About
Our Mission Statement
As a congregation of believers in Jesus Christ, our Mission is …
- To share the Gospel of Jesus Christ whenever and wherever we have the opportunity.
- To involve ourselves in the hopes, dreams, and needs of those inside the walls of our Church as well as those who are beyond our walls.
- To become more intentional in our witnessing to and for Jesus Christ as we seek to carry out our calling as His Witness in our World.
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Bethel United Methodist Church was organized about 1791 by Daniel Asbury, a young minister from Fairfax County, Virginia. He worked with a group of settlers to establish the Lincoln Circuit.
We are told the first was constructed of logs and located south of the present building. The second one which was built from all hand hewn, tongued and grooved lumber. It was built by William Howard, and probably located 200 feet to the rear of the present church building. The third one and our place of worship today, was constructed by Coleman C. Beatty about 1913-1914. The educational rooms were added later, about 1957-1958. Since that time, many improvements have been made.
Bethel Church’s cemetery history dates all the way back to the Revolutionary War.
On June 9th, 1966, the American Association of Methodist Historical Societies and the Western North Carolina Annual Conference of the Methodist Church recognized, honored, and declared Bethel Church to be the oldest continuing congregation in the Charlotte District of the said Annual Conference.