Allen Temple African Methodist Episcopal Church
Allen Temple African Methodist Episcopal Church is a African Methodist Episcopal church in Bessemer, AL 35020. It is one of 167 churches in Bessemer.
Bessemer, AL, 35020Phone: (800) 992-5285 · Website: http://www.amecdaii.org/
Allen Temple 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 Allen Temple African Methodist Episcopal Church
Within about a mile of this church, more than 7 in 10 the children here are growing up below the poverty line. Nearly half of adults live with obesity, and nearly half of households aren't sure there will be enough to eat. That is two thousand 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: 75.5%
- Obesity: 50.5%
- Food Insecurity: 47.2%
- Social Isolation: 42.5%
- Poverty Rate: 40.3% (24.2–56.4%)
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 38.4%
- Housing Insecurity: 31.9%
- Diabetes: 26.9%
- Utility Shutoff Threat: 26.1%
- Transportation Barriers: 22.7%
- Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 31.6%
- Unemployment: 8.6% (2.2–16.4%)
- Uninsured Adults 18-64: 16.2%
- Uninsured All Ages (Census): 13.8% (6.6–21.0%)
Source: U.S. Census Bureau, CDC PLACES (2019-2023, 2023), aggregated across 4 census tracts near this church.
Bessemer city is served by 71 churches — about one congregation for every 425 residents.
Churches near Allen Temple African Methodist Episcopal Church
- New Zion Baptist Church — 0.2 mi away
- Saint Paul Spiritual Church — 0.2 mi away
- Jerusalem Baptist Church — 0.2 mi away
- Restoration Revival Tabernacle — 0.3 mi away
- Zion Lutheran Church — 0.3 mi away
- Saint Francis of Assisi Catholic Church — 0.3 mi away
- First Baptist Church Carver — 0.3 mi away
- Genesis United Apostolic Church — 0.3 mi away
- Zion Life — 0.3 mi away
- Sherman L. Young Ministries — 0.3 mi away
More Methodist churches nearby
- Pettys African Methodist Episcopal Zion Chapel — 0.4 mi away
- Porters Chapel Christian Methodist Episcopal Church — 0.4 mi away
- UNITY CME Church - Bessemer — 0.4 mi away
- Greater Saint Pauls Christian Methodist Episcopal Church — 0.5 mi away
- Morning Star United Methodist Church — 0.7 mi away