CHURCH NEWS

Lutheran Church

Do you find it difficult to make a Sunday morning service, or are you looking for a relaxed, casual worship experience? You are welcome to the Saturday night service at 5:37 p.m. at Bella Vista Lutheran Church.

“Dinner and a Movie” is at 5:30 p.m. Wednesday, Feb. 15, with a light supper followed by games.

The Men’s Discipleship Class meets every Monday at 1 p.m. and again at 7 p.m. Please park in the rear parking lot and enter the lower level.

The Shepherd’s Food Pantry is in need of donations of diapers sizes 3, 4 and 6. A container for donations is in the church narthex. The pantry is open from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. every Friday.

The Grief Support Group meets at 6 p.m. Wednesdays in the church library. Choir rehearsals are at 7 p.m Wednesdays.

The Sonshiners meet at 9 a.m. Thursday, Feb. 16, and again at the Highland Rehab at 2:30 p.m.

The Lutheran Hour is broadcast each Sunday at 12:30 p.m. on radio station KURM-FM (100.3).

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.

Presbyterian Church

The community is invited to a traditional worship service Sunday at 10 a.m. Christian Education classes for all ages meet at 8:30 a.m. A nursery attendant is available. New friends are always welcome.

An Adult Study Group meets at 9:30 a.m. Thursday, Feb. 16, in the parlor. Come and learn what it is all about.

Funds are collected on the third Sunday of each month for the Cents-Ability Hunger program to raise awareness of hunger and poverty in the world. The collection container is in the connector hallway.

Dinner Church will gather at 5:30 p.m. Tuesday, Feb. 21, in Fellowship Hall. An informal time of worship will be followed by dinner together. The meal will be prepared by a volunteer committee, so a freewill offering will be received to cover the cost of the meal. Please sign up at the Information Center and invite some friends.

The Book Club meets at 10 a.m. Thursday, Feb. 23, in the parlor. New participants are always welcome.

Ladies of the church will celebrate those having a birthday during this month at a luncheon at 11:30 a.m. Friday, Feb. 24. Please sign up at the Information Center to learn the location of this month’s luncheon.

The Presbyterian Church of Bella Vista is located at 1880 Forest Hills Blvd. Check the website for other scheduled activities. Contact the church office at 479-855-2390 with any questions about activities or to speak with a pastor.

Unity Church of the Ozarks

Sunday, the Rev. Elise Cowan presents “Life as a Roller Coaster.” Come as they share their Oneness. Refreshments and good fellowship follow the service.

A new Sunday 9 to 10 a.m. weekly Meditation Practices class takes place Feb. 19. Use of mantras, guided meditation, using the five senses and other methods to benefit daily life will be discussed.

The Masonic Philosophical Society meets the last Saturday of each month in the Unity Center for a variety of discussions important to humanity and questioning universal mysteries. This month’s meeting is Feb. 25.

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.

Highland Christian (Disciples of Christ)

Highland Christian Church meets for worship with communion at 10:30 a.m. each Sunday. Sunday School classes start at 9 a.m. offering four adult studies and creative worship for youth.

Vivian Keller will be leading Bible Study at 10 a.m. Wednesday, Feb. 15. Choir practice is at 4 p.m.

The Men’s Disciples group will meet at 8:30 a.m. Saturday, Feb. 18. Bill Keller will be the speaker. His presentation will be “Entertainment.”

The Fellowship Potluck Meal will be held Sunday Feb. 19, following worship service.

Highland Christian Church is located at 1500 Forest Hills Blvd. The church office is open Monday through Friday from 8 a.m. to noon. Call 479-855-2780, email high landchristian@cox-internet.com or visit highlandchristianchurchbv.org.

Unitarian Universalists

The Unitarian Universalists of Benton County meet at 1110 S.E. Evergreen St. (Little Einstein Montessori School) in Bentonville, near the southeast corner of 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, Feb. 19, Unitarian Universalist Teresa Honey Youngblood will give a talk titled “Mentors in Head Scarves: Women, Our Third and Fourth Sources, and the Lessons of Lives of Orthodoxy.”

For more information, visit the UUBC website at www. uubcar.com, Facebook at www. facebook.com/UUBC.AR, Meet-Up at www.meetup.com/UnitarianUniversalists-of-Benton-Co/, Twitter at twitter.com/ UUBC1 and Tumblr at /uubcar.tumblr.com.

Highlands Church

A churchwide, eight-week Lenten Growth Group/Sermon Emphasis called “The Way” by Adam Hamilton begins March 4. Everyone is welcome to attend.

The next HUMMERS Blood Drive is scheduled from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. Wednesday, Feb. 22. There will be free cholesterol screening.

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.

Bella Vista Community Church

Come for worship at 9:30 a.m. Sunday mornings with coffee fellowship before and after the service. Pastor Jeff Reed will be preaching Sunday. Adult Bible Study starts at 8 a.m. A staffed nursery is available as well as children’s worship for ages 4-12.

The next Newcomers’ Orientation will be at 7 p.m. Wednesday, Feb. 15, in the parlor. If you are interested in knowing more about Bella Vista Community Church, you are invited to attend.

