Porter Chapel AME Zion Church

Porter Chapel AME Zion Church is a African Methodist Episcopal Zion church in Montgomery, TX 77316. It is one of 36 churches in Montgomery.

Montgomery, TX, 77316

Porter Chapel AME Zion Church is part of the Methodist family of churches in The American Church Story. 1,580 congregations of the Methodist family gather across Texas — 25,989 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 Porter Chapel AME Zion Church

It takes 2.8 miles in every direction to gather two thousand neighbors around this church. Among the people scattered across those miles, about 1 in 7 the people here live without health insurance, and nearly a quarter of adults here carry depression, and about 1 in 15 travel more than an hour to work. A scattered parish is still a parish.

Pray for the families driving a long way to everything — to work, to a hospital, to this door on a Sunday morning.

  • Uninsured All Ages (Census): 16.5% (9.3–23.7%)
  • Depression: 23.0%

Source: U.S. Census Bureau, CDC PLACES (2019-2023, 2023), aggregated across 5 census tracts near this church.

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