Grant Chapel African Methodist Episcopal Church
Grant Chapel African Methodist Episcopal Church is a Methodist church in Lawton, OK 73501. It is one of 210 churches in Lawton, and one of 8 Methodist congregations in the city.
Lawton, OK, 73501Website: https://www.ame-church.com/
Grant Chapel African Methodist Episcopal Church is part of the Methodist family of churches in The American Church Story. 407 congregations of the Methodist family gather across Oklahoma — 25,985 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 Grant Chapel African Methodist Episcopal Church
Within about a mile of this church, more than 8 in 10 the children here are growing up below the poverty line. More than half of the people here live below the poverty line, and more than half of adults live with obesity. 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: 87.0%
- Poverty Rate: 60.1%
- Obesity: 58.3%
- Food Insecurity: 52.1%
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 44.3%
- Housing Insecurity: 34.7%
- Utility Shutoff Threat: 32.2%
- Diabetes: 27.2%
- Transportation Barriers: 26.0%
- Unemployment: 23.9% (16.0–31.9%)
- Social Isolation: 34.8%
- Depression: 27.9%
- Uninsured Adults 18-64: 19.1%
- Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 30.0%
- Uninsured All Ages (Census): 12.0% (5.8–18.1%)
Source: U.S. Census Bureau, CDC PLACES (2019-2023, 2023), aggregated across 5 census tracts near this church.
Lawton city is served by 125 churches — about one congregation for every 603 residents.
Churches near Grant Chapel African Methodist Episcopal Church
- Seventh Day Adventist Church — 0 mi away
- Union Baptist Church — 0.1 mi away
- Open Door Church of God-Christ — 0.1 mi away
- Iglesia De Dios Casa De Oracion — 0.1 mi away
- Christ Temple Pentecostal Church — 0.1 mi away
- St John's Missionary Baptist Church — 0.1 mi away
- St Elmo Baptist Church — 0.2 mi away
- Church of the Living God — 0.2 mi away
- Christ Holy Sanctified Church — 0.2 mi away
- Saint Johns Baptist Church — 0.2 mi away
More Methodist churches nearby
- Centenary United Methodist Church — 1.3 mi away
- First United Methodist Church — 1.9 mi away
- St. Paul's United Methodist Church — 2.4 mi away
- Lawton Heights United Methodist Church — 2.6 mi away
- New Light — 3 mi away