Greater Bethel AME Church

Greater Bethel AME Church is a African Methodist Episcopal church in Gainesville, FL 32641. It is one of 303 churches in Gainesville, and one of 2 African Methodist Episcopal congregations in the city.

Gainesville, FL, 32641

Greater Bethel AME Church is part of the Methodist family of churches in The American Church Story. 932 congregations of the Methodist family gather across Florida — 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 Greater Bethel AME Church

Within about a mile of this church, more than 4 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 about a third describe their own health as fair or poor. 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.

  • Obesity: 45.2%
  • Fair/Poor Health Status: 33.0%
  • Diabetes: 19.7%
  • Child Poverty: 31.0% (14.7–47.2%)
  • Poverty Rate: 27.5% (17.1–37.9%)
  • Uninsured Adults 18-64: 19.8%
  • Unemployment: 11.2% (4.3–18.2%)
  • Uninsured All Ages (Census): 11.7% (7.4–16.0%)

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

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