New Bethel AME Church
New Bethel AME Church is a African Methodist Episcopal church at 915 E Okaloosa Ave in Tampa, FL 33604-1741. It is one of 894 churches in Tampa, and one of 4 African Methodist Episcopal congregations in the city.
915 E Okaloosa Ave, Tampa, FL, 33604-1741Service times
- Sunday 10am
- Wednesday 10am
Phone: (813) 933-6733 · Website: https://www.nbamelakeland.com/
New 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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The community around New Bethel AME Church
Within a few blocks of these doors, more than 3 in 10 renting households pay over half of everything they earn just to keep a roof over them. More than half of the children here are growing up below the poverty line, 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.
- Child Poverty: 56.8% (40.5–73.2%)
- Poverty Rate: 37.9% (27.6–48.2%)
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 37.1%
- Uninsured Adults 18-64: 28.7%
- Diabetes: 20.6%
- Obesity: 43.8%
- Uninsured All Ages (Census): 18.6% (11.9–25.4%)
- Unemployment: 8.6% (3.1–14.1%)
Source: U.S. Census Bureau, CDC PLACES (2019-2023, 2023), aggregated across 4 census tracts near this church.
Churches near New Bethel AME Church
- True Life Community Worship Church — 0.2 mi away
- Victory Tabernacle — 0.2 mi away
- Emanuel Tabernacle Baptist Church — 0.2 mi away
- The God Center — 0.3 mi away
- Assembly of Christian Church — 0.3 mi away
- Life Springs Baptist Church — 0.3 mi away
- All Nations Outreach Center — 0.4 mi away
- Ethiopian Medhanialem Evangelical Church Tampa — 0.4 mi away
- Cross Baptist Church — 0.4 mi away
- Winners' Worship Center — 0.5 mi away
More Methodist churches nearby
- Forest Hills United Methodist Church — 1.2 mi away
- Seminole Heights United Methodist Church — 2 mi away
- Oak Grove United Methodist Church — 2.3 mi away
- Celebration Free Methodist Church — 2.9 mi away
- Temple Terrace United Methodist Church — 3.1 mi away