Bethel A.M.E. Church

The community around Bethel A.M.E. Church

It takes 5.7 miles in every direction to gather two thousand neighbors around this church. Among the people scattered across those miles, more than 4 in 10 adults live with obesity, and about a third of adults say they are socially isolated, and nearly a quarter describe their own health as fair or poor. 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.

• Obesity: 42.9%
• Social Isolation: 35.8%
• Fair/Poor Health Status: 27.9%
• Food Insecurity: 23.4%
• Diabetes: 17.9%
• Poverty Rate: 18.2% (10.6–25.9%)
• Housing Insecurity: 17.3%
• Uninsured Adults 18-64: 14.5%
• Utility Shutoff Threat: 12.3%
• Uninsured All Ages (Census): 11.2% (5.3–17.1%)

Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 3 census tracts near this church.

Churches near Bethel A.M.E. Church

• Bethel AME Methodist Church — 0 mi away in Clyo, GA
• Mizpah United Methodist Church — 0.4 mi away
• Oak Grove Missionary Baptist Church — 0.4 mi away
• Nixon Chapel — 2.6 mi away in Springfield, GA
• Corinth Baptist Church — 4.1 mi away in Springfield, GA
• Taylor Chapel Independent Methodist Church — 4.3 mi away
• New Zion Holiness Church — 4.7 mi away
• Mount Zion Church — 4.8 mi away
• Thomas Chapel — 4.9 mi away in Springfield, GA
• Saint Peters AME Church — 5.3 mi away