Bethel African Methodist Episcopal Church
Bethel African Methodist Episcopal Church is a Methodist church in West Memphis, AR 72301. It is one of 74 churches in West Memphis, and one of 4 Methodist congregations in the city.
West Memphis, AR, 72301Bethel African Methodist Episcopal Church is part of the Methodist family of churches in The American Church Story. 538 congregations of the Methodist family gather across Arkansas — 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 Church
Within about a mile of this church, more than 3 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: 52.4%
- Social Isolation: 41.1%
- Food Insecurity: 40.5%
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 37.5%
- Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 36.3%
- Housing Insecurity: 30.4%
- Utility Shutoff Threat: 24.8%
- Diabetes: 21.7%
- Poverty Rate: 29.9% (18.0–41.8%)
- Transportation Barriers: 19.6%
- Unemployment: 10.1% (3.1–17.1%)
- Uninsured Adults 18-64: 14.4%
Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 4 census tracts near this church.
West Memphis city is served by 47 churches — about one congregation for every 446 residents.
Churches near Bethel African Methodist Episcopal Church
- New Mount Zion Missionary Baptist Church — 0.1 mi away
- Christ Temple COGIC — 0.2 mi away
- Hope Baptist Church — 0.2 mi away
- N-TO Ministries — 0.2 mi away
- Morning Star Missionary Baptist Church — 0.2 mi away
- First Church of Christ Holiness — 0.3 mi away
- Interceding Christian Center — 0.4 mi away
- Straightway Apostolic Deliverance Temple — 0.4 mi away
- Free Life The Oasis Church — 0.4 mi away
- Liberty Baptist Temple — 0.4 mi away
More Methodist churches nearby
- First United Methodist Church — 0.6 mi away
- Stewart Temple Christian Methodist Episcopal Church — 1 mi away
- Rosewood United Methodist Church — 1.1 mi away
- New Beginnings Methodist Church — 1.6 mi away
- Martin Memorial Temple Christian Methodist Episcopal Church — 6.8 mi away in Memphis, TN
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