Bethany Hall group in Wick looking ahead to centenary Gospel meeting
Christians who meet at Wick’s Bethany Hall are looking ahead to a centenary Gospel meeting next month.
The hall in Brown Place was opened on Saturday, June 20, 1925, with a front-page advertisement for a “Christian Conference” appearing in the previous day’s John O’Groat Journal.
The present-day group issued a statement outlining its plans to mark the first 100 years.
It said: “The early 1920s saw the remarkable North-East Coast Gospel revival. Some estimates suggest that several hundred people in Wick alone became believers in Jesus Christ around the period.
“A group of those formed the nucleus of the assembly of believers who would meet at Bethany Hall in Wick. The believers who currently gather at Bethany Hall still preach the same message today.
“This June they will mark 100 years of meeting in the Brown Place hall. They are involved in Gospel tent meetings at the riverside from June 1-19 to which the community are welcomed Sunday to Thursday, each night at 7.30pm.
“They then extend an invite to the community (and particularly those who attended Sunday school or children’s clubs at the hall) to a centenary Gospel meeting at the hall on Saturday, June 21, starting at 6.30pm.”