Bethel Starts off Spring Se­mes­ter with Go Con­fer­ence

MISHAWAKA- This week Bethel Uni­ver­sity is host­ing their an­nual Go Con­fer­ence. Ac­cord­ing to Shawn Holt­gren, Vice Pres­i­dent of Stu­dent De­vel­op­ment, the pur­pose of this con­fer­ence is to en­cour­age Bethel stu­dents to be in­volved in mis­sions work. 

There are sev­eral events hap­pen­ing dur­ing the week of the Go Con­fer­ence. In ad­di­tion to the Mon­day and Fri­day chapels, there is also a Wednes­day chapel. The three chapel ser­vices are each fo­cused on dif­fer­ent ar­eas of mis­sions. The ar­eas are lo­cal mis­sions, mis­sions in a place you might not want to go, and world mis­sions. 

There will also be meals both in the din­ing com­mons and hosted by dif­fer­ent fac­ulty mem­bers to give stu­dents an in­tro­duc­tion to food from other parts of the world. Holt­gren said that the din­ners be­ing hosted by fac­ulty are be­ing funded by World Part­ners. 

Bethel Uni­ver­sity has been host­ing the Go Con­fer­ence since the late 90's ac­cord­ing to Holt­gren. The goal of the con­fer­ence is to show stu­dents that they can be in­volved in the mis­sion field in a larger va­ri­ety of ways than what they typ­i­cally think of mis­sions.