Bethel AME Church
Bethel AME Church is a African Methodist Episcopal church at 1103 Laird Ave in Parkersburg, WV 26101-4924. It is one of 120 churches in Parkersburg.
Serving since 1816
1103 Laird Ave, Parkersburg, WV, 26101-4924Service times
Sundays?Yes! Our youth group, called BB Scholars, meets twice a month on 2nd & 4th Sundays from 11:00 AM (as listed)
Phone: (304) 485-9441 · Website: http://bethelame.org
Bethel AME 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.
Ministries at Bethel AME Church
- Youth Ministry
- Women's Ministry
- Men's Ministry
- Music Ministry
- Drama Ministry
- Dance Ministry
- Media Arts & Live Production
- Community Impact
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The community around Bethel AME Church
Within a few blocks of these doors, more than 6 in 10 the children here are growing up below the poverty line. Nearly half of adults live with obesity, and more than a third of adults here carry depression. That is 2,200 neighbors — and some of them are already in these pews.
Pray for the households stretched past their means, and for this church to know their names.
- Child Poverty: 61.1% (41.6–80.6%)
- Obesity: 49.3%
- Depression: 36.2%
- Poverty Rate: 35.6% (25.6–45.7%)
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 33.9%
- Food Insecurity: 28.0%
- Diabetes: 18.4%
- Utility Shutoff Threat: 18.4%
- Unemployment: 17.2% (10.0–24.4%)
- Social Isolation: 35.8%
- Housing Insecurity: 19.7%
- Transportation Barriers: 14.7%
Source: U.S. Census Bureau, CDC PLACES (2019-2023, 2023), aggregated across 3 census tracts near this church.
Churches near Bethel AME Church
- Memorial Church of the Good Shepherd — 0.2 mi away
- Life Church — 0.2 mi away
- Stephenson Memorial United Methodist Church — 0.2 mi away
- Christ Gospel Church — 0.2 mi away
- Zion Baptist Church — 0.3 mi away
- Liberty Street Church of God — 0.3 mi away
- Church of Christ — 0.3 mi away
- Bethany United Methodist Church — 0.3 mi away
- Gateway Apostolic Church — 0.4 mi away
- First Assembly of God Church — 0.4 mi away
More Methodist churches nearby
- Stephenson Memorial United Methodist Church — 0.2 mi away
- Bethany United Methodist Church — 0.3 mi away
- Christ United Methodist Church — 0.5 mi away
- Bethel African Methodist Episcopal Church — 0.6 mi away
- Saint Pauls United Methodist Church — 0.6 mi away
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