Bethel African Methodist Episcopal Church
Bethel African Methodist Episcopal Church is a Baptist church in Savannah, GA 31404. It is one of 461 churches in Savannah, and one of 125 Baptist congregations in the city.
The church’s mission services includes assisting nursing homes, feeding the hungry, clothing the needy, giving hope to the derelicts, nursing those in distress, strengthening the prayer of life and helping the hopeless to find themselves.
For more than a century, the Bethel AME Church has served as a spiritual fountain for the molding of character and the development of contributing citizens in the community and abroad.
Wheelchair accessible
Savannah, GA, 31404Service times
- Wednesday 7pm · nights
Phone: (706) 736-4060 · Website: http://www.bethelsavannah.com/
Bethel African Methodist Episcopal Church is part of the Baptist family of churches in The American Church Story. 5,847 congregations of the Baptist family gather across Georgia — 71,417 across the United States on The Church Map.
Baptists pressed harder than anyone for religious liberty in America, and the freedom every other congregation on this map enjoys is partly what they won. They have carried believers' baptism and the priesthood of every believer to more of the world than almost anyone — and the Black Baptist church has repeatedly been the conscience of the whole nation.
Ministries at Bethel African Methodist Episcopal Church
- Community Service
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The community around Bethel African Methodist Episcopal Church
Within a few blocks of these doors, more than 2 in 10 households aren't sure there will be enough to eat. More than a third of adults say they are socially isolated, and about 1 in 5 adults are worried about keeping the housing they have. That is two thousand neighbors — and some of them are already in these pews.
Pray for the tables that run short before the month does, and for this church's table to be long.
- Food Insecurity: 25.4%
- Social Isolation: 39.8%
- Housing Insecurity: 20.3%
- Diabetes: 17.1%
- Obesity: 37.7%
- Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 27.0%
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 24.0%
- Poverty Rate: 18.8% (10.5–27.1%)
- Uninsured Adults 18-64: 14.2%
- Utility Shutoff Threat: 13.8%
- Transportation Barriers: 13.1%
- Uninsured All Ages (Census): 12.9% (7.5–18.4%)
Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 4 census tracts near this church.
Savannah city is served by 217 churches — about one congregation for every 727 residents.
Churches near Bethel African Methodist Episcopal Church
- City Church — 0.2 mi away
- New Generation Full Gospel Baptist Church — 0.3 mi away
- Christ United Pentecostal Church — 0.3 mi away
- First Assembly of God Church — 0.3 mi away
- Aldersgate United Methodist Church — 0.4 mi away
- Two Hearts Become One Church — 0.4 mi away
- Radiant Church Savannah — 0.4 mi away
- Second Arnold Baptist Church — 0.4 mi away
- New Generation Full Gospel Baptist Church — 0.4 mi away
- New Hope Church of Savannah — 0.4 mi away
More Baptist churches nearby
- New Generation Full Gospel Baptist Church — 0.3 mi away
- Second Arnold Baptist Church — 0.4 mi away
- New Generation Full Gospel Baptist Church — 0.4 mi away
- Brownsville Baptist Church — 0.6 mi away
- Faith Primitive Baptist Church — 0.7 mi away