Smith Chapel
Smith Chapel is a African Methodist Episcopal church in Foristell, MO 63348. It is one of 9 churches in Foristell.
This African-American cemetery is the final resting place for three freedom seekers named Smith Ball (1833-1912), Benjamin Oglesby (1825-1901), and Martin Boyd (1826-1912), who each took steps toward freedom and joined the United States Colored Troops, despite the risks involved for themselves and their families.
Foristell, MO, 63348Smith Chapel is part of the Methodist family of churches in The American Church Story. 428 congregations of the Methodist family gather across Missouri — 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 Smith Chapel
Within about a mile of this church, more than 3 in 10 adults live with obesity. Nearly a quarter of adults say they are socially isolated, and nearly a quarter of adults here carry depression. 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: 36.5%
- Social Isolation: 29.5%
- Depression: 24.5%
Source: CDC PLACES (2023), aggregated across 3 census tracts near this church.
Churches near Smith Chapel
- Independence Baptist Church — 0.6 mi away
- Vision Christian Church — 1.8 mi away
- West-Plex Church — 2 mi away
- River Oaks Church — 2 mi away
- Peine Ridge Church — 2.1 mi away in Wentzville, MO
- Church of Christ — 2.5 mi away
- Agape Church — 2.5 mi away in Wentzville, MO
- New Hope Christian Church — 2.7 mi away in Wentzville, MO
- Cornerstone Apostolic Church — 3.6 mi away in Wentzville, MO
- The Crossings Church — 3.7 mi away in Wentzville, MO
More Methodist churches nearby
- Immanuel Lutheran in Wentzville — 7 mi away in Wentzville, MO
- Moscow Mills United Methodist Chruch — 8.7 mi away in Moscow Mills, MO
- College United Methodist Church — 10.2 mi away in Warrenton, MO
- Troy Holiness Church — 10.5 mi away in Troy, MO
- St. Stephen UMC — 11.4 mi away in Troy, MO
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