Sims Chapel African Methodist Episcopal Church
Sims Chapel African Methodist Episcopal Church is a Methodist church in Stamford, TX 79553. It is one of 22 churches in Stamford, and one of 2 Methodist congregations in the city.
Stamford, TX, 79553Sims 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 Sims Chapel African Methodist Episcopal Church
It takes 6.5 miles in every direction to gather two thousand neighbors around this church. Among the people scattered across those miles, more than 4 in 10 renting households pay over half of everything they earn just to keep a roof over them, and about a third describe their own health as fair or poor, and nearly a quarter of the people here live without health insurance. 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.
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 33.1%
- Uninsured All Ages (Census): 22.4% (14.5–30.4%)
- Uninsured Adults 18-64: 22.2%
- Diabetes: 19.8%
- Obesity: 42.2%
- Poverty Rate: 23.6% (16.9–30.4%)
- Depression: 23.9%
Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 3 census tracts near this church.
Churches near Sims Chapel African Methodist Episcopal Church
- Double Mountain Area Baptist Church — 0.1 mi away
- First Baptist Church of Stamford — 0.1 mi away
- First Baptist Church — 0.1 mi away
- Trinity Church — 0.2 mi away
- New Covenant Baptist Church — 0.2 mi away
- Living Grace Church — 0.2 mi away
- Central Baptist Church — 0.2 mi away
- Saint Johns United Methodist Church — 0.2 mi away
- New Hope Ministries — 0.2 mi away
- Temple Baptist Church — 0.3 mi away
More Methodist churches nearby
- Saint Johns United Methodist Church — 0.2 mi away