Bethel African Methodist Episcopal Church
Bethel African Methodist Episcopal Church is a church in Palatka, FL 32177. It is one of 101 churches in Palatka.
Palatka, FL, 32177Website: http://bethelamechurch13.placeweb.site
Bethel 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.
Find Bethel African Methodist Episcopal Church on The Church Map, explore nearby congregations, and pray for its community.
The community around Bethel African Methodist Episcopal Church
Within about a mile of this church, more than 4 in 10 describe their own health as fair or poor. More than a third of the people here live below the poverty line, and nearly a quarter of adults live with diabetes. That is two thousand neighbors — and some of them are already in these pews.
Pray for healing in the homes around this building, and for this church to be known as a place to bring what hurts.
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 42.3%
- Poverty Rate: 40.8% (27.3–54.4%)
- Diabetes: 25.0%
- Uninsured Adults 18-64: 22.5%
- Obesity: 43.1%
- Child Poverty: 34.3% (19.2–49.4%)
- Uninsured All Ages (Census): 17.5% (9.8–25.1%)
- Unemployment: 6.7% (0.0–14.9%)
Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 3 census tracts near this church.
Palatka city is served by 47 churches — about one congregation for every 79 residents.
Churches near Bethel African Methodist Episcopal Church
- The Branch Community Church — 0.1 mi away
- Saint Marys Episcopal Church — 0.1 mi away
- Emmanuel United Methodist Church — 0.2 mi away
- Bethlehem Baptist Church — 0.2 mi away
- Calvary Church — 0.2 mi away
- First Baptist Church — 0.2 mi away
- Northside Church of Christ — 0.2 mi away
- Soul Mission Church of Christ — 0.2 mi away
- Saint James United Methodist Church — 0.3 mi away
- Saint Monica Catholic Church — 0.3 mi away
More Methodist churches nearby
- Emmanuel United Methodist Church — 0.2 mi away
- Saint James United Methodist Church — 0.3 mi away
- Allen Chapel Methodist Church — 0.7 mi away
- Trinity United Methodist Church — 1.4 mi away
- Trinity Global Methodist Church — 1.4 mi away