Bethel African Methodist Episcopal Church
Bethel African Methodist Episcopal Church is a church in Parkersburg, WV 26101. It is one of 111 churches in Parkersburg.
Parkersburg, WV, 26101Bethel African Methodist Episcopal Church is part of the Methodist family of churches in The American Church Story.
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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