Saint Paul African Methodist Episcopal Church

Saint Paul African Methodist Episcopal Church is a Methodist church at 1455 Catalpa Street in Louisville, KY 40211. It is one of 840 churches in Louisville, and one of 31 Methodist congregations in the city.

1455 Catalpa Street, Louisville, KY, 40211

Shares a ministry location with Cane Run Missionary Baptist Church.

Saint Paul African Methodist Episcopal Church is part of the Methodist family of churches in The American Church Story. 339 congregations of the Methodist family gather across Kentucky — 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 Saint Paul African Methodist Episcopal Church

Within a few blocks of these doors, more than 5 in 10 adults live with obesity. More than a third of the people here live below the poverty line, and more than a third describe their own health as fair or poor. That is two thousand neighbors — and some of them are already in these pews.

Pray for healing in the homes around this building, and for this church to be known as a place to bring what hurts.

  • Obesity: 51.4%
  • Poverty Rate: 41.7% (24.8–58.6%)
  • Fair/Poor Health Status: 39.4%
  • Diabetes: 24.5%
  • Unemployment: 17.9% (8.1–27.6%)
  • Depression: 23.5%

Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2022, 2019-2023), aggregated across 2 census tracts near this church.

Louisville city is served by 321 churches — about one congregation for every 729 residents.

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