Philosophy of Ministry
Together seeking something better
To work together to passionately pursue a better relationship with Jesus, a better relationship with people, and a better community
To accomplish this, we strive to show love to our community, we seek life changing relationships, and we strengthen each other in the Lord.
We are seeking for the Lord to move in us and our community we want to be transformed by Him to create a care-taking environment, to build community bridges, to create small communities, and to build internal links (making everything the church offers easily accessible).
Weekly Schedule
Please join us for a great time of musical worship, kids’ ministries, relevant and transformative teaching, and great people to get to know! Our service begins at 10AM and typically go to around 11:45AM to Noon depending on how the Holy Spirit is moving.
If you are interested in an opportunity to grow spiritually, then this is for you. It is a 12 session course available on our YouTube channel. Please copy and paste the link into your browser to begin
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PA4Ho2KoHqA&list=PLCfWuMO2BCaqJIzFZviMzDM_So6FKo-KH
Children's Ministry is provided through 5th grade
We would love for you to join our Discussion Group on Wednesday Evenings @ 6:30pm, where we pursue growth in our relationship with Jesus and each other. Please email us at bethel@bethelpgh.org if you have any questions or would like to be a part of this group.
Staff
Pastor Danny grew up in Dayton, Ohio and he and his wife, Heather, are graduates of Central Bible College in Springfield, MO. He served as a children’s pastor in Kansas City, Missouri and served with a number of churches in the Pittsburgh area in children’s ministry, youth ministry, outreach, Bible studies, preaching, and more since 2004. Most recently he served as the Family Life Pastor at New Day Assembly of God in Upper St. Clair and has been our Pastor since 2017. He believes in relationships and would love to get to know you.
Bonnie has been a member of Bethel for over 30 years and has been serving as our bookkeeper since 2002. She takes care of a number of administrative tasks and is always available to assist the ministries of the church.
Background Info
Bethel Assembly of God is connected to a move of God that began on the north side of Pittsburgh back in the 1920’s. This movement brought about a church that would eventually be called Evangel Temple. Evangel Temple, within the past ten years, has merged with Ridgewood Assembly of God and the property was sold to City Reach. In 1973, there were conflicts within leadership at Evangel and a group of believers formed a new gathering of Christians. They became Bethel Assembly of God. The church sought out a former pastor of Evangel, named William Bailey to serve as the first pastor of Bethel.
During the first year, a personal emergency arose in Pastor Bailey's life that led him to resign. The church then found J. Clayton Sheridan to serve as the second pastor. Shortly after that, Bethel purchased the ground that our current building sits on and built our present building. The Lord did many great things as the church began to grow.
In 1981, Pastor Sheridan felt led to move on and he resigned. The church elected Pastor John Holt in 1982 as the third pastor of Bethel. He faithfully led the church for 18 years and the church continued to grow and impact the neighborhood. The church flourished to nearly 400 in attendance and had two services. In 2000, Pastor Holt felt called to move on to pastor a church in Philadelphia.
The church struggled to find his replacement and was without a pastor until 2002. During this time, the church declined in size. In 2002, Bethel elected Greg Hammond as the fourth pastor. He served faithfully guiding the church through some difficult times and leading the church through a rebuilding process. At the end of 2016, Pastor Hammond felt it was time to retire.
In January 2017, the church elected Danny LeVeck Jr. as the fifth pastor of Bethel. He began to serve as pastor in February of 2017. The Lord has begun a new work and we have been encountering the move of the Spirit in our service and at the altar and a deepening of our community and relationships. There is a growing excitement of the vision that the Lord has given us and we are believing for great things!