History of Bethel Hill Church - Celebrating 240 years in 2010!

If Hans Supplee was cast as the sower in Jesus' familiar parable, then Bethel Hill Church would represent the seed that fell on the good soil and grew to a vine of Christian fruit. The seed that Supplee sowed was a small tract of land which he dedicated for the erection of a place of Christian worship. The land was situated in Worcester Township on the southern brow of what is now called Bethel Hill; a cemetery now occupies the site of the original church. Hans Supplee never lived to see that first small, stone chapel completed. He died while it was being erected and was buried in the small plot of land set aside for a cemetery.