Bethel United Methodist Church
Bethel United Methodist Church is a Methodist church in Memphis, TN 38112. It is one of 1,544 churches in Memphis, and one of 86 Methodist congregations in the city.
Memphis, TN, 38112Bethel United Methodist 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.
Find Bethel United Methodist Church on The Church Map, explore nearby congregations, and pray for its community.
The community around Bethel United Methodist Church
Within a few blocks of these doors, more than 3 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: 46.6%
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 34.6%
- Poverty Rate: 31.1% (18.8–43.4%)
- Diabetes: 21.9%
- Unemployment: 14.8% (3.9–25.7%)
- Uninsured Adults 18-64: 18.3%
- Uninsured All Ages (Census): 18.0% (11.6–24.5%)
- Depression: 25.7%
Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 4 census tracts near this church.
Memphis city is served by 1,033 churches — about one congregation for every 596 residents.
Churches near Bethel United Methodist Church
- Early Grove Baptist Church — 0.1 mi away
- Bethany Temple Church of God in Christ Holiness — 0.2 mi away
- First Baptist Church - Broad — 0.2 mi away
- Old Salem Baptist Church — 0.2 mi away
- Rock of Calvary;New Tyler African Methodist Episcopal Church — 0.2 mi away
- Carpenter Street Church of Christ — 0.2 mi away
- Second Bethany Holiness Ministry Church — 0.3 mi away
- Centro Internacional de Amistad — 0.3 mi away
- Rock of Ages Christian Methodist Episcopal Church — 0.3 mi away
- Faith Christian Church - Memphis, TN — 0.3 mi away
More Methodist churches nearby
- Rock of Calvary;New Tyler African Methodist Episcopal Church — 0.2 mi away
- Rock of Ages Christian Methodist Episcopal Church — 0.3 mi away
- Everett Memorial United Methodist Church — 0.7 mi away
- Springdale United Methodist Church — 0.9 mi away
- United Methodist Neighborhood Centers of Memphis — 0.9 mi away