Ricks Chapel African Methodist Episcopal Church
Ricks Chapel African Methodist Episcopal Church is a Methodist church in Centralia, IL 62801. It is one of 54 churches in Centralia, and one of 2 Methodist congregations in the city.
“helping people help themselves”
Centralia, IL, 62801Phone: (202) 371-8722 · Website: https://www.ame-sada.org
Shares a ministry location with Oratory of St. Nicholas the Wonderworker.
Ricks Chapel African Methodist Episcopal Church is part of the Methodist family of churches in The American Church Story. 1,029 congregations of the Methodist family gather across Illinois — 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 Ricks Chapel African Methodist Episcopal Church
Within about a mile of this church, more than 3 in 10 renting households pay over half of everything they earn just to keep a roof over them. About 1 in 7 the workforce is looking for work and not finding it, and more than a third of adults live with obesity. 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.
- Unemployment: 15.5% (8.5–22.4%)
- Obesity: 42.4%
- Social Isolation: 36.3%
- Poverty Rate: 29.8% (20.8–38.8%)
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 26.9%
- Food Insecurity: 24.7%
- Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 27.6%
- Depression: 24.2%
- Child Poverty: 23.5% (10.5–37.6%)
- Housing Insecurity: 17.8%
- Diabetes: 14.8%
- Utility Shutoff Threat: 12.9%
Source: U.S. Census Bureau, CDC PLACES (2019-2023, 2023), aggregated across 4 census tracts near this church.
Centralia city is served by 28 churches — about one congregation for every 301 residents.
Churches near Ricks Chapel African Methodist Episcopal Church
- Oratory of St. Nicholas the Wonderworker — 0 mi away
- Second Baptist Missionary Church — 0.2 mi away
- New Covenant Ministries — 0.3 mi away
- New Bethel Missionary Baptist Church — 0.3 mi away
- Macedonia Baptist Church — 0.3 mi away
- Community Church of Christ — 0.3 mi away
- Saint Mary Catholic Church — 0.3 mi away
- First Church of God — 0.3 mi away
- New Harmony Baptist Church — 0.3 mi away
- Seventh Day Adventist Church — 0.4 mi away
More Methodist churches nearby
- First United Methodist Church — 0.4 mi away
- Demaree United Methodist Church — 1 mi away
- Cornerstone United Methodist Church — 1 mi away
- Central City United Methodist Church — 1.2 mi away in Central City, IL
- Faith United Methodist Church — 1.5 mi away in Wamac, IL
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