Mission

Founded more than a century ago in Atlanta’s Grove Park neighborhood, Bethany United Methodist has called Smyrna home since 1964. Always a community church, Bethany was called “A Friendly Church in a Friendly Community” upon its inception in Grove Park and then became known as “The Friendly Church at the Crossroads” when it came home to its present location at the crossroads of Hicks Road and Hurt Road. Today, Bethany remains committed to that same spirit of love and community that has been such a part of its identity since its founding in 1915 as we carry out the ministry of spreading the light of Christ.