Greater Walters African Methodist Episcopal Zion Church
Greater Walters African Methodist Episcopal Zion Church is a African Methodist Episcopal Zion church at 8422 South Damen Avenue in Chicago, IL 60620. It is one of 3,009 churches in Chicago, and one of 6 African Methodist Episcopal Zion congregations in the city.
8422 South Damen Avenue, Chicago, IL, 60620Website: http://www.amez.org/
Greater Walters African Methodist Episcopal Zion 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 Greater Walters African Methodist Episcopal Zion 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. About a third of households aren't sure there will be enough to eat, and nearly a quarter of adults are worried about keeping the housing they have. 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: 32.7%
- Housing Insecurity: 25.7%
- Diabetes: 20.5%
- Unemployment: 13.8% (6.8–20.8%)
- Obesity: 41.4%
- Social Isolation: 38.5%
- Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 34.7%
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 28.6%
- Utility Shutoff Threat: 17.0%
- Transportation Barriers: 15.0%
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 Greater Walters African Methodist Episcopal Zion Church
- Emmanuel Baptist Church — 0.2 mi away
- 87th ST Church Of Christ — 0.3 mi away
- Eightyseventh Street Church of Christ — 0.3 mi away
- Holy Garden Of Prayer — 0.4 mi away
- New Nation Anoited Ministries — 0.5 mi away
- Healing Temple M B Church — 0.5 mi away
- Saint Mark Pentecostal Church of Holiness — 0.5 mi away
- Shorewood Bible Church-South — 0.5 mi away
- Providence Missionary Baptist Church — 0.5 mi away
- Christ Soldiers Outreach Ministries — 0.5 mi away
More Methodist churches nearby
- Grace-Calvary United Methodist Church — 1.1 mi away
- Gresham United Methodist Church — 1.6 mi away
- Trinity United Methodist Church — 1.8 mi away
- West Englewood United Methodist Church — 2.1 mi away
- First United Methodist Church — 2.1 mi away in Evergreen Park, IL