Upshaw African Methodist Episcopal Church
Upshaw African Methodist Episcopal Church is a Methodist church at 256 Shoop Ave, West Wood, OH, 45417 in Dayton, OH 45417. It is one of 562 churches in Dayton, and one of 21 Methodist congregations in the city.
256 Shoop Ave, West Wood, OH, 45417, Dayton, OH, 45417Phone: (937) 268-3230 · Website: https://upshaw-a-m-e-church-1.hub.biz
Shares a ministry location with The Gathering.
Upshaw African Methodist Episcopal Church is part of the Methodist family of churches in The American Church Story. 1,576 congregations of the Methodist family gather across Ohio — 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 Upshaw African Methodist Episcopal Church
Within a few blocks of these doors, more than 5 in 10 adults live with obesity. Nearly half of households aren't sure there will be enough to eat, and more than 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: 54.0%
- Food Insecurity: 47.9%
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 42.8%
- Social Isolation: 42.6%
- Housing Insecurity: 34.8%
- Utility Shutoff Threat: 30.8%
- Diabetes: 29.9%
- Transportation Barriers: 24.6%
- Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 31.0%
- Poverty Rate: 26.1% (11.1–41.0%)
- Unemployment: 8.5% (0.5–17.6%)
- Depression: 23.0%
- Uninsured Adults 18-64: 14.6%
Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 4 census tracts near this church.
Dayton city is served by 260 churches — about one congregation for every 588 residents.
Churches near Upshaw African Methodist Episcopal Church
- The Gathering — 0 mi away
- Resurrection Catholic Church — 0.1 mi away
- First Wesleyan Church — 0.1 mi away
- Mount Hermon Missionary Baptist Church — 0.2 mi away
- Harris Memorial Christian Methodist Episcopal Church — 0.2 mi away
- Church of God of Prophecy — 0.2 mi away
- Greater Love Christian Church Westwood — 0.2 mi away
- Universal Church of Christ — 0.2 mi away
- Saint Jude Holy Church — 0.2 mi away
- Greater Harvest Missionary Baptist Church — 0.2 mi away
More Methodist churches nearby
- Harris Memorial Christian Methodist Episcopal Church — 0.2 mi away
- Wayman Chapel African Methodist Episcopal — 0.4 mi away
- Greater Allen African Methodist Episcopal Church — 0.9 mi away
- Reed Chapel Christian Methodist Episcopal Church — 1.1 mi away
- Residence Park United Methodist Church — 1.1 mi away