Bethel African Methodist Episcopal Church
Bethel African Methodist Episcopal Church is a Methodist church in Chattanooga, TN 37404. It is one of 478 churches in Chattanooga, and one of 23 Methodist congregations in the city.
Chattanooga, TN, 37404Website: http://www.bethelamechatt.com/
Bethel African Methodist Episcopal Church is part of the Methodist family of churches in The American Church Story. 1,082 congregations of the Methodist family gather across Tennessee — 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 Bethel African Methodist Episcopal Church
Within about a mile of this church, more than 4 in 10 adults live with obesity. About a third describe their own health as fair or poor, and nearly a quarter of adults live with diabetes. 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: 46.8%
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 35.1%
- Diabetes: 22.5%
- Poverty Rate: 27.0% (14.0–40.0%)
- Unemployment: 8.2% (2.3–14.0%)
- Depression: 24.7%
- Uninsured Adults 18-64: 16.0%
- Uninsured All Ages (Census): 12.8% (6.9–18.8%)
Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 3 census tracts near this church.
Chattanooga city is served by 236 churches — about one congregation for every 791 residents.
Churches near Bethel African Methodist Episcopal Church
- Galilee Missionary Baptist Church — 0 mi away
- Transfiguration Church — 0.1 mi away
- Rose of Sharon Baptist Church — 0.2 mi away
- House of God Church — 0.2 mi away
- Allen's Temple AME Church — 0.2 mi away
- Prospect Baptist Church — 0.2 mi away
- Stanley United Methodist Church — 0.3 mi away
- Orchard Park Seventh-day Adventist Church — 0.3 mi away
- Thankful Missionary Baptist Church — 0.3 mi away
- Greater Community Church of Chattanooga — 0.3 mi away
More Methodist churches nearby
- Stanley United Methodist Church — 0.3 mi away
- Cleages Chapel African Methodist Episcopal Zion Church — 0.5 mi away
- Asbury United Methodist Church — 0.9 mi away
- Ridgedale United Methodist Church — 1.6 mi away
- Thompkin Chapel African Methodist Episcopal Zion Church — 1.7 mi away
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