You are invited to join us at Mt Cross for our annual Labor Day Retreat! We have a full day of programming on Sunday, September 1 and a weekend option for those that want to spend more time at the camp. Look for the Labor Day Retreat table in the Welcome Zone before and after worship during July and August to learn more and register! This year's theme is “Everybody has a story…”. Read all the details. Contact Molly Schrey if you have questions.

Vacation Bible School is again partnering in a service project collecting food for West Valley Community Services. We are inviting our Bethel Family to donate food along with our campers, July 7–July 12. We will have four barrels to fill that will be in the Narthex and Welcome Zone. Read this flyer for a list of needed food items.

Bethel’s annual Vacation Bible School is July 8–12. This year’s theme is SCUBA—diving into friendship with God. Registration is now closed! Read the details Traditional VBS is 9am–noon each day. SCUBA After Care from noon–5pm is provided for an additional cost. SCUBA VBS Sunday is July 14 at 11:45am. For more information please contact Amanda Laughlin.

Support our Youth going to the National Youth Gathering and BOOCT 3 (Bethel Out Of Covid Tour). Be sure to visit the Narthex on Sundays to check out the board of opportunities (shown in the middle of the above photo) that shows ways you may donate to help our 26 Youth, Young Adults, Adult Sponsors, and others, to attend the National Youth Gathering in New Orleans. For more information please contact Tom Hoegel.

Please join us for a discussion of the Goodreads Choice Award winner The Heaven and Earth Grocery Store by James McBride. This historical fiction unravels the 1972 mystery behind a skeleton found in a well in Chicken Hill, a neighborhood of immigrant Jews and African Americans. Please join us Sunday, July 21, 1:30pm in the library. All are welcome.

Aloha, friends! It’s summertime, so get out your tropical attire and and join Out ‘n About for a Tiki trek to some of San Francisco’s most iconic Tiki bars. Read the details and sign up on Eventbrite.

Bethel Staff meet about once a month to record a brief presentation that you can view on our YouTube Channel. Look for the heading Bethel Staff Zooms.

Thanks to Jacob Reidell for his planning, coordination and craftmanship completing the new Bethel sign and planter. This was Jacob's Eagle Scout project.

Bethel Lutheran donated 12 baby layette kits to Sacred Heart Community Services following a blessing of the kits and prayers for the families that will receive them. A big thank you to all who donated items. Thanks to Mark Evashenk for leading this effort! And special thanks to Joann Weberg and the Bethel Quilters for making the layette bags, and Sandy Siron and the Cupertino Senior Center knitting group for knitting beanie caps that were placed in each bag. The hand-made bags and beanies are a special bonus.

Kid Connection students received this year's Take-out Church on May 19:
The Fruit of the Spirit
Love, Joy, Patience, Kindness, Goodness—Generosity, Faithfulness, Gentleness & Self-Control — Based on Galatians 5:22-23.
If you have not had a chance to pick up your Take-out Church, they are in the narthex or you can contact Amanda to arrange a pick-up time at Bethel. The item we will be taking pictures with this year, are the fuzzy fruit with little faces. Please take them with you on your vacations or staycations and send the pictures to Amanda. She will be putting them together in a movie that she will show at the beginning of the school year. You can click the photos above to see larger images.

Out 'n About enjoyed a cruise off the Santa Cruz shoreline in Monterey Bay on Saturday. Thanks to Doreen for the photos.

Mary Deutscher has published an updated Ministry Guide. This is primarily intended for visitors and new members so they can see what is happening at Bethel. You can download the Guide here.

As of Mar 7, Bethel has relaxed our COVID recommendations. Masks and/or vaccination are not required, except for one seating area in our sanctuary that is designated as requiring masks. We still encourage you to be vaccinated if possible and we fully support anyone who wants to come masked. Please read Tom’s letter for more detail.