Parks Chapel AME Church
Parks Chapel AME Church is a African Methodist Episcopal church at 4301 Baker Ave in East St Louis, IL 62207-1349. It is one of 83 churches in East St Louis.
4301 Baker Ave, East St Louis, IL, 62207-1349Service times
- Sunday 10am · Morning Worship
Phone: (618) 271-8521 · Website: https://www.parkschapelamec.com/
Parks Chapel AME 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 Parks Chapel AME Church
Within about a mile of this church, more than 3 in 10 renting households pay over half of everything they earn just to keep a roof over them. More than 4 in 5 the children here are growing up below the poverty line, and nearly half of adults live with obesity. 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.
- Child Poverty: 89.4%
- Obesity: 52.0%
- Food Insecurity: 42.6%
- Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 35.7%
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 34.5%
- Poverty Rate: 32.6% (16.8–48.4%)
- Housing Insecurity: 32.3%
- Utility Shutoff Threat: 25.7%
- Diabetes: 22.8%
- Social Isolation: 39.6%
- Transportation Barriers: 21.2%
- Unemployment: 7.1% (0.5–15.0%)
Source: U.S. Census Bureau, CDC PLACES (2019-2023, 2023), aggregated across 6 census tracts near this church.
Churches near Parks Chapel AME Church
- Strait Gate Church of Lively — 0.2 mi away
- Mitchell Tabernacle CME Church — 0.3 mi away
- Mt. Moriah COGIC — 0.3 mi away in Alorton, IL
- Full Gospel Church of God & Christ — 0.3 mi away
- Shiloh MB Church — 0.3 mi away
- New Mt. Zion Missionary Baptist Church — 0.4 mi away in Alorton, IL
- Rock Hill Missionary Baptist Church — 0.4 mi away in Alorton, IL
- World-Wide Fellowship Ministries COG — 0.5 mi away
- Fireworks Station Church of God — 0.5 mi away in Alorton, IL
- Bond Avenue Community Baptist Church — 0.5 mi away in Cahokia Heights, IL
More Methodist churches nearby
- Bethel Methodist Church — 1.4 mi away in East Saint Louis, IL
- Bray Temple Christian Methodist Episcopal Church — 1.9 mi away in East Saint Louis, IL
- Shiloh AME Church — 2.2 mi away in East St. Louis, IL
- Pilgrim Temple Christian Methodist Episcopal Church — 2.3 mi away in East St. Louis, IL
- State Street Methodist Church — 2.3 mi away in East Saint Louis, IL
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