Willow Oak AME Church
Willow Oak AME Church is a African Methodist Episcopal church at 1000 South Main Street in Rich Square, NC 27869. It is one of 9 churches in Rich Square.
1000 South Main Street, Rich Square, NC, 27869Phone: +12525394128
Willow Oak AME 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 Willow Oak AME Church
It takes 4.8 miles in every direction to gather two thousand neighbors around this church. Among the people scattered across those miles, more than 3 in 10 describe their own health as fair or poor, and nearly a quarter of households aren't sure there will be enough to eat, and nearly a quarter of adults live with diabetes. A scattered parish is still a parish.
Pray for the families driving a long way to everything — to work, to a hospital, to this door on a Sunday morning.
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 31.4%
- Food Insecurity: 27.5%
- Diabetes: 22.5%
- Obesity: 44.3%
- Social Isolation: 34.6%
- Utility Shutoff Threat: 14.1%
- Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 28.0%
- Child Poverty: 22.6% (10.7–35.3%)
- Housing Insecurity: 19.2%
- Poverty Rate: 18.6% (9.9–27.2%)
- Uninsured All Ages (Census): 14.2% (7.8–20.8%)
- Transportation Barriers: 13.3%
Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 5 census tracts near this church.
Churches near Willow Oak AME Church
- Hope Temple — 0.7 mi away
- Rich Square Baptist Church — 0.9 mi away
- Rich Square First Baptist Church — 1.1 mi away
- Chapel Hill Church — 2.4 mi away
- Branch Chapel — 3.1 mi away
- New Community Church of God — 3.1 mi away
- Sandy Run Church — 3.9 mi away
- Grace Baptist Church — 3.9 mi away in Woodland, NC
- Cumbo Chapel — 4.2 mi away
- Sandy Run Baptist — 5 mi away in Roxobel, NC
More Methodist churches nearby
- Woodland United Methodist Church — 6.7 mi away in Woodland, NC
- Scotland Neck Methodist Church — 11.9 mi away in Scotland Neck, NC
- Conway Methodist Church — 12.3 mi away in Conway, NC
- Ahoskie United Methodist Church — 17 mi away in Ahoskie, NC
- Halifax United Methodist Church — 17.3 mi away in Halifax, NC
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