Donations
If you would like to make a donation to the Philippines through Bethany UMC.
Blessing of the Animals
Join us for the annual Blessing of the Animals. In person Blessings, socially distanced, Saturday, October 3rd, 12-1 pm. Virtual Blessings, during worship service, Sunday, October 4th, 10:45 am.
Online Book Study – Wednesday’s, July 8th to August 12th
We’re excited to begin a 6 week study of James Cone’s book The Cross and the Lynching Tree — every Wednesday at 7pm, starting July 8th through August 12th. If you have never studied Cone before you are in for rich Black liberation theology that is transformative in our understanding of the Bible and our faith.We will explore a chapter a week, and it will be helpful if you read the chapter ahead of time.