Murphy Community African Methodist Episcopal Church

Murphy Community African Methodist Episcopal Church is a Methodist church at 6702 North 27th Avenue in Phoenix, AZ 85017. It is one of 987 churches in Phoenix, and one of 16 Methodist congregations in the city.

Murph Community A.M.E. Church has been blessed with multiple leaders that brought growth and development through multiple building purchases, the establishment of a food bank to feed the less fortunate and adding a weekly segment to services which specifically targets children.

6702 North 27th Avenue, Phoenix, AZ, 85017

Phone: (602) 246-3951 · Website: https://murphcommunityame.org/

Murphy Community African Methodist Episcopal Church is part of the Methodist family of churches in The American Church Story. 104 congregations of the Methodist family gather across Arizona — 25,985 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.

Ministries at Murphy Community African Methodist Episcopal Church

  • Food bank
  • Community resource group

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The community around Murphy Community African Methodist Episcopal Church

Within a few blocks of these doors, more than 3 in 10 renting households pay over half of everything they earn just to keep a roof over them. Nearly half of the children here are growing up below the poverty line, and nearly half of households aren't sure there will be enough to eat. 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: 49.0% (31.7–66.2%)
  • Food Insecurity: 45.5%
  • Poverty Rate: 39.3% (28.3–50.3%)
  • Fair/Poor Health Status: 36.7%
  • Housing Insecurity: 30.5%
  • Uninsured Adults 18-64: 28.4%
  • Transportation Barriers: 23.5%
  • Uninsured All Ages (Census): 21.1% (14.0–28.2%)
  • Utility Shutoff Threat: 21.0%
  • Obesity: 41.3%
  • Social Isolation: 37.5%
  • Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 32.3%
  • Diabetes: 16.5%
  • Unemployment: 7.0% (2.7–11.3%)

Source: U.S. Census Bureau, CDC PLACES (2019-2023, 2023), aggregated across 4 census tracts near this church.

Phoenix city is served by 448 churches — about one congregation for every 3,544 residents.

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