Bethlehem AME Church
Bethlehem AME Church is a African Methodist Episcopal church at 3694 Riverfork Road in Waterloo, SC 29384. It is one of 11 churches in Waterloo, and one of 2 African Methodist Episcopal congregations in the city.
3694 Riverfork Road, Waterloo, SC, 29384Bethlehem 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.
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The community around Bethlehem AME Church
It takes 3.0 miles in every direction to gather two thousand neighbors around this church. Among the people scattered across those miles, about 1 in 7 adults live with diabetes, and about a third of adults say they are socially isolated, and nearly a quarter of adults here carry depression. 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.
- Diabetes: 15.6%
- Social Isolation: 31.8%
- Depression: 24.3%
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 23.1%
- Food Insecurity: 18.0%
Source: CDC PLACES (2023), aggregated across 4 census tracts near this church.
Churches near Bethlehem AME Church
- New Beginning Baptist Church — 0.8 mi away
- Bethlehem Union Church — 0.9 mi away
- Lakeview Church — 1.7 mi away in Greenwood, SC
- Rosemont Baptist Church — 2.1 mi away
- MX Racing — 2.1 mi away
- Smyrna AME Church — 2.3 mi away
- Reedy Grove Pentecostal Holiness Church — 2.7 mi away
- Laurel Hill Baptist Church — 2.8 mi away
- Waterloo United Methodist Church — 3.2 mi away
- Holy Spring Church — 3.4 mi away in Hodges, SC
More Methodist churches nearby
- Smyrna AME Church — 2.3 mi away
- Waterloo United Methodist Church — 3.2 mi away
- The Connection — 4.8 mi away in Greenwood, SC
- Saint Paul African Methodist Episcopal Church — 6.4 mi away in Hodges, SC
- Cokesbury United Methodist Church — 6.8 mi away in Hodges, SC
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