Bethesda United Methodist Church
Bethesda United Methodist Church is a Methodist church at 8300 Old Georgetown Road in Bethesda, MD 20814. It is one of 47 churches in Bethesda, and one of 3 Methodist congregations in the city.
Bethesda is a Reconciling Congregation guided by the following statement: “Believing we are called to welcome all into the communion of Christ, we will encourage and support the inclusion of gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender persons in all areas of our congregation, our denomination, the larger religious fellowship and society as a whole.”
8300 Old Georgetown Road, Bethesda, MD, 20814Shares a ministry location with African Apostolic Church.
Bethesda United Methodist Church is part of the Methodist family of churches in The American Church Story. 964 congregations of the Methodist family gather across Maryland — 25,985 across the United States on The Church Map.
Methodism gave the church the class meeting, the circuit rider, and the Sunday school, and gave America the conviction that grace is genuinely for everyone — carried into prisons, mines, and mill towns by preachers who owned almost nothing. Charles Wesley's hymns are still sung in nearly every tradition, most of them by people who have no idea whose they are.
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The community around Bethesda United Methodist Church
Within a few blocks of these doors, more than 2 in 10 adults say they are socially isolated. Nearly a quarter of the people here were born in another country. That is 2,300 neighbors — and some of them are already in these pews.
Pray for the lonely within reach of this door, and for a congregation that notices.
- Social Isolation: 28.8%
Source: CDC PLACES (2023), aggregated across 4 census tracts near this church.
Churches near Bethesda United Methodist Church
- African Apostolic Church — 0 mi away
- Christ Lutheran Church — 0.5 mi away
- Bethesda Christian Assembly — 0.5 mi away
- The Church in Bethesda — 0.6 mi away
- Canaan Oromo Church — 0.6 mi away
- Bethesda Presbyterian Church — 0.6 mi away
- Washington Japanese Christian Church — 0.7 mi away
- Catalyst Church — 0.7 mi away
- McLean Bible Church — 1 mi away
- Our Lady of Lourdes Church — 1 mi away
More Methodist churches nearby
- Concord-Saint Andrews United Methodist Church — 1.5 mi away
- Chevy Chase United Methodist Church — 1.9 mi away in Chevy Chase Section Three, MD
- North Bethesda United Methodist — 2.1 mi away
- Saint Paul's United Methodist Church — 2.9 mi away in Kensington, MD
- Cabin John United Methodist Church — 3 mi away