Events

August 2-6, 2026 (Sun-Thu), 6-8 PM – Vacation Bible School

August 2, 2026 (Sunday), Lord’s Supper (AM service)

July 24, 2026 (Friday), SWEET Circle picnic

July 25, 2026 (Saturday), Dorothy Sackett memorial service (1 PM)

July 5, 2026 (Sunday), Rich Price preaching AM & PM

July 5, 2026 (Sunday), Lord’s Supper (AM service)

June 28, 2026 (Sunday), Morning of Music (choir), church lunch, early PM service

June 20, 2026 (Saturday), Baby Shower for Nicole M & baby Lillian (2-4 PM)

June 7, 2026 (Sunday), Lord’s Supper (AM service)

June 6, 2026 (Saturday), SWEET Circle meeting.

May 30, 2026 (Saturday), 8 AM – 1 PM – Spring Work Day

May 17, 2026 (Sunday), 6 PM – Marc & Joanna Beckley

May 1-2, 2026 (Friday – Saturday) – NE Camp Recharge at Bayouca

May 2, 2026 (Saturday), 11 AM – 1 PM – Ladies’ Luncheon – Sandy Rising & Sarah Beckley speaking.

April 25, 2026 (Saturday), 9 AM – 4:30 PM – Northeast Fellowship Serve Boldly conference.

April 26, 2026 (Sunday), 6:45 PM – Special Business Meeting (drywall repair)

April 5, 2026 – 8:45 AM (Sunday) – Easter Breakfast

December 21, 2025 – 11 AM (Sunday) – Christmas Cantata – “Love is Born” by Lloyd Larson

December 6, 2025 – 11 AM (Saturday) – Children’s Christmas Event – crafts, lesson, lunch

November 1, 2025 – 5 PM (Saturday) – Harvest Dinner with Doug & Karen Phillips (Horizon Education Network)

Morning of Music – June 29, 2025 (Sunday) – 11 AM

On Sunday, June 29, 2025, the choir will be presenting the following music in the morning service:

My Grace is Sufficient
My Shepherd Will Supply My Need
Like a River in My Soul (Men’s Chorus)
By the Gentle Waters
Come Thou Fount
Praise to the Lord, the Almighty
How Deep the Father’s Love
Almighty Father (Men’s Chorus)
Jesus Paid it All
Only Jesus

Please join us as we together worship our Lord in song.

Following the service there will be a church lunch to honor our graduates. You are invited to join us.

The Bethel Baptist Church choir will present Dan Forrest’s Christmas cantata “Lord of Glory” on Sunday, December 22, 2024 at 11 AM.

The choir is led by Dr. Kurt Harding and accompanied by Steven McElwain, Jr.

Following the cantata, the church will provide a lunch.
You are invited.

Vacation Bible School – 2024

Please join our action-packed “WildLive” nature show adventure as we go “on location” to journey over mountains, through forests, & across the African savanna and cruise over the ocean to Antarctica! We will be encountering some amazing animals God created as they remind us of Jesus’ characteristics.

Date: August 4-8, 2024
Time: 6:00 pm – 8:00 pm
Location: Bethel Baptist Church
300 N. Jensen Road
Vestal, NY 13850

We hope you can come!

Peace & Contentment with God June 30, 2024 (Sunday) – 11 AM

On Sunday, June 30, 2024, the choir will be presenting music centered on the theme
“Peace & Contentment with God.”
Please join us as we together worship our Lord in song.

Following the service there will be a church lunch. You are invited.

Psalm 33:22 (NKJV)
Let Your mercy, O Lord, be upon us,
Just as we hope in You.
View Peace & Contentment

The Bethel Baptist Church choir will present the Christmas Cantata, O Holy Light, on Sunday, December 17, 2023 at 11 AM.
The cantata by Mary McDonald will be led by Dr. Kurt Harding, choir director for Bethel Baptist Church.
We invite you to join us as we celebrate the birth of our Savior, Jesus Christ.
View the Cantata O Holy Light

June 25, 2023 (Sunday) – 11 AM, Singing the Psalms

On Sunday, June 25, 2023, the choir will be presenting a series of music based on the Psalms (1, 8, 23, 40, 46, 62, 65, 90, 95, 96, 104, 121, 139).
Please join us as we together worship our Lord in song.
Following the service there will be a church lunch. You are invited.
Psalm 95:1-2 (NKJV)
Oh come, let us sing to the LORD!
Let us shout joyfully to the Rock of our salvation.
Let us come before His presence with thanksgiving;
Let us shout joyfully to Him with psalms.
View the Cantata Singing the Psalms

50th Anniversary Celebration

October 1-2, 2022 (Saturday-Sunday)

On Saturday, October 1, we will begin our 50th anniversary celebration with a dinner followed by a worship service. Pastor Dick Lloyd will be preaching.

On Sunday, October 2, we will have one of our former pastors, Rev. Derwin Hauser, preach in the 11 AM worship service.

In the afternoon service following lunch, we will conclude our celebration with a worship service with Pastor David Rising preaching.

The choir will be singing on both Saturday and Sunday, and throughout the weekend we will be featuring pictures and videos as we remember how God has been faithful these past 50 years. We will also have a presentation in Sunday School (9:45 AM) of our 19 current missionaries, along with a question/answer sessions with our attending pastors.

View the anniversary booklet.