Category: Features

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.  …

Teacher Feature – Recognizing 50 Years with Dan Bodiker

For Dan Bodiker, 2014 marks his fiftieth year in the Bethany community. However fifty years is more than just a number, it represents many relationships built, connections made, and lives touched by someone who has been well known in the…

Teacher Feature – Dale Shenk

Dale Shenk is the high school Bible teacher at Bethany. You may think that his hands are full teaching Bible here at Bethany, but one hobby that he enjoys in his free time is guitar making. Ten years ago, Dale…

Teacher Feature – Kevin Miller and Vintage Baseball

“Leg it, Cotton!” If that was yelled down the hall at Bethany a lot of people would be very confused, but there is one person would know exactly what it meant. For eleven years, Kevin Miller has played vintage baseball…