CHURCH NEWS

Presbyterian Church of Bella Vista

The Ladies Birthday Luncheon group will celebrate those having a birthday during this month at 11:30 a.m. Friday, Sept. 23. Please sign up at the Information Center to learn the location of the luncheon.

The community is invited to a Traditional Worship Service at 10 a.m. Sunday, Sept. 25. Christian Ed classes meet at 8:30 a.m. A nursery attendant is available. New friends are always welcome.

Food items are collected on the fourth Sunday of each month for Helping Hands Food Pantry in Bentonville. This month, the requested food items are low-sodium canned vegetables. Please place the items on the table in the connector hallway. The Book Club resumes at 10 a.m. Thursday, Sept. 29, in the parlor. The topic will be what you have read this summer. All are welcome. Call 479-876-2547 with any questions.

The Presbyterian Church of Bella Vista is located at 1880 Forest Hills Blvd. Recent sermons can be heard on the church website www.pcbv.org, or like them on Facebook. Check their website calendar for other scheduled activities. Contact the church office at 479-855-2390 with any questions about activities or to speak with a pastor.

New Wine Ministry

Come celebrate the Feast of Tabernacles Oct. 16-24 beginning at 6:30 p.m. at New Wine Ministry, 2262 Forest Hills Blvd., Bella Vista. There will be guest speakers for all meetings. On Oct. 23-24, the meetings will be held at Word of Life Church, 808 S.W. 14th St. in Bentonville, with Mario Murillo, an international evangelist who is now bringing forth a powerful message on citywide prayer, and Jason Fowler, whose gift of music and worship carries a special anointing for refreshing and refocusing the hearts and minds of the saints toward the Father’s heart.

New Wine Ministry is non-denominational with a mission of perfecting the Body of Christ in all richness of giving, kindness, talents, and resources. New Wine Ministry meets at 5:30 p.m. every Saturday and at 2 p.m. Sundays with Pastor Vincent Xavier ministering the Word. Pastor Patricia Xavier leads a roundtable discussion and a teaching on deliverance at 7 p.m. every Thursday night. New Wine Ministry is located at 2262 Forest Hills Blvd., Bella Vista (behind the Boys and Girls Club and the Funeral Home). Call 1-858-864-8712.

Pastor Ken Wagner joins Pastor Vincent on KURM Radio AM 790 at 9:45 each Sunday morning and on FM 100.3 from 10-11 a.m.

United Lutheran Church

Sunday Worship Service begins at 9:30 a.m. with Pastor Karen Fowler-Lindemulder.

United in Prayer meets at 3 p.m. every Monday. All are welcome.

There is an exercise class at 8 a.m. every Tuesday and Thursday.

United Lutheran Church is located at 100 Cooper Road. For more information, call 479-855-1325 or visit www.unitedlutheranbv.org5.

Unitarian Universalists

The Unitarian Universalists of Benton County are located at 1110 S.E. Evergreen St. (Little Einstein Montessori School) in Bentonville, near the southeast corner of Southeast 14th and J streets. The Sunday service, which begins at 11 a.m., is preceded by coffee and social time beginning at 10:30 a.m.

Sunday, Sept. 25, in place of the usual Fourth Sunday potluck, UUBC members Ellen Tate and Suzanne Miltich will lead discussion groups on UUA’s 2016 General Assembly meeting and The Dwight Brown Leadership Experience, which was hosted by The Southern Region of the Unitarian Universalist Association in July.

Sunday School is available for children through age 15. A Unitarian Universalist adaptation of Jerome Berryman’s book “Spirit Play” is the primary resource. The morning is structured based on the Montessori approach. As in Montessori, the key elements are the classroom environment and the teachers. These elements free the children to work at their own pace on their own activities after an initial lesson.

For more information, visit the

UUBC website at www.uubcar.com, Facebook at https://www.facebook.com/UUBC.AR, Meet-Up at: http:// www.meetup.com/Unitarian-Universalists-of-Benton-Co/, Twitter at https://twitter.com/UUBC1, and Tumblr at http://uubcar.tumblr.com.

Bella Vista Lutheran Church

The Men’s Discipleship Class meets each Monday at 1 p.m. and again at 7 p.m. in the lower level. Park behind the Fellowship Hall and enter through the lower level.

