The Orthodox Presbyterian Church (OPC) was founded on June 11, 1936 amidst the fundamentalist-modernist controversy, when many mainline Presbyterian churches were abandoning the historic Christian faith and its foundation in the Bible, God’s authoritative and infallible Word.
Bethel is part of the Presbytery of the Midwest (PMW), which is the governing body over congregations of the OPC in the region of the Midwest (Illinois, Iowa, eastern counties of Kansas, Missouri).