Allen Chapel AME Church
Allen Chapel AME Church is a African Methodist Episcopal church in Whigham, GA 39897. It is one of 26 churches in Whigham, and one of 2 African Methodist Episcopal congregations in the city.
Whigham, GA, 39897Allen Chapel AME Church is part of the Methodist family of churches in The American Church Story. 1,414 congregations of the Methodist family gather across Georgia — 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 Allen Chapel AME Church
It takes 5.2 miles in every direction to gather two thousand neighbors around this church. Among the people scattered across those miles, more than 3 in 10 adults say they are socially isolated, and about 1 in 5 the people here live without health insurance, and nearly a quarter 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.
- Social Isolation: 35.8%
- Uninsured All Ages (Census): 17.7% (10.0–25.4%)
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 22.0%
- Food Insecurity: 15.8%
- Diabetes: 14.6%
Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 5 census tracts near this church.
Churches near Allen Chapel AME Church
- Pine Hill Church — 0.6 mi away
- Saint Paul Missionary Baptist Church — 0.7 mi away
- Mount Vernon Church — 1.5 mi away
- Bethel Baptist Church — 2.4 mi away
- County Line Church — 3.3 mi away in Pelham, GA
- New Home Free Will Baptist Church — 3.6 mi away
- Spring Hill United Methodist Church — 3.8 mi away
- Mizpah Primitive Baptist Church — 4 mi away
- Travelers Rest Missionary Baptist Church — 4.5 mi away
- Mars Hill Church — 4.8 mi away
More Methodist churches nearby
- Spring Hill United Methodist Church — 3.8 mi away
- Branchville United Methodist Church — 7.6 mi away in Camilla, GA
- Trinity P. B. Church — 7.7 mi away
- Cedar Spring AME Church — 7.8 mi away
- Sutton Chapel United Methodist Church — 9 mi away in Bainbridge, GA