Poplar Chapel African Methodist Episcopal Church
Poplar Chapel African Methodist Episcopal Church is a Methodist church in Rayville, LA 71269. It is one of 75 churches in Rayville.
Rayville, LA, 71269Poplar 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 Poplar Chapel African Methodist Episcopal Church
It takes 5.1 miles in every direction to gather two thousand neighbors around this church. Among the people scattered across those miles, more than 3 in 10 adults say they are socially isolated, and nearly a quarter of adults here carry depression, and nearly a quarter describe their own health as fair or poor. A scattered parish is still a parish.
Pray for the families driving a long way to everything — to work, to a hospital, to this door on a Sunday morning.
- Social Isolation: 36.2%
- Depression: 28.0%
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 25.7%
- Food Insecurity: 21.2%
- Diabetes: 15.1%
- Obesity: 39.7%
- Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 27.5%
- Child Poverty: 23.7% (12.1–36.0%)
- Poverty Rate: 17.8% (10.7–24.9%)
- Housing Insecurity: 15.2%
- Utility Shutoff Threat: 11.2%
- Unemployment: 7.2% (2.5–12.1%)
Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 4 census tracts near this church.
Churches near Poplar Chapel African Methodist Episcopal Church
- Sunshine Church — 1.7 mi away
- Antioch Church — 2.1 mi away
- Mount Olive Church — 2.2 mi away
- Orange Hill Church — 2.3 mi away
- Holly Ridge Church — 2.8 mi away
- Holly Grove Church — 3 mi away
- Alto Baptist Church — 3 mi away
- Galilee Church — 3.1 mi away
- Little Creek Church — 3.3 mi away
- Saint Luke Church — 3.3 mi away
More Methodist churches nearby
- Rayville Methodist Church — 6.8 mi away
- Memorial United Methodist Church — 16.2 mi away in Monroe, LA
- Wesley Foundation — 16.4 mi away in Monroe, LA
- Saint Paul United Methodist Church — 16.7 mi away in Monroe, LA
- Saint James United Methodist Church — 17 mi away in Monroe, LA
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