Hood Memorial African Methodist Episcopal Church
Hood Memorial African Methodist Episcopal Church is a Methodist church in Providence, RI 02907. It is one of 214 churches in Providence, and one of 5 Methodist congregations in the city.
Providence, RI, 02907Hood Memorial African Methodist Episcopal Church is part of the Methodist family of churches in The American Church Story. 27 congregations of the Methodist family gather across Rhode Island — 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 Hood Memorial African Methodist Episcopal Church
Within a few blocks of these doors, more than 4 in 10 renting households pay over half of everything they earn just to keep a roof over them. More than a third of households aren't sure there will be enough to eat, and more than a third of adults say they are socially isolated. 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.
- Food Insecurity: 43.2%
- Social Isolation: 42.0%
- Housing Insecurity: 34.7%
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 31.9%
- Uninsured Adults 18-64: 22.8%
- Utility Shutoff Threat: 21.7%
- Obesity: 41.9%
- Child Poverty: 33.0% (14.0–52.0%)
- Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 30.3%
- Poverty Rate: 25.8% (14.5–37.2%)
- Transportation Barriers: 19.9%
- Diabetes: 16.4%
- Unemployment: 10.5% (2.2–18.7%)
Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 2 census tracts near this church.
Providence city is served by 132 churches — about one congregation for every 1,437 residents.
Churches near Hood Memorial African Methodist Episcopal Church
- Calvary Baptist Church — 0 mi away
- Mount Horeb Seventh-day Adventist Church — 0.1 mi away
- Faith and Hope Baptist Church — 0.1 mi away
- Faith Community Church — 0.1 mi away
- Sisters of Mercy — 0.2 mi away
- Second Free Will Baptist Church — 0.3 mi away
- Star of Jacob Church — 0.3 mi away
- Iglesia Manantial De Vida — 0.3 mi away
- Providence Hispanic Seventh Day Adventist Church — 0.3 mi away
- Elmwood Avenue Church of God — 0.3 mi away
More Methodist churches nearby
- Trinity United Methodist Church — 0.6 mi away
- Allen African Methodist Episcopal Church — 0.6 mi away
- Mathewson Street United Methodist Church — 1.3 mi away
- Washington Park United Methodist Church — 1.6 mi away
- Godspeed Church — 2.6 mi away in East Providence, RI
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