Tell Us About Your Church Community
Bethel Baptist Church is in Greeley, Colorado and was started in 1901 as a founding member of the Rocky Mountain Baptist Association, now Converge Rocky Mountain. Greeley is a close-knit, growing city that is home to students, families, farms and thriving local businesses. 
Bethel sits right across the street from the University of Northern Colorado athletic fields and has had a long history of ministering among college students, many of whom have raised generations of children here. While in Greeley, we aim to build God’s family by making disciples of Jesus for his glory. We long to see every nation reached, every neighbor loved, every visitor welcomed, every disciple trained, and every ministry saturated with the gospel of Jesus Christ.
Aaron Pendergrass, Aaron Adam, Crandell Hemphill
Our pastoral team consists of Senior Pastor Aaron Adams and Associate Pastors Aaron Pendergrass and Crandell Hemphill. Aaron Adams was an associate pastor on Chicago's North Shore before being called to Bethel in 2019. After attending seminary in the Chicagoland area, the Lord brought Aaron Pendergrass and his wife to the Bethel community to be a part of the ongoing work of growing God’s family in Northern Colorado. And in early 2023, the Lord brought Crandell Hemphill and his wife from the DFW area to lead the worship ministry and other ministry leaders.
What Does Bethel Baptist Do Really Well?
At Bethel, the phrase "church family" really means something. Through thick and thin, our people have sought to love one another in Christ, even when things get hard. We are a truly multi-generational church, where children and grandchildren are growing up in our strong K-12 discipleship program. We also seek to be good neighbors, providing mentorship to at-risk children in the local elementary school, English classes for our local Haitian population, and any other needs that come up.
How Are You Seeing God At Work?
By God's grace we've been blessed to baptize 15 people in the last year, 5 of those in the last month! The Lord has opened up significant missions opportunities to participate in ongoing ministry within Baja California, Mexico and Ethiopia. In March of last year, we started building strategic partnerships to strengthen, build, and plant churches in Cabo San Lucas. We have sent two teams in October 2024 and January 2025 to assist with construction and VBS projects for these new and growing churches. 
One of these teams was our growing college ministry, which proved to be impactful on their spiritual growth in seeing God’s mission throughout the world. At home, Greeley has a growing population of Haitian refugees, many of whom have started to make Bethel their home. The Lord led us to partner with Refugee Oasis to provide free ESL classes to several refugees in the area.
How Can CRM Partner Churches Pray For Bethel?
As you pray for Bethel Baptist Church, please pray for our ongoing and upcoming global missions projects in Ethiopia and Cabo San Lucas.
Pray also for our local outreach to our neighbors, especially college age young adults, Haitian refugees and immigrants.
We also ask your prayers for faithful biblical preaching, discipleship, and prayer as we seek to trust the Lord with his mission.
Do You Have Any Special Events Coming Up?
In three months, our High School ministry will be taking a team of 20 to Addis Ababa, Ethiopia to lead a VBS for age ranges from 1st grade through 12th grade, in addition to having the opportunity to participate in home visits with True Light Childcare (a ministry of Indigenous Outreach International). This opportunity for our students to do ministry in a global context, attend church services in a foreign environment, and strengthen ongoing local church ministry is, no doubt, planting seeds of the importance of cross-cultural gospel impact to the next generation.
