Zion African Methodist Episcopal Church
Zion African Methodist Episcopal Church is a Methodist church in Dothan, AL 36301. It is one of 167 churches in Dothan, and one of 9 Methodist congregations in the city.
Dothan, AL, 36301Zion 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 Zion 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. About 3 in 4 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: 76.7%
- Obesity: 53.2%
- Food Insecurity: 50.3%
- Poverty Rate: 46.3%
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 45.5%
- Social Isolation: 42.8%
- Housing Insecurity: 33.7%
- Utility Shutoff Threat: 28.5%
- Diabetes: 27.4%
- Transportation Barriers: 25.6%
- Unemployment: 12.1% (6.9–17.4%)
- Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 33.3%
- Uninsured Adults 18-64: 18.2%
- Uninsured All Ages (Census): 15.4%
- Depression: 25.6%
Source: U.S. Census Bureau, CDC PLACES (2019-2023, 2023), aggregated across 4 census tracts near this church.
Dothan city is served by 69 churches — about one congregation for every 912 residents.
Churches near Zion African Methodist Episcopal Church
- Grace and Truth International Ministries — 0.1 mi away
- Power in the Word Ministries — 0.1 mi away
- Kingdom Calling Ministries — 0.1 mi away
- St James Baptist Church — 0.2 mi away
- Central Baptist Church — 0.2 mi away
- Bread Of Life Multicultural Center — 0.2 mi away
- Poplar Springs Baptist Church — 0.3 mi away
- Church at the Crossing — 0.4 mi away
- Grace Harvest Church — 0.4 mi away
- First Baptist Church — 0.4 mi away
More Methodist churches nearby
- Lafayette Street Methodist Episcopal Church — 0.5 mi away
- Cherry Street African Methodist Episcopal Church — 0.8 mi away
- First Methodist Church — 1 mi away
- Highland Park United Methodist Church — 1 mi away
- Greater Parks African Methodist Episcopal Chapel — 1.2 mi away