The burden and vision
After twenty-five years of service in the Highway Churches of Christ under Bishop Raymond F. Davis, Bishop Robert Evans, Jr. rested in the assurance that God was calling him to a new work.
Who we are
One fellowship.
Many gifts.
One Lord.
We exist to foster covenant relationship, strengthen ministries, develop leaders, and fulfill the Great Commission.
Established 1989
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Our vision
Enhancing local and para-church gifts for lasting spiritual fruit.
The vision of Beth-El Churches of Christ, Inc. is to enhance local and para-church set-gifts and ministries to produce the fruit and growth that our Lord Jesus Christ requires during the End-Times.
Our goal is to produce strong covenant relationships by utilizing the “Iron Sharpening Iron” principle, promoting interdependency while encouraging each to walk in their own identity. We accomplish our vision through our mission of imparting, educating, and activating the many gifts that have been released by God into our Church.
Statement of purpose
Called to organize, equip, serve, and send.
“This is none other but the house of God, and this is the gate of heaven.”Genesis 28:17
The Beth-El Churches of Christ, Inc. was formed to fulfill the Great Commission of the evangelization and Christianization of the world in accordance with Holy Scripture.
The National Church exists to organize churches, conferences, religious societies, educational institutions, hospitals, homes for the aged, and community outreach centers consistent with its doctrines; to foster domestic and foreign missions; and to establish standards for ministers and ministries affiliated with this fellowship.
Our desire is to facilitate the needs of pastors, leadership teams, and ministries as a whole. In the language adopted by the fellowship: come thou with us, and we will do thee good, the Lord being our help.
The Genesis
A movement born in prayer and vision.
Key milestones drawn from the preserved public history of Beth-El Churches of Christ.
Beth-El is established
On October 18, 1989, the vision reached its birth-stage at the Omni Hotel in Richmond, Virginia. The new fellowship was given the name Beth-El and opened its first Holy Convocation.
Churches, leaders, and dioceses
The fellowship grew spiritually and numerically, developing episcopal leadership and extending ministry across multiple states through churches, departments, missions, and national gatherings.
Strength for the next season
Beth-El continues the work of imparting, educating, and activating gifts while strengthening covenant relationships across the Body of Christ.
Our covenant
A solemn commitment to walk together in Christian love.
The church covenant is a voluntary agreement by which members promise to conduct their lives in a way that glorifies God and promotes the ongoing work of His Church.
Having been led, as we believe, by the Spirit of God, to receive the Lord Jesus Christ as our Savior, and on the profession of our faith, having been baptized in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ, we do now in the presence of God, angels, and this assembly, most solemnly and joyfully enter into covenant with one another, as one body of Christ.
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We engage, therefore, by the aid of the Holy Spirit, to walk together in Christian love; to strive for the advancement of this church, in knowledge, holiness, and comfort; to promote its prosperity and spirituality; to sustain its worship, ordinances, discipleship, and doctrines; to contribute cheerfully and regularly to the support of the ministry, the expenses of the church, the relief of the poor, and the spread of the gospel through all nations.
We also engage to maintain family and private devotions; to religiously educate our children; to seek the salvation of our kindred and acquaintances; to walk circumspectly in the world; to be just in our dealings, faithful in our engagements, and exemplary in our deportment; and to be zealous in our efforts to advance the kingdom of our Savior.
We further engage to watch over one another in brotherly love; to remember each other in prayer; to aid each other in sickness and distress; to cultivate Christian sympathy in feeling and courtesy in speech; to be slow to take offense, but always ready for reconciliation.
We moreover engage that when we remove from this place, we will, as soon as possible, unite with some other church where we can carry out the spirit of this covenant and the principles of God’s Word.