Avery Chapel African Methodist Episcopal Church
Avery Chapel African Methodist Episcopal Church is a Methodist church in Brookhaven, MS 39601. It is one of 94 churches in Brookhaven, and one of 5 Methodist congregations in the city.
Brookhaven, MS, 39601Avery Chapel African Methodist Episcopal Church is part of the Methodist family of churches in The American Church Story. 614 congregations of the Methodist family gather across Mississippi — 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 Avery Chapel African Methodist Episcopal Church
Within about a mile of this church, 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 about a third describe their own health as fair or poor. 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: 49.4%
- Food Insecurity: 40.9%
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 35.8%
- Poverty Rate: 31.5% (19.8–43.2%)
- Housing Insecurity: 29.8%
- Diabetes: 22.6%
- Utility Shutoff Threat: 22.6%
- Social Isolation: 39.7%
- Child Poverty: 39.2% (23.2–55.1%)
- Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 34.1%
- Transportation Barriers: 21.2%
- Uninsured All Ages (Census): 18.9% (12.6–25.2%)
- Uninsured Adults 18-64: 15.7%
- Unemployment: 6.4% (0.5–13.5%)
Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 5 census tracts near this church.
Brookhaven city is served by 29 churches — about one congregation for every 367 residents.
Churches near Avery Chapel African Methodist Episcopal Church
- Emmanuel Temple Pentecostal Church — 0.1 mi away
- Saint Paul Baptist Church — 0.4 mi away
- Saint Mark Missionary Baptist Church — 0.4 mi away
- Rhema Word Worship Church — 0.4 mi away
- Kynette Pilgrim United Methodist Church — 0.4 mi away
- First Assembly of God Church — 0.5 mi away
- Pearlhaven Baptist Church — 0.5 mi away
- The Assembly Brookhaven — 0.5 mi away
- Easthaven Baptist Church — 0.5 mi away
- St. James M. B. Church — 0.5 mi away
More Methodist churches nearby
- Kynette Pilgrim United Methodist Church — 0.4 mi away
- First United Methodist Church — 0.9 mi away
- Jackson Street United Methodist Church — 1 mi away
- Bethel African Methodist Episcopal Church — 1.1 mi away
- Decell Memorial United Methodist Church — 8.2 mi away in Wesson, MS
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