From this "poster" of Bethel’s recent ministers, you see that C.C.Smith served the longest of these, for 11 years between 1920 and 1934, and the church history verifies that no other minister served as long, dating back to 1838. A surprising fact is that he was a layperson from Trinity, not an ordained minister. But the church history remarks: “more credit belongs to him for his heroic and saving labors during this time than he is ever likely to receive. But for him, so far as we can now see, Bethel Church would have ceased to be.”