Category: Features

Sectional Winning Coaches

A huge accomplishment came for Bethany this year when the high school girls basketball team won sectionals for the first time since 1998.  While most of the Bethany community knows about this, they may not know exactly how the coaches,…

Stewardship Week

It was stewardship (or more well known as addictions) week at BCHS. This year’s topic was a fairly sensitive one. A topic that many people didn’t really think of when they thought of addictions. Many people dealt with this kind…

2016 J-Term

  Every year when Bethany students come back to school after Christmas break they experience something completely different from most schools. J-Term, also known as January-Term, for high school students (9th-11th graders) is about have one class a day for…

Emmaus Performing Arts Group

Emmaus is a performing arts group that is lead by students in grades 10-12. Each year Talashia Keim Yoder holds auditions for this group and selects anywhere from 7-12 students. The students have to be able to act, dance, sing,…

Introducing: Brody Thomas

This year at Bethany, we are very excited to welcome our new choir director, Brody Thomas to the school. Many students may remember Brody as Nathan’s student teacher last year. Brody grew up in Springs, Pennsylvania and then attended Goshen…

Let’s Meet Nina!

  Nina Fox is this year’s new Spanish teacher. Here are 10 facts about Nina you probably didn’t know: Nina initially envisioned herself working in a public school setting, but felt called to come work at Bethany.  She sleeps with…

Losing Teachers

At the end of this year, Bethany will be losing two great teachers. Nathan Swartzendruber and his wife will be moving to Iowa along with Craig Mast and his family moving to Ohio. Both will be moving closer to family.…

Skydiving

Skydiving Jumping out of a plane typically isn’t an ideal spring break plan, but for me it was. On Saturday April 11, my sister and I decided to skydive. What possessed us to do this? I wanted to have something…

Bethany’s Student Government

Last year the Student Body Association, Bethany’s student-ran party-planning committee, underwent a transformation by making the change to the Student Government Association. The rest of the Bethany Christian Community was left wondering what changes the group made, and why.  …