Bakers Chapel African Methodist Episcopal Church
Bakers Chapel African Methodist Episcopal Church is a Methodist church in Big Spring, TX 79720. It is one of 60 churches in Big Spring, and one of 2 Methodist congregations in the city.
Big Spring, TX, 79720Bakers Chapel African Methodist Episcopal Church is part of the Methodist family of churches in The American Church Story. 1,558 congregations of the Methodist family gather across Texas — 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 Bakers 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. About a third describe their own health as fair or poor, and about a third of the people here live below the poverty line. 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: 35.7%
- Poverty Rate: 33.1% (22.3–43.9%)
- Uninsured Adults 18-64: 31.3%
- Uninsured All Ages (Census): 24.8% (14.6–34.9%)
- Diabetes: 20.0%
- Obesity: 43.6%
- Child Poverty: 27.1% (10.4–43.7%)
Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 5 census tracts near this church.
Big Spring city is served by 30 churches — about one congregation for every 778 residents.
Churches near Bakers Chapel African Methodist Episcopal Church
- Northside Baptist Church — 0.1 mi away
- New Life Ministries Church of God — 0.1 mi away
- St. Thomas Catholic Church — 0.3 mi away
- First Mexican Baptist Church — 0.4 mi away
- Power House Church of God in Christ — 0.6 mi away
- McGee Chapel Church of God in Christ — 0.6 mi away
- Living Waters Church — 0.8 mi away
- First Assembly of God Church — 0.8 mi away
- Circuit Riders Cowboy Church — 0.8 mi away
- Big Spring Methodist Church — 0.8 mi away
More Methodist churches nearby
- Big Spring Methodist Church — 0.8 mi away
- Coahoma First United Methodist Church — 10.8 mi away in Coahoma, TX
- Stanton First United Methodist Church — 19.9 mi away in Stanton, TX