Grief Share meets at 6 p.m. Thursdays in the church library. Register for this class at the church office at 479-855-0272 or at the kiosk in the church.

There will be a dinner/movie night for parents and children Wednesday, Sept. 21, from 5:30 p.m. to 8 p.m.

You can listen to the Lutheran Hour each Sunday over radio station KURM-FM (100.3) at 12:30 p.m.

The Shepherd’s Food Pantry is open from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. every Friday.

Sunday morning worship is at 8:30 a.m. for the traditional service and 10:45 a.m. for the blended service. Sunday School and adult Bible classes are at 9:45 a.m. Bella Vista Lutheran Church is located at 1990 Forest Hills Blvd. in Bella Vista. For further information, visit www. bvlutheran.com.

Village Bible Church

Wednesday, Sept. 21, the Oasis Food Pantry will be open from

10 a.m. to noon. This ministry is available to anyone in the area who needs help with groceries and would appreciate the compassion and encouragement of friendly volunteers. A potluck fellowship dinner will begin at 5:30 p.m., which is followed at 6:20 by singing, devotions and prayer for adults. Activities will also be held for children. Nursery for infants and toddlers is available, and the community is invited.

Thursday, Sept. 22, a Bible study on the book of Matthew taught by Dr. Ron Morris, will meet at 6:30 p.m. Men and women in the community are welcome, and newcomers may join the study at any time.

Sunday, Sept. 25, Growth Group classes are offered for all ages at 9 a.m. followed by the 10:15 a.m. worship service. Pastor Mark Voll will begin a new sermon series titled “The Beginning and the End: Lessons from Genesis.” This week’s sermon title is “Sin: Whose Fault Is It?” with a text of Genesis 3:1-20. Infant and toddler nursery and Children’s Church for kids are offered as well.

Tuesday, Sept. 27, a Ladies’ Bible Study titled “Prayer: Essential to a Fruitful Christian Life,” written and led by Joanne Morris, will be held at 9 a.m.

Village Bible Church, an Evangelical Free church, is located at 1591 Forest Hills Blvd., Bella Vista. Mark Voll is pastor. Church office hours are Monday-Thursday, 9 a.m.-4:30 p.m. Contact the church at 479876-5764, email them at vbefc@ sbcglobal.net, visit their Facebook page at Village Bible Church or the website at www.villagebibleefc.org.

New Life Christian Church

New Life Christian Church offers

three Sunday services: 8:30, 10 and 11:30 a.m. “James: Faith that Works” is the title of the new message series. New Life Kids programming for children birth through fifth grade is offered in all three services. This includes a high energy worship and large group time, followed by small group lessons.

New Life Students offers separate programming for teens. Seventhand eighth-grade students will meet for “Emerge” from 5 to 8 p.m. on Sundays. “Engage” is designed especially for ninth- through 12th-graders, and they gather on Wednesdays from 5 to 8 p.m. Any teen in the community is welcome to attend.

Side By Side, Senior Single Women will take a tour of the KYYA Chocolate Factory in Elm Springs on Friday, Sept. 23, carpooling from the church at 9:30 a.m. Call the church office at 479-855-1616 to RSVP.

The Women’s Ministry will host a simulcast of the nationwide prayer event “Cry Out! 2016” in the church auditorium from 6 to 9 p.m. Friday, Sept. 23. There is no charge, and this is open to men and women in the community. (There will be no childcare available that evening.) To read more about this event, visit www.cryout16.com

New Life Christian Church is a nondenominational church. Office hours are Monday-Thursday, 8:30 a.m. to 4 p.m. and Friday, 8:30 a.m. to 2 p.m. Visit newlifenwa.com.

Highlands Church

The next Hummers blood drive will be from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. Wednesday, Sept. 21. Photo ID is required.

A six-week study of “40 Days of Love” starts Saturday, Sept. 24. Come and learn how to love more like Jesus. Pastor Bryan will be

preaching on “40 Days of Love” during the weekend services, and the church will be meeting in small groups to go deeper. There is no charge for the Study Guide. Please call the church office at 479-8552277 to register.

