Metropolitan AME Church
Metropolitan AME Church is a African Methodist Episcopal church in Ardmore, OK 73401. It is one of 88 churches in Ardmore.
Ardmore, OK, 73401Metropolitan AME Church is part of the Methodist family of churches in The American Church Story. 408 congregations of the Methodist family gather across Oklahoma — 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 Metropolitan AME Church
Within about a mile of this church, more than 2 in 10 households aren't sure there will be enough to eat. Nearly a quarter of the people here live without health insurance, and more than a third of adults live with obesity. That is two thousand 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: 28.9%
- Uninsured All Ages (Census): 22.1% (16.5–27.6%)
- Obesity: 43.7%
- Social Isolation: 35.4%
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 28.7%
- Poverty Rate: 24.2% (17.6–30.8%)
- Housing Insecurity: 20.2%
- Diabetes: 16.8%
- Utility Shutoff Threat: 15.6%
- Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 28.5%
- Child Poverty: 28.1% (15.0–41.3%)
- Depression: 25.9%
- Uninsured Adults 18-64: 15.3%
- Transportation Barriers: 14.3%
- Unemployment: 6.7% (2.4–10.9%)
Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 4 census tracts near this church.
Ardmore city is served by 40 churches — about one congregation for every 577 residents.
Churches near Metropolitan AME Church
- Abundant Life The WELL — 0.2 mi away
- The Jar Ministries — 0.3 mi away
- Macedonia Missionary Baptist Church — 0.3 mi away
- East Main Church of Christ — 0.3 mi away
- Northeast Baptist Church — 0.3 mi away
- Victory Temple Church of God in Christ — 0.4 mi away
- Tabernacle of Praise FGBC — 0.4 mi away
- Church of Christ Northeast — 0.4 mi away
- Mt Zion Baptist Church — 0.5 mi away
- Trinity Baptist Church — 0.6 mi away
More Methodist churches nearby
- First Methodist Church — 1 mi away
- Ashbury United Methodist Church — 1.7 mi away
- First United Methodist Church — 16.3 mi away in Marietta, OK
- First United Methodist Church — 17.7 mi away in Wilson, OK
- First United Methodist Church — 21.7 mi away in Healdton, OK