Bethlehem African Methodist Episcopal Zion Church
Bethlehem African Methodist Episcopal Zion Church is a African Methodist Episcopal Zion church in Gary, IN 46407. It is one of 275 churches in Gary, and one of 3 African Methodist Episcopal Zion congregations in the city.
Gary, IN, 46407Bethlehem African Methodist Episcopal Zion Church is part of the Methodist family of churches in The American Church Story. 618 congregations of the Methodist family gather across Indiana — 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 Bethlehem African Methodist Episcopal Zion Church
Within about a mile of this church, more than 8 in 10 the children here are growing up below the poverty line. Nearly half of adults live with obesity, and nearly half 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: 85.3%
- Obesity: 53.7%
- Food Insecurity: 46.3%
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 41.4%
- Poverty Rate: 39.1% (25.4–52.8%)
- Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 35.6%
- Housing Insecurity: 30.6%
- Diabetes: 28.7%
- Utility Shutoff Threat: 28.2%
- Social Isolation: 37.0%
- Transportation Barriers: 21.7%
- Unemployment: 9.4% (0.8–23.0%)
- Uninsured Adults 18-64: 13.8%
Source: U.S. Census Bureau, CDC PLACES (2019-2023, 2023), aggregated across 5 census tracts near this church.
Gary city is served by 184 churches — about one congregation for every 375 residents.
Churches near Bethlehem African Methodist Episcopal Zion Church
- Pilgrim Rest Missionary Baptist Church — 0.1 mi away
- Restoration for Destiny Ministries — 0.2 mi away
- Galilee Baptist Church — 0.2 mi away
- Christian Valley Baptist Church — 0.2 mi away
- First Baptist Church — 0.3 mi away
- Church of God in Christ — 0.3 mi away
- I AM'S Holiness Church — 0.3 mi away
- House of the Lord Church — 0.3 mi away
- Zion Temple Apostolic Church — 0.3 mi away
- Jerusalem Baptist Church — 0.3 mi away
More Methodist churches nearby
- Saint Lukes African Methodist Episcopal Zion Church — 0.4 mi away
- First African Methodist Episcopal Church — 0.5 mi away
- Israel Christian Methodist Episcopal Church — 0.6 mi away
- Delaney Memorial United Methodist Church — 0.7 mi away
- Embassies of Christ — 0.9 mi away