Bethel African Methodist Episcopal Church
Bethel African Methodist Episcopal Church is a Methodist church at 1001 Cookman Avenue, NJ, 07712 in Asbury Park, NJ 07712. It is one of 43 churches in Asbury Park, and one of 4 Methodist congregations in the city.
Serving since 1869
1001 Cookman Avenue, NJ, 07712, Asbury Park, NJ, 07712Service times
- Sunday 11am
Phone: (929) 436-2866 · Website: https://bethelasburypark.org/
Bethel African Methodist Episcopal Church is part of the Methodist family of churches in The American Church Story. 500 congregations of the Methodist family gather across New Jersey — 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 a few blocks of these doors, more than 3 in 10 renting households pay over half of everything they earn just to keep a roof over them. Nearly a quarter of households aren't sure there will be enough to eat, and nearly a quarter of adults are worried about keeping the housing they have. 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.
- Food Insecurity: 29.9%
- Housing Insecurity: 25.4%
- Unemployment: 14.4% (5.9–23.0%)
- Obesity: 41.5%
- Social Isolation: 36.2%
- Uninsured Adults 18-64: 17.5%
- Utility Shutoff Threat: 16.5%
- Uninsured All Ages (Census): 15.0% (7.2–22.8%)
- Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 28.9%
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 24.0%
- Poverty Rate: 21.1% (10.8–31.4%)
- Transportation Barriers: 15.0%
Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 6 census tracts near this church.
Asbury Park city is served by 26 churches — about one congregation for every 586 residents.
Churches near Bethel African Methodist Episcopal Church
- Friendship Baptist Church — 0.1 mi away
- Saint Augustine Episcopal Church — 0.1 mi away
- Saint Stephen's African Methodist Episcopal Zion Church — 0.1 mi away
- Second Baptist Church — 0.3 mi away
- Faith Baptist Tabernacle — 0.3 mi away
- Asbury Park Deliverance Evangelistic Center Inc. — 0.3 mi away
- Haitian Church of God — 0.3 mi away
- Asbury Evangelistic Chapel — 0.3 mi away
- Asbury Neptune Evangel Chapel — 0.3 mi away
- Iglesia Vida Abundante — 0.3 mi away
More Methodist churches nearby
- Saint Stephen's African Methodist Episcopal Zion Church — 0.1 mi away
- Allen Chapel African Methodist Episcopal Church — 0.4 mi away
- Saint Paul's United Methodist Church — 0.5 mi away
- Premiere Eglise Methodiste — 0.6 mi away
- First United Methodist Church of Asbury Park — 0.6 mi away
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