Turner African Methodist Episcopal Chapel
Turner African Methodist Episcopal Chapel is a church in Marion, AL 36756. It is one of 72 churches in Marion.
Marion, AL, 36756Turner 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 Turner African Methodist Episcopal Chapel
It takes 4.8 miles in every direction to gather two thousand neighbors around this church. Among the people scattered across those miles, more than 7 in 10 the children here are growing up below the poverty line, and nearly half of adults live with obesity, and more than a third 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.
- Child Poverty: 72.6%
- Obesity: 51.0%
- Food Insecurity: 38.2%
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 34.8%
- Housing Insecurity: 25.7%
- Diabetes: 21.9%
- Utility Shutoff Threat: 20.1%
- Unemployment: 14.3% (3.5–25.4%)
- Social Isolation: 39.8%
- Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 31.2%
- Poverty Rate: 23.8% (12.4–35.2%)
- Transportation Barriers: 19.2%
- Uninsured Adults 18-64: 13.4%
Source: U.S. Census Bureau, CDC PLACES (2019-2023, 2023), aggregated across 4 census tracts near this church.
Churches near Turner African Methodist Episcopal Chapel
- Lake Payne Church of God — 0.1 mi away
- Marion Presbyterian Church — 0.1 mi away
- First Methodist Church — 0.1 mi away
- Siloam Baptist Church — 0.1 mi away
- First Presbyterian Church — 0.1 mi away
- Zion United Methodist Church — 0.2 mi away
- Marion Methodist Church — 0.2 mi away
- Saint Wilfrids Episcopal Church — 0.2 mi away
- Providence Baptist Church — 0.3 mi away
- Church of Christ — 0.3 mi away
More Methodist churches nearby
- First Methodist Church — 0.1 mi away
- Zion United Methodist Church — 0.2 mi away
- Marion Methodist Church — 0.2 mi away
- Nebo Methodist Church — 0.6 mi away
- Mount Nebo Methodist Church — 3.2 mi away