Bethel Starts Mid-Week Meet­ings

MISHAWAKA – Most Bethel stu­dents are aware that they are re­quired to at­tend chapel three days a week. Last week, Bethel re­sumed Mid­week Small Groups. In light of this, there has been some con­fu­sion about chapel at­ten­dance and what counts to­ward those three re­quired weekly cred­its.  

Chapel at­ten­dance is a re­quire­ment for all res­i­den­tial stu­dents; or any non-res­i­den­tial, full-time stu­dents (12 cred­its or more) who have a class im­me­di­ately be­fore or af­ter 10 a.m. Mon­day, Wednes­day, and Fri­day gath­er­ings. Each stu­dent with a chapel re­quire­ment will be granted nine chapel skips at the be­gin­ning of each se­mes­ter. Stu­dents are el­i­gi­ble to gain bonus chapel skips by at­tend­ing var­i­ous ex­tra chapels in the evening at 8 p.m. dur­ing the Deeper Life Con­fer­ence in the spring or Spir­i­tual Em­pha­sis Week in the fall. There may also be ad­di­tional op­por­tu­ni­ties to gain bonus skips through­out the se­mes­ter.  

Stu­dents can mon­i­tor their at­ten­dance record and re­main­ing skips on the Stu­dent Ser­vices page on My­Bethel. If a stu­dent uses more than their al­lot­ted skips, they will meet with a Stu­dent Life rep­re­sen­ta­tive and the stu­dent may be placed on Su­per­vi­sory Pro­ba­tion with a Chapel At­ten­dance Agree­ment.  

There are many Mid­week Small Group of­fer­ings this se­mes­ter. Stu­dents are wel­come to at­tend the Bible stud­ies hosted in their dorms, or they may choose to at­tend one of the other var­i­ous of­fer­ings through­out cam­pus. These in­clude: 

Morn­ing Wor­ship – Every Wednes­day at 10 a.m. 

A time of wor­ship and prayer led by stu­dent wor­ship lead­ers in the Kelly Au­di­to­rium. 

Cof­fee with Profs – Every Wednes­day at 10 a.m.  

Cof­fee, con­ver­sa­tion, and ques­tions about faith with Bethel pro­fes­sors in the Shiloh Prayer Chapel. 

Con­ver­sa­tions with Coaches – Every Wednes­day at 10 a.m. 

Con­ver­sa­tions of faith with Bethel coaches in W101. 

Break­ing Free 101 – Every Mon­day at 7:30 p.m. 

A pro­gram to give stu­dents the ba­sic tools needed to per­son­ally over­come emo­tional and spir­i­tual bag­gage and al­low­ing them to help oth­ers do so. (Go to AC342 with a trusted friend of the same gen­der to serve as your part­ner.). 

Com­muter Bible Study – Every Wednes­day at 10 a.m. 

A time for com­muters to build com­mu­nity with other com­muters through a Bible study led by com­muter as­sis­tants in S017. 

Brave Love – Every Wednes­day at 10 a.m. 

A wom­an’s small group led by Ar­i­ana Jones and Bri­anna An­drews in the Log Chapel.  

Cam­pus Bible Study – Every Wednes­day at 10 a.m. 

A group study on the Book of Ex­o­dus led by Rachel Kennedy in AC433. 

Ves­pers – Every Wednes­day at 9 p.m. 

A chapel ser­vice led by mem­bers of the stu­dent body in the Kelly Au­di­to­rium. 

Though stu­dents are al­lowed to at­tend more than one Mid­week of­fer­ing a week at dif­fer­ent times, it will not grant them bonus skips. If, for some rea­son, the pre­ferred Mid­week study is not meet­ing in any given week, it is the stu­den­t’s re­spon­si­bil­ity to find an­other op­tion. Skips will not be kept sim­ply due to the can­cel­la­tion of one group.