Bethel AME Church
Bethel AME Church is a African Methodist Episcopal church at 821 Linden St in Chico, CA 95928-5953. It is one of 89 churches in Chico.
Chico's first organized church was this tiny Greek Revival-style chapel on Main Street, completed in 1867.
821 Linden St, Chico, CA, 95928-5953Service times
- Sunday 10:30am · serviceEvery morning
Phone: (530) 345-3077 · Website: https://www.bethelamechico.org/
Bethel AME Church is part of the Methodist family of churches in The American Church Story. 840 congregations of the Methodist family gather across California — 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.
Find Bethel AME Church on The Church Map, explore nearby congregations, and pray for its community.
The community around Bethel AME Church
Within a few blocks of these doors, more than 4 in 10 renting households pay over half of everything they earn just to keep a roof over them. Nearly half of the people here live below the poverty line, and nearly a quarter 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.
- Poverty Rate: 47.0%
- Food Insecurity: 28.0%
- Unemployment: 12.5% (5.5–19.5%)
- Social Isolation: 39.4%
- Depression: 31.3%
- Child Poverty: 30.2% (18.0–42.4%)
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 26.9%
- Housing Insecurity: 20.5%
- Transportation Barriers: 17.1%
- Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 26.0%
- Utility Shutoff Threat: 13.6%
Source: U.S. Census Bureau, CDC PLACES (2019-2023, 2023), aggregated across 3 census tracts near this church.
Churches near Bethel AME Church
- Apostolic Gospel Temple — 0.2 mi away
- Abide Church Chico — 0.2 mi away
- Faith Temple Church of God In Christ — 0.3 mi away
- Kingdom Hall of Jehovahs Witnesses — 0.4 mi away
- Rhema Word Of Faith Church — 0.4 mi away
- Pentecostal Church of God Faith Tabernacle — 0.4 mi away
- Second Baptist Church — 0.5 mi away
- Community of Christ — 0.5 mi away
- Pentecostal Church of God — 0.6 mi away
- Chico Friends Meeting of the Religious Society of Friends (Quakers) — 0.6 mi away
More Methodist churches nearby
- Trinity Methodist Church — 0.6 mi away
- Free Methodist Church — 1.2 mi away
- Aldersgate United Methodist Church — 2.7 mi away
- Durham Community-United Methodist Church — 6.1 mi away in Durham, CA
- The Table Church — 19.8 mi away in Oroville, CA