Zion Chapel African Methodist Episcopal Church
Zion Chapel African Methodist Episcopal Church is a Methodist church in Hattiesburg, MS 39401. It is one of 186 churches in Hattiesburg, and one of 11 Methodist congregations in the city.
Hattiesburg, MS, 39401Website: https://www.zionchapelamechattiesburg.org
Zion 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 Zion Chapel African Methodist Episcopal Church
Within about a mile of this church, more than 3 in 10 households aren't sure there will be enough to eat. Nearly a quarter of adults are worried about keeping the housing they have, and about 1 in 5 households fear the power or water being shut off. That is 2,100 neighbors — and some of them are already in these pews.
Pray for the tables that run short before the month does, and for this church's table to be long.
- Food Insecurity: 35.8%
- Housing Insecurity: 26.3%
- Utility Shutoff Threat: 18.8%
- Obesity: 43.2%
- Social Isolation: 38.9%
- Child Poverty: 36.6% (19.3–53.9%)
- Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 33.1%
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 29.6%
- Poverty Rate: 25.5% (13.4–37.5%)
- Transportation Barriers: 18.2%
- Diabetes: 17.8%
- Unemployment: 9.5% (1.4–17.6%)
- Uninsured Adults 18-64: 14.9%
- Uninsured All Ages (Census): 14.2% (6.6–21.7%)
Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 7 census tracts near this church.
Hattiesburg city is served by 74 churches — about one congregation for every 689 residents.
Churches near Zion Chapel African Methodist Episcopal Church
- Saint James Christian Methodist Episcopal Church — 0 mi away
- First Trinity Baptist Church — 0 mi away
- Hattiesburg Crusaders Deliverance Baptist Church — 0.1 mi away
- Nicholson Temple and Whole Armor Church Of God In Christ — 0.2 mi away
- The Emerge Church — 0.2 mi away
- Spirit of Life Community Church — 0.2 mi away
- Church of God in Christ — 0.2 mi away
- Church of God — 0.2 mi away
- New Hope Baptist Church — 0.2 mi away
- Logos Missionary Baptist Church — 0.3 mi away
More Methodist churches nearby
- Saint James Christian Methodist Episcopal Church — 0 mi away
- Saint Paul United Methodist Church — 0.4 mi away
- Main Street United Methodist Church — 0.6 mi away
- Court Street United Methodist Church — 1 mi away
- Petal United Methodist Church — 1.6 mi away in Petal, MS
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