Chapels -- Bethel Methodist
Methodist Revival of 1904-05.
ministers were but nine years after the chapel doors were
opened a boy child, Evan Phillips was born in nearby
cottage called Milestone. As an adult he was to lead the
congregation at Bethel for fifty-two years.
When Evan Phillips was eight his father died and he was
the villages of Penrhiwllan and Aberbanc. It was to take
him some time to find his life’s mission and it looked as
Such a career would have been quite normal for the area
School, Llanybri, Adpar Hill, at the age of 22 under the
to preach and enrolled at theological college at Trefecca
to twelve shillings per service.
In1860 he was appointed Minister at Bethel on an annual stipend of £15 a year. His reputation as a forceful
the Methodist Chapel at Dowlais tried to entice him from Newcastle Emlyn. He resisted the temptation and
the town cemetery out on the Cardigan Road. By all accounts he was an inspirational preacher and certainly
not given to long-windedness. At that time congregations attending the Cyrddau Mawr, ‘the big services’
known as ‘Evan Phillips Twenty Minutes’.