Turner Chapel African Methodist Episcopal Church
Turner Chapel African Methodist Episcopal Church is a Methodist church in Greenwood, MS 38930. It is one of 95 churches in Greenwood, and one of 5 Methodist congregations in the city.
Greenwood, MS, 38930Website: http://www.greaterturnerschapelame.org/
Turner 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 Turner Chapel African Methodist Episcopal Church
Within about a mile of this church, more than 2 in 10 renting households pay over half of everything they earn just to keep a roof over them. Nearly half of households aren't sure there will be enough to eat, and nearly half of adults live with obesity. That is 2,100 neighbors — and some of them are already in these pews.
Pray for the families one rent increase away from moving, and for this church to know their names.
- Food Insecurity: 51.1%
- Obesity: 48.7%
- Child Poverty: 46.6% (27.7–65.7%)
- Social Isolation: 41.7%
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 40.5%
- Poverty Rate: 39.4% (25.8–53.0%)
- Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 37.9%
- Housing Insecurity: 36.6%
- Utility Shutoff Threat: 28.7%
- Transportation Barriers: 26.5%
- Diabetes: 24.9%
- Unemployment: 17.7% (8.8–26.6%)
- Uninsured All Ages (Census): 18.7% (11.4–25.9%)
- Uninsured Adults 18-64: 18.2%
Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 4 census tracts near this church.
Greenwood city is served by 30 churches — about one congregation for every 459 residents.
Churches near Turner Chapel African Methodist Episcopal Church
- Wesley United Methodist Church — 0.2 mi away
- Friendship Missionary Baptist Church — 0.2 mi away
- Strangers Home Baptist Church — 0.3 mi away
- Grace Point Church — 0.3 mi away
- Jennings Temple Christian Methodist Episcopal Church — 0.3 mi away
- Church of the Nativity — 0.3 mi away
- City of Refuge Ministries — 0.3 mi away
- New Zion Baptist Church — 0.3 mi away
- McKinney Chapel Baptist Church — 0.3 mi away
- First Presbyterian Church — 0.3 mi away
More Methodist churches nearby
- Wesley United Methodist Church — 0.2 mi away
- Jennings Temple Christian Methodist Episcopal Church — 0.3 mi away
- First United Methodist Church — 0.5 mi away
- Saint Johns United Methodist Church — 1.5 mi away
- First United Methodist Church — 2 mi away
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