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TUESDAY 9:00am Men’s & Ladies’ Bible Studies 12:30pm Ladies’ Bible Study 6:00pm Adult Indoor Soccer

WEDNESDAY—No Awana or Family Meal 5:45pm Parent Prayer Time 6:15pm Jr./Sr. High Youth Group 6:30pm Choir & Orchestra Rehearsal

THURSDAY 6:15pm Ladies’ Bible Study

FRIDAY—Office Closed 6:30pm Good Friday Service

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Dr. Ritch Boerckel

Senior Pastor

Jerry Sanderson Pastoral Associate

Joel Smith Biblical Counseling

Lyall Sutton Senior Associate

7422 N. Heinz Lane Edwards, IL 61528 Phone: (309) 692-1755 Email: info@bethanycentral.org www.bethanycentral.org godcenteredchristian.blogspot.com

Office Hours: Open Door: Sunday 1-6pm Mon.-Tues. 8:30am-5pm 5-8pm Wed. 8:30am-5pm Thursday 8:30am-5pm 5-8pm Fri. Closed

Bethany Baptist Church exists to glorify God by proclaiming Jesus Christ as Lord and preparing His people to worship Him forever.

Elders: Jon Baumann, Ritch Boerckel, Bob Castle, Don Haupt, Chris Larson, Jack Mason, Brian Sage, Steve Weaver

Elders In Development: Fred Laugherty, Tom Nofsinger, Marty Roth, Joel Smith, Marvin Streitmatter

Deacons: Jason Barley, Mark Ellison, Barry Heisey, Dan Hoerr, John Myatt, Kyle Scholl

Deacons In Development: Cal Benedict, Steve Hornbrook, Ron Penick, Billy Schick,

Joel Taylor, Dennis Zimmerman, Vince Warner

Large-print song words are available at the Welcome Center.

Available at the Welcome Center

March 20, 2016

8:15 & 11:00am

TODAY

Welcome to Bethany!

We are so thankful that you joined us at Bethany today! First-time guests are invited to visit the Welcome Center in the foyer to receive a welcome packet with information about Bethany.

Open Up the Heavens—Congregation

Grace On Top of Grace—Congregation

Your Grace Is Enough—Congregation

New Member Vote

Prayer of the Church—Jack Mason

Offering

This Grace—Congregation

Sovereign—Congregation

RightNow Media

Memory Verse—Romans 8:38-39

Scripture Reading—Romans 5:20-6:2 (Page 942)

Sermon—The Conquering Reign of Sin, Part 2—Pastor Ritch

Grace Greater Than Our Sin—Congregation

Benediction

Fred Laugherty Worship

Steve Hornbrook Global Outreach

Josh Beakley Sr. High

Aaron Boerckel Jr. High/College

Grace On Top of GraceGrace On Top of Grace Hallelujah I am freeHallelujah I am free

From my sin and penaltyFrom my sin and penalty

At the cross You took my placeAt the cross You took my place

With Your grace on top of grace JesusWith Your grace on top of grace Jesus Fellowship Church | Jonathan Smith © 2015 Not Just Another Song Publishing So Essential TunesFellowship Church | Jonathan Smith © 2015 Not Just Another Song Publishing So Essential Tunes

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Bethany Baptist Church is a part of the Bethany Fellowship of Churches which exists to reach Central Illinois for Christ. Also a part of the Bethany Fellowship of Churches are Living Hope Community Church in Bartonville, IL and Bethany Community Church in Washington, IL.

Bethany Fellowship of Churches

This Week’s Verse to Memorize & Meditate Upon

For I am sure that neither death nor life, nor angels nor rulers, nor things present nor things to come, nor powers, nor height nor depth, nor anything else in all creation, will be able to separate us from the love of God in Christ Jesus our Lord.

Romans 8:38-39

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Nursery We are praying for the Lord to provide 8 nursery workers. If you would like to help, please contact Ginny Smith at ginny@bethanycentral.org.

Electronic Sermon Notes Visit www.bethanycentral.org then

click on Resources,

Sermons and select

today’s date and

Download Outline.

