Bethel AME Church

Bethel AME Church is a African Methodist Episcopal church at 315 E 5th St in New Albany, IN 47150. It is one of 67 churches in New Albany.

We exist to give praise and honor to God in all that we do, exhorting God’s word by advocating His love, making passionate followers of Christ, engaging in hospitality as we share in the life of the church, and to be a conscience for the community.

Bethel A. M. E. Church, Jeffersonville, was organized in 1842 in Claysburg, where a settlement of African American people had gathered.

Serving since 1842

315 E 5th St, New Albany, IN, 47150

Service times

Sunday School | 10:30am (as listed)

Phone: (812) 944-2346 · Website: https://www.betheljeff.org/

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.

Ministries at Bethel AME Church

  • Literacy Center
  • Summer Feeding Program
  • Early Childhood Development Center

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The community around Bethel AME Church

Within a few blocks of these doors, more than 2 in 10 renting households pay over half of everything they earn just to keep a roof over them. More than a third of the children here are growing up below the poverty line, and more than a third 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.

  • Child Poverty: 44.3% (25.4–63.4%)
  • Obesity: 42.9%
  • Social Isolation: 36.6%
  • Depression: 27.6%
  • Fair/Poor Health Status: 26.2%
  • Poverty Rate: 24.6% (15.2–33.9%)
  • Food Insecurity: 21.8%
  • Housing Insecurity: 15.6%
  • Diabetes: 14.4%
  • Utility Shutoff Threat: 12.4%

Source: U.S. Census Bureau, CDC PLACES (2019-2023, 2022, 2023), aggregated across 5 census tracts near this church.

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