Bethel African Methodist Episcopal Church
Bethel African Methodist Episcopal Church is a Methodist church in Columbus, OH 43211. It is one of 1,054 churches in Columbus, and one of 29 Methodist congregations in the city.
Columbus, OH, 43211Website: http://www.bethelcolumbus.us/
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 Bethel African Methodist Episcopal 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. Nearly half of adults live with obesity, and nearly half of households aren't sure there will be enough to eat. 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: 50.2%
- Food Insecurity: 49.7%
- Social Isolation: 45.7%
- Poverty Rate: 45.6% (31.8–59.3%)
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 40.1%
- Housing Insecurity: 35.9%
- Utility Shutoff Threat: 31.5%
- Transportation Barriers: 25.6%
- Diabetes: 23.6%
- Unemployment: 14.3% (1.8–28.7%)
- Child Poverty: 37.4% (20.7–54.3%)
- Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 32.8%
- Uninsured All Ages (Census): 18.6% (9.7–27.5%)
- Uninsured Adults 18-64: 17.6%
- Depression: 26.6%
Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 4 census tracts near this church.
Columbus city is served by 545 churches — about one congregation for every 1,492 residents.
Churches near Bethel African Methodist Episcopal Church
- Temple of Faith Church of Deliverance — 0 mi away
- Life Changing Empowerment Ministries — 0 mi away
- Fresh Oil Christian Center — 0 mi away
- Pentecostal House of Prayer — 0.1 mi away
- Solomons Temple Apostolic Church — 0.1 mi away
- Temple of Faith Church — 0.2 mi away
- Man in Christ Ministries — 0.2 mi away
- The Elevation Church — 0.3 mi away
- Church of Christ — 0.3 mi away
- Northside Church of God — 0.4 mi away
More Methodist churches nearby
- Linden United Methodist Church — 0.9 mi away
- Lee Avenue United Methodist Church — 1.1 mi away
- East Linden United Methodist Church — 1.3 mi away
- Centenary United Methodist Church Food Distribution Center — 1.3 mi away
- Maynard Avenue United Methodist Church — 1.6 mi away