As part of Bethel's Community Engagement, Bethel will be “Doing Service Together” on Sunday May 4. This will be a service opportunity for all members, with projects starting between services and continuing after the 10:45am service. In addition to projects on the Bethel campus, there will be a creek clean up. If you have any questions contact Mark Evashenk or Hella Bluhm-Stieber.

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.

Bethel's Spring Mission to Mexico worked with Esperanza to build homes and community in Mexico.

Bethel set up a booth to interact with our Cupertino neighbors.

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

Dear People of Bethel
I would like to thank you so very much for the outpouring of love and respect that you showed towards my brother Vic through your beautiful cards, sentiments, and stories of times you spent with him at church and outside of church. Your attendance at Vic’s memorial service and luncheon warmed our hearts and showed us that he was respected and well loved by his church family. Rest assured he loved his home church and the People of Bethel.

Peace and God’s Blessings,


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

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.

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.