Welcome!
WHY IS THERE A BETHANY LUTHERAN SCHOOL? Our Lord Jesus Christ has commanded His people to go forth and make disciples by baptizing and teaching. Our school (”BLES”) is one of the arms our church uses in carrying out the teaching portion of the Lord’s command.
WHAT AND WHO ARE WE? We serve students in Preschool through 8th grade living in the Port Orchard community and the southern portion of Kitsap County.
- Founded in 1976 to provide Christ-centered Lutheran education and academic excellence for members of our church and the surrounding community.
- Intended to meet the needs of the child as a whole: spiritually, intellectually, emotionally, physically and socially.
- Operated and maintained on the basis that the church and school are inseparable; that any education which ignores or sets aside Christian truths is inadequate in the spiritual, mental and physical growth of the individual child.
- Part of The Evergreen Lutheran School System (TELSS), which includes 13 Lutheran elementary schools and Evergreen Lutheran High School in Des Moines, Washington. TELSS is part of the fourth largest private school system in the United States, comprised of 375 Lutheran elementary schools affiliated with the Wisconsin Evangelical Lutheran Synod (WELS) and the Evangelical Lutheran Synod (ELS), serving almost 30,000 students in 27 states and four foreign countries, 25 Lutheran high schools, three colleges and two seminaries.
HOW DO YOU FIT IN? We look to our parents to guide their children in developing Christian values and attitudes through regular attendance at worship services (either at Bethany or their own church). If you have no church home, we invite you to come worship with us!
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