Willis Chapel AME Church
Willis Chapel AME Church is a African Methodist Episcopal church in Kansas City, MO 64130. It is one of 783 churches in Kansas City, and one of 3 African Methodist Episcopal congregations in the city.
Kansas City, MO, 64130Website: http://www.willischapelame.org/
Willis Chapel AME Church 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 Willis Chapel AME Church
Within a few blocks of these doors, more than 4 in 10 adults live with obesity. More than a third of households aren't sure there will be enough to eat, and more than a third describe their own health as fair or poor. That is 2,200 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: 49.3%
- Food Insecurity: 38.9%
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 36.0%
- Housing Insecurity: 32.0%
- Utility Shutoff Threat: 26.1%
- Diabetes: 21.7%
- Social Isolation: 38.2%
- Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 31.7%
- Poverty Rate: 28.7% (17.5–39.8%)
- Transportation Barriers: 20.5%
- Uninsured All Ages (Census): 17.8% (9.5–26.1%)
- Depression: 23.1%
- Uninsured Adults 18-64: 14.9%
Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 4 census tracts near this church.
Kansas City city is served by 493 churches — about one congregation for every 1,000 residents.
Churches near Willis Chapel AME Church
- Faith Is Deliverance Missionary Baptist Church — 0 mi away
- Good Samaritan Baptist Church — 0.2 mi away
- Church of God True Holiness — 0.4 mi away
- Love Fellowship Church — 0.4 mi away
- New Beginnings Christian Fellowship — 0.4 mi away
- Spruce St. Matthew Baptist Church — 0.4 mi away
- Jehovah's Witness Kingdom Hall — 0.5 mi away
- Mount of Transfiguration Baptist Church — 0.5 mi away
- House of Refuge Non-Denominational Church — 0.5 mi away
- Greater Faith Missionary Baptist Church — 0.5 mi away
More Methodist churches nearby
- Saint James United Methodist Church — 0.9 mi away
- Ebenezer African Methodist Episcopal Church — 0.9 mi away
- Saint Andrew United Methodist Church — 1 mi away
- Power Of Faith African Methodist Episcopal Church — 1.5 mi away
- Allen Chapel African Methodist Episcopal Church — 1.5 mi away
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