bethel lay institute

A Training Center for Laymen to Deepen Their Knowledge & Relationship with the Lord

bethel instituteWeekly from 6:30 - 8:30 pm in the Christian Education Center

The Session of Bethel Church is excited to announce the Bethel Institute - a training center for leadership and all who seek to deepen their knowledge and relationship with the Lord.

Starting this September, we will be offering four courses - two theological training classes and two community outreach classes. Each class will be offered on Monday or Thursday nights from 6:30 - 8:30 pm in the Christian Education building.

Theological Training


theological foundations ken neumann

expository counseling nicolas ellen

Are You a Leader?


When you think about, in one way or another, at one time or another, each and every one of us leads. Leadership is influence, and we each have opportunities to influence others, especially in ways that touch and change eternity!

Yet, are we prepared for those opportunities? The purpose of our new Bethel Institute is to provide a training center for leadership and servanthood – open to any and all who desire to deepen their knowledge of and relationship with the God of the Word, the God of the Gospel.

In its initial format, the Bethel Institute will offer two tracks of training classes:

  • a theological/ministry track, for those interested in sharpening their knowledge of the Word of God and building skills in ministering the Word to others.
  • a community/neighborhood track, for anyone in our surrounding community with needs we can address from a Gospel-based perspective.

The fees are designed to cover only the cost of the curricula. Scholarship arrangements are available for any for whom it might not be affordable. The classes are open to all the Bethel family, or any other interested persons.

Are you a leader? Are you a servant? Better dig deep, and get ready for God to use you, for His glory and others’ good! Bethel Institute can help do just that.


Bethel Institute




The hymn of wonder in Romans 11:33-36 expresses amazement not at what is unrevealed but precisely at what is revealed, at what has been described in great detail by the apostle. The more we know, the more our sense of wonder ought to increase, because increased knowledge brings us into greater contact with the incomprehensibility of God.

- John Frame