Shady Grove AME Zion Church

Shady Grove AME Zion Church is a African Methodist Episcopal Zion church in Hurtsboro, AL 36860. It is one of 20 churches in Hurtsboro, and one of 3 African Methodist Episcopal Zion congregations in the city.

Hurtsboro, AL, 36860

Shady Grove AME Zion 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 Shady Grove AME Zion Church

It takes 8.0 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 nearly a quarter 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: 45.3%
  • Fair/Poor Health Status: 30.7%
  • Food Insecurity: 28.8%
  • Diabetes: 23.1%
  • Social Isolation: 37.8%
  • Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 30.4%
  • Housing Insecurity: 20.1%
  • Utility Shutoff Threat: 14.2%
  • Transportation Barriers: 13.4%

Source: CDC PLACES (2023), aggregated across 5 census tracts near this church.

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