Payne Chapel A.M.E. Church
Payne Chapel A.M.E. Church is a African Methodist Episcopal church at 1825 Center Way S in Birmingham, AL 35205-6310. It is one of 848 churches in Birmingham, and one of 8 African Methodist Episcopal congregations in the city.
The mission and purpose of Payne Chapel African Methodist Episcopal Church is to minister to the spiritual, intellectual, physical, emotional, and environmental needs of all people by spreading Christ’s liberating gospel through witnessing and service.
1825 Center Way S, Birmingham, AL, 35205-6310Service times
- Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday 9am
Phone: (205) 251-3412 · Website: https://www.paynechapelamechurch.org/leadership
Payne Chapel A.M.E. Church is part of the Methodist family of churches in The American Church Story. 1,361 congregations of the Methodist family gather across Alabama — 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 Payne Chapel A.M.E. Church
- Feeding the hungry
- Clothing closet
- Shelter
- Support for the fallen
- Job assistance
- Prison ministry
- Economic advancement
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Latest from Payne Chapel AME COS's YouTube channel: September 13 , 2026 "Investing in your Eternity. What's in your Account?" Evangelist Peggy Wright (all videos).
The community around Payne Chapel A.M.E. Church
Within a few blocks of these doors, more than 2 in 10 renting households pay over half of everything they earn just to keep a roof over them. Nearly half of adults live with obesity, and more than a third of adults say they are socially isolated. That is two thousand neighbors — and some of them are already in these pews.
Pray for the families one rent increase away from moving, and for this church to know their names.
- Obesity: 45.6%
- Social Isolation: 40.3%
- Food Insecurity: 36.1%
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 32.4%
- Diabetes: 25.1%
- Uninsured All Ages (Census): 23.6% (16.7–30.6%)
- Utility Shutoff Threat: 19.5%
- Housing Insecurity: 24.2%
- Transportation Barriers: 17.3%
- Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 28.5%
- Poverty Rate: 16.3% (10.3–22.4%)
- Uninsured Adults 18-64: 13.5%
- Unemployment: 7.4% (0.3–14.5%)
Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 5 census tracts near this church.
Churches near Payne Chapel A.M.E. Church
- calvary missionary baptist church — 0.1 mi away
- Peace Baptist Church — 0.3 mi away
- Olf Birmingham — 0.3 mi away
- Our Lady of Fatima Catholic Church — 0.3 mi away
- Westminster Presbyterian Church — 0.4 mi away
- New Pilgrim Baptist Church — 0.5 mi away
- St Paul Lutheran Church — 0.5 mi away
- True Light Baptist Church — 0.5 mi away
- Green Liberty Baptist Church — 0.5 mi away
- Gospel of Peace Church — 0.5 mi away
More Methodist churches nearby
- St. Mark Christian Methodist Episcopal Church — 0.8 mi away
- Walker Memorial Methodist Church — 1.2 mi away
- West End Methodist Church — 1.4 mi away
- Saint Paul African Methodist Episcopal Church — 1.5 mi away
- Trinity United Methodist Church — 1.7 mi away in Homewood, AL
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