Varick Memorial African Methodist Episcopal Zion Church
Varick Memorial African Methodist Episcopal Zion Church is a African Methodist Episcopal Zion church at 242 Dixwell Avenue in New Haven, CT 06511. It is one of 187 churches in New Haven, and one of 2 African Methodist Episcopal Zion congregations in the city.
The vision of Varick Memorial AME Zion Church is to embrace God’s love through our Discipleship; enhance God’s peace in our Worship; encourage others with our Evangelism; edify our community with Education and Economic Development; extend our resources by Godly Stewardship.
242 Dixwell Avenue, New Haven, CT, 06511Service times
- Sunday 7:30am
- Sunday 9:30am
- Sunday 11:30am
Phone: (203) 624-6245 · Website: https://www.varickmemorial.org/
Varick Memorial African Methodist Episcopal Zion Church is part of the Methodist family of churches in The American Church Story. 143 congregations of the Methodist family gather across Connecticut — 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 Varick Memorial African Methodist Episcopal Zion Church
Within a few blocks of these doors, more than 4 in 10 renting households pay over half of everything they earn just to keep a roof over them. About a third of the people here live below the poverty line, and about a third of households aren't sure there will be enough to eat. 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.
- Poverty Rate: 34.7% (25.8–43.6%)
- Food Insecurity: 33.5%
- Housing Insecurity: 27.2%
- Utility Shutoff Threat: 21.5%
- Obesity: 43.5%
- Social Isolation: 39.2%
- Child Poverty: 34.4% (17.6–51.2%)
- Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 32.4%
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 25.3%
- Transportation Barriers: 18.3%
- Diabetes: 15.1%
- Unemployment: 10.1% (5.5–14.6%)
- Uninsured Adults 18-64: 14.6%
Source: U.S. Census Bureau, CDC PLACES (2019-2023, 2023), aggregated across 2 census tracts near this church.
New Haven city is served by 95 churches — about one congregation for every 1,428 residents.
Churches near Varick Memorial African Methodist Episcopal Zion Church
- New Testament Church — 0 mi away
- Dixwell Avenue Congregational Church — 0.1 mi away
- Trinity Temple Church of God in Christ — 0.1 mi away
- New Growth Praise Center C.O.G.I.C — 0.1 mi away
- Beulah Heights First Pentecostal Church — 0.2 mi away
- St Martin De Porres — 0.2 mi away
- Mission Church — 0.2 mi away
- Morning Star Deliverance Ministries Freewill Holiness Church — 0.2 mi away
- Bethel AME Church — 0.2 mi away
- Rock Tabernacle Ministries — 0.2 mi away
More Methodist churches nearby
- Shaw Memorial African Methodist Episcopal Zion Church — 0.3 mi away
- Saint Pauls Union African Methodist Episcopal Church — 0.7 mi away
- First and Summerfield United Methodist Church — 0.8 mi away
- Hamden Plains United Methodist Church — 2.3 mi away in Hamden, CT
- First United Methodist Church — 3 mi away in West Haven, CT
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