D.C. Coleman Temple African Methodist Episcopal Church
D.C. Coleman Temple African Methodist Episcopal Church is a African Methodist Episcopal church at 10250 South Torrence Avenue in Chicago, IL 60617. It is one of 3,009 churches in Chicago, and one of 13 African Methodist Episcopal congregations in the city.
10250 South Torrence Avenue, Chicago, IL, 60617D.C. Coleman Temple 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 D.C. Coleman Temple 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. More than a third of households aren't sure there will be enough to eat, 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.
- Food Insecurity: 37.1%
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 30.3%
- Housing Insecurity: 28.6%
- Diabetes: 19.1%
- Utility Shutoff Threat: 18.5%
- Obesity: 41.2%
- Social Isolation: 38.3%
- Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 33.5%
- Child Poverty: 23.9% (6.1–41.7%)
- Poverty Rate: 21.5% (7.2–35.8%)
- Transportation Barriers: 16.8%
- Uninsured Adults 18-64: 16.3%
Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 4 census tracts near this church.
Chicago city is served by 1,693 churches — about one congregation for every 1,580 residents.
Churches near D.C. Coleman Temple African Methodist Episcopal Church
- Inspired Word Church of Jesus Christ — 0.2 mi away
- Saint Kevin Roman Catholic Church — 0.3 mi away
- Pray in Faith Ministries — 0.4 mi away
- Great Morning View Missionary Church — 0.5 mi away
- Holy Jerusalem HJMBC — 0.5 mi away
- Manor Community Church — 0.5 mi away
- South Spanish Congregation of Jehovah's Witnesses — 0.5 mi away
- New Mount Olive Missionary Baptist Church — 0.6 mi away
- All Souls Church — 0.6 mi away
- Our Lady Gate of Heaven Roman Catholic Church — 0.6 mi away
More Methodist churches nearby
- East Side United Methodist Church — 1.6 mi away
- Saint Paul African Methodist Episcopal Church — 1.9 mi away
- Southlawn United Methodist Church — 2.3 mi away
- Greenstone United Methodist Church — 2.8 mi away
- Vincent United Methodist Church — 2.8 mi away