Greater Samuel African Methodist Episcopal Chapel
Greater Samuel African Methodist Episcopal Chapel is a church in Prichard, AL 36610. It is one of 86 churches in Prichard.
Prichard, AL, 36610Website: http://www.churchfinder.com/churches/al/mobile/samuel-chapel-ame-church
Greater Samuel 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 Greater Samuel African Methodist Episcopal Chapel
Within about a mile of this church, more than 4 in 10 adults live with obesity. More than a third of households aren't sure there will be enough to eat, and about a third describe their own health as fair or poor. That is 2,200 neighbors — and some of them are already in these pews.
Pray for healing in the homes around this building, and for this church to be known as a place to bring what hurts.
- Obesity: 49.9%
- Food Insecurity: 40.3%
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 35.9%
- Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 35.3%
- Diabetes: 28.5%
- Housing Insecurity: 27.5%
- Utility Shutoff Threat: 21.2%
- Unemployment: 13.8% (5.3–22.4%)
- Social Isolation: 37.8%
- Poverty Rate: 29.2% (15.8–42.7%)
- Transportation Barriers: 19.1%
- Uninsured All Ages (Census): 19.1% (11.3–26.9%)
- Uninsured Adults 18-64: 13.1% (9.9–17.1%)
Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 6 census tracts near this church.
Prichard city is served by 71 churches — about one congregation for every 293 residents.
Churches near Greater Samuel African Methodist Episcopal Chapel
- Greater Zion Hope Primitive Baptist Church — 0.1 mi away
- Cathedral Baptist Church — 0.2 mi away
- The Way of the Cross Church — 0.2 mi away
- Saint Paul Baptist Church — 0.3 mi away
- Saint James Major Catholic Church — 0.3 mi away
- Church of Life — 0.3 mi away
- Church of God Fellowship Ministry — 0.3 mi away
- Wilson Avenue Church of God — 0.3 mi away
- Christ the King Church — 0.3 mi away in Mobile, AL
- Prichard Methodist Church — 0.3 mi away
More Methodist churches nearby
- Prichard Methodist Church — 0.3 mi away
- Mount Olive African Methodist Episcopal Zion Church — 0.4 mi away
- Crockett Memorial African Methodist Episcopal Zion Church — 0.6 mi away
- Greater Ruth African Methodist Episcopal Chapel — 0.9 mi away
- Warren Street United Methodist Church — 0.9 mi away in Mobile, AL