Do you ever have a really lonely moment?  Maybe you wish for someone who's no longer with us...a friend or sibling who's halfway across the country... or a neighborhood you used to live in.  Life changes so fast and people change so quickly it's hard to believe that anything is the same.  Ever.

The Bible encourages us not to see ourselves as alone.  Not to see things - people - hopes - cultures - worlds - as different and alienating - but as truly connected.   The Bible even shows us how to start feeling connected, instead of feeling "dissed," or disconnected/disrespected.

As far back as when the Bible was written, the same circles of exclusion were pointed out as things that should not, must not, separate us.  In Galatians Chapter 3, vs. 28, we are told:

"There is neither Jew nor Greek, there is neither slave nor free, there is no male and female, for you are all one in Christ Jesus."

Being one in Christ Jesus gives each of us the ability to be completely unique as a person, while connected to each other through faith.  Being connected to God - through our love of God and each other - also means we are 100% blessed with God's generous love.

You will find God's grace here, in the community at Bethel Lutheran Church.  And we welcome you to join us.

"May Your Word pass from the ear to the heart, from the heart to the lip, and from the lip to life..."

                                                                                                   Prayer from The Lutheran Service Book

We are a part of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America and the Greater Milwaukee Synod.