St. Stephen AME Church
St. Stephen AME Church is a African Methodist Episcopal church at 629 Martin Luther King Ave E in Bradenton, FL 34208-2049. It is one of 166 churches in Bradenton, and one of 2 African Methodist Episcopal congregations in the city.
St. Stephen African Methodist Episcopal Church is located in Bradenton, Fl., and is a part of the Sizzling St. Petersburg District of the West Coast Annual Conference of 11th Episcopal District.
Part of Sizzling St. Petersburg District
629 Martin Luther King Ave E, Bradenton, FL, 34208-2049Phone: (941) 747-8858 · Website: https://ststephenamecbton.wordpress.com/
St. Stephen AME Church is part of the Methodist family of churches in The American Church Story. 992 congregations of the Methodist family gather across Florida — 25,989 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 St. Stephen AME Church
- Feeding the hungry
- Clothing closet
- Housing support
- Support for the fallen
- Job assistance
- Prison ministry
- Clothing the naked
- Housing the homeless
- Cheering the fallen
- Providing jobs for the jobless
- Administering to the needs of those in prisons
- Encouraging thrift and economic advancement
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The community around St. Stephen AME Church
Within about a mile of this church, more than 2 in 10 describe their own health as fair or poor. About 1 in 5 working-age adults live without health insurance, and about 1 in 7 the people here live without health insurance. That is 2,100 neighbors — and some of them are already in these pews.
Pray for healing in the homes around this building, and for this church to be known as a place to bring what hurts.
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 27.2%
- Uninsured Adults 18-64: 21.7%
- Uninsured All Ages (Census): 16.6% (10.1–23.2%)
- Diabetes: 15.9%
- Obesity: 39.2%
- Unemployment: 6.4% (3.1–9.6%)
Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 3 census tracts near this church.
Churches near St. Stephen AME Church
- St. Paul Missionary Baptist Church — 0.1 mi away
- 201 Church of Christ - MLK Bradenton — 0.3 mi away
- Church of Christ — 0.3 mi away
- Manatee Avenue Gospel Church — 0.3 mi away
- Ministerio De Restauracion Roca Eterna — 0.3 mi away
- Saint Mary Missionary Baptist Church — 0.4 mi away
- Bradenton Gospel Tabernacle — 0.5 mi away
- Pathways Christian Fellowship Center — 0.6 mi away
- Ward Temple Ame Church — 0.6 mi away
- Rogers Memorial United Methodist — 0.6 mi away
More Methodist churches nearby
- Ward Temple Ame Church — 0.6 mi away
- Rogers Memorial United Methodist — 0.6 mi away
- Carter Temple Christian Methodist Episcopal Church — 0.7 mi away
- Manatee United Methodist Church — 0.7 mi away
- Orange Grove Free Methodist Church — 1.6 mi away