Murphy AME Church

Murphy AME Church is a African Methodist Episcopal church at 700 Yarnall Street in Chester, PA 19013. It is one of 108 churches in Chester.

700 Yarnall Street, Chester, PA, 19013

Phone: (610) 874-2110

Murphy AME Church is part of the Methodist family of churches in The American Church Story. 1,331 congregations of the Methodist family gather across Pennsylvania — 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 Murphy AME Church

Within a few blocks of these doors, more than 3 in 10 renting households pay over half of everything they earn just to keep a roof over them. About 2 in 3 the children here are growing up below the poverty line, and nearly half of adults live with obesity. That is two thousand 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.

  • Child Poverty: 64.1% (45.1–83.1%)
  • Obesity: 46.0%
  • Poverty Rate: 40.5% (26.4–54.5%)
  • Fair/Poor Health Status: 31.3%
  • Diabetes: 19.5%
  • Unemployment: 11.5% (3.4–19.6%)

Source: U.S. Census Bureau, CDC PLACES (2019-2023, 2022), aggregated across 4 census tracts near this church.

Chester city is served by 86 churches — about one congregation for every 384 residents.

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