Greater Bethel African Methodist Episcopal Church
Greater Bethel African Methodist Episcopal Church is a Methodist church in Panama City, FL 32405. It is one of 180 churches in Panama City, and one of 2 Methodist congregations in the city.
Panama City, FL, 32405Greater Bethel African Methodist Episcopal Church is part of the Methodist family of churches in The American Church Story. 991 congregations of the Methodist family gather across Florida — 25,985 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 African Methodist Episcopal Church
Within about a mile of this church, more than 2 in 10 renting households pay over half of everything they earn just to keep a roof over them. More than a third of the children here are growing up below the poverty line, and about 1 in 5 the people here live without health insurance. 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.
- Child Poverty: 43.2% (30.5–57.2%)
- Uninsured All Ages (Census): 20.3% (12.9–27.7%)
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 29.5%
- Poverty Rate: 28.7% (18.5–38.8%)
- Uninsured Adults 18-64: 17.9%
- Diabetes: 17.3%
- Obesity: 39.6%
- Unemployment: 7.5% (2.5–12.6%)
Source: U.S. Census Bureau, CDC PLACES (2019-2023, 2023), aggregated across 4 census tracts near this church.
Panama City city is served by 43 churches — about one congregation for every 702 residents.
Churches near Greater Bethel African Methodist Episcopal Church
- First Free Will Baptist Church — 0.1 mi away
- Calvary Baptist Church — 0.1 mi away
- Kingdom Hall of Jehovah's Witnesses — 0.2 mi away
- Cornerstone Family Fellowship — 0.3 mi away
- Northside — 0.4 mi away
- Bayside Church — 0.5 mi away
- Living Word Church — 0.7 mi away
- Thy Kingdom Come Global Ministries * Revelation 22:17 — 0.8 mi away
- First Baptist Church of Panama City — 0.8 mi away
- Saint Dominic Roman Catholic Church — 0.8 mi away
More Methodist churches nearby
- St. Andrew United Methodist Church — 1.7 mi away
- First United Methodist Church — 1.8 mi away
- Lynn Haven United Methodist Church — 2.3 mi away in Lynn Haven, FL
- Springfield United Methodist — 3.1 mi away in Springfield, FL
- Allen Chapel African Methodist Episcopal Church — 4.4 mi away in Lynn Haven, FL
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