Payne Chapel AME Church

Payne Chapel AME Church is a African Methodist Episcopal church in Sarasota, FL 34234. It is one of 219 churches in Sarasota, and one of 2 African Methodist Episcopal congregations in the city.

Sarasota, FL, 34234

Payne 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 Payne Chapel AME Church

Within a few blocks of these doors, more than 2 in 10 renting households pay over half of everything they earn just to keep a roof over them. Nearly a quarter of the people here live without health insurance, and about a third of the children here are growing up below the poverty line. 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.

  • Uninsured All Ages (Census): 22.7% (14.6–30.8%)
  • Child Poverty: 35.4% (21.9–49.2%)
  • Fair/Poor Health Status: 29.0%
  • Poverty Rate: 28.9% (18.7–39.2%)
  • Uninsured Adults 18-64: 19.5%
  • Diabetes: 16.1%
  • Obesity: 37.5%

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

Sarasota city is served by 20 churches — about one congregation for every 2,635 residents.

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