We have made several improvements to the website this weekend.  The most significant is the addition of a Messianic Forum, where members and visitors can have online discussions in a user-friendly format.  We have also added the ability for congregation members to obtain accounts for the website, which will enable them to view private pages, receive e-mail updates of website changes, and exchange contact information.   Finally, we added a Donations page that allows visitors to donate using using credit card, bank transfer or Paypal. 

We will have a special guest next Saturday at 11:00am at Congregation Beth Shalom.  Rabbi Gary Beresford and his wife will be giving the drash during our Torah service.  The Beresfords were recently permitted to return to Israel as Messianic Jews after over ten years after their very public court battle there.  Join us to here his fascinating story and to have your questions answered on the state of Israel today.

Rabbi Don Lansing’s weekly audio recordings are now available as a podcast on iTunes!  This enables anyone with an iPod or iPhone to subscribe to the podcast and automatically receive the audio files when they are published to this website.  Click on the link below to direct your iTunes software to the page for this podcast:

http://itunes.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewPodcast?id=349869873

If you have a non-Apple mp3 player that will receive podcasts, you can subscribe directly to this RSS feed:

http://www.congregationbethshalom.org/audio/rss.xml

Our own Lucy Koch was interviewed in this article about why she attends Congregation Beth Shalom.

http://natoday.augusta.com/node/6548