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This was an interbellum church with a tower.

Front of church, rear of house.

The church was put into use as a Reformed Church in 1930. In 1993, the church was taken out of use. After that, the church was converted into a printing house for the disabled. In 2004, the building was taken out of use again, after which the then newly established Reformed Church took this church building into use on January 6, 2006.

From 1964 to 1969 Reformed Church (Liberated). Since 1969 Dutch Reformed Church.

Built as Dutch Reformed Church. In 2002 this Reformed Church "went together" with the local Reformed Church. The Bethel Church in Nieuwdorp changes owner. The municipality of Borsele wants to take over the church from the Federation of Protestant Churches De Samenwerking.

In the 19th and early 20th century there were a few families in Bodegraven who read a sermon at home on Sundays. After a while they started doing this together. Before the institution in 1925, religious services were held in a building on Kerkstraat , later on Oud Bodegraafseweg [the so-called Rooiekoolkerk] and later still on Willemstraat [behind the Reformed Church]. In the summer of 1925 Mr. P. Zaal reported that he was having two houses built in the new Koningsstraat with a “room” in between to hold church services. This “little church” had 100 seats. Spaciously built for the 31 members and 59 baptized members in 1926.

On 8 January 2007, the first pile was driven for a church of its own at the FM Boogaardweg, designed by architect Van Beijnum in Amerongen. On 14 April 2007, the memorial stone was placed in the Bethel Church. The church has room for 365 churchgoers. Of course, there are the necessary side rooms. On 1 September 2007, there was an open day. On 14 September 2007, the official inauguration of the Bethel Church took place.

Around 1950, Harderwijk consisted of the old city centre and (part of) the Zeebuurt. In addition, there were a number of houses in the vicinity of the Kranenburg and Jan van Nassau barracks. At that time, Harderwijk started building a new neighbourhood 'over the railway': in order: Tinnegieter, Veldkamp, ​​Wittenhagen. For the first time, there was another location for church services next to the Grote Kerk: the community centre on Pontanuslaan. Plans for a new church were soon made and eventually, in 1960, the new Bethel Church on Wittenhagen was put into use. The building consisted of a large church hall (with a beautiful window by Jacob in Bethel) with four classrooms for a nursery school connected to it, which could partly be added to the church. Weekday activities continued to take place on Pontanuslaan. In 1963, an organ was installed (at the same time as the Gereformeerde Veldkampkerk) by Fonteijn en Gaal from Kampen.

Architecturally interesting modern church with tower in the eastern expansion district Poortwijk. Reformed Federation church.

Second Bethel Church in Enschede. Replaced the Bethel Church on Haaksbergerstraat, which was destroyed by an Allied bombing raid on 22 February 1944.