Allen Chapel African Methodist Episcopal Church
Allen Chapel African Methodist Episcopal Church is a Methodist church in Oklahoma City, OK 73117. It is one of 988 churches in Oklahoma City, and one of 38 Methodist congregations in the city.
Oklahoma City, OK, 73117Website: http://www.allenchapelokc.com/
Allen 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 Allen Chapel African Methodist Episcopal Church
Within about a mile of this church, more than 3 in 10 renting households pay over half of everything they earn just to keep a roof over them. Nearly half of adults live with obesity, and more than a third of the people here live below the poverty line. That is 2,200 neighbors — and some of them are already in these pews.
Pray for the families one rent increase away from moving, and for this church to know their names.
- Obesity: 49.7%
- Poverty Rate: 42.0% (28.8–55.1%)
- Food Insecurity: 41.6%
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 34.6%
- Housing Insecurity: 30.5%
- Utility Shutoff Threat: 26.7%
- Diabetes: 23.1%
- Child Poverty: 39.8% (24.5–55.1%)
- Social Isolation: 35.6%
- Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 31.5%
- Transportation Barriers: 21.1%
- Depression: 25.0%
- Uninsured Adults 18-64: 15.5%
- Unemployment: 7.9% (2.1–15.2%)
Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 8 census tracts near this church.
Oklahoma City city is served by 616 churches — about one congregation for every 1,095 residents.
Churches near Allen Chapel African Methodist Episcopal Church
- Paradise Temple Pentecostal Church — 0.1 mi away
- God Knows Ministries "GKM" — 0.1 mi away
- New Covenant MB Church — 0.3 mi away
- Tenth Street Church — 0.3 mi away
- Avery Chapel African Methodist Episcopal Church — 0.3 mi away
- Amost Memorial CME Church — 0.4 mi away
- Corpus Christi Catholic Church — 0.4 mi away
- Holy Temple Church of God — 0.4 mi away
- Bread of Life Baptist Church — 0.4 mi away
- Shield of Faith Missionary Church — 0.4 mi away
More Methodist churches nearby
- Avery Chapel African Methodist Episcopal Church — 0.3 mi away
- First African Methodist Episcopal Church of Oklahoma City — 1.5 mi away
- St. Luke's United Methodist Church — 1.6 mi away
- First Church-OKC — 1.7 mi away
- 8th Street Church — 2.1 mi away
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