Bethel African Methodist Episcopal Church
Bethel African Methodist Episcopal Church is a Methodist church in North Little Rock, AR 72114. It is one of 229 churches in North Little Rock, and one of 9 Methodist congregations in the city.
North Little Rock, AR, 72114Website: http://www.ame-church.com
Bethel African Methodist Episcopal Church is part of the Methodist family of churches in The American Church Story. 543 congregations of the Methodist family gather across Arkansas — 25,985 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 Church
Within about a mile of this church, more than 5 in 10 the children here are growing up below the poverty line. Nearly half of adults live with obesity, and about a third 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 households stretched past their means, and for this church to know their names.
- Child Poverty: 56.2% (41.8–77.0%)
- Obesity: 48.2%
- Food Insecurity: 35.2%
- Poverty Rate: 34.2% (22.7–45.8%)
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 33.5%
- Housing Insecurity: 26.4%
- Utility Shutoff Threat: 23.3%
- Diabetes: 19.0%
- Social Isolation: 37.3%
- Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 32.1%
- Transportation Barriers: 19.3%
- Depression: 24.1%
- Uninsured Adults 18-64: 14.7%
Source: U.S. Census Bureau, CDC PLACES (2019-2023, 2023), aggregated across 7 census tracts near this church.
North Little Rock city is served by 116 churches — about one congregation for every 501 residents.
Churches near Bethel African Methodist Episcopal Church
- Mount Sinai Christian Church — 0.1 mi away
- Calvary Temple Church — 0.2 mi away
- Shiloh Baptist Church — 0.2 mi away
- Eighth Street Baptist Church — 0.2 mi away
- First Baptist Church — 0.3 mi away
- First Baptist Church — 0.3 mi away
- Independence Baptist Church — 0.3 mi away
- United Prayer Deliverance Center — 0.3 mi away
- New Horizon Christian Church — 0.4 mi away
- Saint Augustine Catholic Church — 0.4 mi away
More Methodist churches nearby
- Argenta United Methodist Church — 0.6 mi away
- McCabe United Methodist Church — 0.8 mi away
- Coleman Chapel African Methodist Episcopal Zion Church — 1 mi away in Little Rock, AR
- Miles Chapel Christian Methodist Episcopal Church — 1.1 mi away in Little Rock, AR
- First United Methodist Church of Little Rock — 1.5 mi away in Little Rock, AR
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