Today's Features

By Peter Sawyer

Intern writer
news@bedfordbulletin.com

    For more than 10 years, Couples and Kids has provided counseling services for the underinsured in the Central Virginia area.
    “We started out with one patient, and now we have served over 3,000,” Couples and Kids Executive Director Norma White said.

Notices

Empowering relationships seminar
    Eastlake Community Church in Moneta is sponsoring the Family Foundations video seminar titled Empowering Relationships on February 18-19.  This seminar focuses on improving one's relationship with family, friends, coworkers and others.  Anyone who has suffered a broken marriage, an unsuccessful career or a general lack of happiness will find comfort and healing in this seminar.  Enrollment is limited.  Call Dr. Gary Jones at 297-2273 for registration information.

Sign-ups and notices

    For information of events and activities at area churches, see the church news section in this week's paper.

Need for firewood
    The Agape Center currently supplies over a dozen families in the community with firewood to heat their homes. With the cold season there is a need for firewood.  The Agape Center will pick it up, split it and then distribute to clients.  Call 540-296-0609 or e-mail rosiperry@agapecentersml.org.

AARP Tax-Aide at Westlake Library

    When Bedford Lutheran Church bought property on Burks Hill Road to build a church, members saw themselves as buying land that happened to have a house on it, according to the Rev. Stephen Schulz, the church’s pastor.

    After learning more about the badly dilapidated old house, they had a major change of opinion. They discovered not only that the house was structurally solid, but that they had a historic home.