Bethel African Methodist Episcopal Church
Bethel African Methodist Episcopal Church is a African Methodist Episcopal church at 217 Hamlet Street in Union, SC 29379. It is one of 75 churches in Union.
Serving since 1787
217 Hamlet Street, Union, SC, 29379Service times
- Tuesday 6pm · Evenings
Phone: (410) 922-3286 · Website: https://unionbethelamec.org/
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 Bethel African Methodist Episcopal Church
Within about a mile of this church, more than 4 in 10 adults live with obesity. About a third of households aren't sure there will be enough to eat, and about a third describe their own health as fair or poor. That is 2,100 neighbors — and some of them are already in these pews.
Pray for healing in the homes around this building, and for this church to be known as a place to bring what hurts.
- Obesity: 47.7%
- Food Insecurity: 34.9%
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 34.0%
- Poverty Rate: 30.7% (21.5–39.9%)
- Diabetes: 21.7%
- Utility Shutoff Threat: 18.5%
- Unemployment: 14.5% (7.1–22.0%)
- Social Isolation: 35.2%
- Child Poverty: 32.5% (17.3–47.7%)
- Housing Insecurity: 24.2%
- Uninsured Adults 18-64: 17.0%
- Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 28.5%
- Depression: 23.6%
- Transportation Barriers: 16.5%
- Uninsured All Ages (Census): 11.2% (5.9–16.4%)
Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 3 census tracts near this church.
Union city is served by 20 churches — about one congregation for every 249 residents.
Churches near Bethel African Methodist Episcopal Church
- Saint Paul Baptist Church — 0.1 mi away
- Grace United Methodist Church — 0.3 mi away
- First Baptist Church of Union — 0.3 mi away
- Episcopal Church of the Nativity — 0.4 mi away
- Saint Augustine Catholic Church — 0.5 mi away
- First Presbyterian Church — 0.5 mi away
- Church of Christ — 0.5 mi away
- Tabernacle Baptist Church — 0.6 mi away
- Church of God — 0.6 mi away
- Corinth Baptist Church — 0.6 mi away
More Methodist churches nearby
- Grace United Methodist Church — 0.3 mi away
- Unity United Methodist Church — 0.8 mi away
- Duncan Acres United Methodist Church — 1 mi away
- Bethel United Methodist Church — 1 mi away
- Antioch AME Church — 1.7 mi away
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