Greater Bethel AME Church

Greater Bethel AME Church is a African Methodist Episcopal church at 5232 The Plaza in Charlotte, NC 28215. It is one of 968 churches in Charlotte.

We are committed to ministering to the spiritual, mental, physical, emotional, and economic needs of the whole person.

Greater Bethel African Methodist Episcopal Church is a congregation of Spirit-filled Christians who worship God and win souls to Christ by preaching the Gospel, teaching and studying the scriptures, fellowshipping and serving in ministries.

5232 The Plaza, Charlotte, NC, 28215

Phone: (980) 949-6576 · Website: http://www.gbame.org/

Greater Bethel AME Church is part of the Methodist family of churches in The American Church Story. 1,375 congregations of the Methodist family gather across North Carolina — 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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Latest from Greater Bethel AME Church - Charlotte, NC's YouTube channel: Greater Bethel Sunday Service - Sunday, September 20, 2026 (all videos).

The community around Greater Bethel AME Church

Within a few blocks of these doors, more than 3 in 10 households aren't sure there will be enough to eat. More than a third of adults say they are socially isolated, and about a third have no one they feel they can count on. That is 2,200 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: 30.4%
  • Social Isolation: 37.7%
  • Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 31.2%
  • Fair/Poor Health Status: 26.1%
  • Housing Insecurity: 23.7%
  • Uninsured All Ages (Census): 19.7% (10.2–29.1%)
  • Uninsured Adults 18-64: 19.3%
  • Utility Shutoff Threat: 15.5%
  • Diabetes: 15.1%
  • Unemployment: 10.9% (5.2–16.5%)
  • Obesity: 36.7%
  • Transportation Barriers: 14.8%

Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 2 census tracts near this church.

Charlotte city is served by 363 churches — about one congregation for every 2,418 residents.

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