Bethel AME Church
Bethel AME Church is a African Methodist Episcopal church at 180 New Street in Johnstown, PA 15901. It is one of 108 churches in Johnstown.
180 New Street, Johnstown, PA, 15901Bethel AME Church is part of the Methodist family of churches in The American Church Story. 1,331 congregations of the Methodist family gather across Pennsylvania — 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 Bethel AME Church
Within about a mile of this church, more than 6 in 10 the children here are growing up below the poverty line. Nearly half of adults live with obesity, and more than a third of the people here live below the poverty line. That is two thousand neighbors — and some of them are already in these pews.
Pray for the households stretched past their means, and for this church to know their names.
- Child Poverty: 68.3%
- Obesity: 45.7%
- Poverty Rate: 38.5% (27.8–49.1%)
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 35.5%
- Diabetes: 20.1%
- Unemployment: 12.5% (1.7–23.3%)
- Depression: 25.4%
Source: U.S. Census Bureau, CDC PLACES (2019-2023, 2022), aggregated across 8 census tracts near this church.
Johnstown city is served by 46 churches — about one congregation for every 424 residents.
Churches near Bethel AME Church
- Pleasant Hill Baptist Church — 0.2 mi away
- Stevens Memorial Holy Church — 0.3 mi away
- St. Mark’s Episcopal Church — 0.3 mi away
- Franklin Street United Methodist Church — 0.3 mi away
- Saint John Gualbert Cathedral — 0.3 mi away
- Jefferson Memorial First Church — 0.3 mi away
- Zion Lutheran Church — 0.3 mi away
- St. John Gaulbert Activities Center — 0.4 mi away
- First Presbyterian Church — 0.4 mi away
- First Lutheran Church — 0.4 mi away
More Methodist churches nearby
- Franklin Street United Methodist Church — 0.3 mi away
- First United Methodist — 0.5 mi away
- Trinity United Methodist Church — 0.5 mi away
- First Cambria AME Zion — 0.7 mi away
- Beulah United Methodist Church — 1.3 mi away
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