Israel Chapel African Methodist Episcopal Church
Israel Chapel African Methodist Episcopal Church is a Methodist church in Port Arthur, TX 77640. It is one of 137 churches in Port Arthur, and one of 7 Methodist congregations in the city.
Port Arthur, TX, 77640Website: http://www.nonprofitfacts.com/TX/Israel-Chapel-A-M-E-Church.html
Israel 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 Israel Chapel African Methodist Episcopal Church
Within about a mile of this church, more than 6 in 10 the children here are growing up below the poverty line. Nearly half of adults live with obesity, and nearly half 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 households stretched past their means, and for this church to know their names.
- Child Poverty: 63.4% (45.6–81.3%)
- Obesity: 52.7%
- Poverty Rate: 45.0% (32.4–57.7%)
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 38.3%
- Diabetes: 25.1%
- Unemployment: 13.5% (2.6–24.8%)
- Uninsured All Ages (Census): 19.8% (10.6–29.0%)
- Uninsured Adults 18-64: 19.3%
Source: U.S. Census Bureau, CDC PLACES (2019-2023, 2023), aggregated across 4 census tracts near this church.
Port Arthur city is served by 75 churches — about one congregation for every 741 residents.
Churches near Israel Chapel African Methodist Episcopal Church
- Saint Luke Baptist Church — 0 mi away
- Saint Paul United Methodist Church — 0.1 mi away
- Carter Chapel Church — 0.1 mi away
- Rock Island Baptist Church — 0.1 mi away
- Holiness Pentecostal Sanctified Church — 0.2 mi away
- White Rose Church of God — 0.2 mi away
- Saint John Baptist Church — 0.2 mi away
- Mount Sinai Baptist Church — 0.2 mi away
- Sacred Heart-Saint Mary Catholic Church — 0.2 mi away
- First Sixth Street Baptist Church — 0.3 mi away
More Methodist churches nearby
- Saint Paul United Methodist Church — 0.1 mi away
- Barnes Memorial Methodist Church — 0.6 mi away
- Lakeview United Methodist Church — 3.8 mi away
- First Southern Methodist Church of Port Arthur — 4.1 mi away
- United Methodist Church De Gthsmn — 4.4 mi away