Bethel Church

Bethel Church is a United Methodist church in Princeton, MO. It is one of 15 churches in Princeton, and one of 2 United Methodist congregations in the city.

Bethel Church, located in the rolling hills of rural Mercer County Missouri, was organized in 1856 by Reverend New.

Serving since 1859

Princeton, MO

Website: https://www.bethelchurchmo.org/about/

Bethel Church is part of the Methodist family of churches in The American Church Story. 418 congregations of the Methodist family gather across Missouri — 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.

Ministries at Bethel Church

  • Women's Shelter

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The community around Bethel Church

It takes 8.3 miles in every direction to gather two thousand neighbors around this church. Among the people scattered across those miles, more than 4 in 10 adults live with obesity, and nearly a quarter describe their own health as fair or poor, 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.

  • Obesity: 41.4%
  • Fair/Poor Health Status: 26.7%
  • Diabetes: 15.5%
  • Social Isolation: 30.6%
  • Depression: 25.8%
  • Food Insecurity: 17.2%
  • Poverty Rate: 17.1% (10.5–23.7%)
  • Utility Shutoff Threat: 10.3%

Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 3 census tracts near this church.

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