St Matthew AME Church

St Matthew AME Church is a African Methodist Episcopal church at 2571 Goss St in Birmingham, AL 35211-5904. It is one of 848 churches in Birmingham, and one of 8 African Methodist Episcopal congregations in the city.

2571 Goss St, Birmingham, AL, 35211-5904

Phone: (205) 945-9481 · Website: http://www.ame-church.com

St Matthew AME Church is part of the Methodist family of churches in The American Church Story. 1,361 congregations of the Methodist family gather across Alabama — 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 St Matthew AME Church

Within about a mile of this church, more than 3 in 10 renting households pay over half of everything they earn just to keep a roof over them. More than a third of adults say they are socially isolated, and nearly a quarter of the people here live below the poverty line. 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.

  • Social Isolation: 38.6%
  • Poverty Rate: 27.1% (16.0–38.1%)
  • Depression: 24.2%
  • Food Insecurity: 18.6%
  • Utility Shutoff Threat: 10.2%
  • Unemployment: 6.5% (1.3–11.9%)

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

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