Bright Temple African Methodist Episcopal Church
Bright Temple African Methodist Episcopal Church is a Methodist church in New York, NY 10474. It is one of 3,431 churches in New York, and one of 68 Methodist congregations in the city.
Our vision is to be a beacon of hope and inspiration in the South Bronx.
New York, NY, 10474Service times
- Wednesday 7pm
- Sunday 10am · Worship Service
- Tuesday 7pm
Phone: (646) 730-4351 · Website: https://bronxriversankofa.wordpress.com/tag/bright-temple-ame-church
Shares a ministry location with Pentecostal Church and Sunnyslope.
Bright Temple African Methodist Episcopal 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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Latest from Bright Temple AME Church - Bronx, NY's YouTube channel: Pastor's Bible Study - May 20, 2026 (all videos).
The community around Bright Temple African Methodist Episcopal Church
Within a few blocks of these doors, more than 4 in 10 renting households pay over half of everything they earn just to keep a roof over them. Nearly half of households aren't sure there will be enough to eat, and more than a third of adults say they are socially isolated. 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: 46.8%
- Social Isolation: 42.2%
- Housing Insecurity: 38.5%
- Poverty Rate: 38.2% (26.7–49.8%)
- Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 35.8%
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 34.4%
- Utility Shutoff Threat: 21.8%
- Transportation Barriers: 21.0%
- Uninsured Adults 18-64: 20.5%
- Diabetes: 16.1%
- Unemployment: 10.7% (4.7–17.0%)
- Obesity: 36.8%
- Child Poverty: 26.4% (7.4–45.4%)
Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 3 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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