Bethel AME Church

Ministries at Bethel AME Church

• Food Bank
• Medical Ministry
• Warming Shelter

The community around Bethel AME Church

It takes 3.1 miles in every direction to gather two thousand neighbors around this church. Among the people scattered across those miles, more than 2 in 10 renting households pay over half of everything they earn just to keep a roof over them, and about a third of the people here live below the poverty line, and nearly a quarter of households aren't sure there will be enough to eat. 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.

• Poverty Rate: 30.7% (20.5–40.9%)
• Food Insecurity: 27.7%
• Diabetes: 21.8%
• Uninsured All Ages (Census): 20.2% (13.0–27.5%)
• Obesity: 42.4%
• Social Isolation: 33.0%
• Fair/Poor Health Status: 29.8%
• Utility Shutoff Threat: 14.3%
• Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 26.4%
• Housing Insecurity: 19.4%
• Uninsured Adults 18-64: 14.7%
• Transportation Barriers: 13.1%

Source: U.S. Census Bureau, CDC PLACES (2019-2023, 2023), aggregated across 2 census tracts near this church.

Churches near Bethel AME Church

• Memorial Baptist Church — 0.3 mi away
• The Great Commission Church — 0.3 mi away
• Messiah Pointe Ministries — 0.3 mi away
• The Village Church of Saint George — 0.3 mi away
• Good Hope Baptist Church — 0.4 mi away in Saint George, SC
• Saint George United Methodist Church — 0.5 mi away in Saint George, SC
• Saint George Pentecostal Holiness Church — 0.7 mi away in Saint George, SC
• St. George Church of Christ — 0.7 mi away
• St George Church of God — 0.8 mi away
• Browns Chapel — 1.2 mi away