Slades Chapel AME Zion Church
Slades Chapel AME Zion Church is a African Methodist Episcopal Zion church at 307 East Union Street in Morganton, NC 28655. It is one of 160 churches in Morganton.
307 East Union Street, Morganton, NC, 28655Slades Chapel AME Zion Church is part of the Methodist family of churches in The American Church Story. 1,294 congregations of the Methodist family gather across North Carolina — 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 Slades Chapel AME Zion Church
Within about a mile of this church, more than 7 in 10 the children here are growing up below the poverty line. About a third of the people here live below the poverty line, and about a third of adults say they are socially isolated. That is two thousand neighbors — and some of them are already in these pews.
Pray for the households stretched past their means, and for this church to know their names.
- Child Poverty: 70.5%
- Poverty Rate: 32.0% (20.1–43.9%)
- Social Isolation: 34.2%
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 26.2%
- Food Insecurity: 22.8%
- Uninsured All Ages (Census): 17.8% (11.8–23.7%)
- Uninsured Adults 18-64: 17.6%
- Obesity: 39.0%
- Depression: 26.0%
- Housing Insecurity: 16.6%
- Diabetes: 14.7%
- Utility Shutoff Threat: 11.0%
Source: U.S. Census Bureau, CDC PLACES (2019-2023, 2023), aggregated across 3 census tracts near this church.
Morganton city is served by 16 churches — about one congregation for every 834 residents.
Churches near Slades Chapel AME Zion Church
- Gaston Chapel AME Church — 0 mi away
- Burke Community Bible Church — 0.2 mi away
- First United Methodist Church — 0.2 mi away
- Calvary Lutheran Church — 0.3 mi away
- Grace Episcopal Church — 0.3 mi away
- Summit Community Church — 0.3 mi away
- New Hope in Christ Church — 0.5 mi away
- Green Street Presbyterian Church — 0.6 mi away
- Mission Church — 0.6 mi away
- First Baptist — 0.7 mi away
More Methodist churches nearby
- Gaston Chapel AME Church — 0 mi away
- First United Methodist Church — 0.2 mi away
- North Morganton United Methodist Church — 1.2 mi away
- St Matthews United Methodist Church — 1.6 mi away
- Salem United Methodist Church — 3.4 mi away
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