Category : 2024-2025

The weeks are getting busier as we approach the final month of school! Graduation is just 4 weeks away, with the end of the school year a week later. Please encourage your sons and daughters to continue working hard as the end of the semester nears. Notices will be sent home next week to students in danger of failing a class. Please check Schoology and encourage your students to seek help from our faculty (they are available 30 minutes before and after school) if needed. 

Thank you to all who have registered for the 2025-2026 school year. This is a great help with our planning. If you have not yet re-enrolled, please do so as soon as possible. Award letters were mailed today to students who are enrolled. Tuition contracts should be sent next week. Contact Kris Sauer if you are having problems with the registrations process, are not planning to return, or have any questions. Thank you for your partnership!

2025 -2026 School Calendar: Find it HERE. Other BA news on our Facebook and Instagram pages. 

Prom is next weekend, and SADD is hosting week of safe driving awareness activities for our high school students. Good luck to our students competing at the State History Day competition on Sunday, and our FFA students competing at the State Convention Monday and Tuesday!

Finally, we held Pope Francis in our prayers this week and said a decade of the rosary for him at the end of Mass today. Please keep him, and the Cardinals choosing his successor, in your prayers as he is laid to rest tomorrow. 

In partnership, 
Kris Sauer, Ed Friesen, 
Interim Co-Heads of School

RESERVE YOUR YEARBOOK! ORDER BY MON APRIL 28: Time is running out to purchase the 2024-2025 Bethlehem Academy yearbook. Reserve yours by midnight, Monday, April 28, to guarantee your student a copy and to save the memories of this special year. This is the final call before we submit our order for printing. A payment plan is available at checkout when you order on https://jostensyearbooks.com/?REF=A04015000 or stop by the school office with your payment and completed order form to pay by cash or check.

• Golf Tournament Committee: https://dash.pointapp.org/events/277566
• 160th Anniversary Committee:  https://dash.pointapp.org/events/277131
• Looking for some parent volunteers to tailor some BA tablecloths. This is a parent service hour opportunity! Contact Teresa if interested.  

JULY 16-20: Volunteer sign up coming soon!	Bike for BA! Click HERE for routes and info. Registration opening soon.  Email Jason Hillesheim with questions.
Get your foursome together to play in this great event! Register HERE.  Help us plan this fun event! Sign up HERE.	Save the date - all are welcome to join us for this great celebration! Live Music on the Back 40 from Pop Prohibition, food trucks, and fun. Help needed to plan this event. Volunteer HERE.

Summer Camps at BA! Click HERE for info and forms.

Governor Walz has proposed the elimination of funding for counselors, nurses, transportation, and textbooks for non-public school students. This will reduce critical funding for BA but also for our local school district as well. See below for more information. Click HERE to be connected to your state legislators and make your views heard. Thank you!

Click here for other Divine Mercy Catholic Church youth events.

Online BA School Calendar:
https://gopherconference.org/public/genie/7/school/7/

Online Faribault Falcons Calendar:
https://big9conference.org/public/genie/4/school/7/

Blossom & Bloom, BABS Gala 25 was a big success last Saturday! We raised almost $150,000 to support the primary mission of BA to provide an excellent college prep education for your sons and daughters. We were thrilled with the results and thank everyone who attended, donated, bid, volunteerd, or otherwise contributed to the success of this event. God is good! 

The week ahead: 

2025 -2026 School Calendar: Find it HERE. Other BA news on our Facebook and Instagram pages. 

May you be blessed as you enter the Holy Triduum.

In partnership, 
Kris Sauer, Ed Friesen, 
Interim Co-Heads of School

• Golf Tournament Committee: https://dash.pointapp.org/events/277566
• 160th Anniversary Committee:  https://dash.pointapp.org/events/277131

Summer Camps at BA! Click HERE for info and forms.

Governor Walz has proposed the elimination of funding for counselors, nurses, transportation, and textbooks for non-public school students. This will reduce critical funding for BA but also for our local school district as well (transportation). See below for more information and click https://minndependent.quorum.us/campaign/118606/ to be connected to your state legislators and make your views heard.

Click here for other Divine Mercy Catholic Church youth events.

Online BA School Calendar:
https://gopherconference.org/public/genie/7/school/7/

Online Faribault Falcons Calendar:
https://big9conference.org/public/genie/4/school/7/

Holy Week commences next week, Good Friday and Holy Monday are no school days. May you be blessed as you enter the Holy Triduum.

Blossom & Bloom, BABS Gala 25 is tomorrow! We are so excited to celebrate our school community, our mission, and our 2025 Court of Honor Inductees at tomorrow's event. We look forward to seeing you there! If you didn't get tickets to the Gala, please consider bidding on our online silent auction. We have over 100 amazing items to choose from, including a designated student parking spot, senior VIP commencement parking & seating package, fishing trips, golf outings, professional sports tickets, a Coach cross body purse & wallet, and so much more! Click HERE to check it out - bidding closes at 6:30pm tomorrow, April 12. Thank you for your support!

• Enrollment: Thank you to all who have registered for the 2025-2026 school year. This is a great help with our planning. If you have not yet registered, please get this completed soon. We are working on contracts for next year and cannot distribute tuition assistance to students who are not enrolled. Contact Kris Sauer if you are having problems with the registrations process, are not planning to return, or have any questions. Thank you for your prompt attention.
• A reminder to families concerned about affording BA: Scholarships and tuition assistance is available. We believe our prep education should be accessible to all families who desire it for their scholars. We offer flexible payment plans and welcome all families to apply for tuition assistance so that we may partner with you to create a plan that works for your family. Although the initial deadline has passed, limited funds remain available. Apply at www.mytads.com. Contact  Kris Sauer with questions.
• Juniors and Seniors: Prom and Post-Prom forms are due Thursday, April 17. See April 4 email from Lynette Battles for more details and all required forms.

2025 -2026 School Calendar: Find it HERE. Other BA news on our Facebook and Instagram pages. 

Prayers for all those dealing with illness, the loss of a family member or close friend, and all those intentions held close to your heart.

In partnership, 
Kris Sauer, Ed Friesen, 
Interim Co-Heads of School

Click HERE to bid on the amazing items our silent auction! Bidding closes tomorrow at 6:30pm. Bid high, bid often, bid for BA!

Middle School Lock In April 25:  Middle school student council is hosting a middle school lock on Friday, April 25 from 7 pm to 11 pm at Bethlehem Academy. Cost is $5.00. There will be lots of fun games and activities for the students. Pizza will also be ordered. Permission slips are due Thursday, April 17. Permission slips were sent home but you may also find a copy of the form HERE Parent volunteers are also needed! Shifts are 7-9 PM and 9-11 PM.  Mark the permission form when you are available to chaperone and plan to self-report your hours in POINT.

Click here for other Divine Mercy Catholic Church youth events.

Online BA School Calendar:
https://gopherconference.org/public/genie/7/school/7/

Online Faribault Falcons Calendar:
https://big9conference.org/public/genie/4/school/7/