Bethel United Methodist Church
Bethel United Methodist Church is a Methodist church at 210 West John H Gwynn Jr Avenue in Peoria, IL 61605. It is one of 200 churches in Peoria, and one of 9 Methodist congregations in the city.
To be one with God welcoming and reaching all people who know or need to know Jesus Christ through love, prayer, and empowerment as we live out God’s Kingdom in thought, word, and deed.
210 West John H Gwynn Jr Avenue, Peoria, IL, 61605Service times
- Sunday 11am
Phone: (309) 676-7321 · Website: https://peoriabethel.org/
Bethel 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 — 25,989 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.
Ministries at Bethel United Methodist Church
- Anointing & Prayer Ministry
- Youth Ministry
- Tuesday Lunch Program
- Food Pantry
- Sunday School
- Prayer Conference Call
- Wednesday Night Bible Study
- Bethel United Methodist Men
- Bethel United Methodist Women
Find Bethel United Methodist Church on The Church Map, explore nearby congregations, and pray for its community.
The community around Bethel United Methodist 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. Nearly half of households aren't sure there will be enough to eat, and nearly half of adults live with obesity. That is 2,100 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.
- Food Insecurity: 51.7%
- Obesity: 50.7%
- Poverty Rate: 46.2% (32.7–59.8%)
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 41.8%
- Social Isolation: 41.1%
- Housing Insecurity: 35.9%
- Utility Shutoff Threat: 30.5%
- Transportation Barriers: 26.8%
- Diabetes: 24.0%
- Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 33.2%
- Unemployment: 8.2% (3.8–12.5%)
- Depression: 24.1%
- Uninsured Adults 18-64: 16.2%
Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 5 census tracts near this church.
Peoria city is served by 130 churches — about one congregation for every 773 residents.
Churches near Bethel United Methodist Church
- St. Joseph Catholic Church — 0.1 mi away
- Grace Baptist Church — 0.2 mi away
- New Morning Star Missionary Baptist Church — 0.2 mi away
- Star of Hope Full Gospel Baptist — 0.3 mi away
- Pentecostal Church Of Jesus Christ — 0.3 mi away
- Ward Chapel African Methodist Episcopal Church — 0.3 mi away
- Kingdom Temple C.O.G.I.C. — 0.4 mi away
- Zion Baptist Church — 0.4 mi away
- United Fellowship Ministries — 0.5 mi away
- Word of Faith Christian Center — 0.5 mi away
More Methodist churches nearby
- Ward Chapel African Methodist Episcopal Church — 0.3 mi away
- First United Methodist Church — 0.7 mi away
- Bradley Epworth United Methodist Church — 1 mi away
- Bible Methodist Church — 1.3 mi away
- First Free Methodist Church — 1.6 mi away