Martien Chapel African Methodist Episcopal Church
Martien Chapel African Methodist Episcopal Church is a Methodist church in Independence, LA 70443. It is one of 31 churches in Independence, and one of 2 Methodist congregations in the city.
Independence, LA, 70443Martien Chapel African Methodist Episcopal Church is part of the Methodist family of churches in The American Church Story. 432 congregations of the Methodist family gather across Louisiana — 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 Martien Chapel African Methodist Episcopal Church
In the few miles around this church, more than 4 in 10 adults live with obesity. Nearly a quarter of households aren't sure there will be enough to eat, and more than a third of adults say they are socially isolated. That is two thousand neighbors — and some of them are already in these pews.
Pray for healing in the homes around this building, and for this church to be known as a place to bring what hurts.
- Obesity: 45.0%
- Food Insecurity: 27.5%
- Social Isolation: 39.8%
- Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 30.8%
- Child Poverty: 30.4% (13.8–47.1%)
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 28.4%
- Housing Insecurity: 20.7%
- Diabetes: 16.9%
- Utility Shutoff Threat: 15.0%
- Depression: 25.8%
- Poverty Rate: 20.9% (11.9–29.9%)
- Transportation Barriers: 13.8%
- Unemployment: 7.9% (1.9–14.6%)
Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 3 census tracts near this church.
Churches near Martien Chapel African Methodist Episcopal Church
- Zion Travelers Missionary Baptist Church — 0.1 mi away
- Saint Paul Missionary Baptist Church — 0.1 mi away
- Mater Dolorosa Catholic Church — 0.2 mi away
- First United Methodist Church — 0.2 mi away
- First Baptist Church — 0.2 mi away
- COY Independence — 0.3 mi away
- First United Pentecostal Church — 0.6 mi away
- Independence United Methodist Church — 0.6 mi away
- San Expedito Church — 1.1 mi away
- Mount Calvary Baptist Church — 1.2 mi away
More Methodist churches nearby
- First United Methodist Church — 0.2 mi away
- Independence United Methodist Church — 0.6 mi away
- Butlers African Methodist Episcopal Zion Church — 6 mi away in Amite City, LA
- Leonard Chapel — 6.3 mi away
- Loranger United Methodist Church — 6.3 mi away in Loranger, LA
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