New Mount Olive African Methodist Episcopal Church
New Mount Olive African Methodist Episcopal Church is a Methodist church at 916 Middle Street in Chesapeake, VA 23324. It is one of 347 churches in Chesapeake, and one of 13 Methodist congregations in the city.
916 Middle Street, Chesapeake, VA, 23324New Mount Olive African Methodist Episcopal Church is part of the Methodist family of churches in The American Church Story. 956 congregations of the Methodist family gather across Virginia — 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 New Mount Olive African Methodist Episcopal Church
Within about a mile of this church, more than 2 in 10 renting households pay over half of everything they earn just to keep a roof over them. More than a third of adults live with obesity, and about a third of adults say they are socially isolated. That is two thousand neighbors — and some of them are already in these pews.
Pray for the families one rent increase away from moving, and for this church to know their names.
- Obesity: 40.8%
- Social Isolation: 34.3%
- Food Insecurity: 15.6%
- Uninsured All Ages (Census): 12.8% (7.2–18.4%)
Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), 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 New Mount Olive African Methodist Episcopal Church
- Charity Baptist Church of Tidewater — 0.2 mi away
- Bible Baptist Church — 0.2 mi away
- Rosemont Christian Church — 0.2 mi away
- First Trinity African Church — 0.3 mi away
- Narroway Pentecostal Community Outreach Center — 0.3 mi away
- Raleigh Heights Baptist Church — 0.4 mi away
- Portlock Methodist Church — 0.4 mi away
- Blessed Hope Chapel — 0.5 mi away
- MCGI Virginia — 0.5 mi away
- Deliverance Tabernacle Church — 0.6 mi away
More Methodist churches nearby
- Portlock Methodist Church — 0.4 mi away
- Saint Joseph African Methodist Episcopal Zion Church — 1.5 mi away
- Chesapeake Avenue United Methodist Church — 1.7 mi away
- Wesley Methodist Episcopal Church — 2.2 mi away in Portsmouth, VA
- Saint Pauls Methodist Church — 2.2 mi away
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