Saint Pauls African Methodist Episcopal Church
Saint Pauls African Methodist Episcopal Church is a Methodist church in Newport, AR 72112. It is one of 47 churches in Newport, and one of 3 Methodist congregations in the city.
Newport, AR, 72112Saint Pauls African Methodist Episcopal Church is part of the Methodist family of churches in The American Church Story. 538 congregations of the Methodist family gather across Arkansas — 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 Pauls African Methodist Episcopal Church
In the few miles around this church, more than 3 in 10 describe their own health as fair or poor. Nearly a quarter of households aren't sure there will be enough to eat, and more than a third of adults live with obesity. 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.
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 32.4%
- Food Insecurity: 27.8%
- Obesity: 44.9%
- Social Isolation: 37.1%
- Poverty Rate: 23.8% (16.5–31.2%)
- Diabetes: 17.9%
- Utility Shutoff Threat: 15.1%
- Unemployment: 9.7% (2.8–16.5%)
- Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 29.5%
- Child Poverty: 27.0% (14.5–39.8%)
- Depression: 25.8%
- Housing Insecurity: 19.6%
- Transportation Barriers: 13.5%
- Uninsured Adults 18-64: 13.2%
Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 3 census tracts near this church.
Newport city is served by 18 churches — about one congregation for every 419 residents.
Churches near Saint Pauls African Methodist Episcopal Church
- First Presbyterian Church — 0.1 mi away
- The 5th Street Church of Christ — 0.2 mi away
- Morning Star Baptist Church — 0.2 mi away
- Saint Pauls Episcopal Church — 0.2 mi away
- First Christian Church — 0.2 mi away
- Seeds of Faith Fellowship — 0.2 mi away
- First Baptist Church — 0.2 mi away
- First United Methodist Church — 0.3 mi away
- Browns Temple Church of God in Christ — 0.4 mi away
- Calhoun Street Church of Christ — 0.4 mi away
More Methodist churches nearby
- First United Methodist Church — 0.3 mi away
- Umsted Memorial Methodist Church — 1.1 mi away
- Tuckerman United Methodist Church — 10.1 mi away in Tuckerman, AR
- Bradford Methodist Church — 15.7 mi away in Bradford, AR
- Oak Ridge United Methodist Church — 16.3 mi away