James Memorial African Methodist Episcopal Church
James Memorial African Methodist Episcopal Church is a Methodist church in Maywood, IL 60153. It is one of 53 churches in Maywood, and one of 2 Methodist congregations in the city.
Maywood, IL, 60153James Memorial 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 James Memorial African Methodist Episcopal Church
Within a few blocks of these doors, more than 4 in 10 adults say they are socially isolated. More than a third of households aren't sure there will be enough to eat, and about a third have no one they feel they can count on. That is 2,200 neighbors — and some of them are already in these pews.
Pray for the lonely within reach of this door, and for a congregation that notices.
- Social Isolation: 40.0%
- Food Insecurity: 36.9%
- Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 35.5%
- Housing Insecurity: 29.0%
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 29.1%
- Uninsured All Ages (Census): 18.6% (7.0–30.1%)
- Uninsured Adults 18-64: 18.3%
- Utility Shutoff Threat: 17.6%
- Diabetes: 16.9%
- Obesity: 39.7%
- Poverty Rate: 18.7% (6.3–31.0%)
- Transportation Barriers: 16.6%
- Unemployment: 6.7% (1.9–11.5%)
Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 5 census tracts near this church.
Maywood village is served by 32 churches — about one congregation for every 730 residents.
Churches near James Memorial African Methodist Episcopal Church
- Good Shepherd Church of God — 0.1 mi away
- Salem Tabernacle Church — 0.1 mi away
- First Christian Church — 0.1 mi away
- Proviso Baptist Church — 0.1 mi away
- God's Heritage Full Gospel Church — 0.2 mi away
- Vision of Restoration Church — 0.2 mi away
- Christ Temple Church — 0.3 mi away
- Holy Corinthians Baptist Church — 0.3 mi away
- First Baptist Church — 0.3 mi away
- Maywood Community Seventh Day Adventist Church — 0.3 mi away
More Methodist churches nearby
- Canaan AME Church — 0.5 mi away
- Neighborhood United Methodist Church — 0.9 mi away
- Urban Village Church — 1 mi away in River Forest, IL
- River Forest Methodist Church — 1 mi away in River Forest, IL
- Melrose Park Methodist Church — 1.7 mi away in Melrose Park, IL