What is Toys & Tots? Toys & Tots is a free drop-in parented play time for children from birth to 5 years old that occurs every Tuesday from 9:30am until 11:30 am at Bethel Reformed Church. Toys & Tots will run until May 12, 2020 and will start back up again in the fall.
Great fellowship for parents and fun for kids! Parents can enjoy a time of coffee and visiting while children spend time being creative and playing. There are tons of toys and activities including:
When is Toys & Tots held? The 'Toys & Tots' program runs every Tuesday of each month from October until May with a few weeks off during Christmas. All are welcome to drop-in and join this free parented play time for mothers and their children. Join us for coffee and fellowship while your children play.
Reformed Young Adults Conference, Feb 16-20, 2023.
The theme for this year is Staying Connected to the Body of Christ based on the verse from 1 Corinthians 12:27, "You are the body of Christ, and each one of you is a part of it."
Outday events include tubing at Mt. Norquay, Laser Tag in Calgary, and an Outday to Banff.
Registration for the 2023 Conference is now closed, but if this is something you'd like to attend in February 2024, we open registration in December. We'd love to have you join us!
The gift of music is a comfort and encouragement for the young and old. Twice a month we participate in an evening of singing those old favorite hymns for the elderly. We also have a time of devotion and fellowship. Everyone is welcome. Contact us if you would like to take part in this enriching program.
Take the opportunity to explore the Reformation! The Bethel Reformation Conference is held each year in October at Bethel Reformed Church. This is a wonderful event that features a series of lectures on unique topics, by a noteworthy quest speaker, related to the Reformation and our Reformed faith.
Upcoming Reformation Conference Dates and Information:
The Bethel Reformation Celebration will be held Friday evening, November 1 from 7:30-9:00 pm and Saturday morning, November 2 from 9:00-12:00 noon. Our guest speaker is Dr. Don Sinnema, Professor of Theology Emeritus at Trinity College near Chicago. The theme of the conference is Celebrating the Canons of Dordt as a Church Confession.
On Friday evening Dr. Sinnema will lead a Virtual Tour of the Synod of Dordt on its 400th anniversary by impersonating the synod’s president, Rev. Johannes Bogerman, in full costume aided by many PowerPoint visuals.
The Saturday morning lectures are:
1. How the Canons of Dordt became a Confessional Standard where he traces the process by which the Canons were drafted by the Synod of Dordt and became a confessional standard as one of the Three Forms of Unity
2. Snip off the TULIP: Reading the Canons of Dordt in Context; in this talk, Dr. Sinnema is critical of the use of TULIP as a way of summarizing the Canons, since this acronym distorts the nuanced meaning of the actual Canons. He presents the main emphasis of each chapter of the canons, contrasting it to the narrow distorted meaning which has often been used as a tool to interpret the Canons.
The ‘Heart for the Hungry Food Truck Event’:
This is a church/community fundraising event to support Calgary Food Bank. We ask participants to bring a food or cash donation to support the Calgary Food Bank and Bethel will provide a free meal to the first 300 people from one of the food trucks that we've reserved for this event. One hundred percent of all proceeds from this event go to Calgary Food Bank.
In addition to the Food Truck supper we provide beverages and dessert. For fun, we have street hockey and basketball games for kids as well as face painting.
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Over 100 singers are teaming up to present a special evening concert of choral delights on Sunday, February 23 beginning at 7:30 pm here at Bethel. The Laudate Community Singers (Don Quantz), the Westwinds Mixed Chorus Anita Perlau), the Bethel Choral Group (Lisa Schalk), and the New Beginnings Choir(Rick Vander Woude) will sing a wide variety of music, concluding with all the choristers singing Ola Gjello's arrangement of the words from St. Augustine's famous evening prayer. Saxophonist extraordinaire, Sam Vander Woude will also be performing. Admission is a monetary or food donation to the Calgary Food Band.
One of the ways Bethel serves our comminity by hosting a week long Vacation Bible School program every year. We usually schedule VBS for the third week in July.
Our free VBS program caters to children entering Kindergarten to Grade 6. VBS runs from Monday to Thursday, 9:30am-12pm with a free community BBQ on Thursday night to wrap up our week.
Vacation Bible School SAVE THE DATE:
Jungle Journey, July 15-18: As you plan for your summer activities, reserve this week for an exciting Jungle Journey! Your kids will go on an epic adventure from Genesis to Revelation! Amid sloths, butterflies, river dolphins, and dart frogs, your children will sail along on a fun jungle cruise, stopping at seven ports of call.
These ports are the 7 C’s of History: Creation, Corruption, Catastrophe, Confusion, Christ, Cross, and Consummation.
Kids will discover how these events shape our world, and they will learn to reconnect the Bible to their everyday life. Sign up your children, invite a friend, or volunteer by following this
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