Did you know that Bethel has a new website? Yup–but it’s the same as the “old” one!
Our default page, bethellutheranchurch.org is straightforward and serves us well: it’s hard to be more direct with a web address. However, it’s also fairly lengthy–24 characters (including the .org)–and includes a tricky “double L” (which can be easy for people unfamiliar with the word Lutheran to notice). With that in mind, we now have a secondary address: bethel4all.org which redirects people back to our bethellutheranchurch.org site.
Not only is this new address “double L-less” and 10 characters shorter (a useful trait in the age of Twitter and other social media sites), but it also hints directly at what is becoming a central part of our identity as a community of faith: deliberately setting out to work with partner ministries and organizations such that the place we call “Bethel” can truly be experienced by the larger community as “the house of God,” not “the house of us.” So spread the word: whether you know it as bethellutheranchurch.org or bethel4all.org, we’re here to stay!