Bethel AME Church

Bethel AME Church is a African Methodist Episcopal church at 501 W Orange Ave in Tallahassee, FL 32310-6830. It is one of 435 churches in Tallahassee, and one of 3 African Methodist Episcopal congregations in the city.

At Bethel we believe in the power of God to change lives and transform communities.

Bethel African Methodist Episcopal Church, a body of Christian believers committed to mission, evangelism, worship, justice , stewardship, and the proclamation and study of the word of God.

501 W Orange Ave, Tallahassee, FL, 32310-6830

Service times

Monday-Friday,9:00 a.m (as listed)

Phone: (850) 576-7501 · Website: https://bethel1865.org/

Bethel AME 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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Watch

Latest from The Bethel Church YouTube Channel at Bethel1865's YouTube channel: Sunday Morning Worship with Bethel AME Church of Tallahassee, September 13, 2026 (all videos).

The community around Bethel AME Church

Within a few blocks of these doors, 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 more than 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: 46.1%
  • Poverty Rate: 39.1% (22.9–55.3%)
  • Fair/Poor Health Status: 32.7%
  • Diabetes: 17.6%
  • Uninsured Adults 18-64: 17.3%
  • Unemployment: 9.9% (3.8–16.0%)

Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 4 census tracts near this church.

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