Saint Paul African Methodist Episcopal Church
Saint Paul African Methodist Episcopal Church is a Methodist church in Chicago, IL 60623. It is one of 3,009 churches in Chicago, and one of 47 Methodist congregations in the city.
Chicago, IL, 60623Shares a ministry location with Forgiven By Christ Missionary Baptist Church.
Saint Paul 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 Saint Paul African Methodist Episcopal Church
Within a few blocks of these doors, more than 3 in 10 renting households pay over half of everything they earn just to keep a roof over them. More than a third of adults say they are socially isolated, and more than a third of households aren't sure there will be enough to eat. That is 2,200 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.
- Social Isolation: 40.1%
- Food Insecurity: 37.3%
- Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 35.7%
- Housing Insecurity: 29.7%
- Uninsured All Ages (Census): 22.3% (10.7–33.9%)
- Utility Shutoff Threat: 19.0%
- Obesity: 41.1%
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 28.9%
- Diabetes: 17.3%
- Transportation Barriers: 17.1%
- Unemployment: 11.0% (2.6–20.4%)
- Poverty Rate: 19.7% (6.9–32.5%)
- Uninsured Adults 18-64: 15.2%
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 Saint Paul African Methodist Episcopal Church
- Forgiven By Christ Missionary Baptist Church — 0 mi away
- New Testament Missionary Baptist Church — 0 mi away
- New Bereans Baptist Fellowship Church — 0.1 mi away
- Antioch Apostolic Faith Church — 0.1 mi away
- Shiloh Apostolic Deliverance Church — 0.1 mi away
- Pilgrimage M.b. Church — 0.1 mi away
- Crawford Congregation of Jehovahs Witness — 0.3 mi away
- True Tabernacle — 0.3 mi away
- Asia Missionary Baptist Church — 0.3 mi away
- True Tabernacle Church of God — 0.4 mi away
More Methodist churches nearby
- Lena A Hamlett Christian Methodist Episcopal Church — 0.9 mi away
- Carey Tercentenary African Methodist Episcopal Church — 1.3 mi away
- John Huss United Methodist Church — 1.3 mi away
- New Bethel Temple United Methodist Church — 1.4 mi away
- Olivet United Methodist Church — 1.7 mi away