Special Projects • $10 million

Bethel benefits from timely designated gifts and grants for specific needs. These include gifts toward financial aid, equipment, and new program initiatives. Examples of recent designated gifts include:

• Support of journalism
  An innovative combination of both annual and endowed support of Bethel’s journalism program by newspaper publisher Gene Johnson and his wife Kathy. The gift creates the Johnson Center for Journalism and Communication, committed to developing excellent and ethical Christian media professionals.
  
  
• Support of chemistry research
  A gift of $100,000 from retiring chemistry professor Dale Stephens to support more summer chemistry research projects for faculty and students. The donation is a matching gift intended to encourage others to support Bethel’s chemistry program, as a part of the President’s Sciences Initiative.
  
  
• Support of pastoral development
  A nearly $700,000 gift from the Kern Family Foundation to the College of Arts & Sciences at Bethel, to fund a program that will motivate and equip more graduates to go on to seminary, and become effective church leaders.