Albright-Bethune United Methodist Church
Albright-Bethune United Methodist Church is a Methodist church at 206 South Burrowes Street in State College, PA 16801. It is one of 64 churches in State College, and one of 4 Methodist congregations in the city.
Today, Albright-Bethune UMC exists to provide worship experiences drawing strongly on the African American tradition, and open to worshipers of diverse cultures and ethnicities.
Albright-Bethune United Methodist Church has a long, rich history that began in 1915 when an Evangelical Church with a mission to minister to college students was formed.
Serving since 1915
206 South Burrowes Street, State College, PA, 16801Service times
- Sunday 11am · School begins
Website: http://www.albrightbethuneumc.org/
Shares a ministry location with Emmanuel Lutheran Church.
Albright-Bethune United Methodist 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 Albright-Bethune United Methodist Church
Within a few blocks of these doors, more than 5 in 10 renting households pay over half of everything they earn just to keep a roof over them. About 2 in 3 the people here live below the poverty line, and about a third of adults here carry depression. 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.
- Poverty Rate: 68.5%
- Depression: 33.0%
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 22.7%
Source: U.S. Census Bureau, CDC PLACES (2019-2023, 2022), aggregated across 5 census tracts near this church.
State College borough is served by 19 churches — about one congregation for every 2,152 residents.
Churches near Albright-Bethune United Methodist Church
- Emmanuel Lutheran Church — 0 mi away
- State College Presbyterian Church — 0.1 mi away
- Saint Andrew's Episcopal Church — 0.1 mi away
- University Baptist and Brethren Church — 0.2 mi away
- Holy Trinity Orthodox Church — 0.3 mi away
- Unity Church of Jesus Christ — 0.3 mi away
- Saint Paul's United Methodist Church — 0.4 mi away
- Faith United Church of Christ — 0.4 mi away
- State College Access Church Mailing Address — 0.4 mi away
- Trailblazers Church of State College — 0.4 mi away
More Methodist churches nearby
- Saint Paul's United Methodist Church — 0.4 mi away
- Mount Nittany United Methodist Church — 2.1 mi away
- Woodycrest United Methodist Church — 2.3 mi away
- Park Forest Village United Methodist Church — 2.4 mi away
- Houserville United Methodist Church — 2.9 mi away
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