Ward Chapel African Methodist Episcopal Church
Ward Chapel African Methodist Episcopal Church is a Methodist church at 1125 South Parkway, TN, 38106 in Memphis, TN 38106. It is one of 1,544 churches in Memphis, and one of 86 Methodist congregations in the city.
1125 South Parkway, TN, 38106, Memphis, TN, 38106Phone: (901) 946-1945 · Website: https://www.wardchapelmemphis.org/
Ward Chapel 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.
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The community around Ward Chapel African Methodist Episcopal Church
Within about a mile of this church, more than 4 in 10 renting households pay over half of everything they earn just to keep a roof over them. More than 4 in 5 the children here are growing up below the poverty line, and nearly half of adults live with obesity. That is 2,300 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: 99.4%
- Obesity: 51.6%
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 41.3%
- Poverty Rate: 39.3% (24.3–54.4%)
- Diabetes: 28.0%
- Unemployment: 25.8% (12.8–38.7%)
- Uninsured Adults 18-64: 18.7%
- Uninsured All Ages (Census): 18.3% (10.1–26.4%)
- Depression: 23.8%
Source: U.S. Census Bureau, CDC PLACES (2019-2023, 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 Ward Chapel African Methodist Episcopal Church
- Church of Christ — 0.2 mi away
- Grace Temple Church of God in Christ — 0.2 mi away
- Jordan River Baptist Church — 0.2 mi away
- East Trigg Avenue Baptist Church — 0.2 mi away
- East Trigg Avenue Missionary — 0.2 mi away
- Saint Augustine Catholic Church — 0.2 mi away
- Independent Missionary Baptist Church — 0.2 mi away
- True Love Outreach Ministries — 0.3 mi away
- Mount Olive Church of God in Christ — 0.4 mi away
- True Believers Holiness Church — 0.4 mi away
More Methodist churches nearby
- Avery Chapel African Methodist Episcopal Church — 0.5 mi away
- Pillow Street Christian Methodist Episcopal Church — 0.7 mi away
- Centenary United Methodist Church — 1.1 mi away
- Harris Memorial Christian Methodist Episcopal Church — 1.1 mi away
- Warner Temple African Methodist Episcopal Zion Church — 1.2 mi away