The racial makeup of Bethel Island was 1, 843 ( 86. 2 %) White, 40 ( 1. 9 %) African American, 15 ( 0. 7 %) Native American, 46 ( 2. 2 %) Asian, 4 ( 0. 2 %) Pacific Islander, 119 ( 5. 6 %) from other races, and 70 ( 3. 3 %) from two or more races.

He lived at the ' Le Resouvenir ' plantation, where he preached at Bethel Chapel, primarily attended by African slaves.

Researchers like E. Clement Bethel have studied the issue extensively, and likely conclusions include that African slaves were allowed celebrations only around Christmas-time, and chose to celebrate John Connu, a headman from 18th century Africa.

It was also sometimes called the " African Bethel Church.

This community still maintains two of the village's 12 churches, the Ebenezer Baptist Church and the Bethel African Methodist Episcopal Church, both on Cooper Street.

Now occupied by Mother Bethel African Methodist Episcopal Church, this is the oldest parcel of real estate in the United States owned continuously by African Americans.

They formed the Bethel African Methodist Episcopal Church in 1793.

A devout Methodist, Rolle requested her funeral be held at Bethel African Methodist Episcopal Church and she requested in her will that in lieu of flowers donations be sent to such organizations as The African American Chapter of the American Diabetes Association, The Bethune-Cookman College in Daytona Beach, Florida, The Black Academy of Arts and Letters in Dallas, Texas, The Jenesse Center in Los Angeles, Marcus Garvey Elementary, and Junior High School in Los Angeles.

The Mother Bethel African Methodist Episcopal Church was founded in 1794 by Richard Allen, an African-American Methodist minister.

Mother Bethel A. M. E. Church in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania founded in 1794 is the " mother church " of the African Methodist Episcopal Church.

Lewis Woodson of the Bethel African Methodist Episcopal Church on Wylie Street.

* Bethel African Methodist Episcopal Church ( Batesville, Arkansas ), listed on the National Register of Historic Places ( NRHP ) in Independence County

* Bethel African Methodist Episcopal Church ( Malvern, Arkansas ), listed on the NRHP in Hot Spring County

* Bethel African Methodist Church ( Cedar Rapids, Iowa ), listed on the NRHP in Johnson County

* Bethel African Methodist Episcopal Church ( Coffeyville, Kansas ), listed on the NRHP in Montgomery County

* Bethel African Methodist Episcopal Church ( Baltimore, Maryland )

* Bethel African Methodist Episcopal Church and Parsonage, Plymouth, Massachusetts, listed on the NRHP in Plymouth County

* Bethel African Methodist Episcopal Church ( Vicksburg, Mississippi ), listed on the NRHP in Warren County

* Union Bethel African Methodist Episcopal Church ( Great Falls, Montana ), listed on the NRHP in Cascade County

* Bethel African Methodist Episcopal Church ( Springtown, New Jersey ), listed on the NRHP in Cumberland County

The Northfield churches include the following: Alliance, Congregational-Baptist, Episcopal, Lutheran ( Norwegian, Danish, Missouri Synod, and Bethel ), Methodist, Moravian, Pentecostal, and Roman Catholic.

Jacoby founded the first Methodist Church West of the Mississippi River, originally known as Bethel Church, now known as Memorial United Methodist Church, in St. Louis in 1841.

According to Dr. Grenfell, the wedding was originally supposed to take place in the parsonage, but because of a bake sale on the lawn of the Bethel United Methodist Church, was moved at the last minute to the Elmwood Chapel, on the site of the Elmwood Cemetery in Bethel, in order to allow the event to remain private.

Communities formed around grist mills newly formed churches such as Haralson Mill, Costleys Mill, Dial Mill, Zacharys Mill, McElroys Mill, Union Grove Baptist Church, Ebenezer Methodist Church, Philadelphia Methodist Church, Salem Baptist Church, Smyrna Presbyterian Church, Pleasant Hill Baptist Church, Bethel Christian Church, Honey Creek Baptist Church, Other communities included Magnet and Zingara.

