THE BETHLEHEM PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH Information take from Baird’s 1909 History of Clark County, Indiana The Bethlehem Presbyterian church was founded some time in the thirties while the Rev. John M. Dickey was pastor of the Pisgah church, near New Washington. Mr. Dickey had founded his seminary and boarding school on Mr. Stevens’ farm near Bethlehem, and it was in active operation at an early day. The church building there must have been completed in 1842. In 1902 the Bethlehem branch became a separate church and it retained the old church name of Pisgah.