Avery Chapel African Methodist Episcopal Church

Avery Chapel African Methodist Episcopal Church is a church in Brookhaven, MS. It is one of 94 churches in Brookhaven.

Brookhaven, MS

Website: http://averychapelamechurch.doodlekit.com/

Avery 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. About 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: 47.4%
Food Insecurity: 35.4%
Fair/Poor Health Status: 32.8%
Poverty Rate: 32.1% (23.6–40.7%)
Housing Insecurity: 26.2%
Diabetes: 20.8%
Utility Shutoff Threat: 19.3%
Child Poverty: 39.9% (24.1–55.7%)
Social Isolation: 38.8%
Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 32.5%
Transportation Barriers: 18.4%
Uninsured Adults 18-64: 14.1%
Uninsured All Ages (Census): 12.3% (8.6–16.0%)

Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 2 census tracts near this church.

Churches near Avery Chapel African Methodist Episcopal Church

Heritage Family Church — 0.4 mi away
First United Pentecostal Church — 0.5 mi away
Lacks Chapel — 0.6 mi away
River of Life Church UPCI — 0.7 mi away
Jackson Street United Methodist Church — 0.7 mi away
The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints — 0.7 mi away
Central Baptist Church — 0.9 mi away
Greater New Zion Church of God in Christ — 0.9 mi away
Grace Community Church — 1 mi away
Mount Wade Baptist Church — 1 mi away

More Methodist churches nearby

Jackson Street United Methodist Church — 0.7 mi away
Kynette Pilgrim United Methodist Church — 1.5 mi away
Avery Chapel African Methodist Episcopal Church — 1.6 mi away
First United Methodist Church — 1.7 mi away
Bethel African Methodist Episcopal Church — 2.2 mi away

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