Step Up Scholarship Applications open Saturday, February 1, 2025

Dear BCS Step Up Parents,

It is time to renew your Step Up scholarship for your Kindergarten through 8th Graders! 

As a reminder, you must reapply for a SUFS Scholarships every year. Once you have received your award, please submit your new Award ID# for the 2025-2026 school year to BCS on our Google form linked below.

All Step Up scholarships must be renewed yearly, and each student gets a new Award ID# each school year. 

Some helpful tips:

• Login to your Step Up/EMA portal and renew your scholarship, click where it says "Apply."

• Please renew the scholarship you have now, if you have FTC/FES-EO, please click on the same one to renew.

• You must enter your student/s social security number, and yours as well. (The primary parent on the Step Up account).

• You must upload two forms of proof of residency, it must have the primary parent name and matching address.

• Step Up will NOT email or contact you when you are approved, you must log back in 3-5 business days after completing the application.

• You will be assigned a new Award ID# for the 2025-2026 school year after you have been approved.

• Once you have the new Award ID#, please complete the BCS Google Form. You will need to fill out a separate Google Form for EACH student individually.  

• If you have any questions, please contact Wendy Austin at waustin@bcsftl.org.

The BCS Pumpkin Patch Tradition

It is a Downtown Fort Lauderdale tradition - Bethany Christian School holds an annual Pumpkin Patch that is unrivaled! Besides raising money for the annual 8th grade Washington D.C. trip, the Bethany pumpkin patch creates memories for everyone.

If you are a parent of an 8th grade student, the hours you put in will go directly towards your child's trip.  Students in 5th-7th grades will have their hours "banked" until they reach 8th grade! 

We get our pumpkins from Northern New Mexico, from a farm on the Navajo Indian Reservation.  At no cost to us, the farmers plant over 1,200 acres of pumpkins, gourds and ornamental corn. The vegetables are harvested and then shipped to us.   

We only pay for the pumpkins we sell! 

Parents, guardians, and children of all ages will find this a unique opportunity to work together as a family to support our school.  Whether it's unloading a truck with 2,000 pumpkins, helping a customer buy their "perfect pumpkin", or baking a "broken pumpkin" pie for a Bake Sale, it's quality time for the entire family. The Pumpkin Patch is a family affair!  You'll be creating memories for a lifetime!  

Welcome Mr. Most!

Please join us in welcoming our new Head of School, Mr. Erik Most!

Mr. Most is a Master of Divinity graduate of Knox Theological Seminary. He comes to us from Calvary Christian Academy where he served as administrator over discipleship. He also has ten years of experience as a high school Bible teacher. Mr. Most's first official day at BCS was on June 5th.

Thank you for partnering with us in prayer as we waited on the Lord to provide someone special for this unique and critical leadership role. Join us as we give Mr. Most a warm Bobcat welcome, and pray for him and his family as they start this new journey at Bethany!