Marshall Chapel African Methodist Episcopal Church
Marshall Chapel African Methodist Episcopal Church is a Methodist church at 1307 Fillmore Street in Lynchburg, VA 24501. It is one of 247 churches in Lynchburg, and one of 10 Methodist congregations in the city.
1307 Fillmore Street, Lynchburg, VA, 24501Marshall 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 Marshall Chapel African Methodist Episcopal Church
Within a few blocks of these doors, more than 2 in 10 renting households pay over half of everything they earn just to keep a roof over them. Nearly half of adults live with obesity, and more than 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: 47.9%
- Social Isolation: 40.2%
- Poverty Rate: 31.1% (18.4–43.8%)
- Food Insecurity: 30.8%
- Diabetes: 18.6%
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 29.3%
- Housing Insecurity: 23.4%
- Utility Shutoff Threat: 17.7%
- Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 28.3%
- Transportation Barriers: 16.1%
- Uninsured All Ages (Census): 13.8% (7.0–20.7%)
Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 4 census tracts near this church.
Lynchburg city is served by 135 churches — about one congregation for every 586 residents.
Churches near Marshall Chapel African Methodist Episcopal Church
- Church of the Nazarene — 0.1 mi away
- Wayside Christian Transformation Ministries — 0.1 mi away
- Chapel of the Good Shepherd — 0.1 mi away
- College Hill Baptist Church — 0.2 mi away
- Greater Peaceful Zion Baptist Church — 0.2 mi away
- Christ Temple Apostolic Church — 0.2 mi away
- One Worship Revival — 0.2 mi away
- Westminster Presbyterian Church — 0.2 mi away
- Ebenezer Worship Center — 0.3 mi away
- Empowerment Temple #2 — 0.3 mi away
More Methodist churches nearby
- Jackson Street United Methodist Church — 0.5 mi away
- Christ's Community Fellowship United Methodist Church — 0.5 mi away
- Southview United Methodist Church — 0.5 mi away
- Trinity Methodist Episcopal Church — 0.7 mi away
- Court Street United Methodist Church — 0.8 mi away
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