Bethel African Methodist Episcopal Church
Bethel African Methodist Episcopal Church is a Methodist church at 3500 Jones Ave. in Alexandria, LA 71302. It is one of 179 churches in Alexandria, and one of 8 Methodist congregations in the city.
Serving since 1787 · Part of Episcopal District
3500 Jones Ave., Alexandria, LA, 71302Service times
- Sunday 10:30am
- Sunday 9:30am · School for all agesbegins
Phone: (318) 704-6446 · Website: http://www.ame-church.com
Bethel African Methodist Episcopal Church is part of the Methodist family of churches in The American Church Story. 432 congregations of the Methodist family gather across Louisiana — 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 Bethel African Methodist Episcopal 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. More than half of households aren't sure there will be enough to eat, and more than half of adults live with obesity. That is two thousand 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.
- Food Insecurity: 55.6%
- Obesity: 55.4%
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 45.9%
- Social Isolation: 44.3%
- Poverty Rate: 39.1% (22.1–56.2%)
- Housing Insecurity: 38.9%
- Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 38.6%
- Utility Shutoff Threat: 34.7%
- Diabetes: 28.6%
- Transportation Barriers: 28.3%
- Unemployment: 8.6% (1.4–15.7%)
- Depression: 25.2%
- Uninsured Adults 18-64: 13.9% (10.8–17.8%)
Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 5 census tracts near this church.
Alexandria city is served by 101 churches — about one congregation for every 303 residents.
Churches near Bethel African Methodist Episcopal Church
- Pleasant Green Baptist Church — 0.4 mi away
- Trinity Baptist Church — 0.4 mi away
- Third Evergreen Baptist Church — 0.4 mi away
- New Jerusalem Baptist Church — 0.4 mi away
- Timothy Baptist Church — 0.4 mi away
- New Scott Olly Baptist Church — 0.6 mi away
- Saint Juliana Catholic Church — 0.6 mi away
- Faith Baptist Church — 0.6 mi away
- Greater Third Evergreen Baptist Church — 0.6 mi away
- New Zion Baptist Church — 0.6 mi away
More Methodist churches nearby
- Saint Marks United Methodist Church — 1 mi away
- Wilton United Methodist Church — 1.4 mi away
- Newman United Methodist Church — 1.4 mi away
- Wesley United Methodist Church — 2 mi away in Pineville, LA
- First United Methodist Church — 2.1 mi away
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