Greater Bethel African Methodist Episcopal Church
Greater Bethel African Methodist Episcopal Church is a Methodist church in Cleveland, OH 44110. It is one of 783 churches in Cleveland, and one of 24 Methodist congregations in the city.
Cleveland, OH, 44110Website: http://clevelandhistorical.org/items/show/620
Greater Bethel African Methodist Episcopal Church is part of the Methodist family of churches in The American Church Story. 1,576 congregations of the Methodist family gather across Ohio — 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 Greater 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 half of adults live with obesity, 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.
- Obesity: 47.1%
- Social Isolation: 42.2%
- Food Insecurity: 36.5%
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 30.9%
- Housing Insecurity: 27.9%
- Utility Shutoff Threat: 23.7%
- Diabetes: 20.3%
- Poverty Rate: 29.7% (15.9–43.4%)
- Transportation Barriers: 18.1%
- Unemployment: 8.7% (2.6–15.9%)
- Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 29.8%
- Child Poverty: 26.0% (14.4–43.1%)
- Depression: 23.1%
Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 7 census tracts near this church.
Cleveland city is served by 361 churches — about one congregation for every 1,026 residents.
Churches near Greater Bethel African Methodist Episcopal Church
- Spiritual Science Church — 0.2 mi away
- Greater New Canaan Ministries — 0.2 mi away
- Grace United Church of Christ — 0.2 mi away
- Shepard Inspirational Baptist Church — 0.4 mi away
- Beulah Baptist Church — 0.4 mi away
- Saint Marys Catholic Church — 0.4 mi away
- Saint Mary of the Assumption — 0.4 mi away
- City of God Cleveland — 0.5 mi away
- City God Baptist Fellowship — 0.5 mi away
- House of Grace Ministries — 0.5 mi away
More Methodist churches nearby
- Nottingham United Methodist Church — 1.5 mi away
- East Glenville United Methodist Church — 1.8 mi away
- Church of the Cross United Methodist Church — 2.4 mi away in Cleveland Heights, OH
- Windermere United Methodist Church — 2.7 mi away in East Cleveland, OH
- Lee Memorial African Methodist Episcopal Church — 3 mi away