Bethel AME church
Bethel AME church is a African Methodist Episcopal church at 324 W 10th St in Marion, IN 46953. It is one of 98 churches in Marion.
To Serve, Teach and Reach souls for Jesus Christ
As we continue to change lives by His Spirit and fulfill God’s plan, Bethel Cathedral holds fast to a simple yet profound message – YOU BELONG HERE!
Serving since 1836 · Part of Indianapolis Congregation Action Network
324 W 10th St, Marion, IN, 46953Phone: (765) 664-5610 · Website: https://www.bethelcathedral.org/get-to-know-us/our-history
Bethel AME church is part of the Methodist family of churches in The American Church Story. 639 congregations of the Methodist family gather across Indiana — 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 AME church
Within about a mile of this church, more than 2 in 10 renting households pay over half of everything they earn just to keep a roof over them. Nearly half of adults live with obesity, and nearly half of the children here are growing up below the poverty line. That is 2,200 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.
- Obesity: 47.7%
- Child Poverty: 46.8% (28.4–65.2%)
- Poverty Rate: 35.2% (25.6–44.8%)
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 31.8%
- Food Insecurity: 28.2%
- Diabetes: 18.6%
- Unemployment: 16.4% (9.1–23.8%)
- Social Isolation: 35.7%
- Depression: 28.1%
- Utility Shutoff Threat: 16.4%
- Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 26.6%
- Housing Insecurity: 19.6%
- Transportation Barriers: 13.8%
Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 4 census tracts near this church.
Churches near Bethel AME church
- Gethsemane Episcopal Church — 0.2 mi away
- REAL Community Covenant Church — 0.3 mi away
- Greater New Light Baptist Church — 0.3 mi away
- God's House Marion — 0.3 mi away
- First United Methodist Church — 0.3 mi away
- Christ Temple Church — 0.3 mi away
- First Baptist Church — 0.4 mi away
- Faith Apostolic Church — 0.5 mi away
- Saint Paul Missionary Baptist Church — 0.6 mi away
- House of Worship For All — 0.6 mi away
More Methodist churches nearby
- First United Methodist Church — 0.3 mi away
- Sunnycrest Community Church — 1.8 mi away
- Hanfield United Methodist Church — 3.4 mi away
- Bible Methodist Church — 5.3 mi away in Gas City, IN
- Herbst United Methodist Church — 7.1 mi away