BIBLE STUDY FELLOWSHIP (BSF INTERNATIONAL, INC.)

STUDY IN THE BOOK OF JOHN STARTS THIS WEEK (SEPT 12th)!!

Classes begin meeting this week. You can join at any time through the year, but it is suggested that you show up as soon as you can! BSF will be studying the entire Book of John for 30 weeks, with classes weekly until the beginning of May. (Short break around Christmas, and a break on Easter week.)

There are many Erieside women (and a few men) who have been in BSF classes, so ask around! (Erieside Church hosted the Cleveland Evening Women’s Class between 1995 and 2000.)

Each week, you work on a one-page sheet of questions on the assigned verses. On class day, you review your questions in a small group setting lead by a facilitator, you hear a lecture on those verses you studied all week. As you leave, with your questions for the next week, you get a set of notes that reviews those same verses.

In addition to the weekly study in John, there are 6 different “seminars” offered on different nights, sprinkled through the year, that are designed to help you study the Bible on your own, share the gospel, pray and so on.

To register for a class, see the list below for a class near you. Then, just show up.

If you want more information, go to Click on the "Contact class" link to send an email to the class administrator.

Other things to know:

  • There is no cost to join a BSF class — either for the class or materials. A freewill offering is taken at the end of every class, which is applied to program costs.
  • If a class is full, you will be placed on a waiting list and contacted when there is an opening.
  • The men’s and women’s classes have a School Program for children, grades 1 through 12. Boys and girls can go to the men’s class or the women’s class!
  • If you are enrolling children in the BSF school program, you may bring them after you have registered them and you have been contacted by the class's children's department. Registered adults may register children who are not their own. (But note: this is not a “drop off” program! The children study the same Bible verses each week that the adult studies.)
  • And if you have never studied the Bible, still come! We encourage new class members to attend the Bible Navigation seminar.

Cleveland Evening Women’s Class: (with childen’s school program for grades 1-12)Bedford Church of the Nazarene, 365 Center Rd, Bedford OH 44146.

Meeting day/time: Tuesday 6:55 p.m. For more information, contact class administrator: Jan Leininger at

Evening Women’s Satellite Class: First Church of Christ, 422 Mentor Avenue, Painesville, on Thursday night at 6:45 p.m. (Note: no Children’s Program at the Satellite Class. To register, contact Colleen Thompson, , or call 440-248-7209. Thursday night at 6:45 p.m.)

Cleveland Day Women’s Classes (with children’s program for preschool only):

  • Grace Church, 7393 Pearl Road, Middleburg Heights OH 44130-4808, Meeting day/time: Tuesday 9:15AM
  • Riverview Church, 13968 Chillicothe Rd, Novelty OH 44072-9549, Meeting day/time: Wednesday 9:10AM

Cleveland Evening Men’s Class: (with children’s school program for grades 1-12). Parma Hts Baptist Church (next to Parmatown), 8971 W Ridgewood Dr, Parma Hts OH 44130-4122, Meeting day/time: Monday 6:55PM

NEW!!! Cleveland Young Adult Class (for men and women ages 18 through 35): Indiana Wesleyan University, 4100 Rockside Road, Independence OH 44131, Meeting day/time: Monday 7:00PM. (No children’s programs are offered.)

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Contact Diane Wilcox with questions: or (440) 552-9820