Bethany United Methodist Church
Bethany United Methodist Church is a United Methodist church at 3900 North Albany Avenue in Chicago, IL 60618. It is one of 3,009 churches in Chicago, and one of 27 United Methodist congregations in the city.
3900 North Albany Avenue, Chicago, IL, 60618Bethany United Methodist Church is part of the Methodist family of churches in The American Church Story. 1,033 congregations of the Methodist family gather across Illinois — 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 Bethany United Methodist Church
Within a few blocks of these doors, more than 3 in 10 adults say they are socially isolated. Nearly a quarter have no one they feel they can count on, and about 1 in 5 households aren't sure there will be enough to eat. That is 2,400 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: 34.2%
- Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 27.0%
- Food Insecurity: 19.4%
- Housing Insecurity: 16.1%
- Uninsured Adults 18-64: 15.2%
Source: CDC PLACES (2023), aggregated across 4 census tracts near this church.
Chicago city is served by 1,693 churches — about one congregation for every 1,580 residents.
Churches near Bethany United Methodist Church
- Gospel Chapel — 0.1 mi away
- New Apostolic Church — 0.2 mi away
- Immaculate Heart of Mary Roman Catholic Church — 0.3 mi away
- Celestial Church of Christ — 0.3 mi away
- Golgotha Church of Christ — 0.3 mi away
- Chicago Tabernacle — 0.4 mi away
- Restoration Church — 0.4 mi away
- Philippine American Ecumenical Church — 0.4 mi away
- Saint Stephen's Episcopal Church — 0.5 mi away
- Gethsemane Romanian Pentecostal Church — 0.5 mi away
More Methodist churches nearby
- Renewed Hope UMC — 0.9 mi away
- Bethel United Methodist Church — 1 mi away
- First Korean United Methodist Church — 1.3 mi away
- Irving Park United Methodist Church — 1.4 mi away
- African Community United Methodist Church — 1.4 mi away