On December 25, 1956, a bomb destroyed the home of civil rights activist Rev. Fred Shuttlesworth and caused damage to Bethel Baptist Church right next door. Don Cravens - Getty Images ...

As pastor of the Bethel Baptist Church in Schaumburg for 32 years, Bumpus has watched the church grow from its modest beginnings at an area school house to its present size of roughly 2,000 members.

Detroit A once-great institution, New Bethel Baptist Church in Detroit now fights for survival against the ravages of time, social change and economic depression Updated: Dec. 11, 2010, 5:31 p.m ...

New Bethel Baptist Church was organized July 24, 1924, and was first called Bethel Baptist. The first service was held July 20, 1924, and the first pastor was the Rev. J. H. McDavis.

Robert Smith Jr. has been pastor of New Bethel for the past 36 years and looked on as the crowds waited to pay their final respects. "She loved God, she loved the church, she loved the people of ...

The Old Bethel Church and Cemetery in Jackson, Mo., will be dedicated this summer after over a year of restoration work that involved almost exclusively manual efforts because the remote location ...

Morris Stringer, a member of Bethel Baptist Church on East Cottonwood Road, said he remembers he was 12 years old when he walked to the front of Bethel, which was ...

TUSCALOOSA | It's been 10 years since the leadership of Bethel Baptist Church first started dreaming of a new, larger sanctuary next to its existing church on 30th Avenue in West End.

The church says that due to the pandemic precautions the grand celebrations originally planned to celebrate Bethel Missionary Baptist Church’s 150th year will be scaled down or altered, just as ...

Only two years ago members of Bethel Baptist Church on New Carlisle Pike wondered if the pandemic would be over in time for them to celebrate their bicentennial in 2022. A new minister had arrived ...