Howard Chapter African Methodist Episcopal Zion Church

Howard Chapter African Methodist Episcopal Zion Church is a African Methodist Episcopal Zion church in Hanford, CA 93230. It is one of 71 churches in Hanford.

Hanford, CA, 93230

Website: http://www.Howardchapel.com/

Howard Chapter African Methodist Episcopal Zion Church is part of the Methodist family of churches in The American Church Story. 840 congregations of the Methodist family gather across California — 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.

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The community around Howard Chapter African Methodist Episcopal Zion Church

Within about a mile of this church, more than 4 in 10 the children here are growing up below the poverty line. More than a third of adults say they are socially isolated, and more than a third of households aren't sure there will be enough to eat. That is 2,200 neighbors — and some of them are already in these pews.

Pray for the households stretched past their means, and for this church to know their names.

  • Child Poverty: 41.5% (26.4–56.6%)
  • Social Isolation: 41.2%
  • Food Insecurity: 37.2%
  • Fair/Poor Health Status: 35.3%
  • Housing Insecurity: 28.6%
  • Uninsured Adults 18-64: 23.0%
  • Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 31.9%
  • Poverty Rate: 23.9% (13.5–34.4%)
  • Transportation Barriers: 18.2%
  • Utility Shutoff Threat: 15.4%
  • Diabetes: 15.2%
  • Obesity: 38.1%
  • Unemployment: 6.7% (2.5–12.6%)

Source: U.S. Census Bureau, CDC PLACES (2019-2023, 2023), aggregated across 3 census tracts near this church.

Hanford city is served by 40 churches — about one congregation for every 1,335 residents.

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