Greater Hurst Chapel AME Church
Greater Hurst Chapel AME Church is a African Methodist Episcopal church at 2730 North Links Avenue in Sarasota, FL 34234. It is one of 219 churches in Sarasota, and one of 2 African Methodist Episcopal congregations in the city.
2730 North Links Avenue, Sarasota, FL, 34234Greater Hurst 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 Greater Hurst Chapel AME 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 adults live with obesity, and about a third describe their own health as fair or poor. 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.
- Obesity: 46.4%
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 35.9%
- Uninsured All Ages (Census): 25.2% (18.6–31.8%)
- Diabetes: 21.1%
- Child Poverty: 35.8% (22.1–49.5%)
- Poverty Rate: 27.9% (19.4–36.4%)
- Uninsured Adults 18-64: 20.9%
Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 2 census tracts near this church.
Sarasota city is served by 20 churches — about one congregation for every 2,635 residents.
Churches near Greater Hurst Chapel AME Church
- Osprey Avenue Church of Christ — 0.1 mi away
- New Bethel Baptist Church — 0.1 mi away
- Community Bible Church — 0.1 mi away
- First Born Church — 0.1 mi away
- Ecclessia Family Worship Center International — 0.2 mi away
- Shiloh Primitive Baptist Church — 0.2 mi away
- Bethel CME Church — 0.3 mi away
- Truevine Missionary Baptist Church — 0.3 mi away
- Iglesia Cristiana La Palabra de Fe — 0.4 mi away
- Shining Light Church — 0.4 mi away
More Methodist churches nearby
- Bethel CME Church — 0.3 mi away
- Payne Chapel AME Church — 0.7 mi away
- First United Methodist Church — 1.8 mi away
- Orange Grove Free Methodist Church — 8 mi away in Bradenton, FL
- Emmanuel United Methodist Church — 8.5 mi away in Bradenton, FL