Bethel AME Church
Bethel AME Church is a African Methodist Episcopal church at 4924 Blue Banks Loop Road in Leland, NC 28451. It is one of 50 churches in Leland.
4924 Blue Banks Loop Road, Leland, NC, 28451Bethel AME Church is part of the Methodist family of churches in The American Church Story. 1,294 congregations of the Methodist family gather across North Carolina — 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 AME Church
It takes 2.5 miles in every direction to gather two thousand neighbors around this church. Among the people scattered across those miles, more than 3 in 10 renting households pay over half of everything they earn just to keep a roof over them, and more than a third of adults live with obesity, and about a third of adults say they are socially isolated. A scattered parish is still a parish.
Pray for the families driving a long way to everything — to work, to a hospital, to this door on a Sunday morning.
- Obesity: 36.2%
- Social Isolation: 31.6%
- Depression: 24.3%
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 20.4%
- Food Insecurity: 16.3%
- Diabetes: 13.4%
- Uninsured All Ages (Census): 11.0% (6.1–15.9%)
- Unemployment: 6.4% (1.3–11.5%)
Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 5 census tracts near this church.
Churches near Bethel AME Church
- Perkinsville Missionary Baptist Church — 0.2 mi away
- Crystal Spring Church — 0.5 mi away in Northwest, NC
- All Souls Church — 0.6 mi away
- Salvation & Deliverance FWC — 1.3 mi away
- Faith Builders International — 1.6 mi away
- Spring Green Missionary Baptist Church — 1.7 mi away in Riegelwood, NC
- Cape Fear Church — 2.3 mi away in Riegelwood, NC
- Goshen Church — 2.5 mi away
- Lighthouse Church — 2.6 mi away in Delco, NC
- Farmers Chapel — 2.7 mi away in Sandy Creek, NC
More Methodist churches nearby
- Pine Valley Methodist Church - Leland — 10.4 mi away
- Zion Church — 11.1 mi away
- Mount Zion African Methodist Episcopal Church — 12.9 mi away in Wilmington, NC
- Warner Temple African Methodist Episcopal Zion Church — 13 mi away in Wilmington, NC
- Grace United Methodist Church — 13.2 mi away in Wilmington, NC
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