Allen Chapel African Methodist Episcopal Church
Allen Chapel African Methodist Episcopal Church is a Methodist church in Galesburg, IL 61401. It is one of 62 churches in Galesburg, and one of 3 Methodist congregations in the city.
Galesburg, IL, 61401Website: http://www.galesburgjuneteenth.com
Shares a ministry location with The Ascent Church.
Allen Chapel 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 Allen Chapel African Methodist Episcopal 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. More than a third of adults say they are socially isolated, and more than a third of the people here live below the poverty line. 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.
- Social Isolation: 40.9%
- Poverty Rate: 39.9% (29.1–50.6%)
- Food Insecurity: 36.4%
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 30.7%
- Obesity: 42.2%
- Depression: 28.1%
- Housing Insecurity: 23.6%
- Transportation Barriers: 21.0%
- Utility Shutoff Threat: 17.7%
- Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 28.9%
- Uninsured Adults 18-64: 14.2%
- Unemployment: 6.9% (2.5–11.2%)
Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 4 census tracts near this church.
Galesburg city is served by 37 churches — about one congregation for every 432 residents.
Churches near Allen Chapel African Methodist Episcopal Church
- The Ascent Church — 0 mi away
- First Baptist Church — 0 mi away
- Corpus Christi Roman Catholic Church — 0.1 mi away
- Immaculate Heart of Mary Catholic Church — 0.1 mi away
- Second Baptist Church — 0.1 mi away
- The Rock Apostolic Community Church — 0.2 mi away
- Central Congregational Church — 0.2 mi away
- Grace Episcopal Church — 0.2 mi away
- First United Presbyterian Church — 0.3 mi away
- Trinity Lutheran Church — 0.3 mi away
More Methodist churches nearby
- First Methodist Church — 0.3 mi away
- Faith United Methodist Church — 0.7 mi away
- First Methodist Church — 9.8 mi away in Abingdon, IL
- United Methodist Church — 9.8 mi away in Abingdon, IL
- First United Methodist Church — 14.7 mi away in Monmouth, IL
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