Bethany United Methodist Church
Bethany United Methodist Church is a Methodist church in Durham, NC 27705. It is one of 446 churches in Durham, and one of 16 Methodist congregations in the city.
As followers of Jesus, we commit ourselves to the pursuit of justice and pledge to journey in solidarity with all who are marginalized and oppressed.
We Are A Reconciling Church On December 7, 2025, Bethany United Methodist Church made the church-wide decision to become a Reconciling Church which means, “We celebrate God’s gift of diversity and value the wholeness made possible in community equally shared and shepherded by all.
Durham, NC, 27705Service times
- Sunday 11am · Worship Service
- Sunday 9:45am · School Class
- Sunday 10am · School Class
Bethany United Methodist Church is part of the Methodist family of churches in The American Church Story. 1,375 congregations of the Methodist family gather across North Carolina — 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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Latest from Bethany UMC Durham's YouTube channel: Bethany UMC Worship 3/1/2026 (all videos).
The community around Bethany United Methodist Church
Within about a mile of this church, more than 3 in 10 renting households pay over half of everything they earn just to keep a roof over them. About a third of adults say they are socially isolated, and nearly a quarter of adults here carry depression. That is 2,100 neighbors — and some of them are already in these pews.
Pray for the families one rent increase away from moving, and for this church to know their names.
- Social Isolation: 30.3%
- Depression: 24.3%
- Uninsured All Ages (Census): 11.4% (5.6–17.2%)
Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 3 census tracts near this church.
Durham city is served by 183 churches — about one congregation for every 1,296 residents.
Churches near Bethany United Methodist Church
- Great Commission Full Gospel Church — 0.2 mi away
- Tabernacle of Life Church — 0.2 mi away
- Guess Road Baptist Church — 0.3 mi away
- Christ Cathedral Oasis of Love Church — 0.4 mi away
- Faith in Christ Church — 0.4 mi away
- Saint Lukes Episcopal Church — 0.5 mi away
- My Savior's Way — 0.5 mi away
- Redigging The Foundation Ministries of the Apostolic Faith — 0.5 mi away
- First Pentecostal Church Of Durham — 0.9 mi away
- Revolve Church — 1 mi away
More Methodist churches nearby
- Mount Olive African Methodist Episcopal Zion Church — 1.2 mi away
- Glendale Heights United Methodist Church — 1.2 mi away
- Asbury United Methodist Church — 1.6 mi away
- McMannen United Methodist Church — 1.9 mi away
- Duke Memorial United Methodist Church — 2.6 mi away
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