Smith Memorial African Methodist Episcopal Church
Smith Memorial African Methodist Episcopal Church is a Methodist church in Du Quoin, IL 62832. It is one of 22 churches in Du Quoin, and one of 2 Methodist congregations in the city.
Du Quoin, IL, 62832Smith Memorial 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 Smith Memorial African Methodist Episcopal Church
Within about a mile of this church, more than 4 in 10 the children here are growing up below the poverty line. More than a third of adults live with obesity, and about a third of adults say they are socially isolated. That is two thousand neighbors — and some of them are already in these pews.
Pray for the households stretched past their means, and for this church to know their names.
- Child Poverty: 49.1% (34.8–63.4%)
- Obesity: 42.7%
- Social Isolation: 34.3%
- Poverty Rate: 27.5% (18.3–36.7%)
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 26.5%
- Food Insecurity: 20.6%
- Diabetes: 15.5%
- Unemployment: 8.8% (3.4–14.2%)
- Depression: 24.9%
- Utility Shutoff Threat: 10.6%
Source: U.S. Census Bureau, CDC PLACES (2019-2023, 2023), aggregated across 3 census tracts near this church.
Du Quoin city is served by 13 churches — about one congregation for every 301 residents.
Churches near Smith Memorial African Methodist Episcopal Church
- Sacred Heart Catholic Church — 0.2 mi away
- Saint Johns United Church of Christ — 0.2 mi away
- Vision Church — 0.4 mi away
- First United Methodist Church — 0.4 mi away
- First Presbyterian Church — 0.5 mi away
- First Baptist Church — 0.5 mi away
- First Christian Church — 0.5 mi away
- Liberty Church — 0.6 mi away
- Faith Assembly of God Church — 0.6 mi away
- Church of Christ — 0.7 mi away
More Methodist churches nearby
- First United Methodist Church — 0.4 mi away
- First Methodist Episcopal Church — 8.9 mi away in Pinckneyville, IL
- United Methodist Church — 8.9 mi away in Pinckneyville, IL
- Valier Methodist Church — 11.1 mi away in Valier, IL
- Sesser/Valier United Methodist Church — 11.9 mi away in Sesser, IL