Bethel African Methodist Episcopal Church
Bethel African Methodist Episcopal Church is a Methodist church in Lakeland, FL 33801. It is one of 368 churches in Lakeland, and one of 5 Methodist congregations in the city.
Lakeland, FL, 33801Bethel African Methodist Episcopal 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 Bethel African Methodist Episcopal Church
Within a few blocks of these doors, more than 2 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 of the people here live below the poverty line. 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: 46.8%
- Poverty Rate: 32.2% (22.7–41.8%)
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 31.1%
- Unemployment: 12.2% (0.1–25.5%)
- Uninsured Adults 18-64: 21.9%
- Diabetes: 17.1%
- Uninsured All Ages (Census): 16.5% (9.5–23.5%)
Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 6 census tracts near this church.
Lakeland city is served by 95 churches — about one congregation for every 1,199 residents.
Churches near Bethel African Methodist Episcopal Church
- World Alive Ministries — 0.2 mi away
- Wesley Memorial Church — 0.2 mi away
- Strong Tower Church — 0.3 mi away
- International Christian Assembly — 0.3 mi away
- Impact! Church — 0.3 mi away
- New Jerusalem Church — 0.4 mi away
- New Life Assembly of God Church — 0.4 mi away
- Eden of Lakeland Haitian Seventh-day Adventist Church — 0.4 mi away
- Freely Forgiven Community Church — 0.4 mi away
- New Jerusalem Baptist Church — 0.5 mi away
More Methodist churches nearby
- St. Marks United Methodist Church — 1 mi away
- First United Methodist Church — 1.1 mi away
- New Bethel African Methodist — 1.3 mi away
- College Heights Church — 1.6 mi away
- Trinity United Methodist Church — 1.7 mi away