Blackwell Temple African Methodist Episcopal Zion Church
Blackwell Temple African Methodist Episcopal Zion Church is a African Methodist Episcopal Zion church in Mount Vernon, IL 62864. It is one of 57 churches in Mount Vernon.
Mount Vernon, IL, 62864Blackwell Temple African Methodist Episcopal Zion 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 Blackwell Temple African Methodist Episcopal Zion Church
Within about a mile of this church, more than 6 in 10 the children here are growing up below the poverty line. Nearly half of adults live with obesity, 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 households stretched past their means, and for this church to know their names.
- Child Poverty: 61.9% (46.5–77.4%)
- Obesity: 48.9%
- Poverty Rate: 36.3% (25.1–47.5%)
- Food Insecurity: 35.9%
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 30.9%
- Housing Insecurity: 26.8%
- Utility Shutoff Threat: 20.4%
- Unemployment: 13.9% (7.4–20.4%)
- Social Isolation: 39.3%
- Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 31.7%
- Transportation Barriers: 18.3%
- Diabetes: 15.9%
- Depression: 24.6%
- Uninsured Adults 18-64: 13.4%
Source: U.S. Census Bureau, CDC PLACES (2019-2023, 2023), aggregated across 5 census tracts near this church.
Mount Vernon city is served by 39 churches — about one congregation for every 277 residents.
Churches near Blackwell Temple African Methodist Episcopal Zion Church
- Corinthian Baptist Church — 0.1 mi away
- Freewill Baptist Church — 0.2 mi away
- Gateway Church — 0.3 mi away in Mt Vernon, IL
- Shiloh Missionary Baptist Church — 0.3 mi away in Mt Vernon, IL
- Second Baptist Church — 0.3 mi away
- Bethel Tabernacle Church — 0.3 mi away
- Antioch International Assembly — 0.3 mi away
- First General Baptist Church — 0.3 mi away
- Lively Stone Apostolic Church — 0.3 mi away
- First Church of the Nazarene — 0.3 mi away
More Methodist churches nearby
- First United Methodist Church — 0.4 mi away
- Free Methodist Church — 0.5 mi away
- Epworth United Methodist Church — 0.7 mi away
- Wesley United Methodist Church — 1.8 mi away
- West Salem Trinity United Methodist Church — 2.1 mi away
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