Bethel AME Church
Bethel AME Church is a church at 315 E 5th St in New Albany, IN 47150. It is one of 62 churches in New Albany.
Bethel A. M. E. Church, Jeffersonville, was organized in 1842 in Claysburg, where a settlement of African American people had gathered.
Serving since 1842
315 E 5th St, New Albany, IN, 47150Phone: (812) 944-2346 · Website: https://www.betheljeff.org/
Ministries at Bethel AME Church
- Literacy Center
- Summer Feeding Program
- Early Childhood Development Center
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The community around Bethel AME Church
Within a few blocks of these doors, more than 2 in 10 renting households pay over half of everything they earn just to keep a roof over them. More than a third of the children here are growing up below the poverty line, and more than a third of adults live with obesity. That is 2,100 neighbors — and some of them are already in these pews.
Pray for the families one rent increase away from moving, and for this church to know their names.
- Child Poverty: 44.3% (25.4–63.4%)
- Obesity: 42.9%
- Social Isolation: 36.6%
- Depression: 27.6%
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 26.2%
- Poverty Rate: 24.6% (15.2–33.9%)
- Food Insecurity: 21.8%
- Housing Insecurity: 15.6%
- Diabetes: 14.4%
- Utility Shutoff Threat: 12.4%
Source: U.S. Census Bureau, CDC PLACES (2019-2023, 2022, 2023), aggregated across 5 census tracts near this church.
Churches near Bethel AME Church
- Centenary United Methodist Church — 0.1 mi away
- St. Marks United Church of Christ — 0.1 mi away
- Second Baptist Church — 0.2 mi away
- St Mary's Catholic Church — 0.2 mi away
- First Baptist Church — 0.2 mi away
- Sanctuary of Eternal Truth — 0.3 mi away
- St. Paul's Arts Council — 0.4 mi away
- Pleasant Home Southern Baptist Church — 0.4 mi away
- Christ Tabernacle Pentecostal Church — 0.4 mi away
- St John United Presbyterian — 0.5 mi away