Bethel African Methodist Episcopal Church

Bethel African Methodist Episcopal Church is a church in Parkersburg, WV 26101. It is one of 120 churches in Parkersburg.

Parkersburg, WV, 26101

Bethel African Methodist Episcopal Church is part of the Methodist family of churches in The American Church Story. 689 congregations of the Methodist family gather across West 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.

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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. More than a third of the children here are growing up below the poverty line, and more than a third of adults here carry depression. 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: 49.0%
Child Poverty: 42.6% (28.0–57.9%)
Depression: 36.0%
Fair/Poor Health Status: 34.2%
Poverty Rate: 32.3% (23.0–41.6%)
Food Insecurity: 27.9%
Diabetes: 18.5%
Utility Shutoff Threat: 18.1%
Unemployment: 15.2% (8.7–22.0%)
Social Isolation: 36.0%
Housing Insecurity: 19.6%
Transportation Barriers: 14.6%

Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 5 census tracts near this church.

Parkersburg city is served by 62 churches — about one congregation for every 506 residents.

Churches near Bethel African Methodist Episcopal Church

Zion Baptist Church — 0 mi away
First Baptist Church — 0.2 mi away
Calvary Temple Evangelical Church — 0.2 mi away
St. Patrick's Anglican Church — 0.2 mi away
Saint Francis Xavier Catholic Church — 0.2 mi away
High On Hope Ministries — 0.3 mi away
Downtown Bethel House of God — 0.3 mi away
First United Methodist Church — 0.3 mi away
Salvation Army — 0.3 mi away
Bethany United Methodist Church — 0.3 mi away

More Methodist churches nearby

First United Methodist Church — 0.3 mi away
Bethany United Methodist Church — 0.3 mi away
Saint Pauls United Methodist Church — 0.3 mi away
Logan Memorial United Methodist — 0.4 mi away
Christ United Methodist Church — 0.7 mi away

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