Bethel African Methodist Episcopal Church
Bethel African Methodist Episcopal Church is a Methodist church in Brookhaven, MS 39601. It is one of 94 churches in Brookhaven, and one of 5 Methodist congregations in the city.
Brookhaven, MS, 39601Bethel African Methodist Episcopal Church is part of the Methodist family of churches in The American Church Story. 614 congregations of the Methodist family gather across Mississippi — 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 4 in 10 adults live with obesity. 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 healing in the homes around this building, and for this church to be known as a place to bring what hurts.
- Obesity: 45.9%
- Food Insecurity: 35.3%
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 31.8%
- Housing Insecurity: 25.8%
- Uninsured All Ages (Census): 22.4% (12.9–31.8%)
- Diabetes: 20.7%
- Utility Shutoff Threat: 19.7%
- Social Isolation: 37.5%
- Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 31.3%
- Poverty Rate: 25.7% (12.2–39.3%)
- Transportation Barriers: 18.6%
- Child Poverty: 25.5% (7.0–43.9%)
- Uninsured Adults 18-64: 14.0%
Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 3 census tracts near this church.
Brookhaven city is served by 29 churches — about one congregation for every 367 residents.
Churches near Bethel African Methodist Episcopal Church
- New Jerusalem Holiness — 0.1 mi away
- Mary Temple Church of God in Christ — 0.2 mi away
- Messiah Seventh-Day Adventist Church — 0.2 mi away
- Saint James Baptist Church — 0.2 mi away
- Center Street Church of Christ — 0.3 mi away
- Second Baptist Church — 0.4 mi away
- Southway Baptist Church — 0.4 mi away
- First Presbyterian Church — 0.5 mi away
- Grace Life Church of Brookhaven — 0.5 mi away
- Saint Francis of Assisi Catholic Church — 0.5 mi away
More Methodist churches nearby
- First United Methodist Church — 0.5 mi away
- Kynette Pilgrim United Methodist Church — 0.9 mi away
- Avery Chapel African Methodist Episcopal Church — 1.1 mi away
- Jackson Street United Methodist Church — 1.6 mi away
- New Hope United Methodist Church — 8.8 mi away in Wesson, MS
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