Bethel African Methodist Episcopal Church
Bethel African Methodist Episcopal Church is a African Methodist Episcopal church at 200 South 6th Street in Richmond, IN 47374. It is one of 79 churches in Richmond.
Founded in 1836, Bethel A.M.E. in Richmond is the oldest still-active Black church in Indiana and a pillar in the Richmond community.
Serving since 1836
200 South 6th Street, Richmond, IN, 47374Service times
- Sunday 11am · Worship
- Wednesday 4pm · afternoons
Website: https://www.bethelamerichmond.org/
Bethel African Methodist Episcopal 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 African Methodist Episcopal Church
- Affordable Housing
- Food Security
- Historical Preservation
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Latest from Bethel AME Church - Richmond, IN's YouTube channel: Morning Service 1/04/2026 (all videos).
The community around Bethel African Methodist Episcopal Church
Within a few blocks of these doors, more than 3 in 10 renting households pay over half of everything they earn just to keep a roof over them. About a third of the people here live below the poverty line, and more than a third of adults live with obesity. 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.
- Poverty Rate: 32.1% (21.3–43.0%)
- Obesity: 41.5%
- Social Isolation: 34.6%
- Depression: 28.9%
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 26.9%
- Food Insecurity: 23.8%
- Uninsured All Ages (Census): 17.2% (8.1–26.3%)
- Diabetes: 15.0%
- Housing Insecurity: 16.8%
- Utility Shutoff Threat: 13.9%
Source: U.S. Census Bureau, CDC PLACES (2019-2023, 2023), aggregated across 3 census tracts near this church.
Richmond city is served by 20 churches — about one congregation for every 1,742 residents.
Churches near Bethel African Methodist Episcopal Church
- St. Elizabeth Ann Seton Parish — 0.1 mi away
- St. Andrew Catholic Church — 0.1 mi away
- Saint Pauls Church — 0.2 mi away
- First Christian Church — 0.3 mi away
- LifeSpring Church South — 0.3 mi away
- Saint Johns Church — 0.3 mi away
- St John Lutheran Church Richmond in — 0.3 mi away
- St Mary's — 0.4 mi away
- St. Pauls Episcopal Church — 0.4 mi away
- Rock Solid Ministries — 0.4 mi away
More Methodist churches nearby
- First United Methodist Church — 0.6 mi away
- Central United Methodist Church — 0.7 mi away
- Centerville United Methodist Church — 5.4 mi away in Centerville, IN
- Saint Paul United Methodist Church — 6 mi away in New Paris, OH
- New Hope United Methodist Church — 10 mi away in Eaton, OH