Bethel Con­tin­ues Spir­i­tual Em­pha­sis Week Tra­di­tion

MISHAWAKA- Bethel Uni­ver­sity held its an­nual Spir­i­tual Em­pha­sis Week be­gin­ning on Mon­day, Sept. 12 and end­ing on Fri­day, Sept. 16.   

This year, there were 8 chapel ser­vices and a wor­ship night around the bon­fire. Guest speaker Pas­tor Ge­off Eckart spent the week on cam­pus in­ter­act­ing with stu­dents and speak­ing in the chapel ser­vices. Eckart shared the story of Joseph and spoke about the im­por­tance of dreams and the ways in which God uses peo­ple’s dreams. Eck­hart said he was very en­cour­aged by the stu­den­t’s at­ten­dance and par­tic­i­pa­tion.  

Spir­i­tual Em­pha­sis Week is an im­por­tant week for both the stu­dents and fac­ulty at Bethel Uni­ver­sity be­cause it en­cour­ages all of Bethel’s com­mu­nity to spend more time fo­cused on God and to in­vite Him to move on the cam­pus.  

“It’s an in­ten­tional week to pause in the midst of a crazy time to in­vite Je­sus to do things in our lives,” Tom Carter, the as­so­ci­ate di­rec­tor of com­mu­nity life, said.  

The week was wrapped up with a night a of wor­ship around the fire lead by the spir­i­tual life in­terns on Thurs­day evening and a chapel ser­vice em­pha­siz­ing the im­por­tance of men­tor­ship and con­tin­u­ing to live out the Chris­t­ian walk on Fri­day morn­ing. The wor­ship event gave stu­dents a chance to share about things they heard the Lord say to them dur­ing the week and al­lowed them to hear other peo­ple’s ex­pe­ri­ences as well.  

Bethel stu­dents were en­cour­aged to sign up for a men­tor­ship pro­gram and get in­volved in mid­week small groups. Stu­dents can ask some­one to men­tor them or sign up to be paired with a men­tor through an email sent out by the stu­dent life de­part­ment. Mid­week small groups start on Wednes­day, Sept. 21, and all the dif­fer­ent op­tions and lo­ca­tions are listed in the email sent out Sept. 16 by the Stu­dent Life De­part­ment.