Welcome to Bethlehem

[Jesus prayed] “Father, I desire that they also, whom You sent Me, may be with Me where I am, to see My glory that You have given Me, because You loved Me before the foundation of the world.”
John 17:24 (English Standard Version - ESV)
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Rev. Keith F. Witte, Pastor

“Bethlehem Evangelical Lutheran Church & School is community of sinners trusting in the forgiveness given by the crucified and risen Christ, offering peace, joy, stability, and purpose to a despairing and chaotic wo9rld by sharing this gospel through our words and deeds.”

LUTHERAN BIBLE TRANSLATORS: Pray for Chris Pluger and his family in Ethiopia due to ongoing civil unrest in that country has endangered all foreign residents. You can see his presentation on this HERE.

Thursday, June 5, 2025
Commemoration of Boniface of Mainz, Missionary to the Germans
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Daily Readings: Numbers 16:41-19:22; Luke 20:1-18
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Sixth Sunday of Easter

Jesus Is with Us in His Holy Church

On the night when He was betrayed, Jesus interceded for His Church – for His apostles and all who believe in Him through their word – that all of His disciples, “may become perfectly one” in the Father and the Son (John 17:21-23). For Jesus became flesh and dwells among us in order to reveal the father and His name, to share with us the glory of His righteousness, and to bring us to the Father in Himself. As the Father loved the Son from “before the foundation of the world” (John 17:24), so He loved the whole world (John 17:23, 26). Through the apostolic witness to the baptism, cross and resurrection of Jesus (Acts 1:21-22), the Lord gathers His disciples throughout the world “with on accord,” as one body in Christ (Acts 1:14). And so with one voice and by one Spirit, His Bride prays, “Come!” (Revelation 22:17). And He comes to us. He gives us “the water of life without price” to wash our robes and quench our thirst (Revelation 22:17); and He feeds us from “the tree of life with its twelve kinds of fruit” (Revelation 22:2).

Acts 1:12-26; Revelation 22:1-20; John 17:20-26
English Standard Version - ESV

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Bethlehem Lutheran Church

Welcome to Bethlehem

Rev. Keith F. Witte, Pastor

Seventh Sunday of Easter

Commemoration of Justin, Martyr

Commemoration of Boniface of Mainz, Missionary to the Germans

Pentecost Sunday