First African Methodist Episcopal Church by the Sea

First African Methodist Episcopal Church by the Sea is a African Methodist Episcopal church in Santa Monica, CA 90404. It is one of 59 churches in Santa Monica.

Santa Monica, CA, 90404

Website: http://www.famechurch.org

First African Methodist Episcopal Church by the Sea 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 First African Methodist Episcopal Church by the Sea

Within a few blocks of these doors, more than 4 in 10 adults say they are socially isolated. Nearly a quarter have no one they feel they can count on, and about 1 in 5 describe their own health as fair or poor. That is 2,500 neighbors — and some of them are already in these pews.

Pray for the lonely within reach of this door, and for a congregation that notices.

  • Social Isolation: 40.1%
  • Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 28.9%
  • Fair/Poor Health Status: 20.5%
  • Poverty Rate: 18.5% (12.6–24.5%)
  • Food Insecurity: 16.8%
  • Unemployment: 7.2% (2.5–11.9%)

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

Santa Monica city is served by 31 churches — about one congregation for every 2,972 residents.

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