Greater Parks African Methodist Episcopal Chapel
Greater Parks African Methodist Episcopal Chapel is a Methodist church in Dothan, AL 36303. It is one of 167 churches in Dothan, and one of 10 Methodist congregations in the city.
Dothan, AL, 36303Website: http://www.ame-church.com
Greater Parks African Methodist Episcopal Chapel 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.
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The community around Greater Parks African Methodist Episcopal Chapel
Within about a mile of this church, 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: 47.3%
- Social Isolation: 41.1%
- Food Insecurity: 37.0%
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 33.9%
- Housing Insecurity: 26.4%
- Utility Shutoff Threat: 21.1%
- Diabetes: 20.6%
- Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 31.0%
- Poverty Rate: 29.3%
- Transportation Barriers: 19.1%
- Unemployment: 11.4% (6.4–16.5%)
- Child Poverty: 24.9% (14.1–35.6%)
- Depression: 24.4%
- Uninsured Adults 18-64: 14.2%
- Uninsured All Ages (Census): 12.6% (9.3–16.0%)
Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 6 census tracts near this church.
Dothan city is served by 69 churches — about one congregation for every 912 residents.
Churches near Greater Parks African Methodist Episcopal Chapel
- Triumph Church of God — 0.1 mi away
- Church of God in Christ — 0.2 mi away
- North Highland Baptist Church — 0.2 mi away
- Saint Michael the Archangel Orthodox Church — 0.3 mi away
- Central Assembly of God Church — 0.3 mi away
- Oil Of Joy Ministries Inc — 0.3 mi away
- First Missionary Baptist Church — 0.4 mi away
- New Vision Church — 0.4 mi away
- New Life Church — 0.4 mi away
- Bible Way Cooljc — 0.5 mi away
More Methodist churches nearby
- First Methodist Church — 0.8 mi away
- Cherry Street African Methodist Episcopal Church — 1 mi away
- Zion African Methodist Episcopal Church — 1.2 mi away
- Lafayette Street Methodist Episcopal Church — 1.4 mi away
- Highland Park United Methodist Church — 2 mi away