Men's Basketball Monday, March 21

7-9pm All men college age and up are welcome to play basketball.

Adult Indoor Soccer Tuesday, March 22 6-9pm

RESOLVEDto and the College ministry invite all adults for indoor co-ed soccer. All abilities welcome.

If you would like prayer

after the service, a prayer

team member will be

waiting for you in

the Prayer Room.

Please remember to

silence your cell phone.

Services are recorded for

our radio ministry.

PrimeTime Fellowship

Monday, March 21 at 11:00am

All those age 55 and up are invited to join us! The fellowship will be sweet and lunch will be provided.

Paul & Emily McKim will be sharing about their recent Africa trip.

Please sign up on today’s Communication Card.

Join study leader Lona Hudson on Tuesday afternoons at

12:30pm beginning March 22 for this 7-week Priscilla Shirer

video series Gideon: Your weakness.

God’s Strength Visit www.bethanycentral.org

for additional details.

LADIES’ BIBLE STUDIES

A New Study Begins March 22

Praying for our GO-Partners

Would you like to pray more

specifically for our GO-Partners?

The GO-Team offers a Weekly

Prayer Update email that includes

prayer requests for seven different

GO-Partners each week. To

subscribe to this list, send an email

to steve@bethanycentral.org.

We are excited to be voting on the following for membership into our

church family today: Caren Ramsay, Dave Ramsay,

Doug Hamilton, and Jill Hamilton.

Sunday Slide Operators

We are seeking additional volunteers to operate slides on Sunday mornings. Volunteers will serve on a rotation basis. Training is provided. For more information, please contact Dan Pfeiffer at daniel@mediabounds.com.

Our sympathies to...

Pastor Lyall & Sheila Sutton,

Megan Sutton, and Ben & Hannah

Sutton on the death of Lyall’s dad,

Ray Sutton of Davenport, Iowa,

who went to be with the Lord

on March 10.

John & Tina Myatt, and their

daughters Toni & Erin on the death

of John’s mom, Shirley Myatt of

Fayetteville, NC, who went home

to be with the Lord on March 12.

Women Helping Women Work Night

Monday, March 21

at 7pm in Room 815

All ladies are invited to help prepare

items for gowns and blankets which

will be distributed to local doctor's

offices and hospitals for women

who have suffered from early infant

death miscarriage or infertility.

Baby Shower for Jena Slotter

Saturday, April 2 at 9:30am

Brittany Neukomm, Molly Schiller, Kayla Phillips, and Kim Houck

invite all ladies to attend a Baby Shower for Jena Slotter.

Andy & Jena are expecting a baby girl in June. They are registered at

Babies R Us and Target.

Please Note: There will be

no Family Meal or Awana

this Wednesday, March 23.

(Youth Group will still meet.)

The church office will be

closed on Friday, March 25

in observance of Good Friday.

No ABCs/Sunday School Next Sunday

There will be no Sunday School or ABC classes next Sunday.

Join us for Easter Worship Services at 8:15am and

11:00am. Please see the back panel for complete Easter

weekend details.

Disaster Preparedness

If you are in the Sanctuary when there is a …

Tornado Stay in the Sanctuary. Get down on the floor between the seats and keep your head down.

Fire Proceed to the nearest emergency exit (indicated in circles on the map below). There are four ways to exit the Sanctuary: the two main exits at the back then proceed out the front or side doors of the building; the two emergency exits located on each end of the stage.

In both situations it is important that you remain calm and proceed as instructed. To help prevent confusion, please do not go retrieve your children. The nursery and children’s workers are trained and will make sure they are safe.

Each room throughout the building has a map indicating a fire exit route and the tornado shelter location. Please take note of these.

Prepare Your Heart for Easter

As you exit the Sanctuary this morning the ushers will be distributing a 7-day holy week devotional designed to help deepen our understanding of the cross and delight in our Savior this Easter season.

Children in pre-K through 6th

grade are welcome to attend.

We will be working on the

upcoming musical “Back To the

Cross” which will be presented

following MusiCamp on Sunday

evening, June 12.