Bethlehem United Methodist Church

Bethlehem United Methodist Church is a church in Birmingham, AL 35061. It is one of 848 churches in Birmingham.

Birmingham, AL, 35061

Bethlehem United Methodist Church is part of the Methodist family of churches in The American Church Story. 1,333 congregations of the Methodist family gather across Alabama — 25,370 across the United States on The Church Map.

Methodism gave the church the class meeting, the circuit rider, and the Sunday school, and gave America the conviction that grace is genuinely for everyone — carried into prisons, mines, and mill towns by preachers who owned almost nothing. Charles Wesley's hymns are still sung in nearly every tradition, most of them by people who have no idea whose they are.

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The community around Bethlehem United Methodist Church

Within about a mile of this church, more than 2 in 10 renting households pay over half of everything they earn just to keep a roof over them. Nearly half of adults live with obesity, and more than a third of adults say they are socially isolated. 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.

Obesity: 45.1%
Social Isolation: 40.8%
Food Insecurity: 32.3%
Diabetes: 22.1%
Fair/Poor Health Status: 28.6%
Poverty Rate: 26.7% (14.6–38.8%)
Housing Insecurity: 23.2%
Utility Shutoff Threat: 17.5%
Unemployment: 9.0% (2.1–15.9%)
Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 29.6%
Transportation Barriers: 15.4%
Uninsured All Ages (Census): 11.5% (5.7–17.3%)

Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 5 census tracts near this church.

Birmingham city is served by 254 churches — about one congregation for every 722 residents.

Churches near Bethlehem United Methodist Church

Glorious Pentecostal Church of God Dolomite — 0.2 mi away in Dolomite, AL
The Full Deliverance Church of God — 0.4 mi away in Midfield, AL
Iglesia Adventista Del Séptimo Día Éfeso — 0.5 mi away in Midfield, AL
New Bethlehem Baptist Church — 0.6 mi away in Dolomite, AL
New Bethel Apostolic Church — 0.6 mi away in Midfield, AL
Fairfield Highlands Baptist Church — 0.7 mi away in Midfield, AL
Faith Church — 0.7 mi away in Midfield, AL
New Hope Church of God — 0.7 mi away
Fairfield Highlands Presbyterian Church — 0.7 mi away in Midfield, AL
Upper Room Fellowship — 0.7 mi away in Fairfield, AL

More Methodist churches nearby

Thompson African Methodist Episcopal Zion Church — 2.5 mi away in Fairfield, AL
Moody Christian Methodist Episcopal Church Temple — 2.6 mi away in Fairfield, AL
First United Methodist Church of Hueytown — 2.6 mi away in Hueytown, AL
UNITY CME Church - Bessemer — 2.9 mi away in Bessemer, AL
Porters Chapel Christian Methodist Episcopal Church — 2.9 mi away in Bessemer, AL

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