Ward African Methodist Episcopal Church
Ward African Methodist Episcopal Church is a Methodist church in Los Angeles, CA 90007. It is one of 2,252 churches in Los Angeles, and one of 53 Methodist congregations in the city.
Los Angeles, CA, 90007Ward African Methodist Episcopal Church is part of the Methodist family of churches in The American Church Story. 814 congregations of the Methodist family gather across California — 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 Ward African Methodist Episcopal Church
Within a few blocks of these doors, more than 3 in 10 renting households pay over half of everything they earn just to keep a roof over them. Nearly half of adults say they are socially isolated, and more than a third 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: 45.6%
- Poverty Rate: 38.2% (28.5–47.8%)
- Food Insecurity: 33.0%
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 30.5%
- Unemployment: 19.1% (8.1–30.0%)
- Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 33.9%
- Housing Insecurity: 24.0%
- Uninsured Adults 18-64: 17.0% (12.7–21.3%)
- Transportation Barriers: 16.7%
- Uninsured All Ages (Census): 11.6% (8.4–14.8%)
- Utility Shutoff Threat: 11.4%
Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 3 census tracts near this church.
Los Angeles city is served by 867 churches — about one congregation for every 4,457 residents.
Churches near Ward African Methodist Episcopal Church
- Antioch Temple Baptist Church — 0.2 mi away
- Jesus of Nazareth Undenominational Church — 0.2 mi away
- United University Church — 0.2 mi away
- Roger Williams Baptist Church — 0.2 mi away
- Sung Kwang Presbyterian Church — 0.3 mi away
- The Korean Christinan Church — 0.3 mi away
- Saint Agnes Roman Catholic Church — 0.4 mi away
- Iglesia Evangelica Shalom Ministerios De Restauracion — 0.4 mi away
- West Adams Presbyterian Church — 0.4 mi away
- First AME Zion Church — 0.4 mi away
More Methodist churches nearby
- First AME Zion Church — 0.4 mi away
- First African Methodist Episcopal Church — 1.2 mi away
- Los Angeles First United Methodist Church — 1.5 mi away
- Saint Pauls Methodist Church — 1.7 mi away
- Holman United Methodist Church — 2 mi away
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