Bethesda Presbyterian Church
Bethesda Presbyterian Church is a Presbyterian church at 808 Red Lion Road in Philadelphia, PA 19115. It is one of 1,755 churches in Philadelphia, and one of 44 Presbyterian congregations in the city.
We exist to love and serve people as Jesus demonstrated.
Bethesda began in the section of Kensington as a church that reached out to blue collar workers and their families that worked in the textile manufacturing companies in 1867.
808 Red Lion Road, Philadelphia, PA, 19115Service times
- Sunday 11am
- Tuesday 9am
- Wednesday 9am
Bethesda Presbyterian Church is part of the Presbyterian family of churches in The American Church Story. 884 congregations of the Presbyterian family gather across Pennsylvania — 11,638 across the United States on The Church Map.
Presbyterians gave American Christianity much of its backbone: seminaries, catechisms, and shared government by elders rather than by one man, a habit that shaped the country's civic life as much as its churches. They have been among the most persistent builders of colleges, hospitals, and mission agencies this nation has.
Ministries at Bethesda Presbyterian Church
- Food pantry
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Latest from Bethesda Presbyterian Church's YouTube channel: Worship Service - September 13th, 2026 (all videos).
The community around Bethesda Presbyterian Church
Within a few blocks of these doors, more than 3 in 10 renting households pay over half of everything they earn just to keep a roof over them. About 1 in 10 the people here live without health insurance, and nearly half of the people here were born in another country. That is two thousand 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.
- Uninsured All Ages (Census): 11.0% (6.4–15.6%)
Source: U.S. Census Bureau (2019-2023), aggregated across 5 census tracts near this church.
Philadelphia city is served by 1,051 churches — about one congregation for every 1,515 residents.
Churches near Bethesda Presbyterian Church
- Philadelphia Tabernacle Church Of God — 0.1 mi away
- Gabay Amiram — 0.1 mi away
- St Luke's United Church-Christ — 0.3 mi away
- Ascension Mar Thoma Church — 0.5 mi away
- St. Peter's Syriac Orthodox Cathedral — 0.6 mi away
- The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints — 0.7 mi away
- Philadelphia India Christian Assembly — 0.9 mi away
- First Ukrainian Evangelical Baptist Church — 0.9 mi away
- Saint Pauls Church — 1 mi away
- The German Evangelical Reformed St Mark's Church of Phila — 1 mi away
More Presbyterian churches nearby
- Huntingdon Valley Presbyterian Church — 2.2 mi away in Huntingdon Valley, PA
- Third Reformed Presbyterian Church — 2.7 mi away
- Fox Chase United Methodist Church — 3.4 mi away
- Fox Chase Memorial Presbyterian Church — 3.5 mi away
- Rhawnhurst Presbyterian Church — 3.5 mi away
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