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Expansion led to plans for a new building in 1938. The Hampton architect was Custer Robinson who designed the chapel on the Easthampton Methodist Church. "They had a steeple and we didn't, but otherwise the two buildings were much the same." The first meeting held in the new Newport News Gospel Hall at 82 - 29th Street was in May 1940.
By 1951, there was a hive from Bethany known as Deep Creek Gospel Hall aka Union Gospel Chapel. B.L. Redford gave gospel meetings there that year.
In 1961, the name was changed to Bethany Gospel Chapel. Around 1962, when the area around the area was becoming more commercialized, the assembly moved to 40 Ballard Road in a residential neighborhood, where more children could have easy access to hear the Gospel. Construction of Bethany Gospel Chapel was begun in September 1963 and the chapel was dedicated in June 1964. The congregation numbered 125-150 in 1963, and had outgrown their Sunday School quarters. Officers in 1963 included John Millar, Jr., his brother William O. Millar, Bailey as the SS Supt., and J.P. Dale as chairman of the board of trustees.
==1945==
[[File:1945_APG.jpg|381x203px]][[Alfred Perks Gibbs]]
==1964==
