Metropolitan African Methodist Episcopal Church
Metropolitan African Methodist Episcopal Church is a church in Chester, SC 29706. It is one of 85 churches in Chester.
Chester, SC, 29706Metropolitan African Methodist Episcopal Church is part of the Methodist family of churches in The American Church Story. 853 congregations of the Methodist family gather across South Carolina — 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 Metropolitan African Methodist Episcopal Church
Within about a mile of this church, more than 2 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 about a third describe their own health as fair or poor. 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: 38.0%
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 33.3%
- Poverty Rate: 33.0% (22.0–44.1%)
- Housing Insecurity: 26.4%
- Diabetes: 22.5%
- Utility Shutoff Threat: 20.5%
- Obesity: 44.5%
- Social Isolation: 37.6%
- Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 30.5%
- Transportation Barriers: 17.5%
- Unemployment: 11.3% (5.0–17.5%)
- Child Poverty: 27.6% (8.9–46.3%)
- Uninsured Adults 18-64: 16.8%
- Uninsured All Ages (Census): 14.1% (6.8–21.4%)
Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 3 census tracts near this church.
Chester city is served by 14 churches — about one congregation for every 368 residents.
Churches near Metropolitan African Methodist Episcopal Church
- Church of God — 0.4 mi away
- Word and Spirit Christian Fellowship — 0.4 mi away
- Church of God — 0.5 mi away
- Sanctified Church — 0.5 mi away
- Mount Calvary Baptist Church — 0.5 mi away
- Carmel Presbyterian Church — 0.6 mi away
- Eureka Church — 0.6 mi away
- Bethel United Methodist Church — 0.6 mi away
- Purity Presbyterian Church — 0.7 mi away
- The City of Hope Worship Center — 0.7 mi away
More Methodist churches nearby
- Bethel United Methodist Church — 0.6 mi away
- Chester ARP Church — 0.7 mi away
- Brooklyn African Methodist Episcopal Church — 1.2 mi away
- Wesley Memorial United Methodist — 1.7 mi away
- Armenia Church — 6.2 mi away
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