Watkins Chapel Christian Methodist Episcopal Church
Watkins Chapel Christian Methodist Episcopal Church is a Methodist church in Memphis, TN 38108. It is one of 1,547 churches in Memphis, and one of 85 Methodist congregations in the city.
Memphis, TN, 38108Watkins Chapel Christian Methodist Episcopal 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 Watkins Chapel Christian Methodist Episcopal 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. More than half of 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: 58.2% (40.3–76.7%)
- Obesity: 50.2%
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 39.1%
- Poverty Rate: 38.3% (24.8–51.8%)
- Diabetes: 26.8%
- Unemployment: 16.0% (6.8–25.2%)
- Uninsured Adults 18-64: 17.7%
- Depression: 23.9%
- Uninsured All Ages (Census): 14.5% (7.6–21.4%)
Source: U.S. Census Bureau, CDC PLACES (2019-2023, 2023), aggregated across 6 census tracts near this church.
Memphis city is served by 1,033 churches — about one congregation for every 596 residents.
Churches near Watkins Chapel Christian Methodist Episcopal Church
- Travelers Rest Baptist Church — 0.2 mi away
- New Macedonia Baptist Church — 0.2 mi away
- El Bethel Missionary Baptist Church — 0.2 mi away
- El Bethel Non-Denominational — 0.2 mi away
- Coopers Chapel African Methodist Episcopal Zion Church — 0.3 mi away
- House of Prayer Christian Church — 0.3 mi away
- First Baptist Church — 0.3 mi away
- Greater First Baptist Church — 0.4 mi away
- Upper Room Church — 0.4 mi away
- Willing Souls Missionary Baptist Church — 0.4 mi away
More Methodist churches nearby
- Coopers Chapel African Methodist Episcopal Zion Church — 0.3 mi away
- Greer Chapel African Methodist Episcopal Church — 0.7 mi away
- Jackson Avenue Methodist Church — 1.2 mi away
- Saint John African Methodist Episcopal Church — 1.2 mi away
- Princeton Chapel African Methodist Episcopal Zion Church — 1.3 mi away