Ward Chapel African Methodist Episcopal Church
Ward Chapel African Methodist Episcopal Church is a Methodist church at 511 North Richard Allen Drive in Peoria, IL 61605. It is one of 236 churches in Peoria, and one of 9 Methodist congregations in the city.
511 North Richard Allen Drive, Peoria, IL, 61605Service times
- Sunday 8:30am
- Sunday 10:30am
Phone: (309) 676-1348 · Website: https://www.paypal.me/wardchapelpeoria
Ward Chapel 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 Ward Chapel African Methodist Episcopal Church
Within a few blocks of these doors, more than 4 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: 40.3%
- Poverty Rate: 37.1% (25.3–48.9%)
- Food Insecurity: 37.0%
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 31.2%
- Housing Insecurity: 26.7%
- Utility Shutoff Threat: 21.2%
- Obesity: 43.0%
- Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 30.5%
- Transportation Barriers: 19.7%
- Diabetes: 17.2%
- Unemployment: 9.1% (4.1–14.0%)
- Depression: 24.2%
- Uninsured Adults 18-64: 13.1%
- Uninsured All Ages (Census): 11.5% (5.2–17.9%)
Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 5 census tracts near this church.
Peoria city is served by 130 churches — about one congregation for every 773 residents.
Churches near Ward Chapel African Methodist Episcopal Church
- Grace Baptist Church — 0.2 mi away
- Saint Mark's Church — 0.3 mi away
- St. Joseph Newman Center — 0.3 mi away
- Cru Central — 0.3 mi away
- Bethel United Methodist Church — 0.3 mi away
- Westminster Presbyterian Church — 0.4 mi away
- St. Joseph Catholic Church — 0.4 mi away
- Korean Presbyterian Church — 0.4 mi away
- Apostolic Missionary Church — 0.4 mi away
- Extraordinary Solitude — 0.4 mi away
More Methodist churches nearby
- Bethel United Methodist Church — 0.3 mi away
- Bradley Epworth United Methodist Church — 0.7 mi away
- First United Methodist Church — 0.8 mi away
- Bible Methodist Church — 1.2 mi away
- First Free Methodist Church — 1.4 mi away