Greater Bethel African Methodist Episcopal Church
Greater Bethel African Methodist Episcopal Church is a African Methodist Episcopal church in Kingstree, SC 29556. It is one of 64 churches in Kingstree.
Kingstree, SC, 29556Website: http://greaterbethelame.us/
Greater 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 Greater Bethel African Methodist Episcopal Church
It takes 2.9 miles in every direction to gather two thousand neighbors around this church. Among the people scattered across those miles, more than 4 in 10 adults live with obesity, and about a third of households aren't sure there will be enough to eat, and about 1 in 5 adults live with diabetes. A scattered parish is still a parish.
Pray for the families driving a long way to everything — to work, to a hospital, to this door on a Sunday morning.
- Obesity: 45.4%
- Food Insecurity: 30.3%
- Diabetes: 20.8%
- Social Isolation: 35.9%
- Child Poverty: 34.5% (18.0–52.4%)
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 29.3%
- Poverty Rate: 25.4% (13.8–37.1%)
- Housing Insecurity: 22.0%
- Utility Shutoff Threat: 15.7%
- Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 29.6%
- Uninsured Adults 18-64: 13.8%
- Transportation Barriers: 13.5%
- Unemployment: 7.7% (1.2–14.2%)
Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 4 census tracts near this church.
Churches near Greater Bethel African Methodist Episcopal Church
- Old Mt Zion CME Zion — 0.1 mi away
- Mount Zion United Methodist Church — 0.1 mi away
- Saint Marys Holiness Church — 0.3 mi away
- Saint Albans Episcopal Church — 0.3 mi away
- Williamsburg Presbyterian Church — 0.4 mi away
- First Baptist Church — 0.4 mi away
- Kingstree United Methodist Church — 0.5 mi away
- Saint Anns Catholic Church — 0.7 mi away
- St Ann Catholic Church — 0.7 mi away
- Praise Tabernacle Church — 0.8 mi away
More Methodist churches nearby
- Mount Zion United Methodist Church — 0.1 mi away
- Kingstree United Methodist Church — 0.5 mi away
- Salters Methodist Church — 4.6 mi away in Salters, SC
- St Paul United Methodist Church — 5.6 mi away
- Millwood United Methodist Church — 6.8 mi away
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