Youngs Chapel AME Church
Youngs Chapel AME Church is a African Methodist Episcopal church in Ocala, FL 34475. It is one of 378 churches in Ocala, and one of 3 African Methodist Episcopal congregations in the city.
Ocala, FL, 34475Youngs Chapel AME Church is part of the Methodist family of churches in The American Church Story. 932 congregations of the Methodist family gather across Florida — 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 Youngs Chapel AME Church
Within about a mile of this church, more than 2 in 10 renting households pay over half of everything they earn just to keep a roof over them. More than a third of adults live with obesity, and nearly a quarter describe their own health as fair or poor. That is 2,100 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.
- Obesity: 41.4%
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 27.3%
- Poverty Rate: 22.2% (14.5–30.0%)
- Uninsured Adults 18-64: 19.7%
- Uninsured All Ages (Census): 16.2% (9.4–23.0%)
- Diabetes: 15.5%
- Child Poverty: 25.6% (12.4–41.8%)
- Unemployment: 7.6% (2.4–12.8%)
Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 5 census tracts near this church.
Ocala city is served by 118 churches — about one congregation for every 538 residents.
Churches near Youngs Chapel AME Church
- The Chapel Ocala — 0.1 mi away
- Youngs Chapel African Methodist Episcopal Church — 0.1 mi away
- Anchor International Ministries — 0.5 mi away
- House of God Church — 0.9 mi away
- Christian Walk Faith Center — 1 mi away
- New St John Missionary Baptist Church — 1.3 mi away
- Green Pastures Worship Center — 1.4 mi away
- The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints — 1.4 mi away
- Pure Vision Church of God in Christ — 1.4 mi away
- Church of the Lord Jesus Christ of the Apostolic Faith — 1.4 mi away
More Methodist churches nearby
- Youngs Chapel African Methodist Episcopal Church — 0.1 mi away
- Zion United Methodist Church — 1.6 mi away
- Saint Pauls Church — 2 mi away
- Isom Memorial Christian Methodist Episcopal Church — 2.1 mi away
- Mount Tabor AME Church — 2.8 mi away