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Bethel Bible Chapel began in the “Scotch settlement” of Black Cape/New Richmond, some of whose inhabitants were [[United Empire Loyalists]]. This was the site of perhaps the largest of the English assemblies on the Gaspé coast. The assembly began at Black Cape in 1889, following consecutive periods of “revival and blessing” during the previous year under the ministry of [[J. B. McCaffery]] and [[Elijah S. Lyman]] followed by W. C. Johnston, R. Harvie and [[B. C. Greenman]]. The following account of its beginnings was published in [[The Home Evangel|''The Home Evangel'']] for November 1929:
''Over forty years ago Brn. McCaffery and Lyman visited this place and found the field “white ready to harvest.” The people in general were in bondage to the law of God, but were totally strangers to His saving Grace. Of religion they had enough, yet one could hardly find any one who knew they were saved and rejoicing in that knowledge, and able to say, "I know whom I have believed, and I am persuaded that He is able to keep that which I have committed unto Him against that day," along the coast line of about 200 miles.''
