Bethel African Methodist Episcopal Church
Bethel African Methodist Episcopal Church is a Methodist church in Quincy, IL 62301. It is one of 72 churches in Quincy, and one of 5 Methodist congregations in the city.
Quincy, IL, 62301Bethel African Methodist Episcopal 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 African Methodist Episcopal Church
Within a few blocks of these doors, more than 4 in 10 the children here are growing up below the poverty line. More than a third of adults live with obesity, and about a third of adults say they are socially isolated. That is 2,200 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: 43.5% (28.1–58.9%)
- Obesity: 42.8%
- Social Isolation: 35.0%
- Poverty Rate: 28.1% (18.7–37.5%)
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 26.7%
- Food Insecurity: 23.3%
- Diabetes: 15.2%
- Depression: 24.1%
- Housing Insecurity: 16.6%
- Utility Shutoff Threat: 12.1%
- Unemployment: 6.4% (1.7–11.2%)
Source: U.S. Census Bureau, CDC PLACES (2019-2023, 2023), aggregated across 5 census tracts near this church.
Quincy city is served by 39 churches — about one congregation for every 889 residents.
Churches near Bethel African Methodist Episcopal Church
- First Baptist Church — 0.2 mi away
- Quincy Baptist Church — 0.3 mi away
- Central Baptist Church — 0.3 mi away
- Vermont Street United Methodist Church — 0.3 mi away
- Union Baptist Church — 0.3 mi away
- Living World Fellowship Church — 0.3 mi away
- Saint Rose of Lima Roman Catholic Church — 0.4 mi away
- St. John's Parish — 0.4 mi away
- Calvary Tabernacle — 0.4 mi away
- Open Arms Ministries Church — 0.4 mi away
More Methodist churches nearby
- Vermont Street United Methodist Church — 0.3 mi away
- Grace United Methodist Church — 0.4 mi away
- Union United Methodist Church — 0.8 mi away
- Free Methodist Church — 1.4 mi away
- Melrose Chapel United Methodist Church — 3.7 mi away