Bethel Church
Bethel Church is a African Methodist Episcopal church at 773 E Gillespie Ave in Flint, MI 48505-3926. It is one of 248 churches in Flint, and one of 2 African Methodist Episcopal congregations in the city.
Bethel AME Church was founded by Rev. Robert W. Rawls, a Flint native who was raised by parents who were among the founders of Vernon Chapel AME-Flint.
773 E Gillespie Ave, Flint, MI, 48505-3926Phone: (810) 785-7584 · Website: http://bethelameflint.org/
Bethel Church is part of the Methodist family of churches in The American Church Story. 846 congregations of the Methodist family gather across Michigan — 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.
Ministries at Bethel Church
- Community Outreach
- Christian Education
- Bible Study
- Gospel Jazz Ensemble
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Latest from Bethel AME Flint's YouTube channel: Have Faith in God - Mark 11:22 (all videos).
The community around Bethel Church
Within about a mile of this church, more than 3 in 10 renting households pay over half of everything they earn just to keep a roof over them. More than 4 in 5 the children here are growing up below the poverty line, and more than half of adults live with obesity. That is 2,100 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.
- Child Poverty: 93.4%
- Obesity: 56.5%
- Food Insecurity: 49.9%
- Poverty Rate: 48.0% (31.7–64.3%)
- Social Isolation: 41.1%
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 40.5%
- Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 35.6%
- Housing Insecurity: 35.3%
- Utility Shutoff Threat: 31.6%
- Unemployment: 28.9% (12.8–45.6%)
- Diabetes: 26.4%
- Transportation Barriers: 25.0%
- Depression: 23.3%
Source: U.S. Census Bureau, CDC PLACES (2019-2023, 2023), aggregated across 6 census tracts near this church.
Churches near Bethel Church
- Solid Foundation Church of God — 0.1 mi away
- Canaan Baptist Church — 0.1 mi away
- Holy Ghost Church Ministries — 0.1 mi away
- Metropolitan Baptist Church — 0.3 mi away
- God's Tabernacle of Truth Church — 0.4 mi away
- Pentecostal Tabernacle Church — 0.4 mi away
- Shiloh Missionary Baptist Church — 0.4 mi away
- True Foundation Christian Church — 0.5 mi away
- Antioch Missionary Baptist Church — 0.5 mi away
- Spiritual Israel — 0.6 mi away
More Methodist churches nearby
- Calvary United Methodist Church — 2.3 mi away
- Bethel United Methodist Church — 2.4 mi away
- Court Street United Methodist Church — 2.6 mi away
- Faith United Methodist Church — 3.4 mi away
- Quinn Chapel AME Church — 3.5 mi away