Ford Chapel African Methodist Episcopal Zion Church
Ford Chapel African Methodist Episcopal Zion Church is a Episcopal;African Methodist Episcopal Zion church in Memphis, TN 38109. It is one of 1,547 churches in Memphis.
Memphis, TN, 38109Website: http://amez.org
Shares a ministry location with Free Life Church and New Restoration Church.
Ford Chapel African Methodist Episcopal Zion Church is part of the Methodist family of churches in The American Church Story. 1,068 congregations of the Methodist family gather across Tennessee — 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 Ford Chapel African Methodist Episcopal Zion 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. About 2 in 3 the children here are growing up below the poverty line, and nearly half of adults live with obesity. That is 2,100 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: 66.9% (49.6–84.2%)
- Obesity: 51.4%
- Poverty Rate: 41.3% (28.4–54.1%)
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 40.5%
- Diabetes: 27.7%
- Unemployment: 21.7% (11.3–32.2%)
- Uninsured All Ages (Census): 19.4% (10.8–28.1%)
- Uninsured Adults 18-64: 17.5%
- Depression: 24.2%
Source: U.S. Census Bureau, CDC PLACES (2019-2023, 2023), aggregated across 2 census tracts near this church.
Memphis city is served by 1,033 churches — about one congregation for every 596 residents.
Churches near Ford Chapel African Methodist Episcopal Zion Church
- New Restoration Church — 0 mi away
- Free Life Church — 0 mi away
- Old Riverside Baptist Church — 0 mi away
- Riverside Church — 0.1 mi away
- New Genesis Baptist Church — 0.1 mi away
- New Galilee Baptist Church — 0.2 mi away
- Greater Paradise Baptist Church — 0.2 mi away
- Williams Temple Church of God in Christ Satellite Annex — 0.3 mi away
- Lutheran Baptist Church — 0.5 mi away
- Life Mission Ministry — 0.6 mi away
More Methodist churches nearby
- Washington Chapel Christian Methodist Episcopal Church — 0.6 mi away
- Johnson Chapel Christian Methodist Episcopal Church — 1.5 mi away
- Golden United Methodist Church — 1.5 mi away
- Whites Chapel African Methodist Episcopal Church — 2.9 mi away
- Calvary Longview United Methodist Church — 3 mi away