New Bethel African Methodist
New Bethel African Methodist is a African Methodist Episcopal church at 2122 Martin L King Jr Ave in Lakeland, FL 33805-2860. It is one of 368 churches in Lakeland.
2122 Martin L King Jr Ave, Lakeland, FL, 33805-2860Service times
- Sunday 10am
- Wednesday 10am
Phone: +18636871994 · Website: https://www.nbamelakeland.com/
New Bethel African Methodist 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 New Bethel African Methodist
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 more than 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: 51.5%
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 38.1%
- Poverty Rate: 32.7% (20.9–44.4%)
- Uninsured Adults 18-64: 24.8%
- Diabetes: 21.6%
- Unemployment: 10.2% (4.2–16.3%)
- Child Poverty: 29.0% (12.9–45.1%)
Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 3 census tracts near this church.
Churches near New Bethel African Methodist
- Church of God By Faith — 0.1 mi away
- Saint Marks Church — 0.1 mi away
- Ignited Church — 0.3 mi away
- Iglesia Casa de Amor y Fe, Lakeland — 0.3 mi away
- Calvary Baptist Church — 0.3 mi away
- Lighthouse ministries — 0.3 mi away
- Modest Saint Church — 0.3 mi away
- St. Marks United Methodist Church — 0.3 mi away
- Fellowship Baptist Church — 0.5 mi away
- Church of Christ — 0.5 mi away
More Methodist churches nearby
- St. Marks United Methodist Church — 0.3 mi away
- Bethel African Methodist Episcopal Church — 1.3 mi away
- First United Methodist Church — 2.4 mi away
- Trinity United Methodist Church — 2.6 mi away
- Lake Gibson United Methodist Church — 2.7 mi away