Bethel African Methodist Episcopal Church
Bethel African Methodist Episcopal Church is a Methodist church in Pelham, GA 31779. It is one of 32 churches in Pelham, and one of 2 Methodist congregations in the city.
Pelham, GA, 31779Website: http://www.bethelonthehillmonticello.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
It takes 2.6 miles in every direction to gather two thousand neighbors around this church. Among the people scattered across those miles, more than 4 in 10 adults live with obesity, and more than a third of adults say they are socially isolated, and more than a third of households aren't sure there will be enough to eat. A scattered parish is still a parish.
Pray for the families driving a long way to everything — to work, to a hospital, to this door on a Sunday morning.
- Obesity: 49.1%
- Social Isolation: 41.6%
- Food Insecurity: 36.2%
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 34.2%
- Housing Insecurity: 26.5%
- Diabetes: 22.8%
- Utility Shutoff Threat: 19.7%
- Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 30.4%
- Poverty Rate: 23.1% (12.5–33.6%)
- Transportation Barriers: 17.9%
- Uninsured Adults 18-64: 17.3%
- Uninsured All Ages (Census): 15.3% (7.4–23.3%)
- Unemployment: 9.7% (0.6–18.8%)
- Child Poverty: 27.5% (12.7–42.3%)
Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 4 census tracts near this church.
Churches near Bethel African Methodist Episcopal Church
- Summerhill Missionary Baptist Church — 0.1 mi away
- Pleasant Grove Missionary Baptist Church — 0.3 mi away
- Hand Memorial United Methodist Church — 0.3 mi away
- Mothers Memorial Presbyterian Church — 0.4 mi away
- Mt. Bethany Church of God in Unity — 0.4 mi away
- First Baptist Church — 0.5 mi away
- Restoration of Hope-Next Level Ministries — 0.5 mi away
- Fellowship & Deliverance, Church of God in Christ — 0.5 mi away
- Church of God Holiness — 0.7 mi away
- First Assembly Of God — 0.8 mi away
More Methodist churches nearby
- Hand Memorial United Methodist Church — 0.3 mi away
- Bethany United Methodist Church — 5.3 mi away in Camilla, GA
- Meigs Methodist Church — 5.8 mi away in Meigs, GA
- Saint Peters African Methodist Episcopal Church — 7.2 mi away in Camilla, GA
- Camilla Methodist Church — 7.4 mi away in Camilla, GA