{"id":42,"date":"2008-05-08T22:49:24","date_gmt":"2008-05-08T22:49:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thesoulpitt.com\/spiritual\/?p=42"},"modified":"2008-06-18T00:21:25","modified_gmt":"2008-06-18T00:21:25","slug":"church-spotlight-bethel-ame-church","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/thesoulpitt.com\/spiritual\/church-spotlight-bethel-ame-church\/","title":{"rendered":"Church Spotlight June 08:  Bethel AME Church"},"content":{"rendered":"<p align=\"center\"><strong>Bethel AME Church<br \/>\n2720 Webster Avenue Pittsburgh , PA 15219 (412)683-2160<br \/>\nRev. Nathaniel Colvin III, Pastor Rev. Nicole Colvin, Assoc. Pastor<\/strong><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thesoulpitt.com\/images\/bethelame200years.jpg\" alt=\"http:\/\/www.thesoulpitt.com\/images\/bethelame200years.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><strong>The FIRST AFRICAN METHODIST EPISCOPAL CHURCH West of the Allegheny Mountains and the OLDEST \u201cNegro\/Colored\u201d congregation in the City of Pittsburgh. <\/strong>In 1808 a Church known as the \u201cAfrican Church\u201d was organized in a home on Front Street. By 1812, there were twenty members in the Church. In 1818 three freedmen,James and George Coleman and Abraham Lewis organized a Sunday School in a home in an alley near the WayHouse located between Third and Fourth Avenues near Smithfield Street which is now known as the robust businesssection of downtown Pittsburgh. Bethel received its CHARTER in 1818.<br \/>\n<strong><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/http:\/\/www.bethel-ame-pgh.com\/index.php?p=1_2_CHURCH-HISTORY\">Click here to find out more about their history <\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bethel AME Church 2720 Webster Avenue Pittsburgh , PA 15219 (412)683-2160 Rev. Nathaniel Colvin III, Pastor Rev. Nicole Colvin, Assoc. Pastor The FIRST AFRICAN METHODIST EPISCOPAL CHURCH West of the Allegheny Mountains and the OLDEST \u201cNegro\/Colored\u201d congregation in the City of Pittsburgh. In 1808 a Church known as the \u201cAfrican Church\u201d was organized in a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-42","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-spiritual-events"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-04-28 12:40:40","action":"Draft","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/thesoulpitt.com\/spiritual\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/thesoulpitt.com\/spiritual\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/thesoulpitt.com\/spiritual\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/thesoulpitt.com\/spiritual\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/thesoulpitt.com\/spiritual\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=42"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/thesoulpitt.com\/spiritual\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/thesoulpitt.com\/spiritual\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=42"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/thesoulpitt.com\/spiritual\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=42"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/thesoulpitt.com\/spiritual\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=42"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}