Bethel AME Church
Bethel AME Church is a African Methodist Episcopal church at 816 West Laurel Boulevard in Pottsville, PA 17901. It is one of 23 churches in Pottsville.
Serving since 1816
816 West Laurel Boulevard, Pottsville, PA, 17901Service times
Sundays?Yes! Our youth group, called BB Scholars, meets twice a month on 2nd & 4th Sundays from 11:00 AM (as listed)
Phone: (617) 524-7900 · Website: http://www.bethelame.org/
Bethel 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.
Ministries at Bethel AME Church
- Youth and Family Ministry
- Wellness Initiatives
- Grassroots Advocacy
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The community around Bethel AME Church
Within a few blocks of these doors, more than 4 in 10 adults live with obesity. Nearly a quarter of adults here carry depression, and nearly a quarter describe their own health as fair or poor. That is two thousand neighbors — and some of them are already in these pews.
Pray for healing in the homes around this building, and for this church to be known as a place to bring what hurts.
- Obesity: 42.7%
- Depression: 27.8%
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 27.6%
- Poverty Rate: 24.5% (14.5–34.5%)
- Child Poverty: 25.8% (11.0–40.6%)
- Diabetes: 13.4%
- Unemployment: 7.8% (3.1–12.4%)
Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2022, 2019-2023), aggregated across 2 census tracts near this church.
Pottsville city is served by 17 churches — about one congregation for every 787 residents.
Churches near Bethel AME Church
- Saint Ann's Cathedral Palestinian Orthodox — 0.2 mi away
- Salvation Army — 0.2 mi away
- First United Methodist Church — 0.3 mi away
- Trinity Lutheran Church — 0.3 mi away
- Trinity United Church of Christ — 0.3 mi away
- First Baptist Church — 0.4 mi away
- Saint John the Baptist Catholic Church — 0.4 mi away
- Saved By Grace Bible Church — 0.4 mi away
- Seventh-Day Adventist Church — 0.4 mi away
- Saint Patrick Catholic Church — 0.4 mi away
More Methodist churches nearby
- First United Methodist Church — 0.3 mi away
- Grace United Methodist Church — 2 mi away in Port Carbon, PA
- First United Methodist Church — 2 mi away in Port Carbon, PA
- St. Clair-Wade United Methodist Church — 2.5 mi away in Saint Clair, PA
- First Primitive Methodist Church — 2.6 mi away in St. Clair, PA
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