St. John A.M.E. Zion Church

St. John A.M.E. Zion Church is a African Methodist Episcopal Zion church at 718 Pawnee Street in Bethlehem, PA 18015. It is one of 133 churches in Bethlehem.

718 Pawnee Street, Bethlehem, PA, 18015

St. John A.M.E. Zion Church is part of the Methodist family of churches in The American Church Story. 1,293 congregations of the Methodist family gather across Pennsylvania — 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 St. John A.M.E. Zion Church

Within a few blocks of these doors, about 1 in 10 the workforce is looking for work and not finding it. More than a third of adults live with obesity, and nearly a quarter describe their own health as fair or poor. That is two thousand neighbors — and some of them are already in these pews.

Pray for the households stretched past their means, and for this church to know their names.

  • Unemployment: 10.7% (4.9–16.5%)
  • Obesity: 37.1%
  • Fair/Poor Health Status: 23.6%
  • Poverty Rate: 16.8% (8.9–24.7%)
  • Uninsured Adults 18-64: 15.6%

Source: U.S. Census Bureau, CDC PLACES (2019-2023, 2022), aggregated across 3 census tracts near this church.

Bethlehem city is served by 71 churches — about one congregation for every 1,078 residents.

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