Bethel United Methodist Church
Bethel United Methodist Church is a Methodist church in Cumberland, MD 21502. It is one of 103 churches in Cumberland, and one of 14 Methodist congregations in the city.
Cumberland, MD, 21502Bethel United Methodist Church is part of the Methodist family of churches in The American Church Story. 964 congregations of the Methodist family gather across Maryland — 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 United Methodist Church
Within a few blocks of these doors, more than 2 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 nearly a quarter of households aren't sure there will be enough to eat. 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.
- Poverty Rate: 32.3% (19.8–44.8%)
- Food Insecurity: 25.0%
- Obesity: 40.2%
- Social Isolation: 35.9%
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 29.3%
- Depression: 28.6%
- Diabetes: 16.3%
- Child Poverty: 27.6% (12.9–42.6%)
- Housing Insecurity: 17.3%
- Utility Shutoff Threat: 12.4%
Source: U.S. Census Bureau, CDC PLACES (2019-2023, 2023), aggregated across 3 census tracts near this church.
Cumberland city is served by 40 churches — about one congregation for every 341 residents.
Churches near Bethel United Methodist Church
- Trinity United Methodist Church — 0.1 mi away
- Cumberland Bible Church — 0.1 mi away
- Bethany House of the Lord — 0.1 mi away
- Southminster Presbyterian Church — 0.1 mi away
- First Brethren Church — 0.2 mi away
- Souls Won Ministries — 0.2 mi away
- Grace United Methodist Church — 0.2 mi away
- Second Baptist Church — 0.2 mi away
- Calvary Chapel Cumberland — 0.2 mi away
- Saint Johns Evangelical Lutheran Church — 0.2 mi away
More Methodist churches nearby
- Trinity United Methodist Church — 0.1 mi away
- Grace United Methodist Church — 0.2 mi away
- Mapleside United Methodist Church — 0.5 mi away
- Emmanuel United Methodist Church — 0.7 mi away
- Central United Methodist Church — 1.1 mi away
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