Bethel African Methodist Episcopal Church
Bethel African Methodist Episcopal Church is a Methodist church in Clinton, IA 52732. It is one of 54 churches in Clinton, and one of 4 Methodist congregations in the city.
Clinton, IA, 52732Bethel African Methodist Episcopal 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 African Methodist Episcopal 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. About 2 in 3 the children here are growing up below the poverty line, and nearly half of adults live with obesity. 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: 63.6%
- Obesity: 46.8%
- Poverty Rate: 38.3%
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 30.0%
- Food Insecurity: 27.3%
- Social Isolation: 35.0%
- Diabetes: 16.5%
- Utility Shutoff Threat: 14.5%
- Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 26.2%
- Depression: 23.5%
- Housing Insecurity: 17.9%
- Transportation Barriers: 14.0%
Source: U.S. Census Bureau, CDC PLACES (2019-2023, 2023), aggregated across 4 census tracts near this church.
Clinton city is served by 42 churches — about one congregation for every 584 residents.
Churches near Bethel African Methodist Episcopal Church
- Saint Johns Episcopal Church — 0 mi away
- Life Tabernacle Pentecostal Church — 0 mi away
- Family Life Christian Church — 0.1 mi away
- Prince of Peace Catholic Church — 0.2 mi away
- First United Presbyterian Church — 0.2 mi away
- First United Methodist Church — 0.2 mi away
- Zion Evangelical Lutheran Church — 0.2 mi away
- Saint Paul Lutheran Church — 0.3 mi away
- River Church Assembly Of God — 0.4 mi away
- Unity Center of Clinton — 0.4 mi away
More Methodist churches nearby
- First United Methodist Church — 0.2 mi away
- Lyons United Methodist Church — 1.9 mi away
- Trinity United Methodist Church — 2.1 mi away
- Albany United Methodist Church — 4.1 mi away in Albany, IL
- Saint Marks United Methodist Church — 5.3 mi away in Camanche, IA