Mother Bethel African Methodist Episcopal Church

Mother Bethel African Methodist Episcopal Church is a African Methodist Episcopal church at 419 South 6th Street in Philadelphia, PA 19147. It is one of 1,755 churches in Philadelphia, and one of 6 African Methodist Episcopal congregations in the city.

Mother Bethel’s mission is simple: to care for people in every way—spiritually, mentally, physically, emotionally, and even in how we live in our communities—by sharing Christ’s message of freedom through both our words and our actions.

Mother Bethel is still a vibrant force, lifting up spiritual, social, and civic causes that matter to African Americans and to all people seeking hope and justice.

Serving since 1794

Phone: (215) 925-0616 · Website: https://motherbethel.org/

Mother Bethel African Methodist Episcopal Church is part of the Methodist family of churches in The American Church Story. 1,293 congregations of the Methodist family gather across Pennsylvania — 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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