Greene African Methodist Episcopal Church
Greene African Methodist Episcopal Church is a African Methodist Episcopal church at 7950 South Burnham 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.
7950 South Burnham Avenue, Chicago, IL, 60617Greene 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 Greene African Methodist Episcopal Church
Within a few blocks of these doors, more than 4 in 10 households aren't sure there will be enough to eat. More than a third of adults say they are socially isolated, and about a third have no one they feel they can count on. That is two thousand neighbors — and some of them are already in these pews.
Pray for the tables that run short before the month does, and for this church's table to be long.
- Food Insecurity: 42.7%
- Social Isolation: 40.6%
- Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 35.9%
- Housing Insecurity: 34.1%
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 30.7%
- Utility Shutoff Threat: 24.5%
- Unemployment: 18.7% (7.0–30.4%)
- Obesity: 44.3%
- Poverty Rate: 25.2% (12.7–37.8%)
- Transportation Barriers: 20.9%
- Diabetes: 17.7%
- Uninsured Adults 18-64: 13.9%
Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 3 census tracts near this church.
Chicago city is served by 1,693 churches — about one congregation for every 1,580 residents.
Churches near Greene African Methodist Episcopal Church
- Kingdom Hall of Jehovahs Witnesses — 0.1 mi away
- Labor of Love Apostolic Church — 0.1 mi away
- Mountain of the Lord World Wide Ministries — 0.1 mi away
- Tabor Christian Church — 0.1 mi away
- Faith Chapel Deliverance Center — 0.1 mi away
- Old Landmark Church of God Holiness In Christ # 3 — 0.2 mi away
- Lighthouse Missionary Baptist Church — 0.2 mi away
- New Testament Ministries — 0.2 mi away
- Gospel Way Covenant Church — 0.3 mi away
- Christ Apostolic Church — 0.3 mi away
More Methodist churches nearby
- South Shore United Methodist Church — 1.3 mi away
- Saint Paul African Methodist Episcopal Church — 1.4 mi away
- Southlawn United Methodist Church — 1.5 mi away
- Black Methodist for Church Renewal — 1.9 mi away
- Bray Temple Christian Methodist Episcopal Church — 2.3 mi away