Bethel Buffalo
Bethel Buffalo is a African Methodist Episcopal church at 1525 Michigan Ave in Buffalo, NY 14209-1721. It is one of 379 churches in Buffalo, and one of 5 African Methodist Episcopal congregations in the city.
The Historic Bethel African Methodist Episcopal Church of Buffalo, New York has the distinction of being the oldest congregation of African descent in the city of Buffalo, NY and in Western New York.
1525 Michigan Ave, Buffalo, NY, 14209-1721Service times
- Sunday 9:30am
Phone: (716) 886-1650 · Website: http://www.bethelbuffalo.org/
Bethel Buffalo is part of the Methodist family of churches in The American Church Story. 979 congregations of the Methodist family gather across New York — 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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The community around Bethel Buffalo
Within a few blocks of these doors, more than 2 in 10 renting households pay over half of everything they earn just to keep a roof over them. About a third of adults say they are socially isolated, and more than a third of adults live with obesity. That is 2,300 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.
- Social Isolation: 32.9%
- Obesity: 36.7%
- Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 27.0%
- Food Insecurity: 19.1%
- Housing Insecurity: 17.3%
- Diabetes: 13.4%
- Utility Shutoff Threat: 11.6%
- Unemployment: 7.7% (1.5–14.2%)
Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 4 census tracts near this church.
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- New Hope Church Of God By Faith — 0.2 mi away
- Church of Christ — 0.2 mi away
- Greater New Life Church — 0.2 mi away
- Power of God Ministry Church of God In Christ — 0.2 mi away
- Zion Missionary Baptist Church — 0.3 mi away
- PHLOW Church — 0.3 mi away
- State Tabernacle Church of God — 0.3 mi away
- Coldspring Church of God in Christ Jesus — 0.3 mi away
- Bethesda Full Gospel Church — 0.3 mi away
More Methodist churches nearby
- Lincoln Memorial United Methodist Church — 0.4 mi away
- Walls Memorial AME Zion Church — 0.7 mi away
- First United Methodist Church of Buffalo — 1.3 mi away
- Iglesia Hispana Metodista Libre Nueva Vision — 1.5 mi away
- Mt Zion Ame Church — 1.8 mi away