Holy Week worship services:

• Palm Sunday, April 13. Worship Services are at 8:45am and 10:45am.
• Maundy Thursday Worship Service is April 17 at 7pm.
• Good Friday is April 18 with Worship Service at 7pm.

In honor of Christ’s Resurrection, we invite you to join us in reading Pontius Pilate by Paul L. Maier. Mr. Meir combines what is historically known of Pontius Pilate's life and rise to power with the known political climate of first-century Judea. This popular book is now in its 44^th edition. Please join us Sunday, April 13^th at 1:30 in the library. All are welcome.

Easter Sunday schedule:

• 6:30am— Sunrise Service at Cupertino Memorial Park
• 8:45am— Traditional Easter Celebration Service
• 9:50am— Easter Egg Hunt
• 9–11:30am— Easter Breakfast Youth Fundraiser
• 10:45am— Contemporary Easter Celebration Service

Bethel Lutheran Choir extends an open invitation to join us in song Easter Sunday, during the Traditional Service at 8:45am. Come join us in singing Handel's Hallelujah Chorus. Per tradition, we will be doing this as a singalong postlude for Easter Sunday… We will start all choir rehearsals running the Hallelujah chorus first, so folks can come and join us and then sneak away, no questions asked! Or they can prepare on their own with youtube rehearsal tracks or they can fake it. We have the organ and 5 brass players that day so it will be a joyful noise regardless. Here's the Hallelujah Chorus:

• Public Domain Score
• Soprano rehearsal track
• Alto rehearsal track
• Tenor rehearsal track
• Bass rehearsal track

Watch this video invitation the choir made last year. Contact Melody for more information.

Kiddos ages toddler–5^th grade hunt for eggs on the back playground. Crafts and painting will be available also. Contact is Amanda Laughlin.

The Bethel bus is headed to Carmel for a glorious day of spectacular vistas including a delicious lunch!! Read the details and sign up. Contact is Doreen Baldwin.

More events are planned in the coming months.

Bethel’s annual Vacation Bible School is June 23–27. This year’s theme is True North—Trusting Jesus in a Wild World. Registration is now open! Read the details and register online. Traditional VBS is 9am–noon each day. True North Afternoon Care from noon–5pm is provided for an additional cost. True North VBS Family Sunday is June 29 after worship. For more information please contact Amanda Laughlin.

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.

I would like to thank everybody who helped with the safe car parking program, end of last year. Thank you so much for helping with hospitality hours, providing hard-boiled eggs, dinners including frozen dinners, baked goods, donating money, food, quilts, and other supplies for our guests. Bethel was able to provide safe parking for 6 weeks for 14-18 people who could not otherwise afford the cost of housing. Thank you also for stepping up to help for an additional 2 weeks that we had not planned for. A special thank you to Robyn who stepped in as my co-leader and went way above and beyond what I would have expected. Thank you also to our janitors and to Tom for working on numerous facility issues. Here are some statistics:

• We had 37 volunteers from Bethel.
• 27 helped with hospitality hours.
• There were an additional 26 hospitality volunteers from other churches.
• 17 Bethel volunteers plus the Bethel Youth group and WOW helped provide dinners. (Bethel provided 3 dinners), prepare hard-boiled eggs or frozen dinners for our guests.
• The quilters made 10 quilts for our guests.

We hope that you will be able to volunteer again later this year, and would very much appreciate if you could recruit another volunteer to help. This year we will not have the support from the LDS Church so we need to cover all the volunteers shifts and jobs ourselves.

Many thanks for your participation and enthusiasm for this ministry!
Hella

If you missed the service on Wednesday, Mar 19, you can watch the recording.

Out 'n About toured Alameda and Oakland with stops to sample beer, enjoy some food, and good company. This was the 14^th annual St. Paddy’s Day Brewery Tour!

We published a new Directory of Members (February 2025). Pick one up in the narthex or you can contact the office at 408-252-8500 or office@bethelcupertino.org to request a copy.
The Directory contains private information for use by Bethel members only. Please do not share it publicly.

The meeting was recorded and can be viewed on our YouTube channel.

In Lisa Laxson's report, she told a story about Lutheran World Relief delivering quilts to homeless veterans in Asheville. You can watch the YouTube video she mentioned.

Annual elections were held. The new Council and Standing Committee positions are listed on the Staff page.

The Dorothy Meyer award was awarded to Barb & Dave Larsen at the Congregational Meeting. The Dorothy Meyer Award is awarded yearly to a Bethel member that exhibits Christian ideals and principles in all aspects of their daily life and participates in many Bethel ministries and duties.

Be sure to check out Bethel’s new Annual Report. Thanks to Mary Deutscher for editing and publishing it.

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.