First AME Church-Pasadena

First AME Church-Pasadena is a African Methodist Episcopal church at 1700 N Raymond Ave in Pasadena, CA 91103-1837. It is one of 176 churches in Pasadena.

The Mission of the African Methodist Episcopal Church is to minister to the spiritual, intellectual, physical, emotinal and environmental needs of all people by spreading Christ’s liberating gospel through word and deed.

Welcome to the First African Methodist Episcopal Church, the oldest Black congregation of denomination in Pasadena. Serving the spiritual, intellectual, physical, emotional, and environmental needs of all people since 1887.

1700 N Raymond Ave, Pasadena, CA, 91103-1837

Service times

  • Saturday 10am

Phone: (626) 798-0503 · Website: https://www.famepasadena.org/

First AME Church-Pasadena is part of the Methodist family of churches in The American Church Story. 840 congregations of the Methodist family gather across California — 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.

Ministries at First AME Church-Pasadena

  • Community Assistance
  • Legal Services
  • Workshops

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Latest from FAME CHURCH PASADENA's YouTube channel: Sunday Worship Service Sept. 13th, 2026 (all videos).

The community around First AME Church-Pasadena

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. More than a third of adults say they are socially isolated, and about a third describe their own health as fair or poor. 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: 41.8%
  • Fair/Poor Health Status: 31.3%
  • Food Insecurity: 28.8%
  • Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 32.8%
  • Housing Insecurity: 22.9%
  • Diabetes: 15.7%
  • Child Poverty: 22.6% (6.8–38.5%)
  • Poverty Rate: 18.5% (12.2–24.8%)
  • Uninsured Adults 18-64: 15.9%
  • Transportation Barriers: 13.9%
  • Utility Shutoff Threat: 10.9%
  • Unemployment: 7.7% (4.1–11.2%)

Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 2 census tracts near this church.

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