Providence African Methodist Episcopal Church
Providence African Methodist Episcopal Church is a Methodist church in Memphis, TN 38105. It is one of 1,544 churches in Memphis, and one of 86 Methodist congregations in the city.
Memphis, TN, 38105Website: http://providenceame-memphis.org
Providence African Methodist Episcopal Church is part of the Methodist family of churches in The American Church Story. 1,082 congregations of the Methodist family gather across Tennessee — 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.
Find Providence African Methodist Episcopal Church on The Church Map, explore nearby congregations, and pray for its community.
The community around Providence African Methodist Episcopal Church
Within a few blocks of these doors, more than 2 in 10 renting households pay over half of everything they earn just to keep a roof over them. About a third describe their own health as fair or poor, and about 1 in 5 adults live with diabetes. 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.
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 31.3%
- Diabetes: 19.9%
- Obesity: 44.7%
- Depression: 25.4%
- Poverty Rate: 21.8% (11.0–32.7%)
- Uninsured Adults 18-64: 15.8%
- Uninsured All Ages (Census): 14.5% (7.1–21.9%)
- Unemployment: 7.3% (2.1–12.6%)
Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 4 census tracts near this church.
Memphis city is served by 1,033 churches — about one congregation for every 596 residents.
Churches near Providence African Methodist Episcopal Church
- Trinity Baptist Church — 0.1 mi away
- Columbus Baptist Church — 0.1 mi away
- Hopewell Baptist Church — 0.3 mi away
- Catholic Diocese of Memphis — 0.3 mi away
- Emmanuel Baptist Church — 0.4 mi away
- THE NEW CATHEDRAL OF GHWT — 0.4 mi away
- Saint George Greek Orthodox Church — 0.4 mi away
- Greater Calvary Baptist Church — 0.4 mi away
- Speedway Terrace Baptist Church — 0.5 mi away
- Community Bible Church — 0.5 mi away
More Methodist churches nearby
- Smothers Chapel Christian Methodist Episcopal Church — 0.9 mi away
- Jacob's Well — 1 mi away
- United Methodist Neighborhood Centers of Memphis — 1 mi away
- Holy Community Church — 1 mi away
- Payne Chapel Methodist Church — 1 mi away