Bethelship Norwegian United Methodist Church
Bethelship Norwegian United Methodist Church is a Methodist church at 5523 4th Avenue in New York, NY 11220. It is one of 3,431 churches in New York, and one of 68 Methodist congregations in the city.
5523 4th Avenue, New York, NY, 11220Bethelship Norwegian United Methodist Church is part of the Methodist family of churches in The American Church Story. 943 congregations of the Methodist family gather across New York — 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 Bethelship Norwegian United Methodist Church
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. More than a third of adults say they are socially isolated, and more than a third of households aren't sure there will be enough to eat. That is 7,200 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: 40.3%
- Food Insecurity: 38.8%
- Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 36.5%
- Housing Insecurity: 27.9%
- Uninsured Adults 18-64: 22.4%
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 28.7%
- Uninsured All Ages (Census): 16.3% (10.1–22.6%)
- Poverty Rate: 19.3% (9.3–29.4%)
- Transportation Barriers: 16.4%
- Utility Shutoff Threat: 14.0%
- Diabetes: 13.7%
Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 5 census tracts near this church.
New York city is served by 2,102 churches — about one congregation for every 4,102 residents.
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- Spark Church — 0.1 mi away in Brooklyn, NY
- Iglesia La Luz del Mundo — 0.1 mi away
- Salem Gospel Tabernacle — 0.1 mi away in Brooklyn, NY
- Sunset Park Community Church — 0.1 mi away
- Iglesia Adventista del Séptimo Día de Bay Ridge — 0.1 mi away
- Pentecostal Evangelist Church — 0.2 mi away
- Templo De La Alabanza — 0.2 mi away in Brooklyn, NY
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