Bethel African Methodist Episcopal Church
Bethel African Methodist Episcopal Church is a Methodist church at 458-0949184 Kelley Street in Harrisonburg, VA 22802. It is one of 103 churches in Harrisonburg, and one of 5 Methodist congregations in the city.
Serving the Community with C.A.R.E. Compassion-Acceptance-Reconciliation-Empowerment
Bethel AME Church, Harrisonburg, VA, is a historic church in the heart of Harrisonburg since 1856.
458-0949184 Kelley Street, Harrisonburg, VA, 22802Service times
- Wednesday 7pm · Starting
Phone: (929) 205-6099 · Website: https://bethelameharrisonb.wixsite.com/website
Bethel African Methodist Episcopal Church is part of the Methodist family of churches in The American Church Story. 970 congregations of the Methodist family gather across Virginia — 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 African Methodist Episcopal Church on The Church Map, explore nearby congregations, and pray for its community.
The community around Bethel African Methodist Episcopal Church
Within a few blocks of these doors, more than 3 in 10 adults say they are socially isolated. About a third of the children here are growing up below the poverty line, and nearly a quarter of households aren't sure there will be enough to eat. That is two thousand neighbors — and some of them are already in these pews.
Pray for the lonely within reach of this door, and for a congregation that notices.
- Social Isolation: 36.3%
- Child Poverty: 34.0% (17.5–50.4%)
- Food Insecurity: 23.8%
- Uninsured Adults 18-64: 17.1%
- Obesity: 39.2%
- Depression: 25.1%
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 24.3%
- Poverty Rate: 21.6% (14.4–28.9%)
- Housing Insecurity: 18.7%
- Utility Shutoff Threat: 11.9%
Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 2 census tracts near this church.
Harrisonburg city is served by 38 churches — about one congregation for every 1,362 residents.
Churches near Bethel African Methodist Episcopal Church
- Church of God in Christ — 0.1 mi away
- First Baptist Church — 0.1 mi away
- Pentecostal Tabernacle — 0.1 mi away
- Breaking Chains Ministries — 0.1 mi away
- Gay Street Mission Pentecostal Church — 0.1 mi away
- John Wesley Methodist Church — 0.1 mi away
- Broad Street Mennonite Church — 0.1 mi away
- Immanuel Mennonite Church — 0.2 mi away
- Kingdom Hall of Jehovahs Witnesses — 0.3 mi away
- Catholic Church of the Blessed Sacrament — 0.4 mi away
More Methodist churches nearby
- John Wesley Methodist Church — 0.1 mi away
- Rise — 0.6 mi away
- Otterbein United Methodist Church — 0.7 mi away
- Asbury United Methodist Church — 0.7 mi away
- Cedar Grove United Methodist Church — 1.5 mi away
See all churches in Harrisonburg, VA · All churches in Virginia