Bethany AME Church
Bethany AME Church is a African Methodist Episcopal church in Philadelphia, PA 19152. It is one of 1,755 churches in Philadelphia, and one of 10 African Methodist Episcopal congregations in the city.
Philadelphia, PA, 19152Bethany 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 Bethany AME 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. About 1 in 7 the people here were born in another country. That is 2,100 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.
Philadelphia city is served by 1,051 churches — about one congregation for every 1,515 residents.
Churches near Bethany AME Church
- Grace City Church of the Northeast — 0.1 mi away
- Assembly of God — 0.3 mi away
- Grace of God Christian Learning Center — 0.5 mi away
- Philadelphia Shalem Assembly of God Church — 0.6 mi away
- Eben-Ezer Church of God — 0.7 mi away
- Philadelphia Boulevard Seventh-day Adventist Church — 0.9 mi away
- Missionary Servants of the Most Blessed Trinity — 0.9 mi away
- Northeast Assembly of God — 0.9 mi away
- Response To Grace Church — 1 mi away
- St David's Evangelical Lutheran Church — 1 mi away
More Methodist churches nearby
- Good Shepherd United Methodist Church — 2.6 mi away
- United Methodist Church of the Redeemer — 2.9 mi away
- Cheltenham United Methodist Church — 3.5 mi away in Cheltenham, PA
- Epworth United Methodist Church — 3.6 mi away in Palmyra, NJ
- Dobbins Memorial Church — 3.8 mi away in Riverside, NJ
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