Wayman Chapel African Methodist Episcopal Church
Wayman Chapel African Methodist Episcopal Church is a Methodist church in Memphis, TN 38109. It is one of 1,544 churches in Memphis, and one of 86 Methodist congregations in the city.
Memphis, TN, 38109Wayman 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 Wayman Chapel African Methodist Episcopal Church
Within about a mile of this church, 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 more than a third describe their own health as fair or poor. 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.
- Obesity: 53.5%
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 44.9%
- Poverty Rate: 43.8% (27.6–60.1%)
- Diabetes: 30.8%
- Uninsured All Ages (Census): 22.9% (13.9–32.0%)
- Unemployment: 19.3% (5.9–32.7%)
- Uninsured Adults 18-64: 19.5%
- Depression: 24.2%
Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 3 census tracts near this church.
Memphis city is served by 1,033 churches — about one congregation for every 596 residents.
Churches near Wayman Chapel African Methodist Episcopal Church
- Rock of Ages Baptist Church — 0.1 mi away
- Shady Grove Baptist Church — 0.1 mi away
- Person Avenue Baptist Church — 0.2 mi away
- Bethlehem Baptist Church — 0.3 mi away
- Warren United Methodist Church — 0.4 mi away
- Oak Grove Baptist Church — 0.4 mi away
- First Baptist Church — 0.4 mi away
- Firelight Spiritual Baptist Church — 0.4 mi away
- Golden Gate Missionary Baptist Church — 0.4 mi away
- Jesus Is the Way Church of God in Christ — 0.4 mi away
More Methodist churches nearby
- Warren United Methodist Church — 0.4 mi away
- Martin Memorial Temple Christian Methodist Episcopal Church — 0.6 mi away
- Mount Zion African Methodist Episcopal Church — 0.7 mi away
- New Allen African Methodist Episcopal Church — 0.8 mi away
- A Worship Experience Christian Center — 1.3 mi away