Bethel African Methodist Episcopal Church
Bethel African Methodist Episcopal Church is a African Methodist Episcopal church at 810 South Fant Street in Anderson, SC 29624. It is one of 217 churches in Anderson, and one of 2 African Methodist Episcopal congregations in the city.
810 South Fant Street, Anderson, SC, 29624Phone: (803) 935-0500 · Website: https://www.amec7.com/
Bethel African Methodist Episcopal Church is part of the Methodist family of churches in The American Church Story. 853 congregations of the Methodist family gather across South Carolina — 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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The community around Bethel African Methodist Episcopal Church
Within about a mile of this church, more than 3 in 10 renting households pay over half of everything they earn just to keep a roof over them. About 2 in 3 the children here are growing up below the poverty line, and nearly half of adults live with obesity. 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.
- Child Poverty: 62.6% (44.4–80.8%)
- Obesity: 49.1%
- Food Insecurity: 45.5%
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 39.9%
- Poverty Rate: 35.7% (23.4–48.1%)
- Housing Insecurity: 30.8%
- Utility Shutoff Threat: 24.7%
- Diabetes: 24.2%
- Uninsured All Ages (Census): 20.5% (12.0–29.0%)
- Social Isolation: 39.6%
- Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 32.0%
- Uninsured Adults 18-64: 21.7%
- Transportation Barriers: 21.1%
- Unemployment: 8.6% (2.3–15.4%)
- Depression: 25.7%
Source: U.S. Census Bureau, CDC PLACES (2019-2023, 2023), aggregated across 5 census tracts near this church.
Anderson city is served by 48 churches — about one congregation for every 627 residents.
Churches near Bethel African Methodist Episcopal Church
- Grace Episcopal Church — 0.1 mi away
- River of Life Church of God — 0.2 mi away
- Royal Baptist Church — 0.2 mi away
- Saint Johns United Methodist Church — 0.2 mi away
- United House of Prayer — 0.3 mi away
- River Street Baptist Church — 0.3 mi away
- First Baptist Church — 0.3 mi away
- Thompson Centennial Methodist Church — 0.4 mi away
- Total Life Restoration Ministries — 0.4 mi away in Iva, SC
- Grace Church — 0.4 mi away
More Methodist churches nearby
- Saint Johns United Methodist Church — 0.2 mi away
- Thompson Centennial Methodist Church — 0.4 mi away
- Mt Carmel Christian Methodist Episcopal Church — 0.5 mi away
- Toxaway United Methodist Church — 0.8 mi away
- South Main Chapel & Mercy Center — 1.1 mi away
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