Join Pastor Bryan Fink on a 10day Holy Land Tour March 14-23, 2017. Brochures are available. Contact the church office for more information.

The next Planning Ahead Series is over Medicare/Medicaid. On Tuesday, Oct. 4, from 1:30 to 3 p.m., learn what’s new, what has changed and what options exist in a talk led by guest speaker Will Corporon from Insurance and Financial Services. Admission is one non-perishable food item.

Highlands Church, a United Methodist congregation, is located at 371 Glasgow Road. For more information, call 479-855-2277 or visit www.humcbv.com or Facebook.com/humcbv.

Forest Hills Church

Forest Hills Church welcomes people of all faiths to worship this Sunday at 10:45 a.m. Retired pastor Ray Ticknor will deliver his sermon, “John Mark,” from Acts 15:36-40. John Spunaugle of Gideons International will also be there to speak about the organization. The adult Sunday School class begins at 9:45 a.m. and the Prayer and Bible Study is led by Mark Kirby on Wednesdays at 12:30 p.m.

Forest Hills Church is an American Baptist congregation located at 1702 Forest Hills Blvd., across from Edward Jones Investments in the Bella Vista Highlands. For more information, call the church office at 479-855-3555, email foresthillschurch@sbcglobal.net or visit them online at www.foresthillschurch.info.

You can also find them on Facebook at facebook.com/ foresthillschurch.arkansas.

Bella Vista Baptist Church

On Sunday, Sept. 25, there will only be an 11 a.m. service. No Sunday School and no 8:30 a.m. service. The church will have Deacon Ordination — a very special day for the church family. Please make plans to attend. The Sunday Evening Service will still take place at 5 p.m. in the old sanctuary.

Grief Share, a friendly, caring group of people who will walk alongside you through one of life’s most difficult experiences, meets at 3 p.m. Tuesdays in the church conference room.

Wednesdays, the Evening Meal begins at 4:45 p.m. Children’s choirs meet at 5:30. The Wednesday Evening Prayer meeting is held at 5:45 in the old sanctuary. There are youth activities Wednesdays starting at 6 p.m., and AWANA meets at 6:15.

The Men’s Prayer Breakfast, every Tuesday at 6:30 a.m. in Fellowship Hall, is studying the book of Romans.

Senior Adult Fun Day is the second Thursday of each month at 1 p.m. Bring your favorite snack, your favorite game, and come for fun and fellowship.

The Senior Adult Ministries hosts “Ice Cream and a Movie” the fourth Friday of the month at 6 p.m.

Prayer Warriors are available from 6 a.m. to 6 p.m., seven days a week, by calling 479-855-6644.

BVBC will be hosting Dave Ramsey’s Financial Peace University. Classes will be held on Thursday evenings at 6:30 and start Sept. 22. Contact Mike Swink at 479903-0739 for more information.

The church office is open Monday-Thursday, 8:30 a.m.-4 p.m. More information is available by calling 479-855-3748 or visiting www.bvbaptist.com.

Unity Church of the Ozarks

Come at 10:30 a.m. Sunday, Sept. 25, as guest speaker the Rev. Kim Burgner presents “Energy In Motion.” The Unity community warmly welcomes you. Stay after the service for refreshments and fellowship.

A committed group of people serve by holding in prayer those who request prayer support. If a prayer need arises for you or someone else, please leave a message at unityozarks.org, and the prayer team will be notified.

The Masonic Philosophical Society meets at 1 p.m. on the last Saturday of the month to discuss subjects important to humanity. This group discusses and questions individual and universal mysteries. The next meeting is Saturday, Sept. 24, at the Unity Study Center. For more information, contact tgsimota3@msn.com.

The monthly potluck takes place in the center following the Sept. 25 service at 11:30 a.m. Bring a dish and join them for fellowship and good food.

Wednesday evening meditation starts again promptly at 7 p.m. Wednesday, Sept. 28, with a Gong Meditation led by Larry Owensby. If desired, bring a pillow or mat.

The interim pastoral care minister is the Rev. Jan Huneycutt Lightner.

Unity Church of the Ozarks meets at 10:30 a.m., Sundays, at 902 S.W. Second St., Suite E, Bentonville. For more information, call 479-7212752.