Lees Chapel African Methodist Episcopal Church
Lees Chapel African Methodist Episcopal Church is a Methodist church at 1097 Bells Mill Road in Chesapeake, VA 23322. It is one of 347 churches in Chesapeake, and one of 13 Methodist congregations in the city.
1097 Bells Mill Road, Chesapeake, VA, 23322Shares a ministry location with Church of the Advent COGIC.
Lees Chapel African Methodist Episcopal Church is part of the Methodist family of churches in The American Church Story. 970 congregations of the Methodist family gather across Virginia — 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 Lees Chapel African Methodist Episcopal Church
Within about a mile of this church, more than 3 in 10 adults say they are socially isolated. More than a third of adults live with obesity. That is 2,200 neighbors — and some of them are already in these pews.
Pray for the lonely within reach of this door, and for a congregation that notices.
- Social Isolation: 32.9%
- Obesity: 38.3%
Source: CDC PLACES (2023), aggregated across 3 census tracts near this church.
Chesapeake city is served by 180 churches — about one congregation for every 1,385 residents.
Churches near Lees Chapel African Methodist Episcopal Church
- Church of the Advent COGIC — 0 mi away
- Lees Chapel African Methodist Episcopal Church — 0.2 mi away
- Church of God & Christ — 0.5 mi away
- Malchut Chayim Messianic Congregation — 0.6 mi away
- The Mount — 0.7 mi away
- Kingdom Life Academy — 0.7 mi away
- Mount Lebanon Missionary Baptist — 0.7 mi away
- Peoples Baptist Church — 0.7 mi away
- Chesapeake First Church Nazarene — 0.7 mi away
- Mount Lebanon Missionary Baptist Church — 0.8 mi away
More Methodist churches nearby
- Lees Chapel African Methodist Episcopal Church — 0.2 mi away
- Messiah Methodist Church — 1.6 mi away
- Saint Lukes African Methodist Episcopal Church — 1.7 mi away
- Oak Grove United Methodist Church — 1.9 mi away
- Great Bridge Methodist Church — 2.5 mi away
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