Forehand African Methodist Episcopal Church
Forehand African Methodist Episcopal Church is a church in AL 36444.
AL, 36444Forehand African Methodist Episcopal Church is part of the Methodist family of churches in The American Church Story. 1,333 congregations of the Methodist family gather across Alabama — 25,370 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 Forehand African Methodist Episcopal Church
It takes 7.7 miles in every direction to gather two thousand neighbors around this church. Among the people scattered across those miles, more than 4 in 10 adults live with obesity, and about a third describe their own health as fair or poor, and about a third of households aren't sure there will be enough to eat. A scattered parish is still a parish.
Pray for the families driving a long way to everything — to work, to a hospital, to this door on a Sunday morning.
- Obesity: 45.8%
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 32.6%
- Food Insecurity: 31.2%
- Diabetes: 21.2%
- Social Isolation: 37.5%
- Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 30.1%
- Housing Insecurity: 21.3%
- Utility Shutoff Threat: 15.5%
- Poverty Rate: 19.6% (11.1–28.0%)
- Transportation Barriers: 14.7%
- Uninsured All Ages (Census): 14.3% (6.2–22.5%)
- Unemployment: 7.9% (2.1–14.8%)
Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 5 census tracts near this church.
Churches near Forehand African Methodist Episcopal Church
- Eureka Baptist Church — 0.7 mi away
- Pilgrim Rest Church — 1.2 mi away
- Good Hope Church — 2 mi away
- Franklin Church — 3.6 mi away
- Faith Chapel — 4.2 mi away
- Mount Ararat Church — 4.4 mi away
- Carry Mount Baptist Church — 4.5 mi away in Monroeville, AL
- Victoria Church — 4.6 mi away in Monroeville, AL
- Fountain Church — 4.9 mi away in Monroeville, AL
- Antioch Baptist Church Tunnel Springs — 5 mi away in Monroeville, AL
More Methodist churches nearby
- Hopewell Christian Methodist Episcopal Church — 11 mi away in Monroeville, AL
- New Liberty African Methodist Episcopal Church — 11.4 mi away in Beatrice, AL
- First United Methodist Church — 11.8 mi away in Monroeville, AL
- Weighman Chapel African Methodist Episcopal Zion Church — 12.9 mi away
- Centerline Methodist Church — 13.8 mi away