Brown Chapel-Newberry Ame Church
Brown Chapel-Newberry Ame Church is a African Methodist Episcopal church at 1279 Brown Chapel Road in Newberry, SC 29108. It is one of 70 churches in Newberry, and one of 6 African Methodist Episcopal congregations in the city.
1279 Brown Chapel Road, Newberry, SC, 29108Brown Chapel-Newberry Ame Church is part of the Methodist family of churches in The American Church Story. 898 congregations of the Methodist family gather across South Carolina — 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 Brown Chapel-Newberry Ame Church
In the few miles around this church, more than 3 in 10 households aren't sure there will be enough to eat. About 1 in 5 adults live with diabetes, and more than a third of adults live with obesity. That is two thousand neighbors — and some of them are already in these pews.
Pray for the tables that run short before the month does, and for this church's table to be long.
- Food Insecurity: 34.4%
- Diabetes: 19.3%
- Obesity: 43.6%
- Social Isolation: 35.5%
- Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 30.3%
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 29.9%
- Poverty Rate: 25.5% (14.9–36.1%)
- Housing Insecurity: 23.8%
- Uninsured Adults 18-64: 18.2%
- Utility Shutoff Threat: 17.7%
- Transportation Barriers: 16.4%
- Uninsured All Ages (Census): 14.4% (9.1–19.6%)
Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 5 census tracts near this church.
Churches near Brown Chapel-Newberry Ame Church
- Mount Zion Baptist Church — 0.5 mi away
- Glory Tabernacle — 1 mi away
- Bethany Lutheran Church — 1 mi away
- Lewis Memorial United Methodist Church — 1 mi away
- Mayer Memorial Evangelical Lutheran Church — 1.3 mi away
- Wiles Chapel — 1.3 mi away
- West End Baptist Church — 1.4 mi away
- O'Neal St. United Methodist Church — 1.4 mi away
- Newberry Church Of God — 1.4 mi away
- Bethlehem Baptist Church — 1.4 mi away
More Methodist churches nearby
- Lewis Memorial United Methodist Church — 1 mi away
- O'Neal St. United Methodist Church — 1.4 mi away
- Central Methodist Church — 1.6 mi away
- Miller Chapel African Methodist Episcopal Church — 2 mi away
- Epting Memorial United Methodist Church — 2.3 mi away
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