Bethel was founded in Royston in 1924. Several people in the town had become dissatisfied with the dry religion that they were experiencing at the time. They decided to seek God in prayer in order to find answers to why they were not enjoying the same life and power of the Christians described in the Bible.
They soon experienced the power of God and discovered that He was just as real today as in biblical times and that the Holy Spirit promised by Jesus was just as active today as He was then.