Smith Chapel African Methodist Episcopal Church
Smith Chapel African Methodist Episcopal Church is a Methodist church in Richmond, TX 77469. It is one of 99 churches in Richmond, and one of 2 Methodist congregations in the city.
Richmond, TX, 77469Smith Chapel African Methodist Episcopal 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 Smith Chapel African Methodist Episcopal Church
Within about a mile of this church, more than 3 in 10 working-age adults live without health insurance. About a third describe their own health as fair or poor, and about a third of the people here live without health insurance. That is 2,100 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: 34.7%
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 33.7%
- Uninsured All Ages (Census): 31.8%
- Obesity: 40.2%
- Diabetes: 17.5%
- Poverty Rate: 17.6% (9.4–25.9%)
Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 5 census tracts near this church.
Richmond city is served by 5 churches — about one congregation for every 1,100 residents.
Churches near Smith Chapel African Methodist Episcopal Church
- Second Mount Carmel Baptist Church — 0 mi away
- Mount Carmel Missionary Baptist Church — 0.3 mi away
- Templo Nazareth — 0.4 mi away
- Rosenberg First Church of God — 0.4 mi away in Rosenberg, TX
- Life Sanctuary Church — 0.4 mi away
- Primera Iglesia Bautista de Richmond Church — 0.4 mi away
- TREM City of His Grace — 0.6 mi away
- Saint John Fisher Church — 0.7 mi away
- Renaissance Church — 0.7 mi away
- St John's United Methodist Church — 0.8 mi away
More Methodist churches nearby
- St John's United Methodist Church — 0.8 mi away
- United Methodist Church Saint Lukes — 2.9 mi away in Rosenberg, TX
- First Hispanic Free Methodist Church — 3 mi away in Rosenberg, TX
- Faith Methodist Church — 3 mi away
- Parkway United Methodist Church — 5.8 mi away in Sugar Land, TX