Bethel Con­tin­ues Scrip­ture 66 Tra­di­tion 

MISHAWAKA- Bethel's an­nual Scrip­ture 66 event took place Nov. 4-7 in the Shiloh Prayer Chapel. Stu­dents gath­ered and read through the whole Bible dur­ing this time.  

Spir­i­tual Life In­tern Ja­cob Falk helped plan the event.  

“We typ­i­cally have about 100 or so par­tic­i­pate,” Falk said. “Whether that’s a friend bring­ing them along for their time slot or peo­ple sign­ing up.” 

Scrip­ture 66 has been hap­pen­ing at Bethel for sev­eral years; how­ever, it was not al­ways held in Shiloh. 

“Talk­ing with Tom Car­pen­ter and Shawn Holt­gren, they re­mem­ber do­ing Scrip­ture 66 in their col­lege years,” Falk said. “In the gazebo in the mid­dle of cam­pus, they would line it with tarps and Scrip­ture 66 would hap­pen on the in­side.” 

Stu­dents en­joy Scrip­ture 66 every year be­cause peo­ple come to­gether and have fun read­ing the Bible.  

“I think stu­dents re­ally en­joy it, it’s some­thing dif­fer­ent, you have nor­mal Bible read­ings, study­ing and what­not, but this is just read­ing the Bible wher­ever some­one has left off,” Falk said. “I’ve heard sto­ries where they get to some of the more in­ter­est­ing parts of the Bible, and they are like, all of a sud­den, we are read­ing, then next minute, we are all on the floor laugh­ing, then we keep read­ing.” 

This year’s event got to en­joy the re­cent Shiloh ren­o­va­tions, in­clud­ing new floor­ing and car­pet, freshly-painted benches and walls and new cush­ion­ing for the benches. 

“The Spir­i­tual Life Team stained the cross, it’s a lit­tle bit darker,” Falk said. “It looks like one uni­fied piece of a cross rather than a cou­ple pieces tossed to­gether as a cross.” 

Cof­fee and tea were pro­vided for par­tic­i­pants.