Union Chapel African Methodist Episcopal Church
Union Chapel African Methodist Episcopal Church is a Methodist church at 1200 Saint Julian Avenue in Norfolk, VA 23504. It is one of 339 churches in Norfolk, and one of 21 Methodist congregations in the city.
1200 Saint Julian Avenue, Norfolk, VA, 23504Shares a ministry location with New St Mark's Baptist Church.
Union 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 Union 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 2,300 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: 53.6%
- Social Isolation: 41.7%
- Food Insecurity: 41.3%
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 35.3%
- Poverty Rate: 34.3% (18.9–49.6%)
- Housing Insecurity: 30.9%
- Utility Shutoff Threat: 25.4%
- Diabetes: 23.5%
- Unemployment: 14.1% (5.3–22.9%)
- Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 30.1%
- Transportation Barriers: 21.9%
- Uninsured Adults 18-64: 14.6%
Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 3 census tracts near this church.
Norfolk city is served by 176 churches — about one congregation for every 1,346 residents.
Churches near Union Chapel African Methodist Episcopal Church
- New St Mark's Baptist Church — 0 mi away
- Saint Paul Church of Christ — 0.1 mi away
- Mt Zion Pentecostal Church — 0.2 mi away
- The Way Of Truth Church — 0.2 mi away
- Macedonia United Christian Church — 0.2 mi away
- Bethel Baptist Church — 0.4 mi away
- Bethlehem Baptist Church — 0.4 mi away
- Union United Church of Christ — 0.4 mi away
- Church of Restoration — 0.5 mi away
- United Christian Holiness Church — 0.5 mi away
More Methodist churches nearby
- Saint Paul CME — 1 mi away
- St. John's AME Church — 1 mi away
- Fairmont Park United Methodist Church — 1.1 mi away
- First United Methodist Church — 1.2 mi away
- Epworth United Methodist Church — 1.5 mi away