Bethel Church

About

The Bethel Church () is a church building located on the Haachtsesteenweg in the municipality of Schaerbeek, Brussels. The church is a Dutch-speaking Protestant evangelical church and belongs to the Free Evangelical Churches in Flanders. The name of the church refers to the biblical place Bethel and means House of God.

History: The church originated from the work of the Belgian Evangelical Mission, an organisation that became active in Belgium after the end of the First World War. During World War I, the American couple Ralph and Edith Norton met in London some Belgian soldiers of the Iron Front. They sent food packages to the warriors in the trenches. After the war, the couple settled in Brussels where they founded the Belgian Evangelical Sending. Because the divine services were held in Brussels in French, the Dutch speakers asked for their own meetings. The Flemish Church was founded in 1923. The municipality met for years in the Goudstraat, near the Kapellekerk. This was the case until the street in the 1950s had to leave for the North-South connection. The church then moved to Schaerbeek....