Coppin Memorial African Methodist Episcopal Church
Coppin Memorial African Methodist Episcopal Church is a African Methodist Episcopal church at 5633 South Michigan Avenue in Chicago, IL 60637. It is one of 3,009 churches in Chicago, and one of 13 African Methodist Episcopal congregations in the city.
5633 South Michigan Avenue, Chicago, IL, 60637Coppin Memorial African Methodist Episcopal Church is part of the Methodist family of churches in The American Church Story. 1,033 congregations of the Methodist family gather across Illinois — 25,985 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 Coppin Memorial African Methodist Episcopal Church
Within a few blocks of these doors, more than 4 in 10 renting households pay over half of everything they earn just to keep a roof over them. Nearly half of households aren't sure there will be enough to eat, and nearly half 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.
- Food Insecurity: 46.7%
- Obesity: 45.8%
- Poverty Rate: 41.4% (26.8–56.0%)
- Social Isolation: 41.3%
- Housing Insecurity: 36.8%
- Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 35.5%
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 31.1%
- Utility Shutoff Threat: 27.7%
- Transportation Barriers: 23.1%
- Unemployment: 16.1% (3.6–28.5%)
- Diabetes: 16.8%
- Uninsured Adults 18-64: 13.1% (9.7–17.2%)
- Uninsured All Ages (Census): 11.5% (3.8–19.3%)
Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 2 census tracts near this church.
Chicago city is served by 1,693 churches — about one congregation for every 1,580 residents.
Churches near Coppin Memorial African Methodist Episcopal Church
- Gorham United Methodist Church — 0.1 mi away
- New Life Covenant Church Southeast — 0.1 mi away
- Church of the Good Shepherd — 0.1 mi away
- True Church House of Prayer #2 — 0.1 mi away
- Life Center COGIC — 0.2 mi away
- Holy Cross Temple — 0.2 mi away
- 2nd Timothy Missionary Baptist — 0.2 mi away
- Holy Spiritual Temple II — 0.2 mi away
- Cosmopolitan Church of Prayer — 0.2 mi away
- El-Bethel Baptist Church — 0.2 mi away
More Methodist churches nearby
- Gorham United Methodist Church — 0.1 mi away
- Jubilee Christian Methodist Episcopal Church — 0.3 mi away
- Saint Luke United Methodist Church — 0.8 mi away
- Urban Village Church — 1.2 mi away
- Englewood United Methodist Church — 1.2 mi away