Bethel United Methodist Church
Bethel United Methodist Church is a church in AL 36585.
AL, 36585Bethel United Methodist 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.
Find Bethel United Methodist Church on The Church Map, explore nearby congregations, and pray for its community.
The community around Bethel United Methodist Church
It takes 6.2 miles in every direction to gather two thousand neighbors around this church. Among the people scattered across those miles, about 1 in 5 adults live with diabetes, and more than a third of adults live with obesity, and more than a third of adults say they are socially isolated. A scattered parish is still a parish.
Pray for the families driving a long way to everything — to work, to a hospital, to this door on a Sunday morning.
- Diabetes: 18.4%
- Obesity: 43.1%
- Social Isolation: 36.3%
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 27.7%
- Food Insecurity: 24.0%
- Unemployment: 9.8% (1.2–18.5%)
- Child Poverty: 29.7% (13.0–47.6%)
- Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 27.0%
- Depression: 24.0%
- Poverty Rate: 21.3% (12.7–30.0%)
- Housing Insecurity: 16.7%
- Utility Shutoff Threat: 11.8%
Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 3 census tracts near this church.
Churches near Bethel United Methodist Church
- Mount Pleasant Baptist Church — 1.5 mi away in McIntosh, AL
- Crossroads Church — 2.7 mi away in Tibbie, AL
- Washington Baptist Church — 3.8 mi away
- Hawthorn Road Church — 4.8 mi away
- Hill Spring Baptist Church — 5 mi away in McIntosh, AL
- Rivers Baptist Church — 5 mi away in McIntosh, AL
- Reeds Chapel Baptist Church — 5.1 mi away in McIntosh, AL
- Chalker Memorial United Methodist Church — 5.2 mi away
- Magnolia Church — 5.3 mi away in McIntosh, AL
- Happy Gospel Church — 5.7 mi away in McIntosh, AL
More Methodist churches nearby
- Chalker Memorial United Methodist Church — 5.2 mi away
- Sims Chapel United Methodist Church — 6 mi away in McIntosh, AL
- McIntosh United Methodist Church — 7.2 mi away in McIntosh, AL
- Sunflower United Methodist Church — 7.6 mi away
- Lang's Chapel African Methodist Episcopal Zion Church — 8.9 mi away