Bethel AME Church
Bethel AME Church is a African Methodist Episcopal church at County Jail, 101 Ridge St in St George, SC 29477-2443. It is one of 31 churches in St George.
County Jail, 101 Ridge St, St George, SC, 29477-2443Phone: (843) 563-4043 · Website: https://bethelamestgeorge.weebly.com/
Bethel AME Church is part of the Methodist family of churches in The American Church Story. 898 congregations of the Methodist family gather across South Carolina — 25,985 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.
Ministries at Bethel AME Church
- Food Bank
- Medical Ministry
- Warming Shelter
- Food Bank and Fresh Express
- Medical Ministries
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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
More Methodist churches nearby
- Saint George United Methodist Church — 0.5 mi away in Saint George, SC
- New Grace United Methodist Church — 4.3 mi away
- Indian Field Church — 5 mi away
- Grover Methodist Episcopal Church South — 5.7 mi away
- Shady Grove United Methodist Church — 6.3 mi away
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