The church history records the names of ministers serving this area from the year 1838 forward, with meetings being held in homes and in “a small log school house…situated about a mile north of the current Bethel Church”. On March 17,1847 a deed for two acres of land “on which to erect a Meeting House” was given to a group of trustees of Bethel by Joseph and Thirza Hale. A “small frame church was built…on the site where the Sunday school rooms are located today”.