Bethel Ame Church
Bethel Ame Church is a African Methodist Episcopal church at 512 6th Street Southeast in Cedar Rapids, IA 52401. It is one of 166 churches in Cedar Rapids.
512 6th Street Southeast, Cedar Rapids, IA, 52401Website: https://www.ame-church.com
Bethel Ame Church is part of the Methodist family of churches in The American Church Story. 743 congregations of the Methodist family gather across Iowa — 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 Bethel Ame Church
Within a few blocks of these doors, more than 3 in 10 adults say they are socially isolated. Nearly a quarter of the people here live below the poverty line, and nearly a quarter of households aren't sure there will be enough to eat. That is 2,100 neighbors — and some of them are already in these pews.
Pray for the lonely within reach of this door, and for a congregation that notices.
- Social Isolation: 38.3%
- Poverty Rate: 27.9% (16.6–39.3%)
- Food Insecurity: 23.1%
- Unemployment: 8.3% (1.8–14.8%)
- Obesity: 38.8%
- Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 27.1%
- Depression: 26.2%
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 21.8%
- Housing Insecurity: 15.5%
- Utility Shutoff Threat: 12.0%
Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 5 census tracts near this church.
Cedar Rapids city is served by 121 churches — about one congregation for every 984 residents.
Churches near Bethel Ame Church
- First Presbyterian Church — 0.2 mi away
- Veritas Church — 0.2 mi away
- New Jerusalem Church of God in Christ — 0.3 mi away
- Hispanic Minsitry — 0.3 mi away
- Immaculate Conception Catholic Church — 0.3 mi away
- Fathers House Vineyard Christian Church — 0.3 mi away
- Christian Life Church - Cedar Rapids — 0.3 mi away
- First Evangelical Lutheran Church — 0.4 mi away
- Grace Episcopal Church — 0.4 mi away
- Saint John the Baptist Greek Orthodox Church — 0.4 mi away
More Methodist churches nearby
- Saint Pauls United Methodist Church — 0.7 mi away
- Trinity United Methodist Church — 0.9 mi away
- Saint James United Methodist Church — 1.3 mi away
- Sharon United Methodist Church — 1.6 mi away
- Asbury United Methodist Church — 1.9 mi away