Bethany Beyond Walls Ministry’s purpose is to creatively engage with our neighbors outside the church. Our goal is to go where Jesus would go, into the community, building relationships and exploring new ways of being the church to live out Christ’s mission in the world. While the church offers many assistance services and missions work, our focus is on more broadly engaging with the rest of our surrounding community. We see both efforts as vitally important.

OBJECTIVE: Engage more members within Bethany to join with us in engaging with our neighbors outside Bethany, in the community to demonstrate the love of Jesus.

We seek to do this through:

PRAYER: Uplifting all of our efforts in prayer, seeking God’s guidance.

SERVICE: Promote and/or sponsor endeavors that connect with people beyond our church walls, sharing the love of Christ with people not impacted by our traditional missions projects (aka the rest of the community around our church). We see this as a vitally important means of service in ministry at Bethany UMC.

INFLUENCE: Collectively and individually encourage more thinking within our church about ways to get to know our neighbors and serve our community more.

SUPPORT: Partner with and support, or step alongside, existing ministry efforts at Bethany that are already striving to achieve the objectives above.

INSPIRE: Be advocates for broadened creative thinking about new ways we can be a church impacting our neighbors, moving beyond “we’ve never done it that way before” thinking.

INVITE: Always seek opportunities to invite others (members of our church and beyond) to join us in these efforts.