Ministries

Here at Bethany Lutheran, we support ministries in our own community throughout the year with either monetary funds or volunteering. We feel that supporting these local programs in our own community is an important way of showing the love of Christ Jesus to our neighbors. Below is a link for some of these groups. Child Evangelism Fellowship CEF of Oregon, Inc., Lewis and Clark Chapter > Home (ceflewisandclark.org) Coast Pregnancy Clinic Home – Coast Pregnancy Clinichttps://coastpregnancyclinic.org/ Younglife https://thenorthcoast.younglife.org/ Astoria Rescue…

Our congregation supports missionaries around the world through AFLC World Missions.

Feeding the Homeless Each week our Brown Bag Ministry prepares lunch bags that are distributedto the homeless by local nonprofit organizations. Each lunch is created tofeed the body and share the good news of God’s love and salvation throughJesus. We currently provide lunch bags to two organizations:Helping Hands provides emergency shelter and reentry program-based transitional housing for men, women, and children at twolocations in Clatsop County – Astoria and Seaside. Bethany’s brownbags are used for lunch with Helping Hands adding…

This year the women have been busy once again. This group is so diligent each and every week coming to the church and sewing these blankets. And each year they along with other donations of clothing and food supplies are packed into a tote, delivered to Seattle and put on a boat headed to Naknek Alaska and the Mission work there where people come from all over the world to fish. Here is a link showing the work. The Net…

Our children learn about God and our faith in a number of ways, including: Sunday School Sunday School classes are offered weekly during the school year (September through May) for children of all ages. April 2025 Below in these two videos you will hear from two young women that have been in confirmation for the past few months. Each one on separate Sunday’s gave their testimonies. We look forward to seeing what God has in store for these two as…

Bethany’s women’s group is organized under the model of the Women’s Missionary Federation (WMF). Together, we study the bible and support mission work around the world. We meet on the second Thursday of the month. About the WMF In 1962 the women of the AFLC banded together to help further the work of the church. The society they formed became the Women’s Missionary Federation, working at home and abroad to further love in the kingdom of God, to unite the…