Bethel African Methodist Episcopal Zion Church
Bethel African Methodist Episcopal Zion Church is a African Methodist Episcopal Zion church in Mobile, AL 36605. It is one of 554 churches in Mobile, and one of 6 African Methodist Episcopal Zion congregations in the city.
Mobile, AL, 36605Bethel African Methodist Episcopal Zion 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 Bethel African Methodist Episcopal Zion Church
Within a few blocks of these doors, more than 5 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 nearly half of households aren't sure there will be enough to eat. That is two thousand 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: 51.8%
- Food Insecurity: 50.7%
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 42.1%
- Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 36.6%
- Housing Insecurity: 34.1%
- Poverty Rate: 32.8% (16.1–49.5%)
- Diabetes: 29.1%
- Utility Shutoff Threat: 27.5%
- Transportation Barriers: 25.4%
- Social Isolation: 39.8%
- Uninsured Adults 18-64: 17.6%
- Unemployment: 10.8% (1.8–19.9%)
- Uninsured All Ages (Census): 14.3% (8.7–19.9%)
Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 4 census tracts near this church.
Mobile city is served by 297 churches — about one congregation for every 703 residents.
Churches near Bethel African Methodist Episcopal Zion Church
- Greater Mount Zion Missionary Baptist Church — 0.2 mi away
- United Methodist Inner City Mission — 0.2 mi away
- Oakdale Methodist Church — 0.2 mi away
- Christ Overcoming Holiness Church of God — 0.4 mi away
- El Bethel Primitive Baptist Church — 0.4 mi away
- Saint Matthew's Catholic Church — 0.4 mi away
- First Baptist Church of Baltimore Street — 0.4 mi away
- Christ Temple Apostolic Church — 0.4 mi away
- Dolie Temple Church of God — 0.5 mi away
- Saint Joseph Baptist Church — 0.5 mi away
More Methodist churches nearby
- United Methodist Inner City Mission — 0.2 mi away
- Oakdale Methodist Church — 0.2 mi away
- Texas Street African Methodist Episcopal Church — 0.7 mi away
- Wesley Chapel Methodist Church — 0.7 mi away
- Broad Street Methodist Church — 0.8 mi away