Bethel AME Church
Bethel AME Church is a African Methodist Episcopal church at 2403 E Barton Ave in West Memphis, AR 72301-2315. It is one of 74 churches in West Memphis.
To minister to the spiritual, social, and physical needs of God’s people as prescribed by the teaching and preaching of Jesus Christ.
Bethel African Methodist Episcopal Church was organized in the early spring or late winter of 1894 under the leadership of Reverend H.P. Burton.
Serving since 1894
2403 E Barton Ave, West Memphis, AR, 72301-2315Phone: (870) 732-3446 · Website: https://www.bethelamememphis.org/
Shares a ministry location with Trinity Missionary Baptist Church.
Bethel AME 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.
Ministries at Bethel AME Church
- Christ Connection Newsletter
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The community around Bethel AME Church
Within a few blocks of these doors, more than 5 in 10 adults live with obesity. Nearly half of households aren't sure there will be enough to eat, and nearly half describe their own health as fair or poor. That is two thousand neighbors — and some of them are already in these pews.
Pray for healing in the homes around this building, and for this church to be known as a place to bring what hurts.
- Obesity: 57.0%
- Food Insecurity: 54.8%
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 45.0%
- Social Isolation: 44.3%
- Housing Insecurity: 40.9%
- Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 39.9%
- Utility Shutoff Threat: 34.9%
- Poverty Rate: 33.7% (21.7–45.6%)
- Transportation Barriers: 28.1%
- Diabetes: 23.6%
- Unemployment: 17.9% (6.4–29.5%)
- Child Poverty: 38.3% (20.1–56.6%)
- Uninsured Adults 18-64: 18.8%
- Depression: 24.2%
Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 5 census tracts near this church.
Churches near Bethel AME Church
- Trinity Missionary Baptist Church — 0 mi away
- Westminster Presbyterian Church — 0.1 mi away
- Rosewood United Methodist Church — 0.1 mi away
- New Generation Holiness Church — 0.1 mi away
- East Barton Assembly of God Church — 0.1 mi away
- Mid-South Worship Center — 0.2 mi away
- Second St John Missionary Baptist Church Incorporated — 0.3 mi away
- Ingram Boulevard Baptist Church — 0.4 mi away
- Vine Church Ministries Inc. — 0.5 mi away
- New Bethel Church — 0.5 mi away
More Methodist churches nearby
- Rosewood United Methodist Church — 0.1 mi away
- Stewart Temple Christian Methodist Episcopal Church — 0.6 mi away
- Bethel African Methodist Episcopal Church — 1.1 mi away
- First United Methodist Church — 1.7 mi away
- New Beginnings Methodist Church — 2.1 mi away
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