Bethel African Methodist Episcopal Church
Bethel African Methodist Episcopal Church is a African Methodist Episcopal church at 219 South Washington Street in Albany, GA 31701. It is one of 222 churches in Albany.
219 South Washington Street, Albany, GA, 31701Phone: +1-229-435-8589 · Website: https://bethelamechurchofalbany.webs.com/
Bethel African Methodist Episcopal Church is part of the Methodist family of churches in The American Church Story. 1,414 congregations of the Methodist family gather across Georgia — 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 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 4 in 5 the children here are growing up below the poverty line, and nearly half of households aren't sure there will be enough to eat. 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: 88.3%
- Food Insecurity: 51.6%
- Obesity: 49.3%
- Poverty Rate: 49.3% (34.6–64.0%)
- Social Isolation: 45.4%
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 42.5%
- Housing Insecurity: 37.7%
- Utility Shutoff Threat: 29.5%
- Transportation Barriers: 27.0%
- Diabetes: 25.5%
- Uninsured Adults 18-64: 22.5%
- Uninsured All Ages (Census): 21.1% (13.6–28.6%)
- Unemployment: 20.5% (8.6–32.5%)
- Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 34.7%
Source: U.S. Census Bureau, CDC PLACES (2019-2023, 2023), aggregated across 6 census tracts near this church.
Albany city is served by 52 churches — about one congregation for every 1,263 residents.
Churches near Bethel African Methodist Episcopal Church
- New Horizon Temple Of Deliverance — 0.1 mi away
- Eureka Baptist Church — 0.1 mi away
- Shiloh Baptist Church — 0.3 mi away
- Mount Zion First Baptist Church — 0.3 mi away
- WellSpring Revival Center — 0.3 mi away
- First Presbyterian Church — 0.4 mi away
- Friendship Baptist Church — 0.4 mi away
- Hebrew Baptist Church — 0.4 mi away
- Saint Pauls Episcopal Church — 0.4 mi away
- Union Missionary Baptist Church — 0.5 mi away
More Methodist churches nearby
- First United Methodist Church of Albany — 0.5 mi away
- Hines Memorial Christian Methodist Episcopal Church — 0.8 mi away
- Trinity United Methodist Church — 0.8 mi away
- Grants Chapel Christian Methodist Episcopal Church — 0.9 mi away
- Porterfield Memorial United Methodist Church — 3.6 mi away