Bethel AME Church
Bethel AME Church is a African Methodist Episcopal church at 2460 Parkview Ave in Knoxville, TN 37917-8231. It is one of 684 churches in Knoxville, and one of 2 African Methodist Episcopal congregations in the city.
The Motto “God Our Father, Christ Our Redeemer, the Holy Spirit Our Comforter, Humankind Our Family” is a great summary of what the African Methodist Episcopal Church believes.
Wheelchair accessible
2460 Parkview Ave, Knoxville, TN, 37917-8231Service times
- Sunday 9:30am
Phone: (865) 444-1159 · Website: https://www.bethelameknox.org/
Bethel AME 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 AME Church
Within a few blocks of these doors, more than 2 in 10 renting households pay over half of everything they earn just to keep a roof over them. Nearly half of adults live with obesity, and about a third describe their own health as fair or poor. That is two thousand neighbors — and some of them are already in these pews.
Pray for the families one rent increase away from moving, and for this church to know their names.
- Obesity: 46.9%
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 35.1%
- Poverty Rate: 30.3% (21.0–39.6%)
- Diabetes: 21.8%
- Depression: 29.8%
- Child Poverty: 23.4% (11.6–35.5%)
- Uninsured Adults 18-64: 16.9%
- Uninsured All Ages (Census): 14.6% (8.1–21.1%)
- Unemployment: 7.9% (1.2–14.6%)
Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 5 census tracts near this church.
Churches near Bethel AME Church
- Edgewood Chapel A.M.E. Zion Church — 0.1 mi away
- Greater Shiloh PF Church of God — 0.1 mi away
- St Paul Baptist Church — 0.2 mi away
- Knoxville Baptist Tabernacle Church — 0.2 mi away
- Overcoming Believers — 0.2 mi away
- Fifth Avenue Baptist Church — 0.2 mi away
- Saint Luke's Episcopal Church — 0.3 mi away
- St John Baptist Church — 0.3 mi away
- Word of Faith Christian Center — 0.3 mi away
- Cherry Street Church Of God — 0.3 mi away
More Methodist churches nearby
- Church of God Sanctified — 0.4 mi away
- Magnolia Avenue United Methodist Church — 0.4 mi away
- Logan Temple African Methodist Episcopal Zion Church — 0.5 mi away
- First African Methodist Episcopal Zion Church — 0.7 mi away
- Lennon-Seney United Methodist Church — 0.8 mi away
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