by Erica Martin | Jul 17, 2024 | 70th Anniversary
As the first graduate of Bethel Christian Academy, Tisha Sexton feels she may never have achieved the life she has now without the experiences and opportunities Bethel offered her. “I owe who I am today to them. Without their influence, my life would have taken a...
by Erica Martin | Jul 16, 2024 | 70th Anniversary
In 2010, as Bethel was in a time of change and transition, Chuck Baker was positive he was called to the ministry in God’s perfect timing. Two years into the search for a new Director, he began to realize God had been working on his heart to leave the corporate world....
by Erica Martin | Jul 16, 2024 | 70th Anniversary
“Life is 90% attitude, 10% circumstances,” Allen Green, a former resident of Bethel Bible Village, says. Much of Allen’s childhood was spent in foster homes and group homes, but he never felt he belonged anywhere. The loving relationships that he built at Bethel...
by Erica Martin | Jul 16, 2024 | 70th Anniversary
In 1954, Floyd Hipp, a lay prison minister, and his wife did not fathom that the needs of six children would bring a community together in the ways that it has as Bethel formed its ministry over the last seventy years. Within months of rescuing six boys from...
by Erica Martin | Jun 28, 2024 | 70th Anniversary
As a supporter of Bethel Bible Village for many years, the family and staff at Southern Champion tray have given time, talents, and treasures to the ministry. Now in its third generation of leadership, Southern Champion Tray, founded in 1927, is now one of the...
by Erica Martin | Jun 27, 2024 | 70th Anniversary
We are hard-pressed on every side, yet not crushed; we are perplexed, but not in despair; persecuted, but not forsaken; struck down, but not destroyed.” ...
