Ward Chapel African Methodist Episcopal Zion Church
Ward Chapel African Methodist Episcopal Zion Church is a African Methodist Episcopal Zion church in AL 36922.
AL, 36922Ward Chapel African Methodist Episcopal Zion Church 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 Ward Chapel African Methodist Episcopal Zion Church
It takes 6.9 miles in every direction to gather two thousand neighbors around this church. Among the people scattered across those miles, more than 5 in 10 adults live with obesity, and about 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. 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: 51.3%
- Food Insecurity: 35.0%
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 34.1%
- Diabetes: 24.6%
- Utility Shutoff Threat: 19.1%
- Social Isolation: 37.8%
- Child Poverty: 32.6% (16.4–48.8%)
- Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 31.5%
- Housing Insecurity: 24.8%
- Poverty Rate: 24.8% (16.4–33.1%)
- Transportation Barriers: 16.6%
- Unemployment: 7.7% (1.7–13.6%)
Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 3 census tracts near this church.
Churches near Ward Chapel African Methodist Episcopal Zion Church
- Saint Thomas African Methodist Episcopal Zion Church — 1 mi away
- Mount Moriah Missionary Baptist Church — 1.2 mi away
- Pelham United Methodist Church — 1.6 mi away
- St Thomas Amez Church — 2.1 mi away in Ward, AL
- Cooper Mission Christian Methodist Episcopal Church — 2.2 mi away
- Pine Grove Church — 2.6 mi away
- Mount Pisgah Baptist Church — 2.7 mi away
- Saint Johns Church — 2.9 mi away
- Shorts Church — 3.5 mi away
- Pine Grove African Methodist Episcopal Zion Church — 3.5 mi away in Lisman, AL
More Methodist churches nearby
- Saint Thomas African Methodist Episcopal Zion Church — 1 mi away
- Pelham United Methodist Church — 1.6 mi away
- Cooper Mission Christian Methodist Episcopal Church — 2.2 mi away
- Pine Grove African Methodist Episcopal Zion Church — 3.5 mi away in Lisman, AL
- Christopher Chapel United Methodist Church — 4.5 mi away in Lisman, AL