Reformed Church Commissioned by the General Assembly, the Reformed Church Bethal was founded on 7 November 1890. Before this time, the congregation of Bethal was a ward of Reformed Church Pretoria. The first church council looked as follows: the three elders were P J J S Potgieter, C J Hamman and P J Venter, with deacons: A Prinsloo, D E E Mare and D J E Erasmus. In collaboration with Heidelberg and Middelburg, Rev Ph S Snyman was the first minister in Bethal, despite the fact that he still lived in Heidelberg. The transport of the minister, which happened through the horse-cart, was assigned to the elders and deacons. Rev Ph S Snyman The rectory and chapel was built on the southwest corner of Church and Scheepers street. The rectory was rented, while members were allowed to buy church site and set up a small house. The first church building that still exists today. Dutch Reformed Church Initially Bethal Congregation was sorted as part of Blesbokspruit under the congregation of Heidelberg. The ward Blesbokspruit later, in 1870, merged with the town of Heidelberg. The General Church Assembly that took place during November in Pretoria at Sitting, decided that the newly defined districts of 21 Standerton boundaries, will also in future; serve, as the new congregation boundaries. The premise was that Standerton would be the centre of the new congregations. In 1884 the first church building of Trichardtfontein was inaugurated and obviously became the gravity of congregations. It was only after the war that the Reformed Church in Bethal flourished.
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