Inspiring Videos Created By Bethany Family & Friends
What moves you? Amuses you? Inspires you in your faith journey?
Starting November 2020, Bethany began posting videos and photos submitted by church members and friends.
Get out your smart phone or digital movie camera and make a message that means something to you! (You can also submit photos you have taken, whether they be of places, projects or art. We can transform them into a brief video for you.)
Suggestions:
a place you like to go
something you enjoy doing
a memory worth sharing
a conversation with someone in your family
performing a song or reciting a poem
something you have made or done
you get the idea.
Many videos are too sizable (memory-wise) to e-mail or text, but we have a couple of workarounds for that. Contact Rev. Jesse or Cathy Sapunor and we’ll work out the details with you. You need to get the OK from people who are shown in your work. Due to copyright laws, we cannot include commercial footage (such as movie or TV clips)—but if there is something that really inspires you, send the YouTube or Vimeo link and we can include that.
Not all run-ins with wildlife are terrible, as one Bethany member can attest. Watch the video she shot—after the bear “tapped” her on the back. P.S. The coffee shop replaced her coffee drink free.
Enjoy a two-minute respite from daily cares while viewing this collection of nature photos taken by Bethany members and friends at the April 22 Earth Day meditation/prayer walk.
Experience the sights and sounds of young chickens, captured one early evening in March 2021, at Soil Born Farms in Rancho Cordova.
Enjoy four minutes of calming ocean waves at Pomponio State Beach on the San Mateo Coast …
Enjoy the sounds of Peter Baird on the guitar as you experience visual highlights from Bethany’s 2021 Three Kings Day service …
Members and friends who responded to our invitation to submit videos and photos are included in this short video …
Kathy Frank shares some of her favorite Christmas decorations, traditions and memories …
One of the youngest in the Bethany Church family was excited to open the special Advent box delivered by a church volunteer. Here’s his reaction …
Members of Bethany’s 2020 summer book group (reading "The Samurai's Garden") responded to author Gail. Tsukiyama’s compelling narrative with their own reflections, photos, art and miniature sand/rock/nature gardens …
Listen to beautiful music by Natalya Amelchenko as you view Bethany’s Thanksgiving decorations: a table of abundance symbolizing all that God has in store for us …
Take a nine-minute break to enjoy the view at Lassen National Park. Originally produced in 2013 …
Miss coming to church? Rev. Jesse shares a brief look at the sanctuary, recorded during Holy Week 2020 …