Rev. C. Bradley Watkins ~ 1939-1942

Installed February 7, 1939. He was a senior at the Pittsburgh_Xenia Theological Seminary. During his time at Bethel the mission subscription was increased from three hundred dollars to six hundred dollars. He was instrumental in starting the Mizpah Sunday School class which still meets in 2008. Hee resignedMarch 8, 1942 to accept a call to Valencia U.P. Church. He was there a year then requested an overseas assignment. He and his wife Martha were sent to the mission field in Luxor Egypt from 1944 to 1967. He also worked with American Bible Society in the translations department from 1968 to 1976 before accepting his final pastorate at First United Presbyterian in Chester, W. Va. He was awarded an honorary Doctor of Divinity at Westminster College in 1999. He went home to be with his Lord September 20, 2007, two days before his 93rd birthday. He was preceded in death by his wife Martha. They had four children, Charles, Franklin, Virginia and Marilyn, six grandchildren and seven great-grandchildren.