Saint Matthews African Methodist Episcopal Church
Saint Matthews African Methodist Episcopal Church is a church in Birmingham, AL 35204. It is one of 848 churches in Birmingham.
Birmingham, AL, 35204Website: http://www.ame-church.com
Saint Matthews African Methodist Episcopal Church is part of the Methodist family of churches in The American Church Story. 1,333 congregations of the Methodist family gather across Alabama — 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 Matthews 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. Nearly half of the children here are growing up below the poverty line, and nearly half of adults live with obesity. 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.
- Child Poverty: 48.2% (38.8–72.2%)
- Obesity: 47.1%
- Social Isolation: 42.2%
- Food Insecurity: 38.9%
- Poverty Rate: 33.6% (23.5–43.7%)
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 33.2%
- Housing Insecurity: 27.0%
- Diabetes: 25.1%
- Uninsured All Ages (Census): 21.9% (12.5–31.3%)
- Utility Shutoff Threat: 20.9%
- Unemployment: 14.0% (3.8–24.2%)
- Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 31.5%
- Transportation Barriers: 18.4%
- Uninsured Adults 18-64: 14.1%
Source: U.S. Census Bureau, CDC PLACES (2019-2023, 2023), aggregated across 5 census tracts near this church.
Birmingham city is served by 254 churches — about one congregation for every 722 residents.
Churches near Saint Matthews African Methodist Episcopal Church
- East Thomas Baptist Church — 0.1 mi away
- Saint James Methodist Church — 0.2 mi away
- First Congregational Christian Church — 0.5 mi away
- First Baptist Church of Graymont — 0.5 mi away
- St Peter's Missionary Baptist — 0.5 mi away
- Our Lady Queen of the Universe Church — 0.6 mi away
- Heavenly Places Church of God in Christ — 0.6 mi away
- CHRISTian Faith Outreach(CFO) — 0.6 mi away
- Brown Memorial Christian Methodist Episcopal Church — 0.6 mi away
- Old Pentecost Temple — 0.7 mi away
More Methodist churches nearby
- Saint James Methodist Church — 0.2 mi away
- Brown Memorial Christian Methodist Episcopal Church — 0.6 mi away
- McCoy Methodist Church — 0.8 mi away
- United Methodist Church North Alabama Conference Center — 0.9 mi away
- Saint Marks African Methodist Episcopal Church — 1.1 mi away
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