Bethel African Methodist Episcopal Church
Bethel African Methodist Episcopal Church is a Methodist church in Plaquemine, LA 70764. It is one of 63 churches in Plaquemine, and one of 3 Methodist congregations in the city.
Plaquemine, LA, 70764Bethel 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 households aren't sure there will be enough to eat. More than a third of adults live with obesity, and more than a third of adults say they are socially isolated. That is two thousand neighbors — and some of them are already in these pews.
Pray for the tables that run short before the month does, and for this church's table to be long.
- Food Insecurity: 25.9%
- Obesity: 42.8%
- Social Isolation: 37.4%
- Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 32.2%
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 27.4%
- Diabetes: 17.6%
- Depression: 24.5%
- Housing Insecurity: 19.5%
- Utility Shutoff Threat: 13.9%
- Unemployment: 6.4% (1.6–11.1%)
Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 5 census tracts near this church.
Churches near Bethel African Methodist Episcopal Church
- Church of God of Prophecy — 0.1 mi away
- Hurst United Methodist Church — 0.1 mi away
- Saint Peter Baptist Church — 0.2 mi away
- Macedonia Baptist Church — 0.2 mi away
- St Joseph Baptist Church — 0.2 mi away
- Church of the Holy Communion — 0.2 mi away
- Abundant Life Christian Assembly — 0.3 mi away
- First United Methodist Church — 0.5 mi away
- Saint John the Evangelist Catholic Church — 0.5 mi away
- First Assembly of God Church — 0.5 mi away
More Methodist churches nearby
- Hurst United Methodist Church — 0.1 mi away
- First United Methodist Church — 0.5 mi away
- Saint Luke Methodist Church — 6.7 mi away in White Castle, LA
- Saint Luke Church — 6.7 mi away in White Castle, LA
- St. John's United Methodist Church — 9.1 mi away in Baton Rouge, LA
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