Wesley Chapel AME Church
Wesley Chapel AME Church is a African Methodist Episcopal church at 2209 Emancipation Avenue in Houston, TX 77003. It is one of 3,338 churches in Houston, and one of 2 African Methodist Episcopal congregations in the city.
2209 Emancipation Avenue, Houston, TX, 77003Website: https://wearewesley.org/
Wesley Chapel AME 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 Wesley Chapel AME Church
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 a quarter of the people here live below the poverty line, and about 1 in 10 the workforce is looking for work and not finding it. 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.
- Poverty Rate: 28.3% (17.4–39.2%)
- Unemployment: 10.2% (4.5–15.9%)
- Obesity: 39.2%
- Uninsured Adults 18-64: 13.7%
- Uninsured All Ages (Census): 13.5% (5.8–21.2%)
Source: U.S. Census Bureau, CDC PLACES (2019-2023, 2023), aggregated across 4 census tracts near this church.
Churches near Wesley Chapel AME Church
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- Oliver Chapel Baptist Church — 0.1 mi away
- St John Missionary Baptist Church — 0.1 mi away
- Fresh Start Community Church — 0.2 mi away
- Fourth Missionary Baptist Church — 0.2 mi away
- Berean Seventh Day Adventist Church — 0.2 mi away
- Mount Zion Baptist Church — 0.2 mi away
- Trinity East United Methodist Church — 0.2 mi away
- Third Ward Church of Christ — 0.2 mi away
- Williams Memorial Temple Church of God in Christ — 0.3 mi away
More Methodist churches nearby
- Trinity East United Methodist Church — 0.2 mi away
- St John's United Methodist Church — 0.5 mi away
- Trinity United Methodist Church — 0.7 mi away
- Boynton United Methodist Church — 1 mi away
- First United Methodist Church of Houston — 1.1 mi away