El Bethel United Methodist Church
El Bethel United Methodist Church is a United Methodist church at 820 South Church Street in Spartanburg, SC 29306. It is one of 269 churches in Spartanburg, and one of 6 United Methodist congregations in the city.
820 South Church Street, Spartanburg, SC, 29306El 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 El Bethel United Methodist Church
Within about a mile of this church, more than 2 in 10 renting households pay over half of everything they earn just to keep a roof over them. Nearly half of adults live with obesity, and more than a third of households aren't sure there will be enough to eat. That is two thousand 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.
- Obesity: 48.6%
- Food Insecurity: 40.3%
- Poverty Rate: 36.1% (25.8–46.4%)
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 34.4%
- Housing Insecurity: 28.9%
- Diabetes: 22.7%
- Utility Shutoff Threat: 22.4%
- Child Poverty: 39.8% (23.1–56.6%)
- Social Isolation: 37.2%
- Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 31.9%
- Transportation Barriers: 19.4%
- Uninsured Adults 18-64: 18.4%
- Depression: 23.3%
- Unemployment: 7.9% (2.5–13.4%)
Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 5 census tracts near this church.
Spartanburg city is served by 75 churches — about one congregation for every 514 residents.
Churches near El Bethel United Methodist Church
- Church of God — 0.1 mi away
- Victory Baptist Church — 0.2 mi away
- United House of Prayer For All People — 0.3 mi away
- New Faith International Church — 0.5 mi away
- Mercy Temple Church of God — 0.5 mi away
- Mount Moriah Baptist Church — 0.7 mi away
- Kingdom Hall of Jehovah’s Witnesses — 0.7 mi away
- Anointed Connect Church Inc — 0.7 mi away
- Believers' Fellowship Assembly — 0.8 mi away
- Maxwell Chapel Baptist Church — 0.8 mi away
More Methodist churches nearby
- Bethel United Methodist Church — 1 mi away
- Silver Hill Memorial United Methodist Church — 1.2 mi away
- Central United Methodist Church — 1.5 mi away
- Smith Memorial African Methodist Episcopal Church — 1.5 mi away
- Metropolitan African Methodist Episcopal Zion Church — 1.8 mi away
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