Powells African Methodist Episcopal Chapel
Powells African Methodist Episcopal Chapel is a Methodist church in La Fayette, AL 36862. It is one of 3 churches in La Fayette.
La Fayette, AL, 36862Shares a ministry location with Powell Chapel United Methodist Church, LaFayette, Alabama.
Powells African Methodist Episcopal Chapel 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 Powells African Methodist Episcopal Chapel
It takes 4.2 miles in every direction to gather two thousand neighbors around this church. Among the people scattered across those miles, more than 2 in 10 renting households pay over half of everything they earn just to keep a roof over them, and nearly half of adults live with obesity, and about a third describe their own health as fair or poor. 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: 46.1%
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 33.4%
- Food Insecurity: 33.1%
- Diabetes: 22.3%
- Social Isolation: 37.2%
- Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 30.4%
- Housing Insecurity: 22.7%
- Utility Shutoff Threat: 16.8%
- Unemployment: 11.0% (2.4–19.7%)
- Poverty Rate: 20.2% (13.6–26.8%)
- Transportation Barriers: 15.8%
- Uninsured Adults 18-64: 13.4%
- Uninsured All Ages (Census): 11.2% (7.0–15.3%)
Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 3 census tracts near this church.
La Fayette city is served by 4 churches — about one congregation for every 999 residents.
Churches near Powells African Methodist Episcopal Chapel
- Powell Chapel United Methodist Church, LaFayette, Alabama — 0 mi away in Lafayette, AL
- LaFayette First United Methodist Church — 0.3 mi away in LaFayette, AL
- First Presbyterian Church — 0.3 mi away
- First Baptist Church — 0.4 mi away in Lafayette, AL
- New Mount Sellers Missionary Baptist Church — 0.7 mi away in Lafayette, AL
- Friendship Baptist Church — 0.8 mi away
- Mt Calvary Baptist Church — 1 mi away in Lafayette, AL
- Lafayette Heights Baptist Church — 1.1 mi away in Lafayette, AL
- Chosen Generation Outreach — 1.3 mi away in Lafayette, AL
- Mt Zion Baptist Church — 2.3 mi away in Lafayette, AL
More Methodist churches nearby
- LaFayette First United Methodist Church — 0.3 mi away in LaFayette, AL
- Sandy Ridge United Methodist Church — 3.8 mi away in Lafayette, AL
- Sweet Home Methodist Church — 5 mi away in Lafayette, AL
- Midway Methodist Church — 8.1 mi away in Lafayette, AL
- St Paul United Methodist Church — 8.2 mi away in Five Points, AL
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