Bethel African Methodist Episcopal Church
Bethel African Methodist Episcopal Church is a African Methodist Episcopal church in Baton Rouge, LA 70802. It is one of 572 churches in Baton Rouge, and one of 2 African Methodist Episcopal congregations in the city.
Baton Rouge, LA, 70802Bethel African Methodist Episcopal Church is part of the Methodist family of churches in The American Church Story. 449 congregations of the Methodist family gather across Louisiana — 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 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 households aren't sure there will be enough to eat, and about a third describe their own health as fair or poor. 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: 35.1%
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 30.1%
- Housing Insecurity: 26.4%
- Utility Shutoff Threat: 21.0%
- Diabetes: 18.9%
- Unemployment: 12.4% (6.8–18.2%)
- Obesity: 43.0%
- Social Isolation: 39.4%
- Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 33.9%
- Poverty Rate: 30.0% (17.6–42.3%)
- Transportation Barriers: 17.9%
- Depression: 25.7%
Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 5 census tracts near this church.
Baton Rouge city is served by 212 churches — about one congregation for every 1,006 residents.
Churches near Bethel African Methodist Episcopal Church
- New Saint John Baptist Church — 0.1 mi away
- Saint Francis Xavier Catholic Church — 0.2 mi away
- New Ark Baptist Church — 0.2 mi away
- Little Rising Sun Church — 0.3 mi away
- New Prospect Missionary Baptist Church — 0.3 mi away
- New Bethel Baptist Church — 0.3 mi away
- Progressive Baptist Church — 0.3 mi away
- Saint Agnes Catholic Church — 0.3 mi away
- Deliverance Temple — 0.3 mi away
- McKowen Baptist Church — 0.3 mi away
More Methodist churches nearby
- Neely United Methodist Church — 0.6 mi away
- First United Methodist Church — 0.6 mi away
- Wesley United Methodist Church — 0.6 mi away
- Faith African Methodist Episcopal Zion Church — 1 mi away
- University United Methodist Church — 1.5 mi away
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