Bethel Methodist Church
Bethel Methodist Church is a Methodist church in East Saint Louis, IL 62207. It is one of 65 churches in East Saint Louis, and one of 5 Methodist congregations in the city.
Our mission is to embody the love of Jesus through worship, education, and outreach, fostering an environment where faith flourishes and lives are transformed.
At Bethel United Methodist Church, we warmly invite you to join us in a journey of spiritual growth and community service.
East Saint Louis, IL, 62207Bethel 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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Latest from Flint Bethel UMC's YouTube channel: Worship 09/13/26 “Why Didn’t They Run?” (all videos).
The community around Bethel Methodist Church
Within about a mile of this church, more than 4 in 5 the children here are growing up below the poverty line. Nearly half of adults live with obesity, and more than a third of households aren't sure there will be enough to eat. That is two thousand 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: 96.0%
- Obesity: 50.7%
- Food Insecurity: 39.8%
- Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 37.1%
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 33.2%
- Housing Insecurity: 30.4%
- Utility Shutoff Threat: 22.9%
- Diabetes: 22.5%
- Social Isolation: 39.8%
- Poverty Rate: 24.9% (9.7–40.4%)
- Transportation Barriers: 19.1%
Source: U.S. Census Bureau, CDC PLACES (2019-2023, 2023), aggregated across 5 census tracts near this church.
East St. Louis city is served by 78 churches — about one congregation for every 249 residents.
Churches near Bethel Methodist Church
- Bride of Christ Church of God in Christ — 0 mi away in East St. Louis, IL
- Union Full Gospel Baptist Church — 0.3 mi away in East St. Louis, IL
- Mount Zion Baptist Church — 0.3 mi away
- Straightway Baptist Church — 0.4 mi away in East St. Louis, IL
- Bread of Life Christian Center — 0.4 mi away
- Bethlehem Healing Temple Church — 0.5 mi away
- Jeremiah Baptist Church — 0.5 mi away in East St. Louis, IL
- Israelite Spiritual Church — 0.6 mi away in East St. Louis, IL
- Lightner's Temple Church of Holiness — 0.6 mi away
- Hopewell Missionary Baptist Church — 0.6 mi away in East St. Louis, IL
More Methodist churches nearby
- Bray Temple Christian Methodist Episcopal Church — 0.7 mi away
- Shiloh AME Church — 0.8 mi away in East St. Louis, IL
- Pilgrim Temple Christian Methodist Episcopal Church — 0.8 mi away in East St. Louis, IL
- Parks Chapel AME Church — 1.4 mi away in East St Louis, IL
- State Street Methodist Church — 1.4 mi away
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