Bethel African Methodist Episcopal Church
Bethel African Methodist Episcopal Church is a African Methodist Episcopal church at 225 North Swiss Street in San Antonio, TX 78202. It is one of 1,662 churches in San Antonio, and one of 4 African Methodist Episcopal congregations in the city.
225 North Swiss Street, San Antonio, TX, 78202Service times
- Sunday 9:45am
Phone: (210) 227-2696 · Website: http://bethelamesatx.org/
Bethel African Methodist Episcopal Church is part of the Methodist family of churches in The American Church Story. 1,579 congregations of the Methodist family gather across Texas — 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
- AR Nelson Outreach
- Annie E. Hunt Women's Society
- Young People's & Children's Division
- Christian Social Action Ministry
- Hospitality Culinary Ministry
- Class Leaders Council
- Cultural Arts
- Church School
- Health Ministry
- Lay Organization
- Music Ministry
- Prayer Support
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The community around Bethel African Methodist Episcopal 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 a quarter of working-age adults live without health insurance, and more than a third of the children here are growing up below the poverty line. 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.
- Uninsured Adults 18-64: 23.6%
- Child Poverty: 36.6% (17.9–55.3%)
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 25.5%
- Poverty Rate: 25.4% (15.8–35.1%)
- Uninsured All Ages (Census): 18.1% (11.6–24.6%)
- Diabetes: 16.0%
- Obesity: 36.1%
- Unemployment: 7.9% (2.5–13.5%)
Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 4 census tracts near this church.
San Antonio city is served by 829 churches — about one congregation for every 1,707 residents.
Churches near Bethel African Methodist Episcopal Church
- Saint Paul United Methodist Church — 0.1 mi away
- City Church Downtown — 0.2 mi away
- City Tribe Church — 0.2 mi away
- BRCC Downtown Campus — 0.2 mi away
- New Testament Spirit of Life Church — 0.2 mi away
- Antioch Baptist Church — 0.3 mi away
- Saint Joseph's African Methodist Episcopal Church — 0.4 mi away
- New Testament Missionary Baptist Church — 0.4 mi away
- Church Under the Bridge — 0.5 mi away
- Mount Gilead Baptist Church — 0.5 mi away
More Methodist churches nearby
- Saint Paul United Methodist Church — 0.1 mi away
- Saint Joseph's African Methodist Episcopal Church — 0.4 mi away
- Porter Memorial Christian Methodist Episcopal Church — 0.9 mi away
- Travis Park United Methodist Church — 0.9 mi away
- Hodges Chapel AME Church — 1 mi away