Summer centenary
A centenary celebration weekend was held
on the last weekend of June at Bethesda
Baptist Church, Ipswich.
Back at
the
turn of
last century, when
Bethesda Baptist Church, outgrew its building
the challenge was immense. Humanly their
resources were meagre, but the church gave
itself to concentrated prayer and God provided in the most unexpected way. An elderly
member of the church died, and her son,
Arthur Page, offered to provide a new church building in memory of his mother Susannah.
The new building was opened in July 1913
with the prayer that the central theme of
Bethesda’s ministry would be Jesus Christ.