WELCOME TO A FRIENDLY AND CARING CHURCH WHERE EVERYBODY IS SOMEBODY. THIS IS THE CHURCH WHERE NO ONE WILL EVER GET LOST IN THE CROWD. IF YOU ARE NEW TO THE AREA OR YOU ARE SEEKING A CHURCH HOME, WE WOULD LOVE FOR YOU TO COME AND SHARE IN OUR SUNDAY SCHOOL AND OUR MORNING WORSHIP SERVICES.
​BETHEL IS A PLACE WHERE YOU CAN BREATHE AND GROW.

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Due to the Covid-19 pandemic, all in person services/meetings have been temporarily cancelled until further notice. 

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Bethel African Methodist Episcopal Church
401 West Park Street
Champaign, IL 61820

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Bethel AME Church will join St. Luke CME Church for the HE is RISEN Sunrise Service.
April 12th - 6am

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Peace and Blessings Bethel AME-Champaign Family,

It is with great joy that I greet you in the mighty and matchless name of Jesus Christ and hope you have been well during this wilderness time. I truly miss each and every one of your faces; I cannot wait until this moment passes and we are back together again and able to love and laugh on each other.

I wanted to reach out to you all and give you some updates as to what we are doing to continue keeping you connected to the Bethel Family in spirit and in truth.

1)  I am aware of the difficulties many of you are having using the Free Conference Call for Bible Study and Sunday Worship. This is due to a system failure and not due to anything on the part of the church. Like most of us, Free Conference Call was completely caught off guard for the influx of people using their service and as a result there have been system wide issues.

2)  I am working to find a new system that can handle this traffic as we speak, but as of yet, I have been unable to find anything. In the meanwhile, Polly will continue to provide CDs for those who don’t have internet access.

3)  In terms of bible study, we will use the ZOOM application. Zoom is a video conferencing tool that uses both the computer and telephone. However, the link for Zoom changes with each session, so those links will be sent out the morning of bible study. PLEASE REMEMBER THAT FOR THE DURATION OF THIS CRISIS, BIBLE STUDY WILL BE AT 7PM VIA ZOOM ONLY. I am moving our time so that we won’t compete with others

4)  I will be administering communion this first Sunday (4/5). In order to do this, the church has ordered small communion cups and wafers.  Polly and I will work out a pick-up schedule and you can come get you and your family’s communion on Saturday, April 4th. We will let you know by Friday the times. The pickup location will be the church.

5)  In order to get around cyber and phone traffic, I am moving our church time to 9:30am. This will prevent us from having to compete with other churches who are also in the 11am hour.

6)  Class leaders should still be doing their check- ins.

7)  I will update you all by Saturday regarding Sunrise Easter service.

We will get through this. I have no doubt about it. The same God that was with us through so much in the past, is the same God who is with us now.

Yours in Christ,
Pastor Terrance Thomas 
​Bethel AME Church-Champaign
401 E Park Street
Champaign, IL 61820

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