Bethel African Methodist Episcopal Church
Bethel African Methodist Episcopal Church is a Methodist church in Memphis, TN 38114. It is one of 1,544 churches in Memphis, and one of 86 Methodist congregations in the city.
To minister to the spiritual, social, and physical needs of God’s people as prescribed by the teaching and preaching of Jesus Christ.
Bethel African Methodist Episcopal Church was organized in the early spring or late winter of 1894 under the leadership of Reverend H.P. Burton.
Serving since 1894
Memphis, TN, 38114Website: https://www.bethelamememphis.church/
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.
Ministries at Bethel African Methodist Episcopal Church
- Newsletter
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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 about a third of the people here live below the poverty line. That is two thousand 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: 47.6%
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 35.2%
- Poverty Rate: 34.6% (22.6–46.6%)
- Diabetes: 24.8%
- Uninsured Adults 18-64: 15.8%
- Unemployment: 7.7% (0.9–14.5%)
Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 3 census tracts near this church.
Memphis city is served by 1,033 churches — about one congregation for every 596 residents.
Churches near Bethel African Methodist Episcopal Church
- Friendship Missionary Baptist Church — 0.1 mi away
- The Truth Church — 0.2 mi away
- Divine Life Church — 0.2 mi away
- Help Outreach Ministries — 0.2 mi away
- Evangelist Baptist Church — 0.3 mi away
- Gateway Church of God in Christ — 0.4 mi away
- Love Temple Church of God in Christ — 0.4 mi away
- New Bethel Full Gospel Baptist Church — 0.4 mi away
- Calvary New Life Temple Church of God in Christ — 0.6 mi away
- Castalia Baptist Church — 0.7 mi away
More Methodist churches nearby
- Prospect United Methodist Church — 1.4 mi away
- Moody Chapel Christian Methodist Episcopal Church — 1.6 mi away
- Rebecca Memorial United Methodist Church — 1.8 mi away
- Galilee African Methodist Episcopal Church — 2 mi away
- Pillow Street Christian Methodist Episcopal Church — 2 mi away