Bethel United Methodist Church
Bethel United Methodist Church is a United Methodist church in Chester, SC 29706. It is one of 85 churches in Chester, and one of 4 United Methodist congregations in the city.
Chester, SC, 29706Service times
- Sunday 11am · Worship
Phone: (803) 385-3266 · Website: http://www.umcbethel.org/
Bethel United Methodist 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 United Methodist Church
Within about a mile of this church, more than 3 in 10 households aren't sure there will be enough to eat. About a third describe their own health as fair or poor, and nearly a quarter of adults are worried about keeping the housing they have. That is two thousand neighbors — and some of them are already in these pews.
Pray for the tables that run short before the month does, and for this church's table to be long.
- Food Insecurity: 39.1%
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 33.8%
- Housing Insecurity: 27.4%
- Diabetes: 21.9%
- Utility Shutoff Threat: 21.1%
- Obesity: 44.5%
- Social Isolation: 38.2%
- Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 31.0%
- Poverty Rate: 25.4% (15.4–35.4%)
- Transportation Barriers: 18.1%
- Uninsured Adults 18-64: 17.7%
- Uninsured All Ages (Census): 16.5% (9.4–23.5%)
- Unemployment: 9.7% (2.8–16.6%)
Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 3 census tracts near this church.
Chester city is served by 14 churches — about one congregation for every 368 residents.
Churches near Bethel United Methodist Church
- Chester Associate Reformed Presbyterian Church — 0.1 mi away
- Temple of Praise — 0.1 mi away
- Chester ARP Church — 0.1 mi away
- Purity Presbyterian Church — 0.1 mi away
- The City of Hope Worship Center — 0.1 mi away
- Well Of Water Worship Center — 0.1 mi away
- Word and Spirit Christian Fellowship — 0.2 mi away
- First Baptist Church — 0.2 mi away
- Saint Josephs Catholic Church — 0.3 mi away
- Saint Marks Episcopal Church — 0.3 mi away
More Methodist churches nearby
- Chester ARP Church — 0.1 mi away
- Brooklyn African Methodist Episcopal Church — 0.6 mi away
- Metropolitan African Methodist Episcopal Church — 0.6 mi away
- Wesley Memorial United Methodist — 1.1 mi away
- Armenia Church — 6.3 mi away
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