Bethel AME Church
Bethel AME Church is a African Methodist Episcopal church at 4440 S Michigan Ave in Chicago, IL 60653-3117. It is one of 3,009 churches in Chicago, and one of 6 African Methodist Episcopal congregations in the city.
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4440 S Michigan Ave, Chicago, IL, 60653-3117Phone: (773) 285-5500 · Website: http://bethelchicagoame.faithweb.com/
Bethel AME 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 Bethel AME Church
Within a few blocks of these doors, more than 7 in 10 the children here are growing up below the poverty line. About a third of households aren't sure there will be enough to eat, and nearly a quarter of adults are worried about keeping the housing they have. That is 2,400 neighbors — and some of them are already in these pews.
Pray for the households stretched past their means, and for this church to know their names.
- Child Poverty: 74.0%
- Food Insecurity: 31.6%
- Housing Insecurity: 27.0%
- Unemployment: 16.2% (6.9–25.5%)
- Obesity: 40.7%
- Social Isolation: 39.5%
- Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 34.4%
- Utility Shutoff Threat: 17.8%
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 23.8%
- Poverty Rate: 22.0% (7.6–36.4%)
- Diabetes: 15.0%
- Transportation Barriers: 15.0%
Source: U.S. Census Bureau, CDC PLACES (2019-2023, 2023), aggregated across 4 census tracts near this church.
Churches near Bethel AME Church
- New Haven Baptist Church — 0.1 mi away
- Church of The Living God CWFF — 0.1 mi away
- Rivers Chicago — 0.1 mi away
- Greater Joy Missionary Baptist Church — 0.1 mi away
- St Matthew Baptist Church — 0.1 mi away
- St. Paul Church of God in Christ — 0.1 mi away
- First Church of Deliverance — 0.2 mi away
- United House of Prayer for All People — 0.2 mi away
- Mt Zion Baptist Church — 0.2 mi away
- Overcomers M.B. Church — 0.2 mi away
More Methodist churches nearby
- Metropolitan Community Church — 0.3 mi away
- Saint Paul Christian Methodist Episcopal Church — 0.4 mi away
- Saint Luke United Methodist Church — 0.7 mi away
- Blackwell-Israel Samuel A.M.E. Zion Church — 0.9 mi away
- Union Avenue United Methodist Church — 1.1 mi away