Bethany United Methodist Church

Bethany United Methodist Church is a United Methodist church at 118 West 3rd South Street in Summerville, SC 29483. It is one of 152 churches in Summerville.

Bethany is committed to serving our neighbors by supporting a wide variety of local organizations through both financial gifts and hands-on volunteer involvement.

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118 West 3rd South Street, Summerville, SC, 29483

Service times

  • Sunday 8:30am · in Sanctuary

Phone: (843) 873-1230 · Website: http://www.bethany-umc.com/

Bethany United Methodist Church is part of the Methodist family of churches in The American Church Story. 898 congregations of the Methodist family gather across South 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.

Ministries at Bethany United Methodist Church

  • Blessing Box
  • School Supply Drive
  • Plarning
  • Thanksgiving Bags
  • Angel Tree
  • Summerville Salkehatchie

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Latest from Bethany United Methodist Church's YouTube channel: Bethany Traditional Service 09.13.2026 (all videos).

The community around Bethany United Methodist Church

Within about a mile of this church, more than 2 in 10 renting households pay over half of everything they earn just to keep a roof over them. About 1 in 7 adults live with diabetes, and more than a third of adults live with obesity. 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.

  • Diabetes: 16.4%
  • Obesity: 37.6%
  • Social Isolation: 30.0%
  • Fair/Poor Health Status: 21.7%
  • Poverty Rate: 19.7% (10.9–28.5%)
  • Food Insecurity: 17.9%
  • Uninsured All Ages (Census): 14.1% (8.6–19.6%)
  • Utility Shutoff Threat: 10.0%

Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 5 census tracts near this church.

Summerville town is served by 20 churches — about one congregation for every 2,311 residents.

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