Merrick Chapel Christian Methodist Episcopal Church
Merrick Chapel Christian Methodist Episcopal Church is a Methodist church in Lake Charles, LA 70601. It is one of 227 churches in Lake Charles, and one of 6 Methodist congregations in the city.
Lake Charles, LA, 70601Merrick Chapel Christian 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 Merrick Chapel Christian Methodist Episcopal Church
Within about a mile of 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 about 1 in 5 adults live with diabetes. 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: 49.6%
- Food Insecurity: 29.0%
- Diabetes: 20.4%
- Social Isolation: 38.7%
- Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 34.1%
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 28.0%
- Housing Insecurity: 22.0%
- Utility Shutoff Threat: 17.1%
- Poverty Rate: 18.4% (3.8–33.0%)
- Transportation Barriers: 14.4%
Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 3 census tracts near this church.
Lake Charles city is served by 91 churches — about one congregation for every 823 residents.
Churches near Merrick Chapel Christian Methodist Episcopal Church
- Greater Ebenezer Missionary Baptist Church — 0 mi away
- Union Zion Missionary Baptist Church — 0.2 mi away
- Pleasant Hill Baptist Church — 0.3 mi away
- Our Lady of Fatima Chapel — 0.3 mi away
- Old Emanuel Baptist Church — 0.4 mi away
- Greater Saint Mary Baptist Church — 0.4 mi away
- Winners Chapel Int'l Louisiana — 0.5 mi away
- Bethel Baptist Church — 0.5 mi away
- Messiah Missionary Baptist Church — 0.5 mi away
- Freeman Memorial Church of God in Christ — 0.5 mi away
More Methodist churches nearby
- Reeves Christian Methodist Episcopal Temple — 1.7 mi away
- Warren United Methodist Church — 1.8 mi away
- First United Methodist Church — 2.4 mi away
- Moss Bluff United Methodist Church — 3.3 mi away
- Warren United Methodist Church — 3.4 mi away
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