Salvation Army
Salvation Army is a church at 696 Jackson Avenue in Memphis, TN 38105. It is one of 1,544 churches in Memphis.
696 Jackson Avenue, Memphis, TN, 38105Salvation Army is part of the Wesleyan-Holiness family of churches in The American Church Story. 130 congregations of the Wesleyan-Holiness family gather across Tennessee — 4,599 across the United States on The Church Map.
The Wesleyan-Holiness churches have insisted that God does not merely forgive people, he changes them — and they took that straight to the poorest streets they could find. The Salvation Army's kettles and soup lines, a century of rescue missions, and an early and costly record of ordaining women all came out of this family.
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The community around Salvation Army
Within a few blocks of these doors, more than 3 in 10 renting households pay over half of everything they earn just to keep a roof over them. Nearly half of adults live with obesity, and about a third describe their own health as fair or poor. That is 2,200 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.
- Obesity: 47.2%
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 32.6%
- Poverty Rate: 30.1% (19.2–40.9%)
- Diabetes: 20.8%
- Unemployment: 11.8% (2.6–20.9%)
- Depression: 25.3%
- Uninsured Adults 18-64: 15.6%
- Uninsured All Ages (Census): 11.9% (6.0–17.8%)
Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 7 census tracts near this church.
Memphis city is served by 1,033 churches — about one congregation for every 596 residents.
Churches near Salvation Army
- Communinty Island Church — 0.2 mi away
- Friendship Church — 0.2 mi away
- Tucker's Temple Church Of God In Christ — 0.3 mi away
- Jacob's Well — 0.3 mi away
- United Methodist Neighborhood Centers of Memphis — 0.3 mi away
- Holy Community Church — 0.3 mi away
- Holy Names of Jesus and Mary Catholic Church — 0.3 mi away
- World Redeemers Outreach Church — 0.3 mi away
- Christian Unity Baptist Church — 0.3 mi away
- Friendly Baptist Church — 0.3 mi away