Bethel United Methodist Church
Bethel United Methodist Church is a Methodist church at 4256 North Ridgeway Avenue in Chicago, IL 60618. It is one of 3,009 churches in Chicago, and one of 47 Methodist congregations in the city.
4256 North Ridgeway Avenue, Chicago, IL, 60618Bethel United Methodist Church is part of the Methodist family of churches in The American Church Story. 1,029 congregations of the Methodist family gather across Illinois — 25,370 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 United Methodist Church
Within a few blocks of these doors, more than 3 in 10 adults say they are socially isolated. About a third of the children here are growing up below the poverty line, 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: 34.1%
- Child Poverty: 30.8% (11.7–49.9%)
- Food Insecurity: 20.8%
- Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 26.3%
- Housing Insecurity: 17.2%
- Poverty Rate: 16.6% (6.6–26.6%)
- Uninsured Adults 18-64: 14.3%
- Uninsured All Ages (Census): 13.5% (8.6–18.4%)
- Unemployment: 6.9% (2.7–11.2%)
Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 3 census tracts near this church.
Chicago city is served by 1,693 churches — about one congregation for every 1,580 residents.
Churches near Bethel United Methodist Church
- El Taller Del Maestro/The Master's Workshop — 0.2 mi away
- Grace Evangelical Covenant Church — 0.2 mi away
- Anthem Church — 0.2 mi away
- New Life Community Church Albany Park — 0.3 mi away
- Irving Park Lutheran Church — 0.3 mi away
- Tapestry Fellowship — 0.4 mi away
- Tabor Evangelical Lutheran Church — 0.4 mi away
- Church In Chicago — 0.4 mi away
- Korean Catholic Church — 0.5 mi away
- Park View Lutheran Church — 0.5 mi away
More Methodist churches nearby
- African Community United Methodist Church — 0.6 mi away
- Korean Bethel Presbyterian Church Of Chicago — 0.7 mi away
- Irving Park United Methodist Church — 0.8 mi away
- First Korean United Methodist Church — 0.8 mi away
- Renewed Hope UMC — 0.9 mi away