Bay View Methodist Church
Bay View Methodist Church is a United Methodist church at 2100 Terrace Ave in Petoskey, MI 49770-5062. It is one of 41 churches in Petoskey.
To be an institution in which Christian values¹ and traditions are central; to enrich the human experience for individuals and families within Bay View and the surrounding community through a seasonal program of religious, educational, cultural, and recreational opportunities; to provide a Christian
Bay View was founded in 1875 by Michigan Methodists as a camp meeting “for scientific and intellectual culture, and for the promotion of the Christian religion and morality.”
2100 Terrace Ave, Petoskey, MI, 49770-5062Service times
- Sunday 10:45am
Phone: (231) 487-0218 · Website: https://www.bayviewassociation.org/
Bay View Methodist Church is part of the Methodist family of churches in The American Church Story. 846 congregations of the Methodist family gather across Michigan — 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.
Ministries at Bay View Methodist Church
- Worship Services
- Eucharist Service
- Bible Studies
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Latest from Bay View Association's YouTube channel: Sunday Worship Service - August 30, 2026 (all videos).
The community around Bay View Methodist Church
Within about a mile of this church, more than 3 in 10 adults say they are socially isolated. Nearly a quarter of adults here carry depression. That is two thousand 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: 30.5%
- Depression: 25.8%
Source: CDC PLACES (2023), aggregated across 3 census tracts near this church.
Churches near Bay View Methodist Church
- Trinity Missionary Church — 0.4 mi away
- Petoskey United Methodist Church — 0.8 mi away
- Cross of Christ Lutheran Church — 0.9 mi away
- Emmanuel Episcopal Church — 1.1 mi away
- True North Community Church — 1.1 mi away
- Agape Baptist Church — 1.1 mi away
- Genesis Church — 1.3 mi away
- First Presbyterian Church — 1.4 mi away
- Bay Harbor Church — 1.4 mi away
- Parr Memorial Baptist Church — 1.5 mi away
More Methodist churches nearby
- Petoskey United Methodist Church — 0.8 mi away
- United Methodist Church — 4.3 mi away in Harbor Springs, MI
- Epsilon United Methodist Church — 6.3 mi away
- Alanson United Methodist Church — 7.9 mi away in Alanson, MI
- Alanson United Methodist Church — 9.3 mi away in Alanson, MI