Bethel African Methodist Church
Bethel African Methodist Church is a Methodist church in Springfield, MA 01109. It is one of 196 churches in Springfield, and one of 5 Methodist congregations in the city.
Springfield, MA, 01109Bethel African Methodist Church is part of the Methodist family of churches in The American Church Story. 207 congregations of the Methodist family gather across Massachusetts — 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 Church
Within a few blocks of these doors, more than 4 in 10 renting households pay over half of everything they earn just to keep a roof over them. Nearly half of households aren't sure there will be enough to eat, and more than a third of adults say they are socially isolated. That is 2,400 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: 46.4%
- Social Isolation: 43.0%
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 38.9%
- Poverty Rate: 38.7% (24.8–52.5%)
- Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 36.4%
- Housing Insecurity: 36.3%
- Utility Shutoff Threat: 25.6%
- Transportation Barriers: 24.5%
- Unemployment: 17.0% (7.3–26.8%)
- Obesity: 44.9%
- Depression: 27.2%
- Uninsured Adults 18-64: 19.1%
- Diabetes: 17.8%
Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 2 census tracts near this church.
Springfield city is served by 95 churches — about one congregation for every 1,634 residents.
Churches near Bethel African Methodist Church
- TBC Springfield — 0 mi away
- Third Baptist Church — 0.1 mi away
- Iglesia De Dios El Sinai — 0.2 mi away
- Living Water Global Ministries — 0.2 mi away
- The Freedom House of God Church — 0.2 mi away
- New Hope Church of God in Christ — 0.2 mi away
- Mt Zion Baptist Church — 0.2 mi away
- Glorious Gospel Church — 0.3 mi away
- St. John's Congregational Church — 0.3 mi away
- Progressive Community Baptist Church — 0.3 mi away
More Methodist churches nearby
- Wesley United Methodist Church — 0.4 mi away
- First United Methodist Church — 0.8 mi away
- Trinity United Methodist Church — 1.5 mi away
- Liberty United Methodist Church — 1.5 mi away
- Mittineague United Methodist Church — 4.3 mi away in West Springfield Town, MA
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