Bethesda United Methodist Church
Bethesda United Methodist Church is a Methodist church at 155 Main Street in Preston, MD 21655. It is one of 11 churches in Preston, and one of 2 Methodist congregations in the city.
Our mission for the twenty-first century is to live out the teachings of Jesus Christ by following the philosophy of John Wesley, who believed that Christians must “do good: as we have time, and opportunity, to do good in every possible kind, and in every possible degree to all men.”
In the last 250 years, the congregation of Bethesda has grown and changed, and the church building has grown and changed with it, but throughout the years the one constant has been our focus on serving as Christ’s house of mercy here in Preston.
155 Main Street, Preston, MD, 21655Service times
- Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday 10am
Website: https://bethesdapreston.faith/newsletters/
Bethesda United Methodist Church is part of the Methodist family of churches in The American Church Story. 933 congregations of the Methodist family gather across Maryland — 25,370 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.
Find Bethesda United Methodist Church on The Church Map, explore nearby congregations, and pray for its community.
The community around Bethesda United Methodist Church
It takes 2.8 miles in every direction to gather two thousand neighbors around this church. Among the people scattered across those miles, more than 3 in 10 adults say they are socially isolated, and more than a third of adults live with obesity, and about 1 in 7 adults live with diabetes. A scattered parish is still a parish.
Pray for the families driving a long way to everything — to work, to a hospital, to this door on a Sunday morning.
- Social Isolation: 32.8%
- Obesity: 39.2%
- Diabetes: 13.1%
Source: CDC PLACES (2023), aggregated across 3 census tracts near this church.
Churches near Bethesda United Methodist Church
- Chapel of the Epiphany — 0.1 mi away
- Immanuel Lutheran Church — 0.4 mi away
- Mt Calvary United Methodist — 0.9 mi away
- Mount Calvary Church — 0.9 mi away
- Coppins Chapel — 1.4 mi away
- Johns Church — 1.9 mi away
- Bethlehem Wesleyan Church — 3.1 mi away
- Friendship Church — 3.4 mi away in Federalsburg, MD
- Smithson Chapel — 3.8 mi away
- Harmony United Methodist Church — 4.8 mi away
More Methodist churches nearby
- Mt Calvary United Methodist — 0.9 mi away
- Harmony United Methodist Church — 4.8 mi away
- Faith Chapel United Methodist Church — 5 mi away in Trappe, MD
- Washington Methodist Church — 5.9 mi away in Hurlock, MD
- Chestnut Grove Methodist Church — 7.1 mi away in Federalsburg, MD