Welcome to Bethesda United Methodist Church’s website. We pray you will find what you need whether you are looking for directions, information on our church or listening to a sermon.  We are a growing fellowship that is being stretched by God to grow deep in His word, branch out in our community and bear fruit. We are all on a journey of life complete with ups and down, tears and laughter.  Come check us out and find the love and support of walking partners.

 

Our congregation has been worshiping together in the Salisbury, MD. community since the late 1830’s. We point to December 15, 1841 as the anniversary date of our church, when  Dr. Augustus Webster, the President of the Maryland Conference of Methodist Protestant Churches wrote in his diary of preaching to a new congregation in Salisbury. Our congregation broke from what was then the Methodist Episcopal Denomination over issues of Episcopal (Bishop’s) authority. We met in a sanctuary on Camden Avenue until 1870 when we began to worship in a newly built sanctuary on Broad Street.  The church continued to grow and eventually required the room of our present facility built in 1922 on Division Street. The Methodist Protestant denomination merged with the Methodist Episcopal Church and the Methodist Episcopal Church, South in 1939 to form the Methodist Church. This denomination merged with the Evangelical United Brethren denomination in 1968 to form the United Methodist Church. Bethesda United Methodist Church is a beautiful place to worship. We are inspired by a one of kind portrait of Jesus as the Good Shepherd in our chancel painted by U.S. Capitol artist Edwin Blashfield. While our history tells us where we have been, we are more excited about our present and future. God is doing a great work in us.