Enjoy the photos below from our Novemeber 13, 2024 Dinner!

What a great time we had with the Adult Fellowship Sunday School Class at the Fellowship dinner today!

They served us a great variety of soups, chili, and grilled cheese sandwiches. According to Carter Williams, the secret ingredient to the delicious grilled cheese sandwiches is LOVE!

No Wednesday Evening Supper in December, see you again in January 2025! Check the menu, following the photos below!

Be sure to make your reservation for our next Wednesday Evening Fellowship Supper by calling the church office 757 357-3373.

Fellowship Suppers 2024 - 2025
2nd Wednesday 5:30 PM – 6:30 PM $4 per Person 

Grief Support Group

The Grief Support Group meets every Monday from 12:30- 2:00 in the lobby of the Family Life Center. Enter the Family Life Center doors. The group is facilitated by Ms. Sukie Martinez Bailey, MSW, and open to our church and local community. No fee.

AA (Alcoholics Anonymous)

Men and women co-ed group meets on Wednesdays from 7:30-8:30 pm.

Ladies only group meets on Fridays from 7:30-8:30 pm.

Men only group meets on Saturday mornings from 8:00-9:30am.

Narcotics Anonymous (NA)

Narcotic Anonymous group meetings are on Thursday nights from  7:15-8:15 pm in the Family Life Center.

Taking of Pounds Sensibly (TOPS)

TOPS group meet on Tuesday evenings from 6:00-7:00pm.

November 2024

So then, just as you received Christ Jesus as Lord, continue to live in him, strengthened in the faith as you were taught, and overflowing with thankfulness. Colossians 2:6

Overflowing with thankfulness for the privilege to live in the presence of our Lord at all times! That’s the only way we can live in the midst of difficult circumstances and the demands of life.

Receiving Christ Jesus as our Lord was not a thought for one day but a decision of a life-time. We moved from darkness and loneli-ness, anger and fear to be filled with the light of our Lord forever!

It is that promise, that forever, that awareness that we will be living in him and no one can separate us from our Lord that makes our hearts rejoice and strengthens our faith so we can overflow with thankfulness!

What should we be thankful for? I have found in my devotional life that when I am more spe-cific in my gratitude it leads me to realize how many things I am really thankful for.
Every day, take a moment to give thanks for a person in your life. Sometimes it will be some-one very close to you, someone who took time to listen to your concerns or someone who made you laugh out loud. Somedays it would be the neighbor that smiled at you and waved, or the driver who stopped so you could go first. Give thanks!

Sometimes it could be that annoying person who wrote something inappropriate on social media, or the neighbor with a bigger political sign than yours, or an acquaintance who was
condescending. When these things happen, af-ter I process my feelings of frustrations, I give thanks because I know God can use circum-stances to guide me.

Take time to give thanks for a project you are working on for work or for pleasure. It could be your garden, your workshop, your writing, your crochet or the things you do to help someone else with their lives like mowing their lawns. Give thanks for those responsibilities that you didn’t want to do but became an unexpected blessing.

When we are grieving losses in our lives, it’s harder to think on giving thanks. We realize we miss important people, and their absence hurts our hearts. That’s when I am more determined to also take notice of people still living, and I give thanks. It makes me realize we who are still here can still give thanks!

Giving thanks for the good and the not so good becomes a habit when we are specific about the reasons. It helps us realize that God is in everything we do and his blessings are more amazing than the difficult times we are dealing with.

“Give thanks in all circumstances; for this is the will of God in Christ Jesus for you.”

1 Thessalonians 5:16-18

Blessings!
Ileana

Pictured above-Sunday Sept. 11, 2024, we welcomed back Phyllis Jones to our congregation. Phyllis was baptized at Benn's as a child and transferred out when she got married. Today she comes back to Benns, the congregation that always loves her.

Pictured above,we welcomed Kurt and Angie Hood to our congregation on April 28, 2024! We are delighted to receive you as new members!

Welcoming our new members October 8, 2023 to Benn's!

Above: Jordan, Leticia, & Bryan Eason from the 9:00 a.m. service and Karen Plackett from the 11:00 a.m. service.

We welcomed our new members above  on Sept. 10, 2023 ~ Danny and Rita Belott, Tom and Teresa Collette and Michael and Adri McAloon and their daughter Olivia and son Elijah.

Senior Youth Group Meeting Schedule

VALENTINE 2023 FUN! Youth are preparing cards for the entire congregation to receive for Valentines.  

 Youth Decorating the Chrismon Tree! 2022

Happy Thanksgiving week! We are grateful!

The Youth Group kicked off Fall 2022 with a pool party!

It was a beautiful day for a pool party! Our Youth Group said goodbye to Summer! Come have some fun, make your Benn’s Family part of your Sunday plan! See you in the “Fish Tank.” 

 Youth Group making and painting Easter cards for some special Church members tonight!

 It was a perfect night for our Senior Youth Group to enjoy homemade Chili for dinner. Our Lesson on “Trust, Honesty, and Integrity” allowed the group to experience some fun exercises that brought us all lots of laughs!