Bethel African Methodist Episcopal Church
Bethel African Methodist Episcopal Church is a Methodist church in Sparta, IL 62286. It is one of 28 churches in Sparta, and one of 2 Methodist congregations in the city.
Sparta, IL, 62286Bethel African Methodist Episcopal 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 African Methodist Episcopal Church
In the few miles around this church, more than 4 in 10 adults live with obesity. About a third of adults say they are socially isolated, and about 1 in 10 the workforce is looking for work and not finding it. That is two thousand neighbors — and some of them are already in these pews.
Pray for healing in the homes around this building, and for this church to be known as a place to bring what hurts.
- Obesity: 41.1%
- Social Isolation: 34.2%
- Unemployment: 10.1% (4.2–16.0%)
- Child Poverty: 29.6% (12.5–46.7%)
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 23.7%
- Poverty Rate: 19.0% (11.1–26.9%)
- Food Insecurity: 18.6%
- Diabetes: 14.8%
- Utility Shutoff Threat: 10.0%
Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 3 census tracts near this church.
Sparta city is served by 15 churches — about one congregation for every 270 residents.
Churches near Bethel African Methodist Episcopal Church
- First Reformed Presbyterian Church — 0 mi away
- Gospel Chapel Hall — 0.1 mi away
- First United Methodist Church — 0.1 mi away
- First Baptist Church — 0.1 mi away
- Landmark Apostolic Church — 0.2 mi away
- Trinity United Presbyterian Church — 0.2 mi away
- Sparta Reformed Presbyterian Church — 0.3 mi away
- Road To Life Church — 0.4 mi away
- Westminster Presbyterian Church — 0.4 mi away
- Community of Christ — 0.5 mi away
More Methodist churches nearby
- First United Methodist Church — 0.1 mi away
- First United Methodist Church of Sparta — 0.5 mi away
- Coulterville United Methodist Church — 6.7 mi away in Coulterville, IL
- First United Methodist Church — 8.5 mi away in Marissa, IL
- Steeleville United Methodist Church — 8.6 mi away in Steeleville, IL