Grants Chapel African Methodist Episcopal Church
Grants Chapel African Methodist Episcopal Church is a church in Gadsden, AL 35901. It is one of 215 churches in Gadsden.
Gadsden, AL, 35901Grants Chapel 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 Grants Chapel African Methodist Episcopal Church
Within about a mile of this church, more than 3 in 10 renting households pay over half of everything they earn just to keep a roof over them. More than 4 in 5 the children here are growing up below the poverty line, and more than half of adults live with obesity. 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.
- Child Poverty: 84.0%
- Obesity: 56.1%
- Poverty Rate: 48.4% (34.0–62.8%)
- Food Insecurity: 47.5%
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 43.4%
- Social Isolation: 41.0%
- Housing Insecurity: 32.4%
- Diabetes: 27.2%
- Utility Shutoff Threat: 26.1%
- Transportation Barriers: 23.6%
- Uninsured All Ages (Census): 20.0% (11.5–28.6%)
- Unemployment: 19.9% (7.2–32.6%)
- Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 32.7%
- Uninsured Adults 18-64: 17.5%
- Depression: 23.2%
Source: U.S. Census Bureau, CDC PLACES (2019-2023, 2023), aggregated across 6 census tracts near this church.
Gadsden city is served by 121 churches — about one congregation for every 258 residents.
Churches near Grants Chapel African Methodist Episcopal Church
- Saint John Christian Methodist Episcopal Church — 0.1 mi away
- Fellowship Baptist Church — 0.1 mi away
- Morning Star Baptist Church — 0.1 mi away
- Union Street Baptist Church — 0.1 mi away
- Handy Chapel African Methodist Episcopal Church — 0.1 mi away
- Saint Martin Deporres Catholic Church — 0.2 mi away
- Shiloh Baptist Church — 0.3 mi away
- Apostolic House of Prayer Church — 0.4 mi away
- Mount Pilgrim Baptist Church — 0.4 mi away
- Henry Street Church of Christ — 0.4 mi away
More Methodist churches nearby
- Saint John Christian Methodist Episcopal Church — 0.1 mi away
- Handy Chapel African Methodist Episcopal Church — 0.1 mi away
- Sweet Home Methodist Church — 0.6 mi away
- First Southern Methodist Church — 0.7 mi away
- Gadsden First United Methodist Church — 0.8 mi away