First African Methodist Episcopal Church of Oklahoma City

First African Methodist Episcopal Church of Oklahoma City is a Methodist church in Oklahoma City, OK 73105. It is one of 988 churches in Oklahoma City, and one of 38 Methodist congregations in the city.

Oklahoma City, OK, 73105

First African Methodist Episcopal Church of Oklahoma City 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 First African Methodist Episcopal Church of Oklahoma City

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 households aren't sure there will be enough to eat. 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: 48.5%
  • Food Insecurity: 38.5%
  • Fair/Poor Health Status: 32.8%
  • Housing Insecurity: 28.9%
  • Utility Shutoff Threat: 23.6%
  • Diabetes: 22.2%
  • Social Isolation: 36.4%
  • Child Poverty: 35.8% (22.9–49.4%)
  • Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 33.0%
  • Poverty Rate: 24.0% (14.6–33.4%)
  • Transportation Barriers: 19.0%
  • Depression: 23.4%
  • Uninsured Adults 18-64: 15.3%
  • Uninsured All Ages (Census): 14.8% (8.6–21.0%)

Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 4 census tracts near this church.

Oklahoma City city is served by 616 churches — about one congregation for every 1,095 residents.

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