Bethany African Methodist Episcopal Church
Bethany African Methodist Episcopal Church is a Methodist church in Yonkers, NY 10705. It is one of 138 churches in Yonkers.
Yonkers, NY, 10705Bethany African Methodist Episcopal Church 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 Bethany 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. About a third 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 2,600 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: 30.8%
- Housing Insecurity: 26.5%
- Social Isolation: 35.8%
- Uninsured Adults 18-64: 19.5%
- Utility Shutoff Threat: 14.5%
- Unemployment: 9.9% (4.5–15.3%)
- Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 28.6%
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 25.0%
- Poverty Rate: 21.4% (11.9–30.8%)
- Transportation Barriers: 14.2%
- Diabetes: 13.9%
- Uninsured All Ages (Census): 13.3% (6.9–19.7%)
Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 4 census tracts near this church.
Yonkers city is served by 67 churches — about one congregation for every 3,131 residents.
Churches near Bethany African Methodist Episcopal Church
- Gospel Outreach International Ministries — 0.1 mi away
- Jehovah's Witness — 0.1 mi away
- Eben-Ezer Church Of God — 0.1 mi away
- St. Thomas Mar Thoma Church — 0.2 mi away
- Shrine of the New Covenant Church — 0.2 mi away
- Our Lady of Fatima Catholic Portuguese Church — 0.2 mi away
- Saint Peter's Church — 0.2 mi away
- Triumphant Church of God of the First Born 7th Day — 0.2 mi away
- The Apostolic Church International — 0.2 mi away
- Influential Church — 0.2 mi away
More Methodist churches nearby
- Memorial African Methodist Episcopal Zion Church — 1.1 mi away
- Institutional A.M.E. Zion Church — 1.1 mi away
- Wakefield Grace United Methodist Church — 2.8 mi away in New York, NY
- Metropolitan AME Zion Church — 2.9 mi away
- Bethel Global Methodist Church — 3 mi away in Bronx, NY