Johnson Chapel A.M.E. Church
Johnson Chapel A.M.E. Church is a African Methodist Episcopal church in Odessa, TX 79761. It is one of 210 churches in Odessa.
Odessa, TX, 79761Johnson Chapel A.M.E. Church is part of the Methodist family of churches in The American Church Story. 1,579 congregations of the Methodist family gather across Texas — 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 Johnson Chapel A.M.E. Church
Within a few blocks of these doors, more than 3 in 10 working-age adults live without health insurance. About a third describe their own health as fair or poor, and nearly a quarter of the people here live without health insurance. That is two thousand neighbors — and some of them are already in these pews.
Pray for healing in the homes around this building, and for this church to be known as a place to bring what hurts.
- Uninsured Adults 18-64: 36.8%
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 33.7%
- Uninsured All Ages (Census): 24.8% (14.6–34.9%)
- Diabetes: 18.3%
- Unemployment: 13.7% (2.3–25.2%)
- Obesity: 43.2%
- Child Poverty: 37.0% (17.1–56.9%)
- Poverty Rate: 21.6% (12.7–30.5%)
Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 3 census tracts near this church.
Odessa city is served by 84 churches — about one congregation for every 1,157 residents.
Churches near Johnson Chapel A.M.E. Church
- Carver Heights Church of Christ — 0.1 mi away
- Texas and Clements Church of Christ — 0.2 mi away
- Pilgrim Restaurant Baptist Church — 0.3 mi away
- Mackey Chapel United Methodist Church — 0.4 mi away
- Iglesia Bautista Jerusalem — 0.5 mi away
- St. Joseph's Catholic Church — 0.5 mi away
- Bethel Baptist Church — 0.7 mi away
- Parks Memorial Church of God — 0.7 mi away
- Carter Chapel Church — 0.7 mi away
- Templo Romanos 8:1 — 0.8 mi away
More Methodist churches nearby
- First United Methodist Church - Odessa — 1.3 mi away
- Highland United Methodist Church — 2.4 mi away
- Asbury United Methodist Church — 3.3 mi away
- Aldersgate United Metodist Church Of West Odessa — 3.6 mi away
- Wesley Evangelical Methodist Church — 4.8 mi away