Ward Memorial African Methodist Episcopal Church
Ward Memorial African Methodist Episcopal Church is a Methodist church at 241 42nd Street Northeast in Washington, DC 20019. It is one of 862 churches in Washington, and one of 41 Methodist congregations in the city.
To serve the needs of the people of Washington DC's Ward 7 and the surrounding metropolitan area with purposeful ministry.
Welcome to Ward African Methodist Episcopal Church (AMEC), we would love to worship, connect, and serve with you. Ward AME is a church that has a balance of history & tradition with strong Bible teaching & worship.
241 42nd Street Northeast, Washington, DC, 20019Service times
- Sunday 10am
Phone: (202) 398-3899 · Website: https://www.wardame.org/
Ward Memorial African Methodist Episcopal Church is part of the Methodist family of churches in The American Church Story. 60 congregations of the Methodist family gather across District of Columbia — 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.
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Latest from Ward Memorial AME Church's YouTube channel: 09/13/2026, 10:00 AM, Rev Veronica Werner "When You Have Had Enough" 1 Kings 19: 1-9 (all videos).
The community around Ward Memorial 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. More than a third of adults say they are socially isolated, and about a third of households aren't sure there will be enough to eat. That is 2,600 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: 42.7%
- Food Insecurity: 32.8%
- Housing Insecurity: 26.1%
- Utility Shutoff Threat: 18.1%
- Unemployment: 14.5% (6.0–23.0%)
- Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 32.1%
- Poverty Rate: 28.9% (17.2–40.6%)
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 24.7%
- Transportation Barriers: 16.6%
- Diabetes: 14.4%
Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 2 census tracts near this church.
Washington city is served by 535 churches — about one congregation for every 1,253 residents.
Churches near Ward Memorial African Methodist Episcopal Church
- New Grove Baptist Church — 0.1 mi away
- East Friendship Baptist Church — 0.2 mi away
- New Mount Calvary Baptist Church — 0.2 mi away
- Morningstar Pentecostal Church — 0.2 mi away
- Grace Apostolic Church — 0.2 mi away
- Central Union Baptist Church — 0.3 mi away
- New Jerusalem Temple — 0.4 mi away
- Victory Praise Church of God — 0.4 mi away
- Mount Vernon United Methodist Church — 0.4 mi away
- Holy Trinity United Baptist Church — 0.4 mi away
More Methodist churches nearby
- Mount Vernon United Methodist Church — 0.4 mi away
- Randall Memorial United Methodist Church — 0.7 mi away
- Saint Lucille African Methodist Episcopal Zion Church — 0.9 mi away
- Hughes Memorial Methodist Church — 0.9 mi away
- Varick Memorial African Methodist Episcopal Zion Church — 1 mi away
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