Shannon is home to three churches, Shannon Baptist, St. Wendelin's Catholic and Bethel United Methodist.

Bethel was founded in 1844 by Dr William Keil ( 1811 – 1877 ), a Prussian-born preacher who had been a member of the Methodist church.

First Presbyterian Church, Bethel Missionary Baptist Church, United Methodist Church of Wappingers Falls, Zion Episcopal Church, and St. Mary ’ s Roman Catholic Church.

Among Bay Shore's places of worship are: The First Congregational Church, St. Patrick's Roman Catholic Church, Sinai Reform Temple, Unitarian Universalist Society of South Suffolk, Bay Shore Jewish Center, the United Methodist Church, Bethel A. M. E Church, St. Peter's Episcopal Church, Saint Luke's Lutheran Church, and Calvary Baptist Church.

The Asbury United Methodist Church and Bethel Chapel and Cemetery, Croton North Railroad Station, and St. Augustine's Episcopal Church Complex are listed on the National Register of Historic Places.

* Bethel Methodist

Hymns from all three churches were sung: All people that on earth do dwell from the Scottish Presbyterian psalm tradition ; the Methodist favourite O for a thousand tongues to sing by John Wesley ; the Congregationalist O God of Bethel ; and When I survey the wondrous cross by the British Nonconformist, Isaac Watts.

To establish Bethel ’ s independence, Allen successfully sued in the Pennsylvania courts in 1807 and 1815 for the right of his congregation to exist as an institution independent of white Methodist congregations.

One moved two miles west and built the Bethel Methodist Episcopal Church ( which was torn down in 1953 ).

Originally named Bentley Manor by one of its first settlers, Captain Christopher Billop ( 1638 – 1726 ), after a small ship he owned named the Bentley, the district was renamed Tottenville in 1869, apparently in honor of the locally prominent Totten family, whose name can be seen on tombstones in one of the earliest churches, Bethel Methodist Church, on Amboy Road.

Bethel United Methodist Church

Two distinctive landmarks, the Bethel United Methodist Church ( erected in 1840 and rebuilt on the same site in 1886 after a fire had destroyed the original structure ), and an abandoned factory originally built in 1900 for use as a smelting plant and later operated for recycling by Lucent Technologies ( which closed the facility in 2001 ), stand at the northern approaches to the neighborhood.

The fate of one such home, which had been the parsonage of Bethel Methodist Church, located at 7484 Amboy Road, became the focus of an intense local controversy in March, 2005, when the community rose up in opposition to plans by builder John Grossi, who had purchased the property, to raze the home and construct five townhouse units on the site.

While his family was Episcopal by heritage, they worshipped at the Bethel Baptist Church, a few miles west of Georgetown, the only church reachable on a Sunday morning.

* Bethel African American Episcopal Church of Monongahela City, Monongahela City, Pennsylvania, listed on the NRHP in Washington County

* Bethel Cemetery and Church, a historic frame church 5 miles north of Falmouth

* Bethel AME Church ( oldest AME church in Indiana: founded 1868 )

The Bethel Baptist Church in Odenville was destroyed a few minutes after its members left an Easter pageant rehearsal that had been cancelled early because of the storm.

Together with other citizens, Browning formed the Caddo Valley Baptist Church of Christ, which before several other names would later develop into the Bethel Missionary Baptist Church in Glenwood and First Baptist Church in Amity.

* Bethel Missionary Baptist Church

It has been worshiping for 125 years. It's called the Bethel Lutheran Church on the corner of 3rd street, Crocker Street, and Old County Road.

* Bill Johnson ( pastor ), the pastor of Bethel Church ( Redding, California ), a congregation with significant international influence.

* Bethel College is affiliated with the Missionary Church, and serves approximately 1, 700 students.

During pioneer times, the area was settled by the Methodists for the Bethel Church.

* Bethel Lutheran Church