Growing Through Grief Support Group will meet at 3:30 p.m. Thursday, Feb. 16, in the parlor.

Wednesday night activities include 6 p.m. pizza and 6:30 p.m. Bible study for children and youth.

Blood pressure checks are available to the community from 9 a.m. to noon each Wednesday in the nurse’s office.

Prayer Fellowship meets at 9:15 a.m. every Wednesday in the conference room.

For more information about the church, call 479-855-1126, email questions@bvcc.net, or visit bvcc. net. Church office hours are Monday-Thursday, 8 a.m.-4 p.m.

St. Bernard Church

Caring Friends, a grief share seminar, will meet at 1 p.m. Friday in classroom 205. Each session will include a video, group discussion and personal study. There is no charge to participate. The class is open to anyone, not just St. Bernard members.

On Sunday, Feb. 19, there will be a presentation for Adults Growing in Faith at 3 p.m. There will be a light supper following the discussion.

There will be Round Robin Bridge in the Parish Hall at 7 p.m. Monday, Feb. 20.

Tuesday, Feb. 21, there will be the scripture study of “The Biblical Roots of the Mass” at 7 p.m. in the classroom.

The Knights of Columbus Fourth Degree Members will meet at 6 p.m. Tuesday, Feb. 21, in the Hall.

Mass is 5 p.m. on Saturdays and 9 a.m. on Sundays. Daily Mass is 8:30 a.m. Monday, Tuesday, Thursday, and Friday. Wednesday Mass is at 5 p.m.

St. Bernard Church is located at 1 St. Bernard Lane in Bella Vista. Call the church office at 479-855-9069.

New Life Christian Church

New Life Christian Church offers three Sunday services: 8:30, 10 and 11:30 a.m. The title of the new message series is “Identity Crises: Do You Know Who You Are?” New Life Kids programming for children birth through fifth grade is offered in all three services.

Seventh- and eighth-grade students will meet for “Emerge” from 5 to 8 p.m. on Sundays. “Engage” is designed especially for ninththrough 12th-graders, who gather on Wednesdays from 5 to 8 p.m. Any teen in the community is welcome to attend.

A new college-age ministry is held from 6 to 8 p.m. Thursday nights at the church with a dinner and Bible study. All college-age adults in the community are welcome.

Sister2Sister Game and Fellowship Night will be held at 6:30 p.m. Friday, Feb. 17. Ladies of all ages are welcome.

The Middle School Ministry will be taking fifth and sixth graders to the Christ in Youth SuperStart Conference in Tulsa Feb. 17-18.

The New Life Outreach Ministry will be hosting an Appreciation Luncheon at Cooper Elementary School for their teachers and staff on Tuesday, Feb. 21.

Side By Side Ministry for senior, single ladies will carpool from the church at 11 a.m. Thursday,

Feb. 23, for lunch in Springdale and then a tour of Shiloh Museum’s newest exhibit. Anyone interested in going is asked to call the church office at 479-8551616.

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.

United Lutheran Church

Pastor Karen will lead a Bible study on the Old Testament at 8 a.m. Wednesday, Feb. 22. All are welcome.

There is a Bible Study Leaders Meeting at 10 a.m. Wednesday, Feb. 22.

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

Piecemakers, a group who meets every Thursday at 9 a.m., make quilts for Lutheran World Relief. There are also tasks for non-sewers also, so please come join the fellowship.

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

Forest Hills Church

Forest Hills Church welcomes people of all faiths to worship this Sunday at 10:45 a.m. Pastor Mark Kirby will deliver his message, “Let’s Be Defeated,” from Genesis 32:6-31. 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.

Everyone is welcome to the New Wine Ministry services every Saturday at 5:30 p.m. and Sunday at 2 p.m. as Pastor Vincent Xavier ministers the Word. There will be coffee fellowship before and after the services.

New Wine Ministry is nondenominational and is located at the NWA Ministry Center at 2262 Forest Hills Blvd. in Bella Vista, behind the Boys and Girls Club and the funeral home. Call 1-888-864-8712 for more information of other meetings. The church mission is the perfecting of the Body of Christ in all richness of giving, kindness, talents and resources. Pastor Patricia Xavier leads a study on spiritual warfare and deliverance held at 7 p.m. every Thursday at the same location.

A Bible study is held in Decatur at 7 p.m. every Wednesday. Call the number above for location.

Blog Talks are hosted by Pastor

Vincent Xavier from 7 to 9 p.m. every Tuesday, Thursday, Friday and Sunday. Go to Blogtalkradio. com/xman777. You can also call 1-818-369-0326 to speak live with comments or questions.

Learn how to be released from the great deception of the world system as Pastor Vincent is joined by Pastor Ken on KURM Radio AM 790 at 9:45 a.m. each Sunday and FM 100.3 from 10 to 11 a.m. Tune in at 11 a.m. Fridays and Wednesdays. Archived messages with special guest interviews are available 24 hours a day, seven days a week at nwmglobal.org.