Bethel Ame Church
Bethel Ame Church is a Methodist church at 716 North Washington Avenue in Scranton, PA 18509. It is one of 88 churches in Scranton, and one of 3 Methodist congregations in the city.
The AME Church is the oldest organized church denomination founded and established by men and women of African decent but this in no way means that our church is a church that ministers only to African Americans.
716 North Washington Avenue, Scranton, PA, 18509Website: http://www.bethelame.weebly.com/
Bethel Ame Church is part of the Methodist family of churches in The American Church Story.
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The community around Bethel 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. Nearly a quarter describe their own health as fair or poor, and nearly a quarter of the people here live below the poverty line. That is 2,300 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.
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 26.6%
- Poverty Rate: 25.7% (16.6–34.8%)
- Child Poverty: 24.4% (8.3–40.5%)
- Depression: 23.2%
- Diabetes: 14.9%
Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2022, 2019-2023), aggregated across 3 census tracts near this church.
Scranton city is served by 33 churches — about one congregation for every 2,306 residents.
Churches near Bethel Ame Church
- Church of Bible Understanding — 0.2 mi away
- Indonesian Full Gospel Fellowship — 0.2 mi away
- Annunciation Greek Orthodox Church — 0.2 mi away
- St. Nicholas Orthodox Greek Catholic Church — 0.2 mi away
- Covenant Presbyterian Church — 0.3 mi away
- The Manse;Westminster Presbyterian Church — 0.3 mi away
- St Matthew's United Evangelical Lutheran — 0.3 mi away
- Saint Johns Lutheran Church — 0.3 mi away
- Madonna Della Strada Chapel — 0.4 mi away
- Saint Peter's Cathedral — 0.5 mi away